Raven Riley

Riley started modeling in 2004 after first accompanying a friend to a bikini model shoot. She met Jay Man, who was a content producer, and he shot her for amateurfacials.com. Jay Man, his business partner, and Riley started a company called Third Pentacle which launched her solo website in December 2004.{{cite web|url=http://www.xbiz.com/articles/13859|title=The Making of Raven Riley|last=Rodger Jacobs|author-link=Rodger Jacobs|date=March 13, 2006|work=XBIZ|access-date=July 20, 2010}} Riley, with partners from jaYManCash and Third Pentacle, started Evil Motion Pictures, whose goal was to break into mainstream horror movie production.{{cite web|url=http://business.avn.com/articles/1029.html|title=Evil Motion Pictures: Live Long And Strange|work=avn.com|access-date=April 7, 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090725034521/http://business.avn.com/articles/1029.html |archive-date=July 25, 2009}} Evil Motion Pictures released its first horror porn film starring Riley in November 2007, which was entitled Succubus.{{cite web|url=http://business.avn.com/articles/959.html|title=Raven Riley Stars in Evil Motion Pictures' Succubus|work=avn.com|access-date=April 7, 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100325222158/http://business.avn.com/articles/959.html |archive-date=March 25, 2010}}

In May 2008, Thomas Leach, the owner of jaYManCash, announced that the rumors that Riley was leaving the adult industry were true,{{cite web |url=https://avn.com/business/articles/technology/raven-riley-retires-from-adult-industry-52919.html |title=Raven Riley Retires From Adult Industry |access-date=May 26, 2008 |author=Justin Bourne |date=May 23, 2008 |publisher=AVN}} saying "while no official documents have been signed, Raven has communicated that the adult industry is no longer in her future and she was going to leave the adult industry."{{cite web |url=http://www.xbiz.com/news/news_piece.php?id=94345 |title=Raven Riley Retires From Adult Industry |access-date=June 24, 2008 |author=Bob Preston |date=May 23, 2008 |publisher=XBIZ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080701182126/http://www.xbiz.com/news/news_piece.php?id=94345 |archive-date=July 1, 2008 }} Riley contacted XBIZ and disputed the rumors and reports: "I am still here and I'm not retired... That was false information that was given."{{cite web |url=http://www.xbiz.com/news/95858 |title=Raven Riley: 'I'm Not Retired!' |access-date=June 30, 2008 |author=Steve Javors |date=June 27, 2008 |publisher=XBIZ}} As a result of a lawsuit, Leach took full ownership of Third Pentacle. This dispute also affected their relationship with Interactive Life Forms, the company that makes Fleshlight. Leach sued both Riley and ILF, alleging trademark infringement for continuing to use Riley's name in selling their Fleshlight. Leach settled with ILF in 2010.{{cite web|url=http://news.avn.com/articles/Third-Pentacle-Files-Suit-Against-Fleshlight-Raven-Riley-Over-Trademark-Infringement-402594.html|title=Third Pentacle Settles Suit Against Fleshlight Over Unpaid Royalties|last=Steve Javors|date=July 8, 2010|work=AVN|access-date=August 11, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120324142453/http://news.avn.com/articles/Third-Pentacle-Files-Suit-Against-Fleshlight-Raven-Riley-Over-Trademark-Infringement-402594.html|archive-date=March 24, 2012|url-status=dead}}

Her last shoot for her site was posted in 2012, and the site was taken offline in 2014 with the page showing only a link to The Wayback Machine and their PetaBox.{{cite web | url=https://ravenriley.com/ | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141228072025/https://ravenriley.com/ | url-status=dead | archive-date=December 28, 2014 | title=Archive.org capture for RavenRiley.com | date=December 28, 2014}} As of April 2018, the domain redirects to religious material. On June 3, 2016, documentary filmmaker David Pilot debuted Skin in the Game: The Raven Riley Story at the New Haven Documentary Film Festival in New Haven, Connecticut, following Raven's rise into and departure from online pornography.{{Cite web | url=http://www.nhdocs.com/2016-schedule/ | title=NHDocs: The Third Annual New Haven Documentary Film Festival}}

Raven Riley's photos have been used by online scammers to defraud men looking for sexual encounters through social networking sites since at least 2007.{{cite web|url=http://www.salon.com/life/internet_culture/?story=/mwt/feature/2011/07/15/romance_scam|title=Facebook status: In a scam relationship|last=Tracy Clark-Flory|date=July 15, 2011|work=Salon|access-date=August 11, 2011}}{{cite web|url=http://www.valleynewslive.com/story/15171527/beware-online-love-scam|title=Beware! Online Love Scam|date=July 28, 2011|work=Valley News Live|access-date=August 11, 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111002102858/http://www.valleynewslive.com/story/15171527/beware-online-love-scam|archive-date=October 2, 2011}}{{cite web|url=http://www.delphifaq.com/faq/russian_marriage_scams/f1602.shtml?p=5#40778|title=Example report: Dating scammer Ekaterina Rozhentsova|date=July 1, 2007|access-date=March 3, 2018|archive-date=August 15, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180815164124/http://www.delphifaq.com/faq/russian_marriage_scams/f1602.shtml?p=5#40778|url-status=dead}}

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