What's The Story With AVN's Heidi Pike-Johnson?
by D.U.C. (send email to D.U.C.)

1:45PM. AVN's chubby middle-aged married assistant editor Heidi Pike-Johnson arrives on set. She's introduced to me. She clearly has no time for me. I don't bother to extend my hand because she clearly hates me.

2PM: Papillon asks me not to take any photos of Heidi. I agree.

2:15PM: Papillon asks me not to talk to Heidi. I have not and I did not plan to. It's the first time I've been asked on a set not to talk to someone, let alone not to talk to a fellow journalist. She must be a fragile soul.

2:30PM: Papillon says I need to leave the set at Zupko's request. About ten members of the porno press are due to arrive soon and these tender souls will feel uncomfortable at my presence.

Monday I sent out some emails and made some phone calls to get the scoop on Heidi Pike-Johnson.

Publicist Jason Sechrest writes: "Heidi Pike-Johnson is one of the few people over at AVN who I consider to be totally trustworthy and abound with integrity, not to mention so fucking talented as a staff writer and the creator of AVNInsider.com. She is one of the few people I know who actually respects our industry enough to take real pride in her work. She cares about what she puts out there and it shows. I don't know why I'm even defending this. Her work should speak volumes for itself. She is one of AVN's most valuable players."

An AVN source tells me: "She's the devil. She must have photos of Paul Fishbein with a dog or something [to explain why she's still employed at AVN].

"She used to work for Buttman magazine and the story I heard is that Evil Angel owner John Stagliano begged Paul to take her off his hands.

"Almost everyone at AVN hates working with her, particularly the AVN Online team. She'd steal stories from AVN Online to put on AVN.com (when the sites were separated). She would add errors. She would complain to managing editor Mikey Ramone if someone were talking too loud while she was trying to review a film. If you look at her the wrong way, she will go to someone and complain. She's a general pain in the ass.

"She'd complain about Rebecca Gray talking too loud. Heidi couldn't watch her porn and concentrate if Rebecca talked loudly.

"Paul would say, 'It's a newsroom. There should be people talking in a newsroom. It's not a library.'

"Rebecca Gray is fun and smart. She's another person at AVN, like Tod Hunter, who could do better than working in porn.

"Heidi's a bad writer. She adds errors into stories. She's an unpleasant person. You were generous when you called her chubby because she's enormous. She's not a happy person.

"She's basically a porn fan. She's a Mark Kernes-style industry loyalist. She's a porn groupie. She's a lifer. She worships Jenna Jameson. She did a Jenna story for Ton magazine."

DUC: "She was sending the poor production manager over to me every few minutes to keep me away from her."

AVN Source: "For whatever reason, Mikey Ramone protects her.

"She's always goading those she works with.

"A few people who worked for her quit. She may be the reason Gram Ponante left. I think he's going out with Rebecca Gray?

"When Suzie Erhlich left, Heidi wanted her office. Heidi thought she was at that level in the company, which everyone thought was funny.

"Heidi was supposed to be the website administrator for AVN.com. She turned the title into being managing editor of avn.com. She moved over to be associate editor of AVN magazine for a while but that did not work out.

"Heidi sends out long-winded accusatory emails, complaining about people for the most inane reasons (i.e., he spoke to me inappropriately). She likes to stir things up. She'd run to Mikey Ramone at the slightest provocation.