Quintana didn't find out about Sexy Golfing Experience until roughly three months after he rented out his apartment, he says, when a safari-helmeted security guard named Howard greeted him with: "Great film, Mr. Quintana!"
"The rumors always start with security," says Fisher Island real estate agent and resident Claudia Campuzano. "Everybody on the island knows about Raul's movie, and everybody's watched it too."
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Raul Quintana says a porn company ruined his life.
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When the word first spread, Quintana was still embroiled in an ugly divorce that featured back-and-forth restraining orders. Raul says his ex spread the news of the porno after discovering he had taken a stripper girlfriend from Fort Lauderdale's Solid Gold club on a helicopter trip to Marathon Key. "She was going around telling people that I was now in the porno business."
That earned him a new nickname: "The Porn King of Fisher Island."
Soon after, he says, the Fisher Island Community Association (which declined to comment) brought the hammer down. According to two November letters from the association, "certain of Mr. Quintana's access and use privileges have been suspended." Among the punishments listed: In the lineup to place his car on the ferry, he's relegated to "Lane 3 and 4," the dreaded employee slots. He must gain "clearance" in person for all "guests and invitees" at the public safety office and pay $50 per person when he brings somebody in. Most damaging, the association declared it "would not be entering into any rental exception agreements" with Quintana, effectively banning him from renting his condos.
In short, Quintana went from Brahmin to untouchable. The letters do not mention the porno but cite "disruptive and noncompliant behavior.
The restrictions cost him "in excess of $100,000 a month," he would later claim in court. So he stopped paying condo fees and now owes the association $250,000, he says. He was banned from the Fisher Island Club, and his new girlfriend, a Telemundo anchorwoman who lives on the island, was recently informed she could not bring him to the club as a guest.
The public shaming reeks of hypocrisy, Campuzano says. "You know how many hookers come onto this island every night?"
On October 8, Quintana filed suit in Miami-Dade Civil Court against Bangbros.com, claiming the porn outfit "knowingly made false and deceptive representations," "caused [Quintana] ridicule," and hurt his business. Bangbros.com has not yet responded to the suit. An attorney representing the company, Amanda Frazer, says only that Quintana's allegations "are patently untrue, and we look forward to addressing them in court."
On a recent Tuesday morning, Quintana received a phone call from club CEO Larry Brown. According to Quintana, Brown attributed the banning to the porno filming and his subsequent threatening of James. (Quintana denies making a threat.)
Indeed, it was that call which prompted Quintana to burst into James's office with a New Times reporter in tow. After Quintana complained, the community association CEO tried to calm him by terming the reasons for his club-banning "political." "I think [residents] are tired of the Quintana-Lopez drama," James said, referring to the couple's nasty divorce. "And I think they're tired of being held back because Raul Quintana hasn't paid his association dues."
Contacted later, James declined to answer specific questions concerning Quintana and called his quote trashing Fisher Island residency as worse than suicide "totally inaccurate."
Quintana, meanwhile, is in trouble. His three remaining luxury units are now worth $5.6 million — almost $3 million less than their purchase prices. Banks might soon take them over. Fisher Island, he says, is his "Alcatraz." Then his voice breaks as he remarks, "Bang Bros really banged my life."
