Mansion Owner Claims Airbnb X-Rated Scheme

NOVEMBER 23--The owner of a California mansion alleges that she was duped into renting out the property via Airbnb to a firm that produces hardcore gay porno films and left the 1920s property awash in enema kits, various "sexual devices," and assorted bodily fluids, according to a lawsuit.

Kristina Knapic, owner of the Acacia Mansion in Ojai, a city 80 miles northwest of Los Angeles, charges that she agreed to lease the property for five days in mid-August to a woman who claimed that she and a “group of friends” would stay at the $1095-a-night home “for a quick summer vacation.”

In a November 19 Superior Court complaint, Knapic, 46, alleges that “Anna,” the purported renter, was actually Andrei Treivas, the gay porn actor/director/producer known professionally as Michael Lucas (seen above).

Knapic charges that she gave the keys to the property to Treivas, who posed as “Anna’s brother-in-law.” Knapic said she was told that “Anna” was still en route to the Ojai mansion.

According to Knapic’s lawsuit--which includes claims for fraud, negligence, trespass, and breach of contract--she returned to the property on August 16 and “immediately noticed that [it] was filthy.”

Knapic claims that “enema kits were found throughout the house--on the floors, in the beds, in nightstand drawer and in the trash.” Additionally, “various sexual devices were found in the beds and in the trash,” linens were stained brown, and the “hot tub water was brownish in color.”

The complaint alleges that “urine, semen, and fecal matter” were found on “linens, carpets, upholstery, walls, ceilings, and in the hot tub.” Knapic, the lawsuit states, is concerned that “pornographic images and films made at the Property will damage” its “reputation and image.”  

As Knapic inspected the mansion, she found a business card for Lucas Entertainment, the New York-based porn outfit owned by the 43-year-old Treivas. Some online research by Knapic revealed that not only was Treivas the man she handed her keys over to, but that his social media pages reported he was “on location” filming pornos at the Acacia Mansion.

Knapic alleges that she attempted to clean the property, but quickly became concerned that the mansion may have been seriously damaged. “Many of the films Lucas Entertainment produces depicts men urinating on each other and giving each other enemas,” the lawsuit states. “These activities were not being conducted in a bathroom, but rather on beds, floors, and furniture.”

When Knapic resorted to the use of a black light while inspecting the home, she discovered “the presence of bodily fluids throughout” the property, according to the complaint, which notes that Knapic has “replaced soiled linens, drained and bleached the hot tub, bleached and painted all walls, steam cleaned the upholstery and shampooed the carpeting.” The complaint contends that Knapic “continues to clean and sterilize the Property.”

In addition to unspecified monetary damages, Knapic’s lawsuit is seeking a court order enjoining Treivas and Lucas Entertainment from distributing the “vile pornographic movies” shot at the Acacia Mansion. (5 pages)