Michael Lucas

Born Andrei Treivas, on 10th March 1972, in Moscow, in the (then) USSR, the man who would become Michael Lucas was a student who studied in Moscow and gained a degree in law. He later owned a travel agency for a short while after graduating from university, before moving into modeling and male escort work. This led to him being offered work in and moving to Germany, performing in straight porn films in 1995. Moving to France and on to gay porn he adopted the alias of Ramzes Kairoff while working for the famous French director Jean-Daniel Cadinot, before moving again, this time to the USA and to Falcon Entertainment as Michael Lucas. By 1998 he was directing, while also starring in Back in the Saddle for his own film company, Lucas Entertainment, based in New York, rather than Los Angeles where most of the competition was. By 2004 he had also formed Lucas Distribution, with LucasBlog.com following on later. His studio gained many GayVN and Adult Erotic Gay Video Awards, with the pinnacle being at the 2007 GayVN's where his film, Michael Lucas' La Dolce Vita Parts 1 & 2 won 14 awards, winning in every category it was nominated in.
Lucas, who is Jewish, is most famous in the mainstream media for his statement in 2006 that he was to travel to Israel to “entertain gay Israeli troops.” He intended to perform live shows in Tel Aviv and Haifa offering free entry, excuse the pun, to Israeli soldiers. He also planned to film the trip, taken between 29th August and 4th September 2006, as a documentary and to film a gay porn film while he was there. The trip was intended to highlight the ongoing war in the region to “expose the reality that the people of Israel face right now, especially that of gay Israelis who are targeted by the hate of Hezbollah!” The outcome of this trip is unknown to me at this time, though the statement of his intention to travel there did receive a large amount of negative press.
In 2000 Lucas visited Russia again to help his parents with their move to the US. He says, during an interview on the Gothamist website, of his trip there that he finds his home country a “deeply homophobic and anti-Semitic country,” also stating that “there is definitely nothing for me to do there or be nostalgic about.” He became an American citizen in 2004.
Lucas is known for sharing his opinions and is an opponent of drug use and a proponent of safe sex, not just within his industry but in the gay community as a whole. He is known to have spoken out about the industry, gay marriage, the Iraq War, Judaism and Islam, and has a regular column, since April 2007, in The New York Blade.
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