According to what Los Angeles health officials, 16 unpublicized cases of HIV among porn actors since 2004 raise new concerns about AIDS in the adult film industry.

This came out after a request for information by the Los Angeles Times, which reported that an unidentified actress had tested positive last week.

The porn film industry had said it was the first case since 2004 outbreak.

Actually, 22 performers have tested positive, including last week’s case and five in 2004, according to the numbers released by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health.

Since the 2004 outbreak, in which a male star infected three actresses and another performer also tested positive, the adult film industry has required regular testing for porn actors.

Most of that testing is conducted by the Adult Industry Medical Healthcare Foundation, which issues work certificates to the performers who test negative.

The problem which is pointed is that the unnamed actress first tested positive for HIV on June 4, worked the following day before taking second and third tests.

The second test was also positive and results of the third were pending, according to AIM Healthcare.

“AIM Healthcare has never been cooperative with us and our investigations,” Dean Fryer, on of the spokesmen for the state Division of Occupational Safety and Health, told the paper, adding that the clinic had refused to name the actress or her employer.

In a statement on its website, AIM Healthcare said it was still awaiting “final confirmation” that the actress was positive for HIV.

The $12-billion-a-year (U.S.) porn industry, which is largely centered in the San Fernando Valley suburbs of Los Angeles, includes about 200 production companies that employ about 1,200 actors.

Since 2004, 1,357 porn performers have tested positive for gonorrhea and 15 for syphilis, according to county health data cited by the Times.

Right after defeating Andorra 6-0, Brittish soccer star David Beckham begun a new underwear campaign for Giorgio Armani fashion label.

Beckham said that he was “proud but a little embarrassed” by the colossal picture of himself in nothing but a pair of tight, black briefs emblazoned with the Emporio Armani eagle logo, which now stand over London’s Oxford Street retail hub.

Beckham, 34, is currently on loan to AC Milan from the Los Angeles Galaxy soccer team,and Victoria (one of the Spice Girl), stripped down before for Armani campaigns too.

The photograph shows the English sex symbol naked except for the underpants, perched on a chair with his legs spread. A braided rope is draped around his torso and partially covers his tattooed arms.

“He’s gorgeous,” said one of hundreds of fans who turned up to witness Beckham’s three-minute appearance despite the huge crowd there in London.

People were mostly appreciative of the photograph, though some were more impressed by his football prowess than the media hype for this latest underwear campaign.

“I preferred him last night on the pitch,” said 8-year-old Ben-Jasper from Germany, who stumbled upon the crowd of onlookers while exploring London on a family holiday.

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Beckham “naked” for Armani again !

A music promoter yesterday (Wednesday) sued to stop Michael Jackson from performing in London this year, claiming this would violate a prior contract.

New Jersey-based AllGood Entertainment Inc contends in the lawsuit filed in federal court in New York it signed a deal with the singer’s manager, Frank DiLeo, in November committing him to an appearance in the U.S. this summer.

Under the agreement, the famous singer Jackson is not supposed to give another concert before that show, the lawsuit states. Jackson has signed with AEG Live to play 50 shows at London’s O2 Arena starting in July.

AllGood Entertainment contends those shows violate the New Jersey company’s agreement with DiLeo, which it says predates the singer’s deal with AEG Live.

Representatives for Jackson and AEG Live were not immediately available to comment.

AEG Live, which is named in the lawsuit, has previously called AllGood Entertainment’s claims meaningless.

Jackson has been rehearsing in the Los Angeles area for the London shows.

AllGood Entertainment contends in its lawsuit its agreement with DiLeo also left the door open for Jackson to perform with other members of his show business family, which includes his brothers from the Jackson Five and sister Janet Jackson.

The company’s lawsuit alleges breach of contract, fraud and tortious interference with a contract. It seeks at least $20 million in compensatory damages and at least $20 million in punitive damages.

It also names as defendants Jackson’s production company, as well as DiLeo, his company and AEG Live’s parent company AEG, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Anschutz Company.

Jackson’s series of London shows have been touted as unprecedented. AEG Live says that, all together, the shows will gather the biggest audience ever to see an artist in one city.

The Queen of Beauty Carrie Prejean, who is famous by taking a stand against gay marriage at the Miss USA pageant, has been fired as Miss California for violating her contract, yesterday (Wednesday).

Carrie Prejean, who almost lost her Miss California crown last month because of the same-sex marriage story and revelations that she had posed topless at 17 years old, failed to fulfill her duties.

“This was a decision based solely on contract violations including Ms. Prejean’s unwillingness to make appearances on behalf of the Miss California USA organization,” Keith Lewis, the pageant’s executive director, said in a statement.

The pageant Donald Trump, who had stood by Prejean, 22 years old said:

“I told Carrie she needed to get back to work and honor her contract with the Miss California USA organization and I gave her the opportunity to do so,” Trump said in the statement.

“Unfortunately it just doesn’t look like it’s going to happen and I offered Keith my full support in making this decision,” he said. “Carrie is a beautiful young woman and I wish her well as she pursues other interests.”

Pageant officials said first runner-up Tami Farrell would assume the crown and take over Prejean’s duties as Miss California.

She answered that “in my country, in my family, I do believe that marriage should be between a man and a woman, no offense to anybody out there. But that’s how I was raised.”

Her views, and the strident reaction to them, came in the midst of heated nationwide debates over same-sex weddings which have recently been legalized in five U.S. states but banned in a California referendum in November.

Prejean defended her answer while acting as a fill-in host on the “Fox and Friends” program on the Fox network. She said her position was similar to that taken by President Barack Obama.