I was Jerry Springer’s ‘pimp’ and booked guests to sleep with him… new Netflix doc is a ‘whitewash’, says ex-producer

JERRY Springer's enactment scandals were conscionable the extremity of the iceberg, with the legendary big regularly hooking up with guests invited connected to his TV show, 1 of its astir infamous producers claims.

Norm Lubow - who was bizarrely hired arsenic a unit subordinate aft appearing connected the Jerry Springer Show six times himself - admits helium would often prosecute "fake" guests that included strippers, porn stars oregon prostitutes helium knew from his clip successful a set successful LA.

Speaking astir his clip connected the amusement for the archetypal clip ever, Norm has deed retired astatine the new Springer Netflix documentary arsenic a "whitewash", saying the existent communicative is adjacent much jaw-dropping.

He claims Jerry knew galore of the guests were fake and adjacent much shockingly alleges helium acted similar a "pimp" for the chat amusement host, uncovering charismatic females guests to bash "double-duty" - look connected the amusement and past slumber with him afterwards.

Jerry was nary alien to emotion scandals, having admitted to paying prostitutes for enactment utilizing idiosyncratic cheques successful the 1970s erstwhile helium was a person successful Cincinnati.

In 1998, helium was besides caught connected camera having a threesome with a amusement impermanent - a porn prima named Kendra Jade - and her stepmom successful a ungraded that is concisely covered successful caller Netflix bid Jerry Springer : Fights, Camera, Action.

While the documentary paints this arsenic a shocking one-off incident, Norm claims it was successful information modular behaviour for the US telly star, who died successful 2023.

He and his pal Al Bowman, a Hollywood personage limo driver, were hired arsenic freelance impermanent bookers successful 1996, earlier Norm was hired arsenic a full-time producer.

"When we were archetypal hired Jerry came retired to conscionable america successful LA and picked america up successful a limo," Norm told The Sun.

"The archetypal happening Jerry said to america was, 'I privation to get laid, wherever are the hookers?'

"We were like, 'Whoa!' but fundamentally we realized close away, it wasn't conscionable astir getting guests for the show, it was astir getting him laid, which of people we did.

"That conscionable became portion of our occupation and that's wherefore we were truthful palmy and we moved up the ladder. We recovered him women who were blessed to bash treble duty, travel connected the amusement and look aft Jerry aft filming.

"I realized close distant that the astir important happening was not uncovering guests, but uncovering women for Jerry.

"Luckily I knew a batch of good-looking women - strippers and things - from my days successful a set successful LA truthful that meant I rapidly went from a freelance guest-finder to a full-time shaper connected the show.

"When I became a full-time producer, I'd bring connected a good-looking impermanent and Jerry would go, 'I privation to conscionable that guest'.

"I'd spell up them and say, 'Uh, you cognize I'm a caller shaper present and it would bash maine a immense favour if you would spell retired with Jerry tonight, helium thinks you're great', and they would - truthful I was similar the pimp.

"It didn't instrumentality overmuch persuading, the girls were blessed to spell disconnected with him.

"The happening with Jerry was that erstwhile helium abruptly recovered fame helium couldn't power himself due to the fact that helium had ever been precise unpopular and benignant of a geek astatine school.

"He couldn't power his urges due to the fact that helium was yet getting attraction and getting women that helium ne'er got earlier - helium was similar a kid successful a candy store.

"It was conscionable an accepted portion of my occupation being his pimp and connected the Netflix amusement they marque retired that helium had this 1 enactment scandal. No way, that was conscionable the lone clip helium got caught."

Fellow shaper Al corroborated Norm's claims, telling The Sun: "Yes, we did that. And galore different things arsenic well.

"I co-produced 9 shows. We everlastingly changed however tv works. We opened the floodgates for world TV to thrive and grow."

On a high

Norm is simply a hugely arguable quality who appeared connected respective US speech shows successful the 90s to speech astir a religion helium founded successful confederate California called the Religion of The Holy Herb, which attracted 1,000 members.

He would often openly airy up a marijuana associated connected screen, shocking audiences and getting kicked disconnected shows.

Norman sang successful a dense metallic set called Just Say Yes and adjacent made a bid for presidency nether his change ego Reverend Bud Green.

Years aboriginal helium appeared successful the Nick Bloomfield documentary Kurt and Courtney successful disguise wherever helium introduced the filmmaker to El Duce, a dense metallic vocalist who made an unverified claim Courtney Love paid him to termination Kurt Cobain, who died by suicide. El Duce died conscionable days later.

He besides concisely represented a pistillate named Katie Johnson who filed lawsuits claiming she had been raped by Donald Trump - though she withdrew the lawsuits soon afterwards.

One of the six times Norm appeared connected Jerry Springer arsenic a guest, helium claimed to beryllium a "modern time Robin Hood" who during the LA riots looted stores and gave the items helium got to the poor.

On his past quality connected the show, helium showed up wearing stars and stripes with 2 bikini-clad models successful tow alongside pal Al. They said they would legalise cannabis if radical were to ballot him successful arsenic president and springiness everyone a escaped limo.

'A batch of guests weren't legit'

Shockingly, conscionable 1 period aft their bizarre appearance, Norm and Al were approached to enactment connected the amusement arsenic guest-finders.

"We were guests-turned-producers which cipher has ever done successful the past of TV," Norm said.

"This is however speedy it happened: maine and Al were connected aerial arsenic guests successful September 1996 and past wrong a period we were guest-finders and wrong 3 months, producers connected the show.

"The precise archetypal clip they hired maine arsenic a guest-finder, they wanted maine to find Hollywood thoroughfare kids, cause users. They liked those benignant of shows due to the fact that Jerry utilized to person a impermanent named Tweaky Dave that utilized to spell connected the amusement and they would effort to assistance him and stuff.

"The connection 'fake' was ne'er used, but producers would accidental 'Find america idiosyncratic who says they're a pimp oregon says they're a cause user'.

"As I enactment it, they wanted to devour steak but they didn't privation to cognize however you butchered the cow.

"But they knew a batch of these radical weren't legit - and they preferred the fake shows arsenic they were much amusive and little trouble.

"I did utilized to bash shows with 'real' guests too. Because I had been a impermanent connected the Jerry Springer amusement and loads of different chat shows, it meant I could subordinate to the guests, truthful I was bully astatine it.

"As you tin spot from the documentary, galore of the guests were looked down connected and determination was nary existent involvement successful their wellbeing, whereas they saw maine arsenic a friend."

Al added: "I would show incoming stories from unattractive radical and past find good-looking actors from LA to play those roles. There was a circumstantial method we utilized to bash that.

"Without maine escorting the guests from LA to Chicago, the biggest rated shows during the clip play erstwhile we were beating Oprah Winfrey successful the ratings would person ne'er happened."

Tragic murder

The caller documentary covers the tragic communicative of Nancy Campbell-Panitz, who appeared connected the amusement with her cheating ex-husband Ralf.

After watching their occurrence connected TV, Ralf went connected to termination his erstwhile woman successful a sickening execution that rocked America.

Nancy's lad expresses choler astatine however his parent was ambushed to beryllium connected the amusement and however producers and Springer himself ne'er admitted immoderate guilt for his mum’s murder.

Norm says it is not shocking that a execution was related to the amusement - and was 1 of the reasons helium preferred to publication "fake guests".

"One clip I produced a amusement - utilizing existent guests who who some threatened to termination each different aft the amusement and I had to bring information feline Steve Wilkos successful and say, 'Look you request to speech to these guys, they're talking astir going location and sidesplitting each other'.

"That's wherefore the execution was not astonishing due to the fact that erstwhile you bash a existent communicative and you enactment these brainsick radical together, it doesn't extremity aft the show.

"Often it would inflame the concern and marque things worse.

"That's wherefore it was advantageous to bash the fake shows - you didn't person to interest astir radical sidesplitting each other."

Mexican portion club

He besides recalls different clip wherever helium utilized "real" guests connected the amusement - young strippers from the US who were moving successful clubs successful Tijuana, Mexico - but things did not spell to plan.

"Me and Al went down to Tijuana and recovered these young girls who were moving arsenic strippers," helium said.

"We had been successful the euphony manufacture for years astatine this point, I was successful bands successful LA and had groupies. So we thought we had seen everything, but were shocked erstwhile we saw a antheral prevarication down and clasp a 1 dollar measure successful his mouth, past they'd travel and crook down implicit him and prime it up with their 'hoochie-coochie'.

"We knew that would daze Jerry's audiences truthful we flew them up and tried to get them to recreate the country successful the workplace but they got each embarrassed and wouldn't bash it.

"I called it 'real radical syndrome'. Some radical would person the astir shocking lives and speech each astir it off-camera, but arsenic soon arsenic the camera was rolling they'd beryllium soundless due to the fact that they'd get embarrassed.

"At slightest with the fake guests you knew they would present what they were told to. And it was easier due to the fact that you didn't person to woody with the aftermath."

Doc 'whitewash'

Speaking astir the caller Netflix show, Norm - who says helium was asked to instrumentality portion successful it but declined - said: "This doc is simply a full whitewash of the existent communicative of what the Jerry Springer amusement was each astir and however overmuch Jerry knew astir however phoney it was. 

"The caller doc misses retired loads, they don't speech astir Jerry and his lecherous behaviour - similar I say, it's a full whitewash.

"The shaper successful the Netflix amusement Toby Yoshimura talks astir getting guests from Georgia and Tennessee, calling it the 'Springer triangle'. Well that was aboriginal on, erstwhile I worked determination I got the guests from portion clubs. I got good-looking guests.

"I helped get the truly good-looking strippers and radical that Jerry wanted to slumber with, Jerry didn't privation to slumber with the radical that Toby got."

On a budget

Norm besides said helium ne'er saw guests being enactment up successful fancy hotels oregon sent limos erstwhile helium booked them.

"When we were booking guests they'd alert them retired connected the cheapest hose wherever they'd springiness you a two-day-old turkey sandwich past enactment them up successful a Motel 6, determination was nary fancy hotels," helium said.

"We gave them coupons to walk successful the section diner - I called them Jerry Dollars - and they spent astir of that connected liquor, past get them to execute connected TV.

"We were similar magicians to get radical to look - I'd similar to spot producers connected different shows bash what we utilized to do."

He said helium often person to instrumentality guests to the dentist if they had teeth missing to get what was called a "partial" fitted, to marque them look much TV-friendly.

"In the very beginning we actually gave them teeth," helium said. 

"Later on they got their teeth knocked out. What was that?!"

Fake impermanent expose

Norm was yet fired arsenic a shaper successful May 1998 aft an exposure by quality amusement 20/20 ran an interrogation with immoderate of his fake guests, who revealed they had been coached and adjacent fixed a publication connected what to accidental by him.

But helium claims helium was "thrown nether the bus" and says hiring fake guests was a wide signifier earlier and aft helium worked connected the show. Other Jerry Springer guests unrelated to Norm person claimed they were scripted oregon paid to combat connected the amusement implicit the years.

"When I archetypal started moving connected Jerry, radical would accidental 'oh is helium inactive connected the air?' and past wrong a twelvemonth erstwhile I was moving determination full-time it changed from 'Who cares?', to 'Oh my God you enactment for Jerry Springer!'" helium said.

"And I bash instrumentality recognition for that. There were 20 shows successful the last play that had beaten Oprah successful the ratings portion I was determination and 12 of them were mine.

"Then erstwhile the full ungraded happened they threw maine nether the bus, making retired I was the mastermind of it all, erstwhile I was similar a German worker - conscionable doing what I was told.

"They made retired they didn't person a occupation with fake guests conscionable 1 rogue producer.

"They had Jerry accidental 'If I person a shaper doing fake shows I don't privation him successful present anymore'.

"For them to blasted maine for fake guests is bogus due to the fact that erstwhile producers hired fake guests and past producers aft maine person hired fake guests - truthful galore guests person travel retired and said they were fake.

"That's wherefore immoderate radical ne'er notation they worked astatine Springer connected their resume."

Naked truth

Norm, Al and a 3rd unnamed shaper person present co-written a publication astir their clip connected the amusement called The Naked Truth: The Jerry Springer Show Exposed - and are presently looking for a publisher.

Norman maintains thing could person prepared him for what helium experienced moving connected TV.

"Honestly TV was the dirtiest concern I ever worked successful - immoderate of the stories I could archer you wouldn't adjacent believe," helium said.

The Sun reached retired to Toby Yoshimura and different erstwhile producers for comment.