There are definitely models for some of the top sites/producers that get between $2000 and $5000 per scene. Brent Corrigan, when he was spending somebody else's money, was paying his no-name models $1000-2000 per scene. But on the whole, that's a lot higher than what most studios pay.

And the more I've read about the Cuadra situation, the more I think those guys really were stupid enough to believe they could make a half million bucks off of a DVD featuring Brent and Harlow. The situation was probably exacerbated by Brent's telling everyone that his being in a DVD would guarantee that it would sell 10,000 copies, which was never true either.

Some people are either dumb or very deluded.