The murder of studio owner Bryan Kocis by two of his stars, Harlow Cuadra and Joseph Kerekes, in 2007 is perhaps one of the most well documented stories in QCrimes history. Both murderers were sentenced to life in prison and the gruesome details of the case have fascinated audiences for a very long time. Books have been written and media attention faded with time but it seems that a new movie is about to reignite the interest.
QC has received information that Christian Slater has been cast to play the part of Bryan Kocis in “King Cobra” a movie adaptation of the book “Cobra Killer Gay Porn Murder” that narrates the horrific circumstances that led to the death of the gay porn producer who was stabbed 28 times and his throat was cut, nearly decapitating him. Kocis’ body was left in his house before it was set on fire to cover the evidence. The film effort is produced by Event Films and James Franco, who is also receiving acting credentials so we assume he will be one of the leads but his character has not been revealed yet. Filming has started and actress Molly Ringwald tweeted a selfie of her and Slater confirming her involvement in the project and apparently she’ll be playing Kocis’ sister Melody. We also have learned that newcomer Garrett Clayton (from Disney’s musical Teen Beach Movie) will play a character named “Sean” that we assumed is in fact Brent Corrigan, who if you remember, collaborated with the FBI in this case as he was an underage actor working for Cobra Video at the time of the murder.
What do you think QC reader, are you looking forward to see a movie based on this case? Tell us in the comments!
Hear that? It’s the sound of thousands of escorts panicking! News that Rentboy (in case you are living under a rock, RB is/was? a social network site that promised to act as a bridge between male sex workers, masseurs and potential clients) was being raided by the authorities sent shockwaves all across the porn industry. Its acting CEO, Jeffrey Hunt (some news outlets also identify him as Jeffrey Hurant), and 6 other executives, including a woman, were arrested by Department of Homeland Security and the NYPD under charges including money laundering and prostitution. It is worth to note that the social network site always made clear that it was not an escort agency and that their mission was to list the services for male escorts adding that they wanted to create a “non-judgmental space” where anyone curious about exploring male-male companionship can hire a man by the hour, “where men place their own ads and work for themselves, so that clients can contact them directly.”
“As alleged, Rentboy.com attempted to present a veneer of legality, when in fact this internet brothel made millions of dollars from the promotion of illegal prostitution,” U.S. Attorney Kelly Currie.
In the papers, Rentboy has never being shy or obscure about their intentions and even participated in high profile events. A few years ago Jake Shears from Scissor Sisters even used Rentboy to promote the band’s latest album with a fake profile featuring suggestive photos of the frontman. Other significant intervention from the company that attracted the attention from the media were the Hustlaball gatherings, the International Escort Awards, also known as the “Hookies” and the recent launch of a Rentboy “scholarship” prize for current male students who do sex work on the side that was announced by porn star Colby Keller. It seems that RB was a very lucrative business grossing more than $10 million in the past five years alone from their monthly subscriptions. That money is now frozen, but apparently the cash also came directly from the prostitution ring lead by Hurant who the the authorities refer as “cyber pimp.”
We ask you QC reader, what’s your take on the demise of Rentboy? Have you ever hired an escort there? Do you think the accusations are real? Tell us in the comments!
Bad boys, bad boys, whatcha gonna do when they come for you? We’ve done a fair coverage of QCrimes in the past but it still shocks us to see how many, hot, porn stars have fallen on the other side of the law. Sometimes for silly things, other times for pretty heavy stuff. Nothing proves better a bad path taken than those vacant stares, those sad, often times dazed, looking eyes. We have curated a list 15 porn stars and their shameful mugshots juxtaposed against their days of former porn glory just for you. We ask you QC reader, how knowing their crooked lifestyle choices affected the perception you had from these porn stars? Do porn stars with troubled past turn you on? Can you still fap to them when they have committed a serious crime in real life? Tell us in the comments!
Joining the ranks of QCrimes should not be an honour that porn stars strive to achieve. Popular Men.com exclusive hunk, and former SeanCody model, Jarec Wentworth is in trouble, BIG trouble. Str8upgayporn broke the news that Teofil Brank, Jarec’s real name, was arrested by undercover FBI agents non less, after he was put under surveillance for reportedly extorting a wealthy victim, whose name has not been disclosed for obvious reasons, for the sum of 1 million and a condo. Seems like Jarec Wentworth threatened to go public with his victim’s sexual habits and his greediness was his downfall. He had already successfully got hold of $500,000 in cash and an Audi R8 (a car with a cost of $180,000). The FBI lured him to a Starbucks in Los Angeles where he was apprehended with a .357 Magnum revolver and additional ammunition. The victim, who must be a powerful person if he got a federal agency to act with this kind of celerity, informed the FBI not only because of the money involved but because he made several threats via text messages that we’re sure are going to be used as additional proof of his acts. Bail has been denied and Jarec faces up to 15 years in prison. With the recent string of criminal scandals involving familiar porn faces like Lucas from Corbin Fisher committing fraud and Johnny Rapid getting arrested by beating up his GF we fear that at this rate there will be more porn stars in jail that out of it!
What are your thoughts on Jarec’s recent arrest and porn guys with criminal records? Tell us in the comments!
When we last checked in with Christopher Steele (the real name of bareback porn star Mike Dozer), he had pled “not guilty” to the statutory rape of a 14-year-old boy and was mistakenly reported to have been released on bail — in fact, Steele was denied bail and placed in a Philadelphia federal detention center.
Steele — who was arrested in December — already faced nine felony charges, four misdemeanor charges and a reckless endangerment charge for allegedly exposing the minor to HIV (Steele is HIV+). But Steele now finds himself slapped with additional federal charges for possessing child pornography (possibly pictures of the 14-year-old who he met through the gay hook-up app Jack’D) and violating the Mann Act by allegedly transporting the kid over state lines for sex — Dozer resided in Delaware, the kid lived in Pennsylvania. Steele’s federal trial will begin on June 2 and his state trial on May 7.
But there’s more twists to this tale…
Recently, 33-year-old porn performer Mike Dozer (real name Christopher Steele) was released from jail under a reduced bail and later pleaded “not guilty” to all charges associated with his alleged statutory rape of a 14-year-old teen.
For the last three and a half months, Steele had been sitting in a Montgomery County, Pennsylvania prison on a $1 million bail for allegedly having sex with a teenager that he met on the hook-up app Jack’D. Steele got charged with nine felony charges including statutory rape, corruption of a minor, multiple counts of unlawful contact with a minor as well as four more misdemeanor charges. If Steele is found guilty on all counts, he could get 75 years in prison meaning that he wouldn’t get out until he was 108 — way too old to be in porn.
The story goes that Steele knew that the kid was underage but didn’t care, traded nude pics with the teen (kiddie porn), forced him to do poppers and never disclosed his HIV-positive status (which got Steele slapped with an additional reckless endangerment charge for “conduct that may place another person in danger of death or serious bodily injury”).
Dozer’s lawyer Kevin Wray said, “Charging someone with [reckless endangerment] because they are HIV-positive is homophobic and ignorant,” and many others agree with him — even though other bloggers have lamented Dozer’s disdain for condoms.
In fact in September 2011, U.S. Congresswoman Barbara Lee introduced the Repeal HIV Discrimination Act which would repeal HIV-related reckless endangerment charges altogether. The bill states “The criminalization of exposure to and/or transmission of HIV without the requirement of malicious intent violates the civil and human rights of individuals who are HIV-positive.” But we digress…
Look who QC reader Geniobarrios came across during an interview for early February’s conference Apps World—an event dedicated to mobile games and apps—none other than Odin’s Hammer CEO Simon Czaplinksi talking about his company’s social phone app, Revel. Revel is a unique scavenger hunt-style game in which players take photos of things in their environment and try to out-do their peers. Well, we wonder what sort of points should be awarded for remembering Simon’s handsome mug elsewhere. Namely a 2008 photoshoot by Paul Reitz, which appeared on QC Caliente and yes, prior to that on Sean Cody as Harley. Oh and there’s more…
Several days ago, Port Authority Police arrested two men for a gay bashing that occurred in Midtown Manhattan. A reader over on Queer Me Now has since identified one of the victims as porn actor Edin Sol, who has filmed scenes with Falcon Studios and Lucas Entertainment, among others.
Police say that around 5am last Friday, the two men were trying to get into an after-hours billiards hall when they were approached by a group of five people who proceeded to shout anti-gay slurs and beat the men. Two of the men are now in custody, but the rest remain at large. This makes three gay bashings in New York in the past several weeks.
You have already seen Chris’ dick and we still think he’s dick. The latest installment on Mr. Brown’s career? Flashing his schlong to his Twitter posse during Halloween.
Revealing after the jump!
It’s been a while since we’ve heard about unfortunately fuckable Harlow Cuadra And Joseph Kerekes, the porn couple convicted for murdering Cobra video owner Bryan Kocis. We covered the entire arrest and trial, but now we’ve snagged shots of the two taken in prison this past March. We’ve put them in a timeline of shots from their arrest and trial to now, and let us just say… prison has aged them both. A lot.
Two years ago sexy otter Peter Sarsgaard married Maggie Gyllenhaal, sister of uber-hot ultra-otter Jake Gyllenhaal. But don’t think for a second that Jake’s sexiness outshines Peter’s. No sir, Maggie got herself a hot piece with sexy facial hair, a furry chest and belly, and a nice cock and ass to boot! Plus, he’s not afraid of playing gay in indie films which really turns on our inner art fag!
In fact, one of our friends just dug up this excellent video of Peter getting naked and making out with Liam Neeson in Kinsey. And just because we’re so turned on, we also have a short video of Peter and the incredibly hot Campbell Scott spooning in post-coital bliss after a round of rowdy buttsex in The Dying Gaul.
Hey everyone, it’s Chinpoko again with my rambunctious weekly poll! Pole? Hmmm… anyway… 70% of you couldn’t give a crap whether a porn star commits a crime or not because hot is hot—15% of the respondents were porn fans who actually finds felonious porn stars hotter! Wow… bad boys, bad boys… whatcha gonna do? The remaining 30% hate it when crime messes with their masturbation fantasies—7% of those even say that watching a convicted porn star’s material is like supporting their crime! That means the 15% I mentioned above are all a bunch of crime-loving no-goodniks! Hee hee!
Today we ask you to settle an age old on going gay-for-pay. Are you ready? No, no you are not!
Smart QueerClickers already know that20% of all men look at porn at work. Well add disgraced Indonesian politician Arifinto to that list. Arifinto (who goes by one name much like Tiffany, Madonna, and Prince) resigned from parliament immediately after a photograph snapped images of him viewing sexually explicit videos on his computer during a parliamentary debate.
At first, Arifinto had said he accidentally stumbled upon the porn by clicking an email link. Nice try, Madonna. But that excuse didn’t keep us from being fired from our old job and it certainly didn’t work for him, especially since the photographer saw Arifinto pull up the porn on his computer and salivate over the naughty pictures for a while before continuing to nod vacantly at the debate going on before him.*
But unlike us, Arifinto didn’t get fired, he fessed up about his little white lie and then resigned from his post. You see, he was member of the staunchly Islamic Prosperous Justice Party and helped pass a very strict anti-pornography law upon which he may now be hoisted. So just how severe is this law, you ask?
The law calls for prison terms of up to 15 years and fines for everything from kissing in public and exposure of a woman’s “sensual” body parts to displaying “erotic” artworks. Broadcasting, possessing and storing pornographic material also is prohibited.
The anti-porn law was used in January to sentence Nazril “Ariel” Irham, lead singer of the country’s most popular band Peterpan, to 40 months in jail after two home-made sex tapes found their way to the internet
The editor in chief of Playboy Indonesia was last year sentenced to two years behind bars.
Ouch! That’s a pretty stiff penalty for just for getting pretty stiff. Why is it that every person who gets all outraged about porn and sexual immorality usually end up using it themselves? Do you hear us, Utah?
*While the photographer did see him, we made up the part about salivating and nodding. It probably happened though, right?
It has been an extremely busy week here at Team Orange office. We promised to slog our asses off and everybody ensured it with studios experimenting new forms of updates, plenty of hot men introduced and numerous split identities pointed out by our eagle-eyed readers! You’ve got to love Split Identities(keep them coming!). In just this week we had:
That, on top of our top selections of posts this week, should provide you with sufficient material to tide the weekend! Cheers to this great week and to more awesome weeks ahead~!
In our last poll, we asked if porn studios should publish their model’s HIV statuses. 57% said no and 42% said yes. Of the NOs, 34% consider health a personal matter that should be kept private. Of the YESs, 20% think the porn industry needs to start dealing openly with HIV+ actors and 10% think openly positive actors could help raise awareness about the disease.
This time around though we have some bad news about porn actor Devin Draz—he’s been arrested for drug offenses. But do criminal arrests turn you off of porn stars or not? We have Draz’s story and the poll after the jump!
