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Gay-porn actor Jarec Wentworth blackmailed rich California man, feds say
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Federal officials tell a gay-porn star is accused of blackmailing a wealthy California man out of $500,000 by threatening to expose details of his personal life.
The Los Angeles Times reports (http://lat.ms/1NKAmHx) FBI agents arrested Teofil Brank — beat known by his screen name Jarec Wentworth — last month. Investigators utter he tried to exact the ownership of a condo and $1 million in cash from the victim.
In a March 20 indictment, the Brank was charged with felony extortion by threatening to injure someone’s reputation.
According to the affidavit, Brank pledged to post photos and other details of the man’s trysts through his Twitter account.
Brank is scheduled to emerge in court Thursday for a bail review hearing. A judge previously denied bail, but Brank’s attorneys appealed the decision.
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Information from: Los Angeles Times, http://www.latimes.com/
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Gay Porn Star Jarec Wentworth Pleads Not Guilty
LOS ANGELES — Jarec Wentworth, the gay porn celebrity accused of extorting $500,000 and an Audi R8 worth $180,000 from a man by threatening to expose his “sexual liaisons” on Twitter, pleaded not guilty to federal charges today.
Wentworth, who has been in detention since he was arrested three weeks ago, appeared this morning at federal court in Los Angeles but refused to sign a declaration acknowledging his constitutional rights.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Frederick Mumm, however, said that he found that Wentworth heard and understood his constitutional rights.
Mumm assigned the case to U.S. District Evaluate John Walter, who has not yet set a trial date for the popular gay star who has worked for Men.com and Sean Cody.
A determination over a pretrial launch for Wentworth has yet to be decided.
Earlier this week his counsel, two federal public defenders, asked the court to let bail, stating that it would be unlikely Wentworth would be a flight risk because the Justice Department was able to freeze all of his bank accounts after he was arrested.
In the extortion case, Wentworth allegedly threatened to expose det
LOS ANGELES >> A hearing that was originally planned for Monday is now scheduled to be held Thursday to determine how much money a porn actor must return to a wealthy telecom executive who was blackmailed out of $500,000 by the performer and male escort.
Teo Brank, 25, was set up guilty by a Los Angeles federal jury last week of extortion and related counts stemming from a $1.5 million blackmail attempt on Florida tycoon and political donor Donald Burns.
Burns handed over half a million dollars in cash and a luxury car worth nearly $180,000 to Brank so details of the executive’s paid sexual liaisons with the defendant and other X-rated performers wouldn’t be revealed on social media.
Brank remains jailed without bail while awaiting sentencing Sept. 21.
At the forfeiture hearing, U.S. District Judge John Walter is expected to perceive evidence of what happened to the money and where it might be located.
Brank — who performed under the name Jarec Wentworth in adult films and on gay porn sites — was arrested in March in an FBI sting after an agent posing as Burns’ associate met with the actor at a Starbucks in El Segundo and handed over title to an Audi R8 and dis
A Court Decided to Let This Hunky Homosexual Porn Star Stay in Jail for Extorting a Billionaire
Remember the Jarec Wentworth extortion case? It involved a gay porn performer and sex worker who went to jail for blackmailing some telecom millionaire named Donald Burns for $500,000 cash and an Audi R8 car worth $180,000. Burns had porn star orgies at his place and Wentworth threatened to reveal them on social media unless Burns coughed up an additional $1,000,000. After being convicted, Wentworth (whose birth call is Teofil Brank) claimed Burns had raped him and offered up money and gifts as an apology. Teofil tried to possess his conviction overturned by the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, but the Court just denied his appeal, so Brank will have to assist his entire six year prison sentence.
In appealing the Jarec Wentworth extortion case, Brank’s lawyer argued that his conviction wasn’t justified by the evidence because Burns willingly offered the car and cash to get Brank to take away a tweet vaguely referring to the closeted millionaire. Thus, the lawyer argued, “fear of injury to [Burns’] reputation” wasn’t enough to support the government’s extortion charge as defined under some