Edward ‘Ed’ Buck is accused of ‘human trafficking and revenge porn’ in lawsuit filed by family of first black man who died of meth overdose in the activist’s West Hollywood home
Amended civil complaint against Democratic donor was filed in Los Angeles by family of Gemmel Moore
Moore was 26 when he died in Ed Buck’s home of meth overdose in July 2017
In January 2019, Timothy Dean, 55, was found dead at Buck’s West Hollywood home and his home was also ruled a meth overdose
A lawsuit filed in Los Angeles on behalf of Moore’s mother, LaTisha Nixon, accuses Buck of human trafficking and revenge porn
The lawsuit claims Buck showed secretly recorded porn of Moore as recently as April, and alleges that Buck trafficked the 26-year-old by flying him from Texas to California
Buck has never been criminally charged and denies any wrongdoing in the case
Politically connected Edward Buck [photo] has always maintained his innocence and denied any wrongdoing. He has never been criminally charged in relation to the deaths of the men inside his home
The fresh allegations came in an amended complaint just filed in federal court in Los Angeles by the family of Gemmel Moore, who died in Buck’s West Hollywood home in July 2017 at the age of 26.
Moore died of a crystal meth overdose in the donor’s apartment in July 2017. The Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department opened a homicide investigation, but a year later the District Attorney, Jackie Lacey, declined to file charges against Buck, citing insufficient evidence.
Just 18 months later, a second man, 55-year-old Timothy Dean, was also found dead in Buck’s apartment in what was ruled an accidental meth overdose.
The amended complaint alleges that Buck ‘regularly solicits sex from black men in exchange for temporary housing and/or monetary compensation.’
Buck, 64, has previously denied any wrongdoing, and has never been criminally charged.
Gemmel Moore seen [right with his mother], was found dead at home of political donor Ed Buck in July 2017. Moore’s mother, LaTisha Nixon [left], has filed a lawsuit seeking damages from Buck over Gemmel’s death in 2017
Moore’s mother, LaTisha Nixon, filed her original civil complaint in January, alleging that Buck was responsible for the death of her son.
The lawsuit alleges that Buck has ‘a well-documented history of isolating Black men for predatory sexual encounters during which he forcibly injects them or forces them to be injected with crystal methamphetamine in the confines of his West Hollywood-apartment–turned-drug-den.’
The suit makes the incredible new allegation that Buck continued to invite men into his home for drug-fueled sex as recently as April of this year, and that he showed them homemade sex videos he had secretly recorded of Moore before the young man’s death.
The lawsuit says that the videos depict Moore ‘masturbating while apparently intoxicated on crystal methamphetamine’ and alleges that they were recorded and then shown to others without Moore’s consent.
The suit further alleges that Buck was in violation of federal human trafficking laws by paying for Moore’s plane ticket from his home in Texas to Los Angeles for the purpose of paid sex acts.
Jermaine Gagnon, 28, [photo], has revealed that he narrowly escaped death when Edward Buck injected him with crystal meth at his sex-toy filled apt
LaTisha Nixon first filed legal papers in a Los Angeles court in Feb, 2019, seeking damages against Ed Buck for ‘wrongful death, sexual battery, drug dealer liability, premises liability, negligence per se, intentional infliction of emotional distress and hate violence’, in the death of her son.
In her legal complaint, Nixon cites evidence from several men who told police that they were ‘forcibly injected with crystal methamphetamine by Mr. Buck’.
Buck’s attorney, Seymour Amster, has previously denied any wrongdoing by his client, said Buck did not inject anyone, and called the allegations against Buck ‘spurious’.
The lawsuit claimed that Buck bought Moore a plane ticket from Houston to visit him at his apartment in July 2017, and that just hours after he landed, Moore was dead.
Police found the apartment ‘littered with multiple syringes with brown residue, a scale, several lighters and torches, a straw with white residue, glass pipes with white residue and burn marks, plastic bags with white powdery residue and a clear plastic bag containing a crystal-like substance,’ the legal papers say.
The documents claim Buck had ‘previously solicited sex’ from Moore ‘would insist upon injecting Mr. Moore with crystal methamphetamine’ then forcing him to watch hardcore gay pornography.
Gemmel Moore [left], 26, and Timothy Dean [right], 55, were both found dead at Ed Buck’s apt in similar circumstances, 18 months apart
Buck also ‘required Mr. Moore to masturbate and engage in other autoerotic sex acts for Mr. Buck’s sexual gratification and pleasure,’ according to the lawsuit.
‘Until now, Ed Buck has avoided prosecution by the very same elected officials and law enforcement agents whose pockets he’s been lining with hundreds of thousands of dollars in election campaign and legal defense fund contributions since 2007,’ said Hussain Turk, one of Nixon’s attorneys.
‘Their refusal to criminally prosecute Ed Buck because he is white is an unjust and unequal application of the law.
‘If the dead body of a blonde-haired, blue-eyed white man was found in the home of an older Black man, he’d be lucky to even make it to the police station alive,’ Turk added. ‘But on DA Lacey’s and DDA Hum’s watch, Ed Buck hasn’t even been formally questioned for his involvement in the deaths of not one, but two Black men.’
Part of the evidence backing up the bereaved mother’s lawsuit is Moore’s journal, where he claims Buck injected him with crystal meth.
In one entry, Moore wrote: ‘I honestly don’t know what to do. I’ve become addicted to drugs and the worst one at that. Ed Buck is the one to thank. He gave me my first injection of crystal meth it was very painful, but after all the troubles, I became addicted to the pain and fetish/fantasy.
‘My life is at an all time high right now & I mean that from all ways. I ended up back at Buck house again and got manipulated into slamming again. I even went to the point where I was forced to doing 4 within a 2 day period. This man is crazy and its sad. Will I ever get help?’
‘Slamming’ is a slang term for gay men injecting drugs such as mephedrone, GHB, or crystal meth.
In Moore’s final entry on December 3 2016, he wrote: ‘If it didn’t hurt so bad, I’d kill myself, but I’ll let Ed Buck do it for now.’
Timothy Dean [photo], 55, was found dead on January 7 on a mattress in Ed Buck’s apt. He was the second man to die inside the home of the Democratic donor. His death was also ruled a meth overdose
Protesters call for the arrest of Ed Buck outside his West Hollywood, CA apt building after a second black man, Timothy Dean was found dead there in January 2019
The suit alleges that Buck’s political ties have kept him secure from criminal prosecution in the death of both Moore and Dean, a gay porn star also known by the stage name Hole Hunter.
The lawsuit names multiple local authorities and claims that the victim’s race and sexual orientation played a role in the decision not to prosecute Buck criminally.
The Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department opened a homicide investigation into Moore’s death, but a year later the District Attorney, Jackie Lacey, declined to file charges against Buck, citing insufficient evidence.
LaTisha Nixon, mother of Gemmel Moore who was found dead from an overdose at Ed Buck’s apartment 18 months earlier, attended a vigil outside Buck’s apartment after Dean’s death in Jan, 2019
The coroner ruled the death an accidental overdose.
The suit additionally accuses Buck of assault, sexual battery, hate violence, drug dealer liability, negligence, and infliction of emotional distress.
Buck’s attorney, Seymour Amster, has previously denied any wrongdoing by his client, said Buck did not inject anyone, and called the allegations against Buck ‘spurious’.
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