• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
  • Advertise
  • Contact Us
  • About Towleroad
  • Towleroad on Social Media
  • Privacy Policy

Towleroad Gay News

Gay Blog Towleroad: More than gay news | gay men

  • Travel
  • Sports
  • Law/Justice
  • Celebrities
  • Film/TV/Stream
  • Republicans
  • Madonna
  • Books
  • Men
  • Trans Rights
  • Tech/Science
  • Royals
  • Monkeypox
  • N.J. school librarian who opposed attempts to remove LGBTQ+ books receives national award
  • John Travolta has led tributes to his ‘Grease’ co-star Olivia Newton-John, who died aged 73
  • Elton John confirms Britney Spears’ musical comeback

Gay Adult Film Star Sentenced to Nearly 6 Years in Prison for Blackmailing Republican Millionaire

Sean Mandell October 28, 2015 Leave a Comment

BrFiMCVIQAAOkaB

Gay adult film star Jarec Wentworth, real name Teofil Brank, has been sentenced to 70 months in prison for extorting an Audi sports car and $500,000 in cash from a Republican millionaire. Donald Burns, chairman of MagicJack VocalTec, an Internet phone service, said in court that he was “scared to the core” about what Brank might reveal. Brank was hired by Burns as an escort and also arranged for Burns to meet other escorts and adult film stars at Burns’ request. Brank threatened to expose details about Burns’ sex life to the public if his demands were not met.

The LA Times reports:

A sentencing memorandum filed by federal prosecutors said the two men met in 2013 in a “pay-for-sex encounter.” Between 2013 and 2014, Burns paid Brank between $1,500 and $2,000 for sex on about four occasions, the memorandum said. […]

The arrangement began to unravel earlier this year when Brank refused to return a fee for a tryst that never happened, prosecutors said. Burns told Brank that he did not think they could continue to have a “working” relationship, prosecutors wrote.

In response, Brank sent a series of threatening text messages to Burns, the sentencing memorandum said.

“I can bring your house down….Lies can be made or maybe it’s the truth,” Brank wrote in one message, later sending, “I’m feeling evil right now.”

“Money won’t wash away what people will read and see of you. Wow I guess I hold the cards right now,” he wrote.

Burns attempted to appease Brank by wiring him $500,000 and handing over his Audi R8, reportedly worth $180,000. When Brank demanded $1 million more, Burns contacted the FBI and a sting operation was set up at a Starbucks in El Segundo, California.

An undercover agent gave Brank the title to the Audi R8 inside the coffee shop, but said the $1 million was stored in the trunk of his car, according to a sworn affidavit by an FBI agent. Outside, agents arrested the porn star and found a loaded revolver in his car, the affidavit said.

While awaiting trial behind bars, Brank continued to target Burns, falsely accusing him of having sex with minors, prosecutors alleged.

Brank was ordered by the court to pay $500,000 to Burns in restitution.

Of Burns’ business background, the International Business Times notes, “Burns made a fortune in 1997 when he sold his telecommunications company for $250 million.” He would then go on to help found MagicJack approximately a decade ago.

TheSmokingGun, meanwhile, reports on Burns’ contributions to Republican candidates over the years:

A registered Republican, Burns has donated to a variety of GOP candidates and committees, including Mitt Romney, Scott Brown, Jeb Bush, Rudolph Giuliani, and the Republican Party of San Diego. In 2004, Burns made a $1000 donationto a “swift boat” group opposing Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry, and he also gave money to the presidential campaigns of John Edwards and Ralph Nader. Last year, he made a maximum $2600 contribution to Richard Tisei, an openly gay, married Republican who lost a bid for a congressional seat in Massachusetts.

Burns’s largest political donations came in 2008, when he contributed $400,000to a group opposing a Florida ballot measure that called for amending the state constitution so as to define marriage solely as a union between a man and a woman. The measure, which passed with 62 percent of the vote, is the subject of ongoing litigation by gay marriage proponents.

You can read the charges against Brank below:

You can also watch a report from The Young Turks and CBS News:

video
play-rounded-fill
Link
typorama 6 copy

video
play-rounded-fill
Link
typorama 6 copy

And check out a few more pics of Brank, here:

https://twitter.com/JarecWentworth/status/539992003732185088

https://twitter.com/JarecWentworth/status/510994725533659137

https://twitter.com/JarecWentworth/status/486561222448656385

https://twitter.com/JarecWentworth/status/482958017840021504

Topics: Business, Sports More Posts About: California, crime, Porn, Teofil Brank

Related Posts
  • Suspect Charged In Shocking, Brazen Brooklyn LGBTQ Bar Fire. Caught on Video Pouring Gasoline and Setting the Blaze
  • Disney Walkout: Employees, Allies Protest CEO’s Response To Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Bill; “Had They Said Something It Wouldn’t Have Passed.”
  • Well-Known Florida Marriage Plaintiff Found Dead In Landfill; Investigations Ongoing To Identify Who Killed Jorge Diaz-Johnston
  • John Travolta has led tributes to his ‘Grease’ co-star Olivia Newton-John, who died aged 73

    John Travolta has led tributes to his ‘Grease’ co-star Olivia Newton-John, who died aged 73

    Published by BANG Showbiz English John Travolta has led tributes to Olivia Newton-John, who died aged 73 on Monday (08.08.22). The ‘Grease’ star gushed that the actress – who played Sandy Olsen to his Danny Zuko …Read More »
  • Elton John confirms Britney Spears’ musical comeback

    Elton John confirms Britney Spears’ musical comeback

    Published by BANG Showbiz English Britney Spears has confirmed her musical comeback with Elton John. The ‘Piece of Me’ hitmaker, 40, is making her return to pop music after being freed from her conservatorship with a …Read More »
  • Rosie O’Donnell shared the A League of Their Own movie drama with cast of Abbi Jacobson’s new TV series

    Rosie O’Donnell shared the A League of Their Own movie drama with cast of Abbi Jacobson’s new TV series

    Published by BANG Showbiz English Rosie O’Donnell spilled all “the dirt” about the onset ‘A League of Their Own’ drama to the cast of the new television series inspired by the movie. Kelly McCormack says the …Read More »
  • Ezra Miller faces felony burglary charges in Vermont

    Ezra Miller faces felony burglary charges in Vermont

    Published by BANG Showbiz English Ezra Miller has been charged with felony burglary in Vermont. ‘The Flash’ star stands accused of the charge after Vermont State Police were alerted to a complaint at a property in …Read More »
Previous Post: « Theodore Shoebat: Christians Who Do Not Support Extermination of Gays are Liars and Heretics – VIDEO
Next Post: Arsenal Legend Thierry Henry: ‘It’s Great’ if Gay Footballers Want to Come Out of the Closet »

Primary Sidebar

Adjacent News

  • Texas church’s unauthorized production of ‘Hamilton’ ends with sermon comparing gay people to drug addicts: report

    Texas church’s unauthorized production of ‘Hamilton’ ends with sermon comparing gay people to drug addicts: report

  • Alex Jones’ Text Messages Turned Over To January 6 House Select Committee

    Alex Jones’ Text Messages Turned Over To January 6 House Select Committee

  • Michigan AG details Trump backers’ conspiracy to break into voting equipment

    Michigan AG details Trump backers’ conspiracy to break into voting equipment

Good Trash: Going to Read It Somewhere, Y’know

  • Pete Davidson Proposed to Kim Kardashian Before Their Breakup

    Pete Davidson Proposed to Kim Kardashian Before Their Breakup

  • New bombshell book on Trump reveals he wanted to be treated like Hitler: ‘Totally loyal’

    New bombshell book on Trump reveals he wanted to be treated like Hitler: ‘Totally loyal’

RSS Partner Links

  • The tributes for Olivia Newton-John pour in as heartbroken world mourns this beloved star
  • Chrishell Stause Addresses Three Misconceptions About Herself, Including That She Does 'Everything for Press'
  • Morning Wood
  • Page 1 Roundup (088/09)
  • Trump Reports Mar-A-Lago Raided By FBI, Compares It To ... Watergate
  • Olivia Newton-John Remembered
  • Ashton Kutcher Clarifies News About His Medical Diagnosis

Most Recent

  • N.J. school librarian who opposed attempts to remove LGBTQ+ books receives national award

    N.J. school librarian who opposed attempts to remove LGBTQ+ books receives national award

  • John Travolta has led tributes to his ‘Grease’ co-star Olivia Newton-John, who died aged 73

    John Travolta has led tributes to his ‘Grease’ co-star Olivia Newton-John, who died aged 73

  • Elton John confirms Britney Spears’ musical comeback

    Elton John confirms Britney Spears’ musical comeback

  • Rosie O’Donnell shared the A League of Their Own movie drama with cast of Abbi Jacobson’s new TV series

    Rosie O’Donnell shared the A League of Their Own movie drama with cast of Abbi Jacobson’s new TV series

  • Ezra Miller faces felony burglary charges in Vermont

    Ezra Miller faces felony burglary charges in Vermont

  • First Photo: Agent With Machine Gun Photographed Outside Of Trump’s Palm Beach Resort Mar-a-Lago During FBI Raid

    First Photo: Agent With Machine Gun Photographed Outside Of Trump’s Palm Beach Resort Mar-a-Lago During FBI Raid

  • FBI searches Trump’s Florida home as part of presidential records probe

    FBI searches Trump’s Florida home as part of presidential records probe

  • Beyonce tops US songs chart for first time in over a decade

    Beyonce tops US songs chart for first time in over a decade

Most Commented

Social

Twitter @tlrd | Facebook | Instagram @tlrd

Footer

Copyright © 2022 · Log in

×