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Chloe (Melinda Taylor), the former Vivid Girl, died of liver failure at 4am Saturday, June 4, 2005, in Houston.

I call Chloe's eldest sister Michelle Barclay Monday evening, June 20.

Michelle: "I'm a court reporter.

"I saw you had interviewed Montana [Gunn].

"Chloe was not in a coma for three months."

Luke: "Tell me about Chloe's last year."

Michelle: "She had gotten away from the porn industry. She started escorting to make extra money. She had turned to prescription drugs. They had damaged her liver over the years. That's what first landed her in the hospital. She was told that [the prescription drugs Vicodin and Soma] were going to kill her. Her liver was basically gone.

"She was trying to get away from Chris Miguez. Montana was correct that [Chloe] got close to one of her sisters. That was me. I'm the oldest.

"Dee [Chloe Jones] wanted to come up here and stay with me for a while.

"We made a road trip in late February 2005. She and I flew down to Houston and picked up my boat and made a road trip back up here [Arkansas].

"She was supposed to come up here Memorial Day weekend but Chris had all kinds of problems and wouldn't let her come.

"Chris was only in it for the money. He was feeding her methamphetamines. I know this first-hand."

Luke: "He was a speed freak?"

Michelle: "Oh yes. He is heavily into drugs. She was trying to get away from him. She had to switch bank accounts because he kept trying to drain all her accounts dry.

"I could go on for days. One day I'm going to sit down and write a book about our family history."

Luke: "Why did she stay with Chris?"

Michelle: "Money and stability. She needed someone to help. In between doing escort services, when she was waiting on her money, Chris would go sell his drugs or what-have-you to make the rent payment."

Luke: "How long were they together?"

Michelle: "About two years."

Luke: "So, she wasn't in a coma for three months this year?"

Michelle: "No, she wasn't in a coma. The first hospital stay was in September, 2004. Right after we made our trip in February/March 2005, she went back in the hospital. She got approved for a liver transplant but Chris had nothing connected with it."

Luke: "Montana says Chris volunteered to give Chloe part of his liver."

Michelle: "That's false. Montana is going to praise Chris because they slept together for two days. We were locked out of my sister's house by Chris Miguez. Chris was taking her truck. Chloe's husband, Michael Taylor, is having to fight Chris for her stuff.

"I've got photos of Montana at the funeral. My sister [Melanie] said, what are you taking photos of her for? I said, you never know what's going to become after all this stuff happens.

"Lisa Skeirys and Chloe ran around together. Lisa has met me. I used to go to school in Austin. Lisa met Chloe at a strip club -- the Yellow Rose. They were both strippers. Chloe was a feature dancer.

"Lisa and Chloe had a big falling out because Chris would steal money from Lisa. Chris would steal from you when you would blink an eye.

"Our father died in 1982. Chloe was seven. I was ten. He died in a car accident. He was not driving. We believe he was knocked out before they went over the bridge.

"They were friends coming home. They worked offshore. They were coming back after being two weeks out. They were cutting boudin open, trying to eat. They dropped a knife. They both reached down to grab it and they flipped off the bridge in Louisiana.

"The driver survived. The cab of the truck was smashed. He was a skinny man and he was able to swim out. My father ended up with a large hematoma on his head according to the autopsy. We believe that he was knocked out before he drowned."

Luke: "Did you get a stepfather?"

Michelle: "Yes, we did. It's amazing that Melanie and I turned out normal. Sam Tanner. He was all right. He was an alcoholic. We didn't care for him. But as far as any sexual abuse as [Chloe's first husband] Jason Sturrock said, there was never ever any of that on us. I was a strong enough person that I would've taken my sisters and we would've left."

Luke: "Was he a creep?"

Michelle: "He was a creep alcoholic scumbag. He was in our life until 1989, when the other stepfather came into our life, Wayne, who shot himself in 1996."

Luke: "Was Wayne an alcoholic or druggie?"

Michelle: "No. He had different problems. Work. He got depressed. He attempted suicide a couple of different times. He eventually shot himself.

"I had come in and witnessed the aftermath. It freaked the cops out. Dee and I were telling the cops how to clean it up. It was crazy."

Luke: "What kind of guy was Chloe's first husband David Jason Sturrock?"

Michelle: "Just as crazy as Chloe was. They would burn each other's stuff. They would get pissed off at each other and burn each other's clothes. They were too young and too much alike. They did crazy pranks on each other.

"We would take trips floating down the Guadalupe River."

Luke: "How did you feel when Chloe became a nude model?"

Michelle: "I introduced her to this world. When she was back in highschool, I had taken her to a couple of different modeling conventions. Then I moved out to California. I got her to come out with me. She had started dancing [stripping] at Team Mates in Beaumont, Texas. I hooked her up with some people. The Sterling/Winters company. A couple of gay guys. They managed Morgan Fairchild and some of the older actresses. From there, she was introduced to other people.

"I moved to North Carolina."

Luke: "How did you and your family feel about her working as a nude model and stripper?"

Michelle: "We didn't mind it at all. I wish she would've stayed in that direction and went into acting and stayed with Playboy and Penthouse."

Luke: "Did Chloe attempt suicide at 13?"

Michelle: "Yes, she did. We lost our father. Our mother couldn't get a grip on all three girls and manage the place. She went to Beaumont Neurological Center."

Luke: "Was she sexually abused as a child?"

Michelle: "No, she was not. None of us were. She was the first one to experiment with drugs like acid."

Luke: "Did you guys talk about drugs?"

Michelle: "Of course we talked about drugs. Of course everybody experiments. We've done our fair share back in the day. We never shot up. We'd take the occasional acid. Ecstasy. Snort coke."

Luke: "Overall, were you the more responsible one of the three daughters?"

Michelle: "I guess so. Everybody said I was the strongest. Chloe was wild and crazy. Chloe and Melanie, the middle sister, you would not believe how much they looked alike. People would believe that Dee and Melanie were twins. We were blessed with good genes, minus the craziness that went on in our family.

"We believe it is a disease. Our grandmother was a beautiful woman. But she was screwed-up. She abused barbituates and vicodin and anything she could get her hands on. She died in 1986 at 51. She had shot herself in the stomach in front of my mother when my mother was a child. She started abusing alcohol."

Luke: "Were all three of you beautiful?"

Michelle: "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but all of us are blessed."

Luke: "What are the characteristics of Melanie?"

Michelle: "She's bubbly, witty, smart. She can read people. The first time she met Chris Miguez (June 9, 2005), she said to me, 'I get a bad vibe out of him. Something is not right.' Sure enough, it all unfolded before our eyes.

"I'd met Chris on several different occasions. I take everything he says with a grain of salt.

"Melanie has the same tattoo on her ankle as Chloe had -- a red rose on the right ankle."

Luke: "Was Melanie ever a stripper?"

Michelle: "No. She worked at Team Mates but she waitressed. Melanie can tell you some stories about when they were out in California while I was going to school in Austin."

Luke: "Did you guys have a falling out with Chloe?"

Michelle: "Not really. We drifted apart. My sister Chloe was strung out on vicodin. She could conjure up some stories. She and my mom were like to peas in a pod. We think our mother is going to end up dead in the next couple of months."

Luke: "Did your mother make it to the funeral?"

Michelle: "No, she did not. She was hospitalized from the shock. She comes in and out of [sedation]. Of course they send her out the door with all kinds of things."

The mother, Donna Jones, is 51. "She was 16 when I was born.

"I had a child when I was 13. I'm 33. She'll be 20 next month. She and I will go out together and it just blows people's minds."

Luke: "Did you get to raise her?"

Michelle: "I sure did. The only time she didn't come with me was when I went to Austin and California to go to school. It took me a long time to get through school. I was turning 27 when I completed my degree."

Luke: "What words would you use to describe your mother's personality and character?"

Michelle: "I don't know. She and I were never close. She was close with Chloe. Both of them loved drama. Any kind of drama. It didn't matter if it was made-up drama. That's what drew us apart for a while. We [Michelle and Melanie] didn't want to get caught up in the drama. The he-said, she-said bulls---.

"Melanie is married to a sportscaster in Salt Lake City. I divorced last year. That's when Chloe and I began to get close."

Luke: "Did Chloe have a problem with drugs since age 13?"

Michelle: "I wouldn't say a problem. Her problem didn't begin until the last ten, the last five years of her life, when she started using them heavily. Whenever she started with porn. When I said, put those things down, she said, this is what makes it all go away and I can perform."

Luke: "I heard she was a nightmare to work with."

Michelle: "I'd believe that. If she didn't get her way, she'd throw a fit."

Luke: "The euphemism is that she was a character."

Michelle: "Oh yes, oh yes, to say the least.

"She didn't smoke three packs of cigarettes a day. Maybe on pack."

Luke: "She had quite a few trips to the emergency room?"

Michelle: "Yes, she did. Seizures. A guy hit her out in California while she was working [as an escort in 2000]. He tried to steal money from her. That started them and it got worse because she didn't stay on her Dilantin.

"She wrecked her truck in early March [2005] because she passed out on Vicodin and Soma. She was arrested for a DUI due to that accident. Shortly thereafter she went back into the hospital."

Luke: "What do you know about the relationship between Chloe and Montana Gunn?"

Michelle: "They were not close. They just knew each other from working in the business. Acquaintances."

Luke: "Did she have any friends in the industry?"

Michelle: "To be honest, all three of us sisters have never had a best friend. It's always been us because we're very untrusting people. We've been stabbed in the back so many times. As far as a best friend while she was an adult, she was friends with Lisa Skeirys. Then they had their falling out."

Luke: "What's your opinion of Michael Taylor?"

Michelle: "Mike's very good to her children. He's a good man. I was hoping they could work things out and get back together. Chloe loved Michael. We had a wonderful talk on our road trip to get my boat. Michael was tired of putting up with the pills that she was on."

Luke: "Tell me about the funeral."

Michelle: "The funeral was good. I was worried about that, about a bunch of people showing up. It was relatively small. About 50. We did have to hire security guards. Chris Miguez did not pay for that funeral. It came through donations.

"Chris wiped her bank account clean and I saw at least $10,000 to $15,000 cash, in $100 bills, on the first night we sat down (Thursday, June 9).

"Michael is looking after the kids. It wouldn't surprise me to see little Chloe following in her mother's footsteps. She's a beautiful child. Michael was able to get her Tiffany and Co. necklace and bracelets."

Luke: "Did Chris Miguez offer to donate her liver?"

Michelle: "No, he did not."

Luke: "Were there a lot of men in your mother's life after your father died?"

Michelle: "Oh yes. She was kinda whorey. She was very attractive. With her looks, she could've found someone decent."

Luke: "But she wasn't attracted to decent men?"

Michelle: "No, unfortunately. That's why all three of us got up and left."

Luke: "The funeral notice says that Chloe's fiance was Chris Miguez."

Michelle: "No. You can't be a fiance if you're still legally married."

Luke: "You read the funeral notice?"

Michelle: "Oh yes. Needless to say, our asses were burning at the funeral but we kept our mouths shut."

We get Melanie on the phone.

Luke: "Melanie, how would you describe Chris Miguez?"

Melanie: "He's worthless. He scams off of women.

"Chloe was something fearless. I lived with her in California when she was 19, 20. She started out as a [stripper] at 18."

Luke: "How did you feel about her working as a dancer?"

Melanie: "I was ok with it. We wanted her to get out to California and get into modeling. I was very proud whenever she hit Playboy, but after Playboy, it went downhill. There was nothing we could do."

Michelle: "That was her downfall -- when she started hitting the drugs hard."

Melanie: "It was more when the videos started coming out."

Luke: "When she was doing the videos, wasn't that the time she started abusing the prescription medication?"

Melanie and Michelle say yes.

Melanie: "I think she was doing that to block out all the pain and the hurt."

Luke: "Pain from the childhood."

Melanie: "Pain from doing the videos and from coping with it."

Michelle: "Her and Michael worked as a team. After they split up and stopped doing movies together, that's when it really started going downhill."

Luke: "Did Chloe find the porn humiliating?"

The sisters say no.

Melanie: "She did a lot of the pills to cover up the pain. It wasn't that she humiliated. It was that she felt bad after doing it -- having to stoop that low for money. She just started doing that to make the pain go away and forget about it."

Luke: "Melanie, tell me about your relationship with Chloe. Was there ever a falling out where you stopped communicating?"

Melanie: "There was. She was pregnant with her two boys. Her twin boys and my daughter were three days apart. We didn't talk during her pregnancy until right to the end. We had a falling out. I didn't want any more BS."

Michelle: "The drama."

Melanie: "I was getting ready to have my first child. I didn't want any drama."

Michelle says that if Chloe and her mother were not stirring up drama, they were not happy. "We could not talk to Dee without her going back to our mother and stirring up the pot and twisting things around so that there was always something going on with our family."

Luke: "Melanie, what's your opinion of Jason Sturrock?"

Melanie: "He was dating a girlfriend of mine and her parents sent her off to a military school to get her away from him. I didn't get along with Jason. He was controlling of her. Everything he said, she did. I didn't care for him and he didn't care for me. Dee was so headstrong...

"They'd soak each other's clothes in clorox and light them on fire."

Luke: "Did the police come out?"

Michelle: "Oh yeah."

Melanie: "I'm sure they did. When he was working the nightshift in the army, she (at age 17, after getting married at 16) called her stepdad to come and get her. She just packed everything up and left him."

Luke: "Melanie, what's your opinion of Michael Taylor?"

Melanie: "I adore Michael. I always have. He's raising her three kids. I just admire a man who can take on three kids and raise them..."

Michelle: "And put up with our sister's bulls---."

Melanie: "That's why he wanted to get away and create a stable life and it wasn't happening as long as he was with her."

Luke: "Why did Dee (Chloe Jones) get with Chris Miguez?"

Melanie: "Do you want to know the honest truth?"

Luke: "Yes. Drugs?"

Melanie: "I think that had something to do with it. She was always dependent. She had to have a man in her life."

Luke: "But why Chris?"

Melanie: "He just had a screw loose. He would put up with what she was doing."

Michelle: "His roommate kicked him out.

"Luke, when we made our trip, he called her every second to the point where she had to turn that phone off.

"I've known Chris for a year-and-a-half. He ticked me off one time when I was accused around Christmas 2003 of taking pills out of my sister's purse. I don't steal. She and I didn't talk for about four months. We finally put all that behind us and she realized I didn't take anything from her."

Luke: "Melanie, did any of the men in your mother's life take an inappropriate interest in you daughters?"

Melanie: "Oh no."

Michelle: "I saw that on the internet. Hell no."

The sisters laugh.

Melanie: "That was another fabrication. That's why we wanted to clear things up."

Luke: "Why did your stepfather Wayne put up with your mother?"

Melanie: "My mother was halfway sane back then. It started going downhill the last year. He was involved in a lawsuit with Mobil Oil. He could've retired at 42."

Luke: "Michelle, was your father a good father to you?"

Michelle: "Yes, he was. I was a daddy's girl. My mother and I were never very close."

Luke: "What was the reputation of your family growing up?"

Michelle: "We were the infamous Jones girls. I was a goody-two-shoes because I'd had a child at 13. I really tried to prove to the world that I could be something. Cheerleader. French Club. Didn't smoke. I never thought about drugs. A jock. Good grades. A scholarship waiting on me for music at Baylor. I'd met my husband just before turning 18 and I was with him until last year, when I was 32."

Luke: "What was Melanie's reputation?"

Michelle: "Very cool. Everybody's buddy. Everybody's friend. Melanie never had a boyfriend in highschool. She would have guys who liked her but she liked to stay single.

"She went to school and became a paralegal. She never used it. She now works for a mortgage company. She married a sports anchorman, a wonderful guy. They have one child."

Luke: "What was Dee's reputation as a child?"

Michelle: "Wild, crazy. She didn't really care what people thought about her. The first time one of Dee's friends met Dee, Dee opened up her purse and started going through it. Dee was spontaneous. She was the one who would always get in trouble and we would take up for her.

"Our family had lots of friends. All three of us sisters were popular in highschool. People would hang out at our house and shoot pool. Our mother would let us drink beer inside the house.

"Michael's mother this last Spring did the same thing -- she OD'd on Seraquil (sleeping pills)."

Luke: "Was Chloe sexually abused? Not by your mother's men, but by other men. She told people she was sexually abused by interns at the Beaumont Neurological Center."

Michelle: "Yeah. She had been. There were guys who would rip her off, take advantage of her. There weren't many women who had a natural beauty like she did. Her body was flawless."

Luke: "What do you think was going through Chloe's head during the last few years of her life?"

Michelle: "Especially the last year, she wanted to get close to her family. She wanted to stop the drama. She knew she was sick. She knew things had to change. That's why this last year was so great. The drama had stopped."

Luke: "What kind of mother was she?"

Michelle: "Wonderful. The last week she was alive, she took the kids to Chemo, an amusement park outside of Houston. She spent the whole day with them."

Luke: "And they adored her?"

Michelle: "Yes, they did. Especially Chloe. I don't think you've seen the last of my sister's legacy."

Luke: "What kind of things did people say at the funeral?"

Michelle: "Good things. There was a fan there who was trying to take photos. Michael saw what was going on. He got the police. They confiscated his film. We didn't want any of her pictures to pop up on the internet."

Luke: "Over the last year, how often did you speak with Chloe?"

Michelle: "At least once a week. There were days when we'd call each other several times a day."

Luke: "How would a typical conversation go?"

Michelle: "'I've got the kids this weekend. I kicked Chris out. Chris keeps smoking up my phone.'"

Luke: "What does that mean?"

Michelle: "Her phone would ring constantly. He would constantly call her when he didn't where she was or what she was doing. He would follow her.

"The day after she left my place in February or March [2005], she was pulled over [by the cops]. They were looking for Chris."

Luke: "Did she leave him several times?"

Michelle: "Yes, she did. She had her own place. She had just put him on that lease.

"The last time I spoke with her, she'd just found out that in her prior apartment complex, he'd been cheating on her with some girl named Lisa. We were keeping our eyes open to see if she would pop up at the funeral. We weren't going to have her stay there."

Luke: "How do you think her work in the sex industry affected her?"

Michelle: "It bothered her. She was wanting to straighten up her life and do something. I wanted her up here [Arkansas]. I said, be like Jenna Jameson. Let's write a book. You can retire off of that. You're getting older. You don't want to do this anymore. Sit back and reflect. Write about all your experiences. I'll help me with the family history.

"She was all for it. It's what she was trying to do.

"She was supposed to be up here Memorial Day weekend.

"I am going to do that on her behalf and dedicate it to her."

Luke: "Did she read much? Was she smart?"

Michelle: "She never did read much. She was average. She was street-smart."

Luke: "What did she most want out of her life?"

Michelle: "She wanted fame. She knew that after the porn industry, she could never go back to Penthouse, Playboy, the things that gave her notoriety. She liked attention.

"We went out to the club Hush last December. We had a blast. I was the one that drank. She took care of me. We were escorted in [and treated as VIPs because of Chloe Jones]. They cleared all the tables for us. She was not a big partier."

Luke: "Did she ever get her Vicodin problem under control?"

Michelle: "No. It got worse. That's what did in her liver.

"Just a few days after she left my house [in February], I didn't realize she had taken some stuff. That's what put her back in the hospital. She got out, recovered, and had to go back in because she kept throwing up because of her intestines. They took out two feet of her intestines. She had a scar from her pubic bone to her chest. During that, she had appendicitis. They took her appendix out.

"She looked bad the last few months. You could tell she was sick.

"Dee and our mother were close. Anything my mother needed done, Dee would do it for her."

Chloe Jones's sister Melanie Holden calls me back at 3:44pm Tuesday, June 21. "On my 21st birthday, she went to enter this bikini contest. We took separate vehicles. I ended getting intoxicated and following her out of the parking lot and going to stop at a red light, I just smashed her back-end and did $5,000 worth of damage.

"She gets out and says follow me. My little sister was witty and quick on her feet. We go somewhere in Beverly Hills and park at a subway. I go in and call the police to make it look like a customer had backed in to me while we were in there having a sandwich. The cops fell for it.

"She was a wild ride. I remember going on a photoshoot with her (when Chloe was about 19) when she first started out. We had to hike down this cliff to the beach. Going back up the cliff, she had a seizure.

"Back then, we didn't want to believe she was having seizures. We thought she was just doing it for attention. She had to be the center of attention or she was going to pull something to get it that way.

"They called a helicopter to lift her out of the basket to get her off the cliff.

"I remember her sneaking into the Universal Studios fountain. A friend snapped pictures. We never got caught.

"She was fearless. Somebody said the other day that she was bulletproof. And that's how we looked at her."

Luke: "In the weeks before your sister died, did you have any inkling that she was on the edge?"

Melanie: "No. She would call and tell me that she was dying. I guess it was something that you don't want to believe. We took it with a grain of salt because we never knew what to believe. We knew her liver was failing but we didn't know how bad it was.

"There were several times she called and said, I'm dying. If something happens to me, I want you to take the kids. I know you'll give them the stability they'll need. I remember telling her, Dee, if Michael [Taylor, Dee's husband] is still living, I can't do that.

"There were some nights when you could tell she'd been on the pills. Her speech was slurred. I never asked her if she'd taken anything. I already knew.

"She called me one day two weeks before her death. I was running an errand. She had the music cranked up. She'd just come back from the mall. She said, 'I just spent $500 f---ing dollars on a pair of sunshades. I feel great.'"

Luke: "What were the last words she said to you?"

Melanie: "That she loved me and we'd talk soon."

It was June 1.

Melanie: "The last time I saw her was Christmas of 2003. We'd talk all the time but we didn't have that close sister bond because we didn't see each other.

"She knew that I had straightened my life up. I had married. I had a daughter. I went to work every day. I used to be a wild girl. Drinking. Everyone goes through their stages. There was a time when she was concerned about me and alcohol. Then I turned my life around and got straight. There were a lot of things she couldn't call and tell me because she knew I'd gotten my life on track."

Luke: "That you didn't want to hear you were abusing drugs and alcohol."

Melanie: "Right.

"In the last six months of her life, she picked up the phone and told me, 'Melanie, I'm very sorry for the way I've treated you, for anything I've said. If I've hurt you in any way, I'm sorry.'

"I said, 'Dee, why are you saying this?' That's when she said, 'Melanie, I don't have much time to live. I just want you to know it was all the pills, everything I was shoving down my throat to try to take my pain away. In return, I hurt other people.' That truly touched me.

"That's when I knew she was trying. Or, at least, we thought...

"Other times, right up to the end, I'd talk to her: 'Let me get you in rehab. I'll fly down to Houston. We'll get in your truck and you'll drive me back to Utah. We'll put you in rehab up here.' She said, OK But when I asked her about it [specifically], she'd say, no, I can't leave. I've got this to do.

"I knew that if I got on a one-way ticket down there, she wouldn't come back with me.

"I begged and begged for her to come up here.

"Towards the end, we talked about getting a family reunion together at Michelle's house. We just never got to that."

Luke: "What about getting her away from Chris?"

Melanie: "There'd be times I'd talk to my sister and she'd say, 'Chris has done this. He's seeing someone else. I'm through with him.' There were other times when she'd say, 'He takes care of me. He's been here while I've been sick.' So, it was mixed. I never knew what to believe.

"I always told Dee that I can't form an opinion of Chris until I meet him. There's two sides to every story. I didn't realize how bad a guy he was until I did meet him. Unfortunately, it was too late. I feel like if he would've gotten away from him, maybe, but who's to say?"

Luke: "What was Dee's relationship like with her mother?"

Melanie: "It was great. They talked six or seven times a day."

Luke: "Was your mother concerned about her?"

Melanie: "Mom was like we are. We never thought it was as bad as it was. Dee would always say, 'Mom, I'm dying. Mom, I see death. Mom, I'm never going to make it to 30. I'm just going to be like our father. He never made it to 30. I'm never going to make it to 30 either.'

"It's one of those things where you say, 'Ok, Dee, move on from the subject.' If we could turn back time..."

Luke: "You had a maternal grandmother who died at 51?"

Melanie: "Yes."

Luke: "And your mother's 51?"

Melanie: "Yes."

Luke: "I can't imagine what Dee's death did to your mother."

Melanie: "She called me today just crying her eyes out. She told me that she had nothing to live for anymore.

"She's not doing well. We know what's coming next."

Luke: "When did you straighten your life out?"

Melanie: "I had my daughter at 23. It was 1997."

Luke: "Did Dee talk to you about your escorting work?"

Melanie: "She mentioned it once but she never got into detail. Towards the end, she thought I was too good. She knew I had my own lifestyle. I think she was embarrassed to let me know how she made her money.

"She'd mention escorting. I'd ask her a few questions and she'd change the subject. She wouldn't go into detail. Everything I'm learning now about the escorting business, I'm learning from her mother, because her mother knew everything about her. I know the last two guys turned her down. One man didn't like her complexion. Another man, her stomach pooched out a bit because she had that intestine blockage."

Luke: "What was your mother's attitude to Dee's escorting?"

Melanie: "Dee could do no wrong by my mom. I don't even know if it bothered her. My mom just idolized her little sister. You walk into her house and it's like a shrine. It's always been that way with my younger sister. Ever since she first started in the business, there's posters everywhere of Dee. It's been that way since Dee started.

"My mother went through a difficult time in 1996 when my stepfather died. I went down there and helped my mother.

"We are still close, but I have my own family to worry about now. I can't pick up the phone and call her six times a day.

"It's hard because she's comparing us to Dee now and we can't be her."

Luke: "Did Dee tell you about that [john] who beat her in 2000 [with a baseball bat] and that aggravated her seizures?"

Melanie: "No. She never discussed that with me.

"She was pretty open with me about [the pornography]. I was with her when she first started out. She'd call and tell me about the movies but she wouldn't go into great detail with me.

"At times, she felt like she was being raped. That's when the pills started coming in, to try to numb the pain. I don't think she ever liked it. I think it was just a way for her to make some money."

Luke: "How do you feel about the pornography industry, particularly given your sister's experience with it?"

Melanie: "That's hard, because I was totally against it for a long time. I know there are men and women out there who do it. Would I ever do it? No. But I've got to respect the fact that my sister did that. I'm not against it. I could never understand how she could block the pain."

Luke: "Why did Dee choose Chris Miguez? Why did she stay with him?"

Melanie: "Because her business was slowing down and she got so sick, she was afraid to be by herself. She needed somebody. That's why his name got put on her apartment. So it would fall back on him to be responsible for the bills if she didn't have the money to pay it. Towards the end, she was losing everything. She'd rented a storage unit and put everything in storage and didn't pay the storage fees and lost everything.

"She turned the other cheek. Chris brought in the money and the bills got paid."

Luke: "What kind of mother was she?"

Melanie: "She was an awesome mother. Dee loved her kids. She fought [Michael Taylor] for her kids when it came to custody. Then they finally dropped [the fighting]. Chloe [Jr] was the apple of her eye."

Luke: "Everyone says she was a good mother, but it seems incongrous as the rest of her life was so irresponsible."

Melanie: "Right. I'm sure there were times when she messed up with the kids. She probably got pilled out in front of them. No parent is perfect."

Luke: "It sounds like motherhood brought out the best in her."

Melanie: "At other times, the pills got her so she couldn't function as a mother.

"I don't think she ever checked into rehab. I think the only time she got dry was in the hospital [in April 2005]. She knew how serious her condition was because the doctor told her. She said, 'Melanie, I can't even take a Tylenol now because it could kill me.'

"My older sister and I never wanted to believe anything she said unless she had proof to back it up. Like the story about her having leukemia. [Chloe never had leukemia. It was a lie she told.] We thought the seizures were just for attention.

"Her first seizure was [when Chloe was 19] when we were living in the apartments in Burbank."

Luke: "What were the most important events in her life?"

Melanie: "The birth of her children. When she landed in Playboy. I think that was the highlight of her life, just to say, 'I'm in Playboy now. Look at me. I've made it.'"

Luke: "Was there a place in her life when she turned towards a bad path?"

Melanie: "Chris Miguez."

Luke: "Why was she taken to the Beaumont Neurological Center for Juveniles at age 13?"

Melanie: "She'd gone out and done some Ecstasy. Then she went in and grabbed a butcher knife and went after my mother with it. My mother didn't know she was on any drug. She took Dee to the hospital. That's when they told her Dee was on Ecstasy.

"Even as a child, Dee was going to do what Dee wanted to do. Nobody was going to stop her. Just like with her first marriage. My mother threw her hands up and said, 'Take her. I can't deal with her anymore.'"

Chloe was in Beaumont for at least three weeks. Afterwards, she claimed that the interns bound to a table and raped her.

"I know one of the happiest times in her life was when she met Mike [Taylor]. Her life was on track. She was living in LA. She'd just made it. Those were the happy times.

"You want to know my honest opinion on the porn industry? I've got a bad outlook on it now because it killed my sister. Between the pills and the drugs and the way they live their lives... I think a lot of them numb it with drugs just like a rock star."

Luke: "What do you think it is about the porn industry that kills people?"

Melanie: "Their conscience. Knowing they're spreading their legs for money. Knowing that's how they're going to make it. Knowing that people are going to look at you and say, oh, porn star."

Luke: "Do you think it is inherent to working in porn or do you think it is what society says about people who do pornography?"

Melanie: "I think it's what actually happens. They lure you in. They make it sound like you can make thousands a movie. All you've got to do is a couple of shots and you're done. You get that first big paycheck and you're like, whoa. Maybe this will pay the bills. And then, after that, it just goes downhill because you can't live with yourself doing it. And you try to numb the pain.

"I don't know if there are others out there that this has happened to. I know there are some who have gotten out and changed their life around.

"And the escorting business. If she would've just stayed with Playboy, she could've went somewhere. But she got on that one-way street and met the wrong person and it brought her down."

Luke: "How could one maintain one's self-respect while working as an escort?"

Melanie: "I don't see how. That's why she got addicted to all the pills."

Luke: "Did you notice people acquiescing to Chloe's bad behavior because she was so beautiful?"

Melanie: "I saw a lot of that. There were a lot of people who were jealous of her. I was jealous of my little sister growing up. She had all the boyfriends. She could put on that bikini and everybody would turn their head.

"Women are just catty anyway. If they see a beautiful woman, they can't accept her. I got to that point in my life where that jealousy went away and I embraced her."

Luke: "Why did Michael leave her?"

Melanie: "I don't think Michael wanted to live that lifestyle anymore. I think he wanted to show the kids a stable life. He didn't want to mess with any pills anymore. He didn't want the kids seeing their mother like that. She wouldn't straighten up. He had no other choice. I know he loved her."

Luke: "What was the role of religion in your family?"

Melanie: "We didn't grow up going to church. I don't know if in her lifetime Dee ever went to church. I remember her at one point said I don't believe in God. Me now, I'm Baptist."

Luke: "Has having that moral structure in your life improved your life?"

Melanie: "Definitely. Being married and having a kid will do that to you."

Luke: "Do you think there was a lack of structure in your home when you guys were kids?"

Melanie: "Yes. We just weren't as bad as our youngest. That kind of lifestyle will lead just where it led Dee."

Luke: "And when you saw her three friends from the industry?"

Melanie: "One was very nice. They introduced themselves. Until we found out that the night after the viewing [June 10], that [Montana and Raylin] went out with Chris Miguez and had a threesome together. I lost all respect and didn't want them anywhere around my sister's funeral."

Montana and Chris say this did not happen.

Luke: "What thoughts go through your head when you see other girls working in the same things Chloe did?"

Melanie: "I understand why they do it -- to make money. I just hope they have enough sense not to get into the drugs and alcohol and let that take over. Porn is going to be out there for years. There's nothing anybody can do about it."

I spoke to Montana Gunn Wednesday, June 22, 2005. "All this bulls--- coming out about Chris is unbelievable. He's got a great job [he's worked for a major corporation for nine years]. He hated that whole family because all they wanted was something off of Chloe. That's why they were taking pictures of her [at the funeral]. I said to Chris, isn't that morbid taking photos of the kids in front of the casket with the casket open?"

Luke: "Were they taking pictures of Chloe [Melinda Taylor] in the casket?"

Montana: "Yeah. With the kids and telling them to smile. They had two big giant digital cameras. They took hundreds of pictures. They were taking pictures of me. Raylin, Andrea and I were saying to Chris, isn't that morbid?

"My father says, 'That's the goyim for you.' He goes, 'There's just too many goyim out here.'"

I call Chris Miguez around noon on Wednesday, June 22.

Luke: "I was interviewing Chloe's sisters Melanie and Michelle."

Chris: "Are you familiar with [Melinda's] relationship with her sisters? They're not credible people. They've been jealous of her since birth. They're nobody. They've constantly been against Melinda. As long as I've known them, the stories I've been told, and the first-hand interaction I've had with them. To have a story going off of what they say, you're wasting your time. They weren't there for Melinda. They've never been there for her. I've read through the statements they've made. They've contradicted themselves in so many different ways, all the way down to the payment of the funeral. I've got receipts of everything. Mike Taylor and I paid for everything, including the security which I paid for out of my pocket. The only person in the family who contributed one cent was Melba Tucker, an aunt who hadn't seen Melinda since Melinda was a kid.

"The funeral home donated the casket which was $2,000. That didn't cover all the funeral expenses. That didn't cover the four plots out at Woodlawn Funeral Services that I'm paying for.

"I've heard what the sisters said about the apartment being in her name, and accounts that I've taken, drug dealing, no job. It's absurd. I'm a project manager for one of the most prominent oil and gas companies in the world. I have more respect and notoriety in this city with some well-known people than they could dream up of. It was appalling to hear, but it doesn't surprise me."

Luke: "What did Melinda tell you about her sisters?"

Chris: "Two-faced. Couldn't trust 'em. Stealing quarters from a dead-man's eye. Melinda always wanted somebody in her life to talk to. She had a lot of resentment towards her sisters because they were never there for her. She left them behind and headed for California years ago. She didn't have a relationship with them. I'm the one who said, 'Maybe you should try to give them another chance. Give them a call. Try to talk to them. Maybe they've changed.'

"They started communicating but they had no faith in their sister. They told me on many occasions that I should commit her. That I should put her in a home because she wasn't getting any better. She was getting better."

Luke: "Did she need to go some place for rehab?"

Chris: "She went to a rehab facility two years ago. I told her towards the end, if you do not get completely away from those pills, show me a proven track record that you are going to do better, I will put you in an in-patient facility. I looked into it. I even showed her programs that were partial in-patient, out-patient detox programs. There was a facility right down the road from where we lived that could customize a program based on your needs.

"She didn't want us to split. We had our hard times. When there were hard times, she'd lash out and want people to think that Chris is this and Chris is that.

"Even Mike Taylor can vouch for my efforts with Melinda. He and I have gotten close as far as being there for the kids. I've not walked out of those kids lives. I'm like a stepfather to them."

Luke: "What was Melinda like in her last few weeks? Her sister says she knew she was going to die."

Chris: "Bulls---. I've been with Melinda for three years. The last two weeks were some of the best weeks as far as she spent time with her kids without my support. Her kids were out on summer break. I work during the day. I get home late sometimes. I was always worried about Melinda. She was weak. She'd been through some major surgeries. Three kids can be a lot of pressure.

"But she did it. She took them several places. She took them swimming every day. It about nearly killed her. I called and checked on her during the day. I got her to put me on speaker phone to talk to the kids and get them in line."

Luke: "Were you going to donate part of your liver?"

Chris: "At the USC, there's a liver donor facility. I've got the application I filled out. There are a lot of prerequisites to be considered as a donor. You can't just have the same blood type. We looked into it. We researched it. We contacted the transplant facility. We expressed interest. We did a pre-screening over the phone. We got accepted to do a physical.

"After the funeral, while I was going through the paperwork, she never sent in the actual letter. She wasn't known for her responsibility. I had full intent. I spoke with them. I had all the documentation."

Luke: "You were going to donate part of your liver?"

Chris: "Yes, I was. I'm 27-years old. My health is good. It would've been a month off of work and my liver would've recovered in 18-months and been back to normal."

Luke: "Did you or Chloe know she was dying in her last few weeks?"

Chris: "No. No trace of it. No sign of it. She died in my arms. Friday night, before she died, it was getting late. We had to go to Louisiana the next day. So we had to get up early. She always liked to stay up late.

"She was tipsy. She'd taken some Phenergan, prescribed by a doctor. It calms nausea but it makes you woozy. She was smoking a cigarette on the porch. I said you should go to bed. She said, give me a minute. I said, you need to go now. With Melinda, give me a minute means an hour.

"I helped her up and brought her to bed. She said, I'm still hungry. I said, what do you want? She said, bring me something from Jack in the Box. I said, stay in bed. I'll run up to Jack in the Box. You can eat quickly. We need to get some sleep.

"I went to Jack in the Box. By the time I got back, she was snoring. I'd been gone ten minutes.

"I didn't wake her up. I closed the apartment down. I turned the lights down. I got in the bed. She acknowledged I was in bed. She snuggled up to me and slept against me like normal. She told me she loved me. I told her I loved her. I said, don't worry about getting up. I'll wake you up. Just get a good night's rest.

"It took me about 30-minutes to go to sleep. Everything was normal. When I woke up before 6am, I nudged her to wake up. Normally, she would've jumped up. I noticed there was a good amount of slobber on my shoulder where her face was. But that was not out of the ordinary. But she wasn't moving. It was not like her to be in the same position she was six hours ago. Normally she was on the other end of the bed.

"I rolled over, turned the light on, and she was in a state I had never seen before. I immediately checked her pulse and she didn't have a pulse. I called 9-1-1. I picked her off the bed and put her on the floor. They had me doing chest compressions. [The ambulance] didn't get there until 45-minutes later. She was still warm. I had them do a full autopsy to see what exactly the full causes are.

"My gut tells me that she either aspirated, choked... Three days prior to this happening, she had some oral surgery done in her mouth, tooth surgery. Since the surgery, she had a massive amount of discharge. Fluids were draining from that area. She had choked a couple of nights before on that fluid but she'd woken up and I'd patted her on the back.

"That morning [June 4], that discharge was the same stuff. She could've easily choked on that or she could've had a heart attack. Her body was at the end of the rope.

"Do I think she took an overdose of pills or drugs? No. I watched her like a hawk with regards to that.

"She'd come to me and say, I've taken two Vicodin today. And I'd say, you mean you've taken five.

"She knew that I wouldn't chastise her. She knew that I would help her. I did. I saved her life three times in a year-and-a-half by getting her to the hospital in time, by recognizing the signs that she was not doing well... And even in Saint Christoph's hospital, they know every single time she's been there, how she got there. If I wouldn't have taken her there in the time that I did she would've died.

"There was one occasion when even Mike knew she needed to go to the hospital. She was laying in her apartment. This was a breaking point in our relationship. It was about a seven months ago. She was not doing well. She said, Chris, please come over. I miss you. I want to work things through.

"I wanted to work things through but I was tired of the crap and the lies and all the bulls---. But I kept coming back. I didn't want drama. I have a career and I didn't want it to be affected.

"I went over there. I saw how weak she was. I picked her up, carried her to my vehicle, strapped her in my vehicle so she couldn't get out, crawled over her, and rushed her to the only hospital that knows how to take care of. They quickly started running procedures on her. If we would've waited another day, she would've died.

"I sat by her in the hospital each time. I would wake up in the morning and go to the hospital. At lunch, I'd come see her. At night, I'd come see her. I was the only one. Mike would occasionally come up there and see how she was doing. Her family? No."

Luke: "What about her mother?"

Chris: "Loose cannon. Kleptomaniac. Thief. Good intentions. Fell short. Maybe it is because of the three daughters she had and the s--- they put her through. There is some speculation about the murder of her husband [Wayne in 1996], saying he killed himself.

"All the stuff about her family that got released is not necessary. This is about Melinda and our life as she knew it and how everyone thought she lived. It's not about the drugs they did as kids. It should've been more about her. Her whole family tried to trash their own whole family."

Luke: "Why did you stay with Melinda?"

Chris: "Because I loved her.

"She didn't have money. We struggled for the 18-months of our relationship. We lived paycheck to paycheck. Before I met her, when she first got in the industry, she and Michael went on a tear. They made a lot of money. But they pissed it away. He'll tell you the same thing.

"Her income went to s---. Her income, her residuals from her website, were commission based. They docked her pay. She's always done escorting. She didn't do it throughout our relationship, [just] towards the end.

"Financially speaking, I would've been better of not being with her. My income would've been my income alone. I wouldn't have had to put it towards a three bedroom apartment and three children and a woman."

Luke: "Michelle said: 'We were locked out of our apartment by Chris. Chris is taking [Chloe's] truck.'"

Chris: "That apartment is my apartment. That apartment was our apartment. Mike Taylor can vouch for this -- he didn't want them coming over to begin with because they're thieves. They've stolen from Melinda their entire life. I had the heart on the first day they were here [June 9] to view some of the pictures and clothes. They had the nerve to ask for pieces of the clothes. I said no. I'd already put most of their clothes in trunks so there wouldn't be anything loose that they could get their hands on.

"When I wasn't there, I double-bolted the doors and I would not let anybody in there. Mike said, 'I don't even want them to be over there because I know how they are.' The only reason they are kissing his ass is because they are worried that interaction with the kids will be lossed. That's the only reason. They chastised him forever until now.

"Mike's made errors. I've made errors. Melinda's made errors.

"[Melinda's sisters] didn't contribute one cent to that funeral. When they were down here, I paid for their room and board. I paid $50 a day so they could stay at the corporate housing [near] our apartment. They trashed the place. They stole the linen. I had to pay a fee for the apartment people to clean the place. They stayed a day-and-a-half over. The first night they were there, I took all of them out to eat. I paid for it. I was just doing it out of respect and they totally disrespected me."

Luke: "What did Michelle mean when she said: 'Chris wiped her bank account clean. I saw $10,000 to $15,000 in $100 bills on the first night we sat down [June 9].'"

Chris: "Melinda had her own checking account. I told her to. It had negative $250 in it at the time of the funeral.

"As far as the money -- I have a night contract job where I do the same things I do during the day at night. They gave me a pay advance. One check. I advance. My regular day job, they gave me one week grievance pay. I cashed that check. I had about $6,000 that went towards the funeral."

Luke: "Were you Melinda's fiance?"

Chris: "There's an original divorce decree that went into effect the first time they went to court (two years ago). They signed off.

"There's 30-days to contest the divorce. While we were fixing to get married, we'd won a wedding to get married in Vegas...

"After looking at the divorce decree where she signed off on anything it said because she was tired of fighting with [Mike Taylor], it clearly stated that all financial responsibility would be laid on Melinda, meaning me. We would take care of daycare. We would take care of school needs. We would take care of everything financially and still share the tax break with Mike. It would be week-on, week-off visitation.

"For the better part of the three years of our relationship, I carried medical insurance on her and on her three children.

"I got to looking at and said, how am I ever going to get ahead while it is looking like it is? I'm going to be footing the bill from here on out. He's not paying any child support.

"I told Melinda that you should get a fresh start with a lawyer and have him review this.

"I've got documentation for all the daycare and everything I've paid for. I claimed the kids on my taxes last year and I claimed Melinda as a dependent. I was head of household and putting her under me. For eight months out of the year last year, they lived with us. I financially provided.

"When Melinda contested the divorce, they granted a retrial. Melinda got sick and wasn't able to attend. They rescheduled the hearing a second time. Then a third time. Melinda was sick again. A fourth time. That was [in March or April of 2005]. Mike was up at the hospital and the doctor said Melinda might not make it another day. She's going to die.

"Mike immediately ran to his lawyer and said, I don't want to follow through with the divorce. Melinda's been through enough. Then he went and activated a life insurance policy [on Melinda].

"When they threw out the divorce, they reinstated the original decree that states 31-days after they threw it out, I became common-law married to her.

"We were still going to go to Vegas to get married, but the lawyers said, you're either going to get a contested divorce or you are going to get married. You can't do both.

"I was with Melinda 24/7, either by phone or in person."

Luke: "How did she feel about the pornography industry?"

Chris: "She hated it.

"The pornography industry did not kill her. It started in childhood. She had fu---ed-up sisters and mother. She went through a nine year relationship [with Mike Taylor] that was mentally and physically abusive. She's got a metal rod in her right arm from a dispute with him. This is not saying it was all his fault. It takes two to tango. They just had a hard nine-years and it mentally screwed with her.

"The prescription pill problem started before [porn]. Was she doing better? Yes. She had weaned her way down. She was doing better."

Luke: "Who is Lisa Skeirys and what is her thing with you?"

Chris: "Lisa is an old friend of her's. Melinda wanted to have friends. Anytime she made friends, there was always an ulterior motive [on the part of the new friend]. Everybody wanted to capitalize off of her. Little did they know there wasn't much to capitalize off of.

"Melinda had called me. Why don't you come up here [to the strip club Yellow Rose in Austin in the November of 2003]? I said, why? She said, because I don't feel well and I don't trust Lisa.

"Lisa had stolen her money because Melinda was incapacitated. All the money Melinda had made was gone."

Lisa denies this and says Chris Miguez stole from her.

Chris: "I drove up there and stayed with them. Melinda wanted to leave her there. She didn't want to bring her home. They had a big falling out. Why Lisa is trying to talk s--- about me, I don't care. She's nobody. I'm not concerned about her. Her ex-boyfriend was a large drug dealer."

Luke: "The sisters and Lisa claim that you are or were a drug dealer?"

Chris: "Before I met Melinda, I knew people. I was in that party crowd. I had involvement with them. I did my occassional s---. I've had my career for eight years. I've been in the IT (Information Technology) industry for eight years."

Chris says he's spoken with his lawyer about Melinda's sisters' remarks about him.

Chris says he did not sleep with Raylin and Montana Gunn. "Raylin and Montana were probably the only two people Melinda was friends with who I trusted, who didn't have ulterior motives. Raylin visited Melinda at the hospital."

Chris: "The night of the funeral [June 11], the sisters went out and got drunk and stayed at Mike Taylor's apartment. They had money to get drunk but they couldn't contribute to the funeral. When Mike Taylor got in that morning, there were three other people in his bed. The sisters were carried in the house they were so drunk.

"Melinda's sisters are white trash. They make s--- money. All they're trying to do is get a piece of the spotlight. They have an ulterior motive to make some quick buck with some bulls--- book they're going to write.

"Melinda has a book about a third-of-the-way-through that I helped her write.

"There's no life insurance policy for Melinda. The one that Mike Taylor activated, they threw out because it was too new."

Lisa calls me back Saturday night, June 25, 2005. We've been calling and missing each other for more than three weeks.

Lisa: "I don't want to get into the he-said, she-said drama, but I was reading on the site some misconceptions about Chris Miguez [the man in Chloe's life her last 18-months] that I wanted to clear up, and I know you're the person to turn to for that.

"I've been in touch with [Melinda's] sisters Michelle and Melanie. No one knows you like family. Chris has defaced her family. I know Chloe would be turning over in her grave for something like that to happen.

"He tries to come across as this big businessman. He talks about how he's this big project manager at an oil and gas company. I think he's been watching too many episodes of The Apprentice because the boy has no degree. He is a known methamphetamine user. I swear to you this on my father's grave. This is when he had first met Dee. During one of our trips to Austin, he was crying to me that he had no job, no car. He had just been evicted from his home by a gentleman Johnny Lisotta (who died about a week ago). Between three guys, they couldn't come up with the rent.

"Chris is a bottom feeder. He said my ex-boyfriend was a large drug dealer. He did have people on his payroll who worked for him and sold drugs. Then there were the bottom feeders. That's what Chris was. That's how everybody refers to him in this area. Bottomfeeders are people you could give the drugs to and they were skim their use off the top because they were users, and they would sell what they could, and then they would come back with money.

"When Chris met Dee, he had no job, no car, and no house. She was interested in a friend of his named Charlie Dixon. He's a terrific guy. He owns tanning salons. He is a real businessman, but he hung out with a crazy crowd. Melinda and Charlie had a thing for a little while. Then that didn't work out. Chris saw a way in. That's when he took it."

Luke: "Chris says he's been a project manager for eight years."

Lisa: "That's funny. He didn't even have a job. I don't know what he does. He might be working somewhere. He says he was with Dee for three years. No. They were together about 18-months. He is not a project manager.

"My fiancee works as an IT (Information Technology) director for a large firm in Houston. While we were in Austin, Chris asked me if my fiancee could get him a job. I said, Chris, do you even have a college degree? I knew he didn't. I said, you're going to have to go to school to get a degree to do anything. Nobody, especially in Houston, is going to hire you without a degree. It's not just a degree. You have to have a big degree from somewhere like the University of Texas or Texas A&M. I have a degree (BS) from the University of Texas.

"Another thing that upset me was his dogging on Dee's husband Mike Taylor. Mike is a standup man. He stayed with Dee for nine years. Chris says Mike mentally and physically abused her for nine years and that was her downfall. It's funny that she was with Mike for nine years and she was fine. Mike kept her in line. He did love her and the kids. She meets Chris Miguez and 18-months later she's gone from us. His stories don't hold water. He drug her down.

"He talks about how he made so much money. In the same sentence, he talks about how he had to work two jobs. If he's making so much money and he's taking care of Dee and being the standup guy, why does Dee have to do escort work? Why did she have to go out and do these degrading things that she hated doing?

"Chris is a bottom-feeder. He might be working desktop support but he's not a project manager for a large firm. He's been in trouble. There's a DEA agent named Cartwright who can attest to that. If you're going to work for a large firm, they're going to do a background check on you.

"Chloe used to call him her gopher. He would do anything he said. I was reading about her last night. He said he went to the Jack in the Box for her. That's exactly how their relationship was. If she told him to do something, he did it, because he knew if he didn't, he was out. He doesn't have anything. Right now he's leaving off of the money that Dee left, the money she got from the National Enquirer and from escorting and residuals and her website. In six months, he'll be back on the streets with nothing unless he finds another girl who's sucker enough to take him in.

"I know that Dee probably grew to love him at the end, but sadly, the only reason she was with him at the end was that no one else would have her. She was just gone. Just like on our last trip to Austin... He says she called him in the middle of the night and said she didn't trust me and wanted him to come. Here's the story on that.

"Dee and I had worked at the Yellow Rose [strip club in Austin] the night before. The manager is a black gentleman. He can back this story up.

"The first night Dee and I got to Austin [in November of 2003]... She had called me and said, 'Please go with me.' She was very assertive but at the same time, codependent. She could not be alone.

"I agreed to go with her. I knew she was upset about Mike leaving her. I knew what kind of person Chris was. I knew he would drag her down. The whole time Chris was, as Dee would put it, 'smoking up my phone.' He would call her until she'd have to turn it off.

"The first night [in Austin], we got there too late to go to work. We had a little girl's night. We did make-up and talked about how we hadn't seen each other in eight months. She'd give me Lortab, a strong form of Vicodin. She'd take five to ten at a time. I can't take any because they just make me tired. I'd just throw them in my suitcase.

"Second night, we went to the Yellow Rose. As a feature dancer, she set up her little area. She was signing DVDs and pictures. I was off on the floor working [stripping].

"After we'd been there for three hours, a bouncer comes up to me and says, 'Something is seriously wrong with your friend.' I get to the table and she's slumped over the table. The contents of her purse are spilled everywhere. There's money all over the floor. Men were walking up, grabbing DVDs, and walking off without paying for them. All of the money that both of us had made that night was gone.

"They carried her to the back. I didn't realize it was that bad. Dee was still living with Mike. Mike warned me about her. 'You're making a mistake. But go have a good time. If you have any problems, call me.'

"I go up front and gather her DVDs. When I return, they've got her set up with water and coffee, trying to get her to come around.

"The manager went through her purse, which was totally spilled open. He said, 'Here's the problem.' He holds up a bottle of Lortab, a bottle of Xanax and a bottle of Stoma. There were maybe ten tabs left of each. I have no idea of how many she took.

"She goes into a seizure. The manager wants to call an ambulance. Because my degree is in Clinical Laboratory Science, I agreed. Then she comes around. Whenever she came out of a seizure, she wouldn't remember anything and she'd just be mad at the world.

"She looked at me and said, 'Take me back to the hotel.' I said, you realize that we don't have any money. You lost all the money.'

"I put the hotel room on our credit card. She lies down. I went to get her something to eat. She's going through her purse. I said, 'You've taken all your pills.' She said, 'I have ten left. That can get me through the night. There's no way I can make it through tomorrow.'

I said, 'Let's pack up and go home.' I knew I had 20 pills in my suitcase. I didn't want to give them back to her in case she overdosed again.

"Dee is a crazy girl. She said, 'Watch this.' She called Chris and said she had a girl in Austin who was willing to pay $10 per pill for Lortab and to get as many he could and to borrow a car and bring them up here.

"I said, there's no way anyone will do that. She's laughing. 'We're here to make money. I lost your money tonight. I'll make it up to you tomorrow. I can't get by without the pills.'

"Sure enough, Chris showed up without the pills.

"The next night, she tried to go to work at the Yellow Rose. I said, you're barred. They're not going to let you work.

"She said, oh yes they are.

"That's why I had to laugh when Chris said she said I took money from her. She was the type of girl who, if I had taken money from her, would've said, 'Why the hell did you take my money?' She was ballsy.

"On the third night, she ended up working at this hole-in-the-wall. I didn't even try to work there. It was nasty. Chris tried to pose as her manager.

"Dee did the same thing as the last night. She overdoses and goes into seizures. Chris yells at me: 'You knew there was no other girl to get those pills. You knew she was taking them.' He was taking about a handful too.

"I said, 'That's between you and her. I didn't have anything to do with that. I don't take the things. You take it up with her when you get home.'

"On the way home, she starts having seizures in the truck. We have to pull over. She comes out of her seizure. She yells at him: 'What are you doing here? Why the hell are you following me?' He's like, 'You called me. Lisa's in the back. She'll attest to that.' I said, 'Dee, you called him. You asked him to come up here.'

"We get back to the hotel room. She's out. He was crying. He said, 'Why is she so mean to me? I don't understand.'

"I said, 'I'm seeing a side of her that I haven't seen before. I haven't seen her this bad. She's not normally like this. Let her wake-up. I'm sure things are going to be ok.'

"That's when he starts whining that he has no job. I said, maybe my boyfriend of the time can help you get a job. That's when I asked Chris about the degree. I knew he didn't have one. I was trying to let him down easy.

"The next day, we packed up and went home. We were in Dee's big Harley Davidson black truck. He was in someone's Camaro he'd borrowed.

"Chris now drives Dee's black truck. I don't think the boy's had a car of his own.

"We're midway home, and Dee goes into a laughing fit. She says, 'I got my key [to her apartment] back.' She'd taken it off of Chris's keychain. She throws it out the window and hits another car with it. These people are furious because they think she's thrown something at their car. The lady rolls down her window and says, 'Bitch, what did you hit my car with?' Dee responds: 'F--- you.' And acts like she's going to run them off the road.

"Dee and I talked on the way home. She said, 'I've got to get rid of Chris. He has no job.'

"But the bottom line is that she's the type of girl who can't be alone. Mike was done with it. He was had it with the pills. Dee just stayed with Chris for the security. He did pull in some money from his drug dealing, from methamphetamines and stuff. He probably did help pay for some of the rent. I know that Dee wouldn't let him live there for free."

Luke: "When did you stop working as a stripper?"

Lisa: "I started working as, I like to refer to it as dancer now that I have a degree. I think I was 22. I did that for about three years. Then I met my ex-boyfriend who was the drug dealer. It was clean. He never got his hands dirty. He wasn't the one selling the drugs. He didn't use.

"We had a beautiful house. I drove a BMW and a Ford Mustang convertible. He took good care of me. I worked at Team Mates just for fun because Dee worked there. I was a shot girl for about three years [from age 25 -28]. I walked around selling shots [of liquor]. Then I went back to school and got my degree. I'm a cell biologist.

"Dee wasn't stupid. When she wanted something, she got it. If she had wanted to marry Chris, it would've happened. I saw her set her sights on Playboy and Mike Taylor. She got both of those."

Luke: "Weren't you working as a dancer with Dee in November of 2003?"

Lisa: "Yes. It was out of the blue. I had no intentions of dancing. When I got there, the guys in the Yellow Rose remembered. Dee and I traveled when we were younger. I was 22. She was 18. We'd go to Austin and work. The manager had stayed the same at the Yellow Rose. He said, 'Come on. Give it a shot.' I thought, I have all these student loans. I might as well do it.

"That was the first and last time in about seven years. I now work at a hospital as a cell biologist."

Luke: "You met Chloe at Team Mates when you were 22?"

Lisa: "Yes. It was 1992. Dee was 17 going on 18 but she had an ID that said she was 18. I always knew there were better things to come from her because she was beautiful. She was drop-dead gorgeous.

"What drug her down was the [porn] industry. When she was with Mike, her husband, she was fine.

"She and I had a long talk. She wasn't comfortable with that [porn]. That's why she turned to the pills, so she could perform. She said to me, 'I can't do this without those pills. It's horrible. It feels like you are being raped and a bunch of people are watching. It's a horrible feeling.'

"It's hard to hear that when you are someone's friend. I said, 'Dee, just get out of it.' But there's always someone there to offer more money. Sometimes she would do [porn] and the checks would bounce.

"She moved back to Houston [around 2001]. She'd make frequent trips back [to LA] to do a movie or to do promotions. She was going around the country feature dancing. She just got caught up in it. It was easy money. She stayed with it.

"After Chloe quit working with Mike, and started working with strangers, she went downhill. Dee was a porn star but she was not promiscuous in her personal life.

"She told me, 'I'll never do anal.' Well, when somebody came along and offered her enough money to do that, she did it. Everything she said that she'd never do, that she'd never stoop to this level, someone would come along and offer her enough money. She'd feel awful about that.

"She was getting close to her sister Michelle [in late 2003]. I said, 'Dee, go live with her. Get away.' But with Dee, there was always a reason to stay.

"Dee had one other tried-and-true friend. Chris Hawn from Beaumont, Texas. He, like everyone else [who knew her], will attest that porn started her downfall but Chris [Miguez] just dragged her down. Mike helped out a lot. He kept the kids. But to add someone into that equation who had no job, no car, no place to live. I think that bothered her. Here she was supporting this loser, but at the same time, she couldn't get away because she wanted to be alone. There wasn't anybody else who wanted her. She looked bad. Her intestines had blocked up. She looked four months pregnant."

Luke: Tell me about your falling out with Dee.

Lisa: "On a Sunday [in November 2003], we laughed all the way home [to Austin]. When I got home, I realized that my money (about $400) was gone.

"Thinking back on it, I remember when Chris asked me to help him find a job. He asked me if he could borrow $5 to get something to eat. He was hungry and he didn't want to wake Dee up and ask her for money.

"Dee told me that he went through her purse all the time. 'He steals money. He steals pills. I don't trust him. Keep an eye on him.' Stupid me, I get into my luggage and, 'Here's $20. When she comes around, she's going to be hungry.'

"I know he knew where the money was. Dee would never steal from another person.

"I called her up. She said, 'I'm going to talk to him. I can't believe he would do that to my friend.' She called me back and said, 'He said he didn't do it.' I said, 'Who are you going to believe here, Dee? I've been your friend for eleven years. He's going to be your downfall. Don't call me or ask for any more favors until you make him admit that he took that money from me.'

"She was hurt. 'I can't believe you're throwing away our friendship after eleven years.' I said, 'No, Dee, you're the one throwing it away. You need to get him out. He's dragging you down.'

"She said, 'I know.'

"To this day, I regret it.

"The other day, I found out from my sister who ran into Chris Hawn that she had tried to call me about a year ago and my phone number had changed.

"I always meant to get with Chris Hawn and give him my new number. I will always want to know what did she have to say.

"I always thought Dee and I would be friends forever. I thought there'd be more time. She hurt me [in November of 2003]. In turn, I said some ugly things [on uselessjunk.com] that should never have been said.

"When I met Dee, she was with Kurt Stoneking from Orange, Texas. Kurt is the father of little Chloe. Mike Taylor adopted little Chloe. Mike is a wonderful father and he was a wonderful husband to Dee.

"When I got back from Austin and walked in the door, Mike Taylor said, 'I told you.' I was like, I haven't even said anything yet. He said, 'I know. But I told, right?' I said, 'Yeah.' He said, 'I know something bad happened.'

"I said, 'We've got to get her some help.' He said, "I have tried and tried and tried. She won't get help. She won't even get help when I bring up the kids. And now she's got this Chris guy hanging around. What can I do? She's an adult. I can't force her to do anything. I'm washing my hands of it and I'm getting out.'

"On the way home, she said, 'How could I go from being with a guy like Mike (handsome, family-oriented) to a guy like Chris?' I will never forget that. I can't help but wonder if she had called me and got a hold of me..."

Luke: "Chris sounded very convincing over the phone."

Lisa: "He sounds convincing. He's charismatic."

Luke: "He's a good con man?"

Lisa: "Oh yeah.

"Chris admitted to me that was an ice (methamphetamine) user and that he was trying to kick that habit, which I doubt he ever did."

Luke: "Chris said Chloe had a metal rod in her right arm because of some fight she had with Mike."

Lisa: "Chloe was a big storyteller, just like the story about leukemia. I said to her, 'Chloe, you don't have leukemia.' And she laugh and say, 'I know but it's a good story.'

"Chloe told me that [medal rod] came when she and Mike had a fight and she fell down some stairs and shattered her arm.

"She told me that one time when she was escorting for Nicis Girls [circa 1995], she got beat up by a client. [Not the baseball bat attack in an alley.] She went to a hotel. This guy wasn't screened well. He was a maniac. He beat her within an inch of her life.

"I've never heard the baseball bat story but there were certain things if Chloe were embarrassed about, she wouldn't share with anyone else. Mike is a standup guy. If he said it, I believe it. She and Mike would fight, but Mike would never lay a hand on her.

"Dee did have a lot of men who would take advantage of her. She'd have people say to her, come out to LA. You only have to do three scenes and I'll write you a check for $3,000. Then the check would bounce. Her check for Chloe Jones: You Don't Know Me 1 & 2 [directed by John Bowen] bounced.

"I told her to go to the DA's office and file charges. I think she eventually got paid for that Brazil trip."

Luke: "Did Chloe blame anyone in particular for the bounced check?"

Lisa: "No. She wasn't one to put blame on anyone. She wasn't whiney. She didn't say poor me, or whoa is me. If she thought I had taken her money, she would've stood up to me. She was a get-in-the-face girl. If someone did cross her, they were in for a handful."

Luke: "It's interesting that she found the pornography so much more upsetting than the escorting."

Lisa: "Part of it was that she didn't like people watching. There's lighting. You've got to be on-cue. She said, I can't be myself. It was easier with the escorting. She wasn't putting on a performance. She could be with a gentleman, get money out of it, and come home and do something nice for her kids. She like a lioness for her cubs.

"Dee was like a little sister to me. I wanted to protect her. Sometimes she would get into trouble with her storytelling and someone would get mad. And I'd tell them, 'You back off and leave her alone. You deal with me.' She was never stable. She always had issues. There was always something you wanted to protect her from."

Luke: "Chris says her sisters stole from her her entire life."

Lisa: "That is so not true. Why would they do that? Both of her sister's have degrees. They have good jobs. Dee was not a thief and her family is the same way.

"This story about her sisters trashing the hotel room, I believe it is true. You don't cross the Jones sisters. If they felt crossed, they would do anything they could to cost him money and to cause him grief. I have to give them a big hooray for that."

I relay to Lisa a story that Chris told me about Michelle on the night of the funeral.

Lisa: "That's Chris for you. Being the conman that he is, that's Chris's way to try to take the heat off of him."

Luke: "You wouldn't be surprised if Chris made up a story to defame Michelle?"

Lisa: "Right.

"For those who say Mike was a sellout [for going on A Current Affair], Mike has three children to take care of. I've seen Mike give Chloe money. They hadn't worked out child support. He gave her $300 the night before we left for Austin [in November, 2003].

"He said to me, 'Give it a shot, Lisa. You were her friend before I met her. Maybe you can talk some sense into her.'"

Luke: "What type of work does Mike do?"

Lisa: "Currently, I don't know. Before, Mike did computer graphics. He did a lot of things on Chloe's website. The arrangement was that she could make more money. He would stay at home and be Mr. Dad.

"There were many times when Mike said, give it up and I'll go to work. But she wasn't willing to give up the lifestyle she was accustomed to.

"Mike is very intelligent. He started college. He had to drop out after the twins were born.

"Mike admitted that they made a lot of money in the first two years of their marriage and they went on a spree.

"He told me [in November of 2003], 'Lisa, she's going to overdose on pills and go into seizures.'

"They'd been separated for six months but they were still living together as husband and wife. I don't think they ever planned on going through with that divorce. It was always Dee's hope that she would clean up and she and Mike would work things out.

"Mike said, 'I don't know what she's doing with [Chris]. She tells me he's just a friend. I don't know. I'm done. I'm out. I can't deal with the seizures, the pills. I don't want the kids around it. I'm going.'

"To pair someone with a liver disease with a methamphetamine user is a recipe for disaster."

Luke: "Chris says you were trying to capitalize on Dee."

Lisa: "Chris says everyone is trying to capitalize on Dee, and like Chris said, there's not much to capitalize on.

"If I were trying to capitalize off her, I'd have her pictures and stuff on EBay like Chris does. I've got a stack of about 25 8x10 glossies she signed for me on our Austin trip. She was full of herself. 'Look, you're in school and I'm proud of you. Take these pictures and sell them and use them to pay off your student loans. I have cards and letters from her. You weren't the only person who called me. There were people who offered me money to talk about it.

"When I read the things that Chris said, the blatant lies, I had to point out the blatant discrepencies The people he's dogging on, such as Michelle and Melanie, were the people Dee loved, me included."

Luke: "How did Dee regard her sisters and her mom?"

Lisa: "She was very close to her mom. She and her mom were two peas in a pod. They lived for drama. If there was no drama, they'd make up drama.

"Dee and I used to stay at Michelle's house in Austin. I remember one day it was sprinkling. Dee had the top down on her convertible, thinking it was sunny. We get to a stoplight. There are some guys beside us who she thinks are cute. She starts revving up the engine. I'm like, 'Dee, the road is wet. Don't do this.' The guys are playing along. They were smart enough to realize the roads were slick.

"She took off, hit a curb, pulled both of her tires off the car. Michelle had to come get us. Michelle was laughing. 'What the hell did you girls do to this car?' Michelle was like Dee's mom when she was around. She was like me. Whenever the drama would get too deep, Michelle would look at her and say, 'Don't do that with me because I know you.'

"Dee had her times when she was estranged from her sisters. When she was traveling or doing things, but they were never far from her heart."

Luke: "You never got the sense that Dee's sisters were trying to financially exploit her?"

Lisa: "No. They don't want that. Michelle had been contacted by A Current Affair and she was like, no comment. I know she's going through a divorce and she needs money... The only person we've spoken to is you because you don't have an agenda. We read some stuff about you online and saw that you were really credible, really fair. You weren't coming out to exploit anyone. You didn't put yourself out there and say, 'I know a little bit about her.' You just said, 'I don't know her. I want to put the truth out there.' You didn't come at us trying to exploit her. 'Here's some money.' If we wanted to exploit her, we would've. Instead we came to you for the truth.

"Melanie at first was angry with me [for what Lisa posted about Chloe Jones on Uselessjunk.com]. 'How dare you post those things.'

"I wrote her back. 'Melanie, you know the things Chloe and I went through.' It's like Michelle, Melanie and I were sisters.

"The Charlie Sheen story she leaked to the National Enquirer [in March 2005] should've stayed behind closed doors. I don't know Denise Richards. I don't have any children of my own. I wouldn't want to be a woman seven months pregnant and have someone come out and say, 'I slept with your husband and this is what happened.'

"I thought Dee was stooping to an all-time low, but I guarantee the person behind that was Chris. I bet he said, 'There's a story we can sell. Let's do it.' Do you know how many times Dee could've sold this story (or stories about other clients) before she knew Chris? She didn't start exploiting people until Chris came around and he drug her down so much she no choice but to stoop to those levels to get money. Now I can understand why she did those things."

Luke: "Did Dee talk to you about her childhood?"

Lisa: "No. That was a closed book. She told me, 'I tried to kill myself when I was 13.' She did tell me she'd been in the Beaumont Neurological Center and that they had raped her.

"If there was something that really hurt Dee or embarrassed her, she would shut that out. It was her way of pretending it didn't happen.

"For as much as she handled, I think she handled it damn well."

Luke: "How did Mike Taylor let his wife escort?"

Lisa: "When she was married to Mike, she didn't escort, except for when she'd take off and not tell Mike. She'd tell him she was off to California to do some pictures or something for Playboy. Mike wouldn't have dealt with that well. Mike never wanted to do porn. When she got offered the money, she said to him, I don't want to do this with a stranger.

"Dee told me, 'Mike said that if I ever pull a stunt like that again [escorting], he and the kids were gone."

Luke: "He said on A Current Affair that he spoke to Charlie Sheen, who sent a limo to pick up Chloe. The limo driver gave Mike a bottle of Crown Royalle and then the driver took Chloe to the airport and she spent a few days with Charlie Sheen."

Lisa: "I can't imagine Mike doing that. In his defense, if she had been offered an extraordinarily large amount of money, Mike may have been able to turn the other cheek that one time."

Chris Miguez responds:

First of she isnt anyone that has any credablility of any kind. She barely knew Chloe!!!! All she did was steal from Chloe and quickly became a nusonous. She is a nobody. You know Luke you need to use better judgement on who you get info from being that this a very emotional tragic time. Out of respect for Chloe, Myself, Mike Taylor and the children please be more selective. It almost an insult that she was granted a minute of your time and waste of space on the board. Chloe wasn't the average local girl she was a celebrity throughout multiple industries so try and treat as such.

Lysa Skeirys writes:

I see that he did not answer any of the discrepencies I pointed out. Such as if he is making so much money, why was Dee having to escort? And the fact that he has worked for a large corporation for 9 years, yet 2 years ago, he had no job, no car, and was being evicted. At least he didn't try to lie and say he has a degree. I'm surprised. No actually I am not. He is trying to act like he does not have to answer his discrepencies because he lived "off" of her for 18 months. I think it is funny that anyone who frightens him with facts, suddenly, that peson is a "Nobody". He is the biggest loser I have ever met.

I knew Dee for 11 years, alot longer than his paltry 18 months. I will match that little waste case word for word with a polygraph if he would like. Then we'll see who is telling the truth. Tell him to pony up some of his big bucks and arrange to have us tested. Then we'll see who the real "nobody" is. I stand by my words.

He also needs to get his facts straight. If he has such a great attorney looking into the Melanie and Michelle's allegations, the dumb ass would know there is no such thing as a "common law marriage" in the state of Texas. You have to go to a county clerk's office and fill out papers stating that you intend to be married. The clerk's office does not allow this if you are already married. She was married to Mike, so she would not have been a candidate! He was not married to Dee and she actually had no intentions, or so she told me. Sleep well, Chris. I'm still awaiting a reply to some of my questions... Mind boggling really, that you could be so dumb as to leave yourself wide open for the shots I took. Much easier prey than I anticipated.

I call Montana Gunn in Texas at 12:35pm, Tuesday, June 14.

She's talking to her dad. "Don't get too much sun. It's not good for you."

Luke: "How are you?"

Montana: "I'm getting better. Chloe and I were close. I just got back from her funeral. It was really sad.

"I feel that if I could've just been there a couple of days earlier, I could've helped her live a couple of days longer or month. She was in a coma for a three months [February through April]. She was septic. Her liver was gone. She smoked three packs of cigarettes a day. She put abuse on everything she did.

"She's been in and out of the hospital for the past year. She had a seizure, went into a coma, and the ambulance got her. She was on life-support for three months. During that time, she had apendicitis and they didn't know [for a while] because she was in a coma. They removed her appendix.

"The scar tissue started to form in her intestines and backed up. She wasn't able to get out of bed because she was on life-support. She was clogged up. Sometimes she looked like she was four-months pregnant. She was poisoning herself with feces. She was throwing up all the time. She died like four times.

"When she came out of it and was at home for a couple of months. I told her I was coming down and would get her to do this CRA (Control Reflex Analysis). It's helped me feel the best of my entire life.

"Nancy Vee is down here. She's been on penicilin for three months and it killed her immune system. She's doing it and she's feeling a ton better. She was a walking zombie."

Luke: "When did you last see Chloe?"

Montana: "At the funeral. I talked to her almost every day. I talked to her [June 3] the night before she went to sleep [she died Saturday, June 4] and didn't wake up.

"She was in bed. Her boyfriend [Chris Miguez] woke up [around 4am]. She was always snuggled up to him. She wasn't breathing. She had that look. He says, 'I knew something was wrong. I could just smell. There was drool all over my arm.'

"It's really sad. She was so beautiful."

Luke: "Was she divorced from Mike [Michael Taylor]?"

Montana: "Nope. Not quite. It's weird how Mike and Chris are both taking care of the kids. They're friends. As many people as she knew [in the sex industry], it was just me, Andrea Mountjoy and Raylin were the only people that Chris felt were her true friends.

"I've known Chloe for ten years. When she was in California [2001-2004], we didn't talk that much. When she moved back here [Texas], we started talking. When she got sick, I would go down there to see her. Raylin and I were always down there with her.

"I feel so guilty because I believe I could've made her live for at least a couple of more months.

"Her kids. Their ok. But I could just tell that the little one, Tristan [Michael Taylor], he always used to hang on her. He was the clingy sensitive one. She would always go, 'Get off of me.'"

Luke: "What was the funeral like?"

Montana: "It was small. A few of Chris's friends. Her family. Raylin, Andrea, Andrea's huband, Mike [Taylor]. Chris did a really nice job. The funeral was beautiful. There were flowers from everybody. And she looked beautiful. Her birthday is on the 17th [of June]. She would've been 30."

Luke: "Were you, Andrea and Raylin the only members of the industry?"

Montana: "Yes. We were the only ones. We were her true friends."

Luke: "Did she talk to you about her health and if she feared dying?"

Montana: "Yes, she did. Chris and Chloe always did. He was there for her. She had died about three times. They always talked about what she wanted if something happened. How she wanted her funeral to be. She mentioned that she didn't want any paparazzi, which there were. There were a few of them. Chris had to hire all kinds of police escorts and security guards because people were trying to take pictures. That's not cool.

"She looked beautiful. I was like, 'Wake up, Melinda!'"

Luke: "Did she have a genetic problem with her liver? She was waiting for a transplant."

Montana: "She and Chris were good to go to USC at the end of the month. He qualified to be a liver donor. He was going to donate part of his liver to her. Her liver was so shot, there was no repairing it.

"She talked about it a lot. She said, I have to find a liver donor. Then she called me. 'Can you believe that Chris and I are a perfect match? We're going to USC to do everything at the end of this month.' And she didn't make it."

Luke: "Chris seems like a pretty good guy from what you knew?"

Montana: "Yes. He stuck with her through thick and thin every single day. He went through a lot with her. He deserves a prize. He's hurting bad. She suffered a lot. She was in so much pain all the time. Those pills really screw you up. Vicodin. That's what ate up her liver."

Luke: "She's had medical problems for years."

Montana: "Right. She got addicted to those pain pills. That's what did it to her."

Luke: "She got fired from Vivid."

Montana: "There was always something medical going on. There was always a Vicodin here and there. It would turn into five here and ten there. It was abusive. She did suffer a lot. I remember she would throw up all the time. She'd call me up: 'I don't know what to do. I look like I'm four months pregnant. I'm so backed up it tastes like I'm throwing up feces.' Her body was so blocked.

"She was a Gemini. Geminis have two personalities. One addictive and one kind and sweet. She probably got addicted to those pills from being in pain. She was always smoking. I remember looking at her [at the funeral] and thinking, 'You're probably looking down on us with that damn cigarette in your hand.'"

Luke: "It sounded like she had a childhood."

Montana: "I didn't get into her childhood with her. Her mom was pretty whacked out. I know she was talking to one of her sisters in the past couple of years and they became somewhat close. She hadn't talked to her sisters in I don't know how long. She wasn't close to her family."

Luke: "Was she a happy person?"

Montana: "She was crazy. Yeah, she seemed happy. When she wasn't in pain, she was crazy Chloe. She was wild. She always wanted to become a funeral director. She liked sleeping in coffins."

Luke: "Did you guys ever have a falling out?"

Montana: "We were always friends.

"She had all those problems with her ex [Michael Taylor]. During that time, he was just an ass. But all exes are asses.

"She was a good mom. She loved her kids. They are beautiful children. Little Chloe looks just like her. She came up to me and said, 'You look like mommy.'

"When she was in the [porn] industry, and dealing with Nici, Mike [Montana's ex who ran AdultStarFantasy.com] and stuff like that, she was a basketbase. She was popping the pills."

Luke: "What's your ex, Mike, doing these days?"

Montana: "I have no idea. I thought he was still in jail. He's probably living with his mom or his mother. I own adultstarfantasy.com. He owns ASFPlatinumGirls.com. He got in trouble for everything I told everybody -- for fraud and identity theft. The guy ripped off so many people, it was sick. He deserved everything and then some. He's sneaky and he's good at it. He's a sociopath.

"I was supposed to come out [to LA] for the Erotica LA but then things happened with Chloe. I'm coming out next month. That was the longest funeral I've been to. The wake was the night before. We didn't get any sleep. We were all up talking. It seemed to go for three days straight."

Luke: "Who spoke at the funeral?"

Montana: "Her sisters and Mike. Chris didn't feel like it. He paid for the whole thing. He knew what she wanted. He didn't need to say anything. It was already said to her. There's a fund for the children.

"From what I understand, she was making so much money from the website. Then somebody told Club Jenna she was in the hospital for months, which voided her contract, so instead of bringing in $2,800 a month, she was only bringing in $600. Mike paid for all of her hospital [expenses].

"Her children need something because she had nothing. Everything got sucked up by the hospitals. They're probably going to auction off her truck."

Luke: "What are your funniest or clearest memories of Chloe?"

Montana: "Always that damn cigarette. "Stop it! I'm allergic to it.' She'd say, 'Well, you better start scratching.' We were always getting into trouble, fun trouble that would be in our book.

"She's probably looking down flicking her ashes on the head of some girl she didn't like who showed up at the funeral.

"She always liked sleeping in a coffin. Now she is.

"Chris said she always wanted a black onyx coffin. He had favorite panties and bra put on. He said, 'Do you want to see?' 'Stop it! No.'"

6/14/05

Luke, Wow I didn't know you were back. I wish I could tell you who this is but I can't... that would make this too fun for you.

Chloe Jones was a nice girl, very wacky. I was at a place she shot stills toward the end of her film career. I didn't see a happy girl she was definitely not okay that day. I would say she was on a drug with effects I rarely see. Heavy drugs would be an understatement, but the excuse for her behavior was "Epilepsy." All of the people at that shoot were definitely taking her behavior to be very entertaining to watch.

I know first hand of the extra curricular work she did, but does it really matter what I did or did not see? The only people that should concern themselves with the truth are the people that were close to her. As a very desensitized person when it comes to death.

This is a death that has affected me for days in a row now. Just let her Rest In Peace with the good and the bad. Even if you think she doesn't deserve it. It's not fair that she can't defend how we attack her.

If any lesson could be learned in any death at all it is to respect your body and do your best to not abuse it. It's not easy to be happy and take care of yourself at the same time when you are in Adult. It is not a healing business, though I support it and what we represent politically.

I am sad about Chloe. We are only a few months apart with many similarities. I am pleased with the changes I have made in my life but it's awful to know, no matter which way my life goes and how much things could or have changed, I would be talked about this way in death as well.

Sincerely,
A girl you used to enjoy writing about.

Photo from AVN.com

AVN reports:

Jones, a Penthouse Pet in April 1998, was a contract performer for Vivid Entertainment Group and New Sensations, the first company with which she was exclusive in 2001. She also had layouts in Playboy and Vanity Fair, among numerous other magazines, in addition to mainstream appearances on shows such as “Baywatch,” “Diagnosis Murder,” “Edenquest” and Showtime's “Full Frontal Comedy.” Jones performed in less than 30 productions in four years, and had stopped performing in adult videos last year.

All Media Play's Jeff Mullen got to know Jones during her adult film career.

"I remember going on a wild trip to Brazil and we were getting on the airplane and she was arguing with this guy to move to a different seat so that our group could all sit together. The guy was a prick and wouldn’t budge, and much to our surprise, he was the still photographer assigned to covering her on the trip. That was typical Chloe. We all had a big laugh about that one. ... As a representative for All Media Play and New Sensations we send out our heartfelt condolences to her family in Texas."

Jones is survived by three children, an 8-year-old girl and 7-year-old twin boys.

Tuesday evening, June 7, I interview her former publicist Jeff Mullen from All Play Media.

Jeff: "We're very good friends with Chloe. Unless you really knew her personally, many people have a misperception of her. I got to know her on a friendly level. She is one of the coolest chicks you'll meet. Smoking cigarettes. Drinking a beer. Just a regular Texas girl.

"It's no secret that Chloe had a long history of illness, including epilepsy, which I witnessed. She was on a lot of prescribed medication, which caused her problems."

Luke: "What kind of mother was she?"

Jeff: "She was ferocious about protecting her kids. Her kids always came first. She arranged her personal appearances around her kids' school breaks. There was always someone taking care of the kids, Michael [Scorpio, her husband] or family."

Luke: "When did you last talk to her?"

Jeff: "It's been a couple of months. When the Charlie Sheen thing was breaking.

"I don't think she was a big fan of being a porn star. She was a magazine model and a feature dancer."

Luke: "What motivated her to work in the sex industry? The money?"

Jeff: "Money for her family. She knew this was the easiest way. There's not a lot of other ways that a girl who's a Penthouse Pet could make a lot of money fast.

"She was a free spirit. When we were driving through Sao Paolo, she was mooning other cars through the window. She was a fun girl. I heard so many horror stories about her that were not the Chloe that I saw. And I saw the good, the bad and the ugly. I saw everything."

Luke: "Why did Vivid drop her?"

Jeff: "She was on so many prescribed medicines that people thought she was on drugs. I hate to reference the Elvis situation - legal prescribed drugs."

Luke: "Didn't she have some health problems in the last few months?"

Jeff: "Yes. She had some kidney and liver problems, which contributed to her getting weak, and spend time in the hospital. Her epilepsy was nasty."

Luke: "Was she a pain in the ass?"

Jeff: "She wasn't to me, but to everyone else she definitely was. She was known as being a pain in the ass. She stayed at my house in LA when she came to town.

"I found out about [Chloe's death] Saturday. She died at 4am. Karen [Struble] called me. Out of respect to her family, they asked that I not mention it to anybody until they figure out funeral plans.

"The funny joke with her is that she wanted to be a mortician. I told her, that's not the sexiest thing to tell interviewers that you want to be a mortician. But that's what she wanted to do. She wanted to embalm people and do the whole funeral thing."

6/27/05

"I really enjoyed the times we had in school," writes highschool classmate Gary Morrison in the Houston Chronicle guest book for Chloe Jones (Melinda Taylor). "Smoking in the parking lot between classes and cruising the roads."

I emailed Gary Monday and he called me back. "She was a great friend," he said. "She wasn't in Kountze [High School] very long. We'd go to the mall and hang out."

Gary and Melinda were 16 when they met. "I knew her for a couple of years."

Luke: "What was her reputation in highschool?"

Gary: "She was real classy. She was always well-dressed, well-mannered. She was always up there with what everybody called the 'prissy people.' She always wore nice dresses and high heels and stood out above everybody else. She wasn't snobby or bitchy.

"She was real popular. A lot of girls envied her because of the way she dressed. She was always real flashy. She got along with anybody."

Luke: "Did you guys know when she started working as a stripper [at age 17] at Team Mates in Beaumont?"

Gary: "Yeah. I was real shocked and surprised when she went that route. But she was good at what she did. She took it seriously. She wasn't just a young girl out there trying to make a few bucks. She meant business."

Gary had no contact with her after 1993. He had no idea she'd turned into the porn star "Chloe Jones."

Luke: "Did you see evidence of a self-destructive tendency in Melinda?"

Gary: "There were times. Family problems. She started taking drugs at the end of highschool. I was never into that. I'm sure that went along with the stripping and being around that other crowd."

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