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Name: GOLDBERG , MARC STEPHEN Filed At Van Nuys Courthouse West Case #:LAV87P05964-01 Filing Date 06/30/1987 01 11550 H&S USE/UNDR INFLUNCE CONTRL SUBST Dismissed or Not Prosecuted 01/03/1991 02 4151 B&P UNLAWFUL USE OF HYPODERMIC Guilty/Convicted 01/03/1991

At an April 30th, 1998 industry meeting, porn's AIDS czar Sharon Mitchell announced that veteran male performer Marc Wallice had tested HIV positive. Mitchell said that Wallice may be the patient zero in the recent string of HIV infections in the heterosexual porn industry.

Three porn females tested positive earlier in the year (Tricia Devereaux in January, Brooke Ashley in March and Hungarian girl Caroline in early April, 1998). In 1997, Nena Cherry, French girl Delfin, and Jordan McKnight tested HIV positive. In 1995, Barbara Doll tested HIV positive several weeks after working with Wallice.

In June, 1998 Kimberly Jade tested HIV positive.

All these females had unprotected anal sex with Wallice before contracting HIV.

Many of Marc's peers believe that Wallice knew he was positive, but worked anyway. Marc denies doing this.

Marc's tests came from an unknown clinic on San Fernando Road in Burbank.

Porn's AIDS czar Sharon Mitchell, with Marc's consent, allows members of the industry to look at copies of Wallice's previous HIV negative tests. Sharon says they appear authentic.

Luke talked to Marc Wallice Sunday afternoon, 7/12/98 at 3PM for about an hour. He says that a few days after finding out (4/30/98) that he had tested HIV positive, he withdrew all his money from the bank, accumulated all the cash he could lay his hands on, checked into a motel and smoked coke for a month. It ended in late June when several thugs kidnapped him. They walked down to the hotel clerk together to book a taxi. The thugs wanted Wallice to take them to his bank, and for Marc to withdraw all his money. Marc managed to whisper to the clerk to call the police, who arrived quickly and arrested everyone.

Given that he has three Driving Under the Influence convictions, two of them felonies, this latest felony charge (possession of cocaine), would mean that if convicted, Wallice faces 25 years plus in jail.

Marc: "It's all fun, you know. I'm having a good ol' time. (laugh)

"I just put myself in a hotel and was smoking coke for a while. Then I met up with the wrong people. I ended up getting in a hassle. I had to call the police and get myself arrested or get attacked, ripped off and got to jail. So I called the cops on them and myself.

"They wanted me to go to the bank and get all my money out of the bank. So, when we went to get into the cab in the lobby, I just whispered to the guy to call the cops… There were drugs in the room. I'd been doing drugs, but now I was being kidnapped by street punks.

"I hear that Brooke Ashley is also pressing charges. I don't know how she can prove anything. How can they prove anything, whether it's true or not, that I'm the one that infected her?

"I suppose this will be the new thing on CNBC. I've seen people on TV say that they've done it purposefully. I saw it on Geraldo once, and on the black guy [TV host]… He was proud of being positive and infecting 400 people. He's there on TV. This is nothing that has been proven yet. I don't know how they are going to prove it. It's not true."

Luke: "Perhaps if she can show negligence on the part of one of the production companies…"

Marc: "They said that everybody on her shoot was supposed to be DNA's out. Who's fault was that? The person who looked at the tests, who looked at my Elisa and said it was ok. Nobody asked me for a DNA test.

"But I think they're trying to prove that I faked my tests for the last, I don't know how many years… which is ridiculous. I don't care, man. I'm just going to sit back and see what happens. I'd go away if I could. I'm done in this business, that's for sure. Tom Byron is my friend. JJ Michaels is my friend. I haven't heard from him. I don't know what he believes. A couple of other have called but I haven't called them back. You know more than me, probably.

"Everybody believes that I knew it all the time, because of that faked test [with VCA two years ago]. That wasn't because of money, it was because I had a job for the next two days and wanted to work. So I faked a test. That was over two years ago. Why has there been no issue about it since then?

"Sharon checked that test (Marc's negative March 1998 Elisa test)… She checked the code number and it checked out. She called the lab. It matches, so it is not a faked test.

"I gave PAW my last six or seven tests. One of them listed my age as 49, some say 37, others 38, 36… I never tell them [lab on San Fernando Road] my age.

"I live a dramatic life, it's just not on TV yet. I hope it doesn't…The world knows already, they just don't have a picture up there or I'll spend the rest of my life in exile. It's hard to do that when you don't have any money. I've got to start like a regular f---ing piece of s--- again. A $6 an hour job. I'm thinking of going to school to learn computers… I need something to do. My mother can't keep giving me money any more. I have one brother, who is three years older. He's a fan. He doesn't know yet [about Marc's HIV]…Let him find out from the magazines.

"I'm a big star to them. Little do they know."

Luke: "What about your directing line for Elegant Angel?"

Marc: "With what all these people are saying, do you think that anybody wants to be around me? They all think that I did this on purpose… That I knew that I was positive, for so many years… I feel now that I'm going to be attacked if anybody sees me or if I go to the office. That it's not true does not mean anything. People have already made up their mind. And I've been gone for two months, so what does that say?"

Luke: "People would like to lay all the fault at one person's door?"

Marc: "That's what they are doing and that's what they did… It's pretty much done until she takes me to court and can't prove nothing.

"I don't f--- nobody outside the business. I've been doing that for 17 years… Just because I worked with every person who's become positive, does that mean I am the reason? They should all know the truth deep down."

Luke: "Is it possible for any of us to know the truth deep down?"

Marc: "Well, is it? I don't know.

"I've been in rehab for the last 18 months… Then I went off [5/98], when I couldn't handle it no more… I said 'f--- everybody, I'm going to go enjoy myself, and kill myself a little more.'

"There is no way to say that I was or wasn't the one. My Elisa tests were negative up to that DNA test."

Luke tells Marc about the interview with him that is printed in the 9/98 Hustler Erotic Video Guide. He wants to know what they wrote about him. I say only that he has tested HIV positive…and then the four page interview, much of it about his stint in rehabilitation.

Marc: "If I knew I was positive, why would I have ever gone to PAW to take a test? Why wouldn't I just say, 'f--- you. I don't have to go there. And I'll just quit the business right now and direct.' Wouldn't that have been a much easier scenario than going up there knowing that I was going to come out positive? I would never have gone up there if I had known I was positive.

"But nobody is listening to those points. They are just listening to the gossip which is saying that I knew I was positive for all these years because I had a faked test a few years ago."

Luke: "Has Patrick Collins been helping you?"

Marc: "Nope. He hasn't called me, nothing.

"I got nothing. I got my shoes and my pants. I'm staying with a friend. I stop by my mother's every once in a while to get my calls. I don't want to be anywhere anybody can find me.

"I still have my talent to produce and direct. I'm not reading nothing so I don't know what people are thinking or saying… I could go to the newsstand or you could tell me… If you want to keep in touch, that would be cool.

"I was as big as I could be in this industry… Everywhere I went on the street, people would say, 'Hey Marc, you're that guy. Hey, hey, hey.' Now I walk around with my head down, trying to hide, thinking that everybody knows that I inflicted people with HIV, because that is all they are going to read. What's my life to hold now? I have to go get a job at McDonalds in Utah?

"I feel good now. I've gained all my weight back after getting stoned for three weeks and not eating and not sleeping much. I've been coming by my mom's and eating food.

"I'm probably going to check into a treatment center again… Sharon said that she'd get me into the Tarzana Treatment Center for free… But that place really sucks. It's all indoors. You don't go out or nothing. The place I used to be at was like Betty Ford. You were outside half the day. But for this court case, I have to get in there. When sentencing comes, I'll be in rehab.

"I went into rehab December 14th, 1996, and got out eight months later… Then I went into a sober living place where I stayed for three months. I've been clean for a good year and a half."

Luke: "Were you worried about your health the last few years?"

Marc: "Why would I? I was as big as I have ever been. I had a personal trainer and was working out. I was feeling good. I was muscular. I had never weighed more than 155 pounds. I got my weight up to 158, 162, 165 pounds… I got buffed the way I wanted to be… I could never gain much weight. I've always had a fast metabolism. Then this happened, and I said, 'f--- it.' I went and got stoned. I weigh about 156 now.

"I'm not working out yet. I had to cancel my membership [at the gym]. I still need to pick up my weights from Tom's [Byron] house…

"My father was gone when I was three years old.

"I was doing great. Producing, directing, making more money than I ever made acting. The reason I stopped was that Patrick [Collins] didn't believe me. He started insisting that I get all these tests…

"I've been making the best movies at Elegant Angel since Tom Byron left. I was all Patrick had until he hired Sean Michaels… His [Sean's] movies f---ing suck anyway. I love the guy but he hasn't called me to say hi either. But the truth is his movies suck."

Marc speaks with a slow drawl, in a deep voice.

"Nobody asked for a PCR/DNA test until you put that article out. If you never put that article out [Luke's 4/22/98 post that Marc Wallice was HIV positive], this would never have happened. And I would've eventually found out. I don't know if I would've told people on my own or if I would've just said, 'I quit.' Basically, the honest to God truth is, because you made that wild guess, this has happened. From just the things people told you… Nobody could've ever known I was positive because I didn't know. And I don't even have any recourse against you because I am [HIV] positive now. If I wasn't positive now, I could probably sue you to hell. But because I am [positive], but nobody knew I was positive before you said that. Whatever, it's a big movie."

Luke: "The Marc Wallice story."

Marc: "In a long shot, in a couple of years, I could get a couple of million [dollars] for my story."

Marc laughs ruefully.

Luke: "You never know what test results may come out… They may show that you caught it from one of the girls."

Marc: "I hate to say it, but I'm going to laugh my ass off when the next person comes up positive, that I haven't been involved with. I won't laugh for the person, but I will laugh for the idea [that Marc infected the porn girls]. Take that and stick it up your asses. And it's going to happen. It's going to happen.

"I don't know where I got infected. I don't know where else it could've come from [aside from the porn business]. I don't want to sound like an idiot, but maybe I had a nick on my balls from shaving. Of course, we shave all the time. All the sweat and s--- when you're doing a cowgirl… And all the sweat is dripping down there and you got a little nick at the base of your dick… Who knows? How can you prove that?

"I used to inject cocaine. About eight years ago, I used to shoot up with Sharon Mitchell and Barbara Holder [Aja]… If I had it then, then they have it too.

"I haven't done needles in seven years.

"There's a nice young girl coming over to see me. She says she has a cure for me. I don't know what it is, a big hug or what?

"We're going to drive around. She just got the pink slip to a new car. She's all happy and for some reason, she called me.

"She's an acquaintance of someone I visit. We always had a corner look at each other. The last guy she was with was an older guy. A little horndog. I told her, 'that's great. I've got a bunch of rubbers. Come over.' That's just a joke."

Luke: "You don't have sex now."

Marc: "Yes. I've got a million magazines. Some real good ones, too."

Luke: "What are your favorite ones?"

Marc: "Tail Ends. I never saw it before. I think it came out of a three pack. It's just gorgeous. (laughs) Makes me bummed out that I can't have it no more."

Luke: "That's a big change from getting laid all the time…"

Marc: "Yeah, well, people say that I've had more than a lifetime's worth. But it all came in one clump. And now it is gone.

"I'm thinking of starting a web site for people with HIV. That would be cool."

Luke: "Do you know much about computers?"

Marc: "Well, yeah. I type on them. I always look into the stuff that I see on there that I don't know… And I try to get into it and figure it out. I'm good with that kind of stuff but I don't have any knowledge. I'm thinking of going to programming school. Learn how to sit down at any computer and learn to do anything on it. That's all I have left and have interest in. If I can find somebody who knows me already and doesn't believe what's going on, and give me a hand. I could get a job with them. I would start for free until I can show that I can progress. That's what I would like to do.

"I'd like to learn how to do sites and stuff… There are millions of tricks that somebody has to tell you, that you can't figure out by yourself."

Luke: "It's funny that they never pushed you to get a PCR/DNA?"

Marc: "At the Caroline Annabolic gangbang [2/98], only two people had PCRs."

Luke: "Why did you prefer the clinic on San Fernando Road?"

Marc: "It cost $5."

Luke: "Where do you think you caught HIV?"

Marc: "I have no idea. It had to be from the set. It had to be… It couldn't have been from the awards show, because I wasn't shooting any drugs or doing any street whores out there [in Las Vegas 1/98 at CES].

"Anyway, this girl should be here any minute…"

The girl ended up standing Marc up.

I met Marc for the first time the next morning, Monday morning, 7/13/98, at 9AM at Van Nuys Municipal Court. I sat at the back of one of the courts (he had told me the court number the day before so we could meet but Marc does not want me to report the case number). I recognized him immediately. He wore faded blue Levi jeans and a yellow shirt with inch-thick blue stripes.

Marc looked sickly, as you would expect of someone coming off a long cocaine binge. Aside from a brief conversation with Evan Wright of Hustler, Marc has not talked to anyone else in the media aside from me. So far he has refused to talk to AVN. I surmise that he distrusts industry publications. They may well have an agenda in blaming this year's HIV outbreak on him, to get themselves off the hook.

Wallice and I sat side by side at the back of the court, talking quietly while the judge disposed of other cases. Then Marc wandered outside to phone his lawyer who'd not shown up.

Eventually Marc's lawyer arrived and they huddled privately. Wallice's arraignment was put off for later in the day.

"Every one of my series got three-and-a-half stars from AVN except the last one," Wallice told me. "It got four stars. Five scenes. Raylin, the blonde, Tyler, Alex Sanders, Alexandrea Nice… Leanni Lei did an incredible scene with Sean Michaels. While I was editing that, people were coming into the editing bay and sitting down and watching. 'Good scene, Marc.'

"I finished editing number five just before this whole thing broke.

"I do two (Leanni and Raylin) blow job scenes [in #5]. She gets doused in the face, then crawls to the camera, saying 'I want more.' About 45 seconds in real time. That was for the viewer… She's crawling into the screen. If you're sitting right there, it's going to feel good…

"I thought that was going to be a good little thing, but now I can't even do that anymore [receive blow jobs], even if I make movies.

"I've been with Elegant Angel for a year. This was my first series. My first shot at it."

Luke: "Why did you wait so long?"

Marc: "That's just the way I was. I'll do it tomorrow. I've always wanted to do something, ever since Randy started doing his. I waited a long time. And plus, I was sober. It was a good time to get started on that."

Luke: "Brooke Ashley says she asked you if you knew you were HIV positive, and you were silent."

Marc: "She never asked me that.

"No one can ever prove that I knew. They didn't ask me or find out from the treatment center."

Luke: "Supposedly Patrick Collins asked you the same question and you were silent?"

Marc: "No, why would I be silent?"

Luke: "Because it's an insulting question."

Marc: "Well yeah. I'd say, 'f--- you. You're an asshole. If you can't figure that out for yourself, I'm not going to answer it."

About two years ago, Marc and Brooke did cocaine and ecstasy at Tom Byron's house. Marc and Brooke had sex while doing the drugs.

Marc: "If I had it then, she would've had it way back then. Some other girls too that I partied with…"

Wallice lived with Byron at the time.

Marc says that he hasn't had sex with anyone outside of the business for years. He did date an employee of a porn video company.

"One time I called Sharon Mitchell, and asked 'why hasn't Jim called me?' And he called me. He's been a good agent.

"People think he doesn't do his job because he doesn't call you and get you jobs. But just going up there and getting your picture in his book, gets you work. People call you direct because they found you through him."

Luke: "It's said that you had to dragged into PAW to take your PCR test?"

Marc: "That's bulls---. Nobody dragged me in there."

Luke: "People say that you were crying when you went in there."

Marc: "It's not true. f---ing lying, asshole punks. I wasn't crying and I wasn't dragged in there. I said, 'let's go in there and get this taken care of, or I would've never gone in there if I knew I was positive. I would've said no. If anyone came to my house and dragged me, I'd f---ing break their neck. They just kept making suggestions. I said, 'fine, let's go.'

"This was two days before Patrick left for Europe. He found out I was positive when he was in Europe. He keeps telling Reuben [Stephanie Swift's husband] to call me, but I won't take his calls. If Patrick wants to talk to me, he'll call me. Why does he keep sending his flunkies to call me?"

***

8/18/98: Marc Wallice phoned to say that he had never faked an HIV test. He did admit to changing the date on a test [for an Alex deRenzy shoot in San Francisco] about 30 months ago. "I can't tell you the number of time I've been on a set where someone has had a test one, two, three, four days old… I was one day over the deadline, and so I changed the date. But I did not fake a test."

Luke: "Any thoughts on where you might've picked up this virus?"

Marc: "From the business… I didn't do anything to get it from anywhere. And I haven't had it for three or five or seven years like people are starting to think. People are just coming out of the woodwork with new stories every f---ing day. I hope they are all having fun.

"My arraignment is still going on. That will be a while. We're just delaying it and delaying it.

"My medical insurance will be effective in a few weeks. Greg Zeboray got it for me."

In early 1996, VCA caught Wallice with an altered HIV test. Around the same time, Wallice changed the date on his HIV test for an Alex deRenzy shoot in San Francisco.

I first reported that Marc's peers suspected he was HIV positive and possibly the source of infection for several actresses on April 22nd, 1998. Then I talked to Wallice Sunday evening, at 9:30 PM, April 26, 1998. He seemed bewildered by the reports that claimed he had tested HIV positive. Marc categorically denied the rumors.

Marc said that he has not used any IV drugs for over seven years. Though at the beginning of his porn career, about 17 years ago (1981), Marc said he did one gay video (before the issue of AIDS), his predilections are for women. He just did it for quick money. He says he didn't know any better at the time. He did not realize that this might effect his future career. Marc did not know at the time that porn would be a career for him. Marc says he does not have sex with men. Period. He has not had sex with men aside from that one time. Marc is not condemning homosexuality. It is simply not his taste. Not his practice.

Marc last tested for the HIV virus on March 30, 1998. It was negative, he said.

A year or two ago, Marc had one DNA tests for the HIV virus that returned inconclusive. He tested again and it returned negative. All tests since have been negative, Marc told me 4/26/98.

In conclusion, Marc Wallice completely denies the reports on RAME and on my site www.l-keford.com, that he has tested HIV positive.

Because of these reports, Marc is going in for more testing to conclusively prove, yet again, that he is HIV negative.

Marc said he had not done a sex scene on camera in two months. He now concentrates on producing his line of videos Marc Wallice's Tails of Perversity for Elegant Angel. Marc has a girlfriend and is settling down.

X-Nico posted 4/28 to RAME: "Luke, I hate to get involved with this because I generally disapprove of your "ruin reputations first and issue apologies later" approach, but Wallice is lying if he says he only had sex with a man ONE time on camera. He appeared in "A Matter of Size" billed as Don Webber, in a three-way where he was the receptive party to Bobby Madison's dick; he ALSO appeared in a hardcore photo spread for STROKE magazine, where he took Steve Collins' dick in his ass and mouth, even taking a facial--geez, this layout was even featured as the cover of their Anniversary Issue.

"I'm not sure if he was also in "Route 69", as you say elsewhere (I'd have to find my copy and see it again), but it *is* possible Wallice did other gay porn work-- he had already done several solo gay magazine appearances by the time of his straight career, including a cover and layout for IN TOUCH. He may have also done some male/male loops for the smaller '80s mail order gay porn companies, such as Kurt Deitrick, Mr. Starr, etc. (Tom Byron apparently started his career with a J/O film for one of these smaller players.)

"In addition, I've heard stories he was street hustling at the time of his gay porn career, but I'm not giving them credence as anything other than rumor-- the gay press sometimes makes up colorful background for its models, same as the straight press-- so I usually take this info with a LARGE grain of salt until I get reliable confirmation from other sources.

"As for the veracity of his drug use/HIV status claims, I have no idea (though I hope he's telling you the truth there)-- but I do know what he claimed about his gay porn career-- "ONE time only"-- is not true merely based on the few items I own featuring him."

Brad Williams posted to RAME 4/25/98: "Before the posts on Devereux, Doll, Ashley, Caroline, and now Wallice saw the light, I had heard from performers and non-Luke sources that they had all tested HIV+. All these rumors are coming straight from the industry (performers, sometimes writers generally) itself.

"The Wallice HIV+ bit I heard repeatedly from people a week or so ago. Unfortunately, the situation of "where's there is smoke there's fire" is turning out to be true.

"Until the adult industry itself gets some semblance of honesty though, it breeds an atmosphere of rumors and great distrust, especially when almost every one of the rumors comes from people active in the industry to begin with. What the FSC tried to do during the Doll situation was convince everyone to shut-up and have some kind of "united front." It didn't work then, and it sure doesn't work now.

"Here's a sample of messages I have received from performers or others that are active in the biz before it hit the public eye:

"Marc Wallice is bisexual, did indeed attempt to forge a negative HIV test, and is known to have been HIV+, even with some of the performers and most of the directors who refuse to use him."

"I have personally seen Tricia inject herself several times before going onto the set"

"Barabara Doll has unfortunately developed full-blown AIDS"

"Brooke Ashley has tested positive, and we're really freakin' now"

***

Prior to his 4/30/98 HIV positive test result, Marc Wallice plundered hundreds of women in such videos as The Creasemaster, Curse of the Catwoman and Deep Inside Vanessa Del Rio. His small curved cock carefully used made Wallice the king of the asshole.

Marc's sexual repetoir includes gay porn. He took it up the ass in as many as three videos, including A Matter of Size.

Traditionally a long-haired, drug-using hippie, Marc cleaned up his act in late 1996, entering drug rehabilitation after several drunk driving arrests. He claims he was sober until May, 1998.

Wallice cut his long hair at the end of 1997. Working out heavily, he bulked up to the biggest weight of his life - 165 pounds. Producing his own series for the first time (Marc Wallice's Tails of Perversity for Elegant Angel) enabled him to earn his biggest income ever.

In the early '80s, a friend of Marc's showed him the World Modeling ad in the paper. Two weeks later, Wallice drove by, saw the sign out front that says Nude Modeling, and decided to give Jim South a shot.

Marc first experienced sex at age 14 when he stuck his textbook dick into the wrong hole.

"She's laying in a spoon on her side and I put my dick in her and it goes in. I didn't know better, and she squirreled off my dick on to the floor, screaming. So I said, "Come on, let's try it again. I think it won't hurt as much now that we did it before." How'd I know that? I knew my calling before I knew I had that. Tells me why I do all these anals in the movies. Then she came right back up off the floor, and I stuck it in and f---ed her in the ass. And I didn't even know what I was doing." (Hustler)

A veteran of four casual sex encounters and three girlfriends, Marc's first performance came before the still camera of veteran photographer Sam Menning. "I had a hard-on from the moment I walked in the door. She was in the makeup chair and I was standing behind her, and she goes, "I'm Judy." She gets up, gives me hug and feels my hard-on, and goes "Oh, this is gonna be fun." And it was hot."

With over 1000 videos to his credit, Wallice is frequently recognized in public.

"My mother even says, "Marc, those people over there know you," when we're out together. She goes, "You're a star." Anybody in the biz will tell you, the most people that will say anything to you are black people: "Hey, ah know you! You make dem films, don't choo?

"It's frustrating when I have a beautiful girl under me, and I can't pound her more than five times in a row, because I don't want to come. That's why sometimes you'll see two or three pop shots in one scenes." (Ibid)

Performer Laurie Smith called Marc's dick, "Textbook dick."

"If you see a picture of a dick in an encyclopedia, it'd look like mine. It's the perfect size. And I have that hook that they say hits the G-spot. Going into anal...I follow the track right up. More so than anybody like Tom Byron or Peter North, where their dicks stand straight out." (Ibid)

In The Drifter, Marc, who spends his spare time watching TV and getting stoned, plays a man on the run who sticks around one place long enough to fall in love with Kaylan Nicole.

From the 9/97 AVN: "Marc Wallice's mother has been seen chauffeuring him around ever since he had a brush with the law involving his driver's license."

Evan Wright describes Marc's troubled relationship with Brooke Ashley in the 3/31/00 LA Weekly:

A few days earlier I had met Marc at his mother’s house, where he had been living since blowing his last dollar on a freebasing binge after news broke of his own HIV-positive status. “I used to be a big, famous star,” he told me. “Now, I’m a nobody.” Since quitting his job bagging groceries at Trader Joe’s when he was 21, Marc had done little else but appear in porn videos. In the past 19 years, he estimated, he’d had sex with 2,000 women. “I’ve never dated,” he said. “I’ve never had to be desirable. How do I just walk up to a girl and say hi?” Then he had played me phone messages from Brooke: “You f---er. You don’t have any friends.”

She had called around 7 in the morning too. Both of them were up at that hour — Brooke taking her meds, Marc at the end of a bumpy coke ride. In happier times, they had been “f--- buddies” off the set and had binged on drugs together. Now, in their respective messages, each sounded scared and desperate, like someone who really needed to talk to an old friend.

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The rec.arts.movies.erotica newsgroup hosted a fascinating discussion about Marc Wallice. Numerous porn sources tell me that Marc knew for months before his official HIV positive test 4/29/98, that he was HIV positive. Sources believe that Marc faked his tests and the industry didn't care to challenge him, even though many of the faked tests appeared ludicrous (one listed him as 49 years of age).

Journalist Wayne Gordon writes on RAME 7/5/98: "Well, Mark Kernes of AVN talked to Mitchell and I remember reading his story and then posting a pointed response on this NG asking why he was so stupid for not asking a simple, obvious-to-even-a-complete-moron followup question to one of her responses. Rather than post his response to the NG, he e-mailed me assailing that I obviously don't know everything about this ONGOING [his emphasis] story. I responded back by email that of course *I* don't know everything, otherwise I wouldn't be asking questions. DUH!

And I closed by again posing my question as to wether or not he asked the follow up, and if so, what was the response. This of course elicited no reply.

Does this mean that the story is indeed ongoing at AVN's editorial offices?

Will AVN's treatment of the episode simply be more bashing of the messenger (Luke) who had the audacity to break the story? Will Margold's response be to bash RAME and Ford? Is Wallice still a "legend"? Would this forgive him of all sins? Am I scum for even posing these questions? Margold speaks of people jerking off with one hand while pushing the industry away with the other. What of the Industry? Are they content to take our money and tell us to shut up with any bothersome questions?

My bottom line...Somebody besides Wallice had to have known. The rumors were around for at least a few weeks before Wallice's positive test.

That, coupled with Wallice's very high viral load tests so soon after his initial positive, are very troubling. Margold claims they had a stack of Elizas from Wallice, and if there was anything aberrant, by God, they'd get to the bottom of it. I'm still waiting. Why did his last negative test show him to be 49 years old? Oh, nevermind! s--- does happen. Pardon my lack of decorum for even asking. I'll shut up now and go rent Gaping Assf---ed Harlots #38, like I'm supposed to.

No one can tell me that 3 starlets all come up positive in about three months, all did unprotected anal, recently, with Wallice, who all available evidence shows was positive for at least a few months, if not longer, before he was seemingly forced to come in and give himself up. It doesn't pass the smell test by a long shot. These ladies need a lawyer, not hugs and jellybeans and plush toys designed for pre-pubescents.

Pat Riley writes: "There are unfortunately some things that no one has an interest in disclosing. Marc has a valid self-interest in, if nothing else, maintaining cordial relations with some in the industry so he's likely to feign lack of knowledge and finesse the issue. Common Angel, just to coin a mythical video manufacturer, has nothing to gain by saying, "We knew about it or should have known." Margold and the this-is-a-booming-practically- mainstream-industry apologists at the industry booster magazine would only call attention to these and other slimy practices and invite unwelcome attention from the real press.

"The only people who have an interest in ferreting out the truth (apart from the onlookers in this NG) are the uninfected performers themselves and the industry has given them a useless snake oil salesman in the form of Margold and his PAW to make rhyming platitudes and provide some sort of pretense at concern. Oh, Margold may be genuinely concerned personally but with his blinders it's going to be "Here, have a koala and welcome to the sandbox," not, let's find a contingent fee attorney to attempt a civil action for wrongful battery against Wallice and against his employer deep pockets Common Angel for letting him work. Just the discovery proceedings would cause ice chills up the backs of the drug-addicted pimps in the industry.

"The only hope is that some of them are sensible enough to realize that the press--even Luke F-rd--represent their only hope in making the industry grow up. But then the performers might have to grow up too..."

Ashley vs. Wallice

Federalist79@hotmail.com speculates on the results of Brooke Ashley taking porners like AIM and Marc Wallice to court over her HIV infection.

"As to what I "assume" about the evidence awaiting discovery, I tend tentatively to view such evidence as likely to approximate roughly the balance of inculpatory vs. exculpatory that we are already seeing.

"That would, in my opinion, preponderate strongly to Ashley. The fact is, however, that Ashley probably has a strong enough case to survive motions to dismiss and motions for summary judgement as things stand now. Life at PAW/AIM does not strike me as likely to look better with closer scrutiny. I also tend, cynic that I am, to suspect that Mitchell's credentials will probably not gain respectability from closer inspection. (My suspicion is that we are talking about people who habitually present things in their most flattering and advantageous light. To believe that they become more lustrous on closer examination would be a triumph of hope over experience.)

Just to take a guess (and with respect to these characterizations that is *all* I am doing), I would suspect that Ashley will come off as a shallow bimbo with the all trustworthiness of a jittering junky. She seems inclined to paint herself as a complete victim without any control of her situation. This is obvious baloney, but her exaggeration is really irrelevant to the basic questions of causation and deception/negligence. All it *might* touch is whether she reasonably relied on the representations that were made regarding Wallice's health. Basing both characterizations on Ford's posted interviews (which will no doubt put some major knots in a couple of people's knickers), Wallice comes off even worse than Ashley: classic junky BS. The guy gives losers a bad name.

To what degree would a reasonable person rely on medical tests and a publicly celebrated screening process by "licensed" industry "experts"? To what degree did these "experts" fail to provide the safeguarding they promised? How innocent could Wallice be in handing over a falsified test? These are jury questions, but at this point things look much better for Ashley than the rest.

Basing both characterizations on Ford's posted interviews (which will no doubt put some major knots in a couple of people's knickers), Wallice comes off even more damaging to his own cause than Ashley is to hers. As for Mitchell and Co., they have enough of a paper trail of interviews and publications at this point that their characters cannot possibly enhance their position (although it is always possible to hurt it.)

To recap: 1) Without speculation, Ashley has a valid case to bring.

2) Reasonable speculation only tends to make her case look better.

3) It is still possible (although it appears less likely by the day) that evidence exists that will exonerate our esteemed Mr. Wallice.

From the 10/98 AVN by Gene Ross:

...Now, if it would only help her stop smoking. Mitchell re-acquired the habit, blaming Luke F-rd, the Internet Torquemada and Wallice's chief prosecutor, as the man responsible for driving her back into the nurturing arms of nicotine. Much of it's due to the "slanderous" stuff Ford's been writing about her on his Website, according to Mitchell.

"There are these horrible things that have poured out of that site," Mitchell claims. "Things are being said about me being an active junkie. That hurts me very much. I was in drugs and alcohol for 16 years, and I'm proud of the fact that I'm three years clean and sober."

…Nonetheless, before any of the Wallice DNA-RNA test results were made official, Luke F-rd and his band of Internet villagers gathered to light the torches. They mutually concluded that Frankstein Wallice was "Patient Zero" in what was suspected to be an elaborate HIV cover-up within the adult industry.

[LF: Sharon Mitchell first applied the term "patient zero" to Wallice in that Thursday, April 30 adult industry meeting.]

"I feel so bad for Marc," says Mitchell, who used to room with Wallice years ago. "This kid has been hit with an HIV-positive and has been accused of spreading this knowingly to other people. This [Ford's] is a criminal assumption."

[LF: I've heard from sources that Mitchell has also seriously considered Wallice as the most likely source of the industry's HIV outbreak.]

In what's taken the proportions of an Agatha Christie whodunit, for starters, there's a 32-man gangbang that was staged in February involving Wallice and fellow HIV+ mate Brooke Ashley. For all intents and purposes, this has been suggested as the logical scene of the crime. With the possible exception of Colonel Mustard in the library with a lead pipe, a number of high-profile suspects in the industry have been linked to a Nixonian conspiracy to fix everything but SAT scores. The select group includes Wallice, Mitchell, South and even Bill Margold, who heads the PAW organization.

"Luke F-rd just can't get it right," says Margold wearily, quite aware of Ford's active participation in the Wallice witch hunt. Margold candidly admits that he was the one who let Ford in the adult industry door in the first place, a decision he says he now regrets.

[LF: Though Margold was my first major interview in the industry, not Bill not anybody "let me in the door." I'd been researching the industry for about five months before I talked to Bill and no one was going to shut me out. Bill was not initially a source of referrals to other people to interview though he was and has often served as a valuable and provocative
source.]

South bristles at any suggestion of wholesale conspiracies.

"I was one of the original people who came up with the idea of getting people AIDS tests…

"The thing [Wallice's forged test in early 1996 or late 1995] stems from…when Wallice did a deRenzy shoot in San Francisco."

Wallice…claims that Luke F-rd has misquoted him by saying it was a VCA shoot. "I don't know where he got that," Wallice says. "I never told him that. He turned everything I said around."

11/28/00

Luke's Ethics Dilemma

Here's a paper by Adam, a Journalism major at college writing for his Laws and Ethics of Journalism class at Northwestern University:

In April of 1998, a standard for conduct was set in the underground world of porn journalism that shook the industry to its core, scared people to death, and vaulted an unknown self-trained reporter to cult status. His conduct was hardly exemplary - Maureen Dowd and Walter Cronkite's reaction would have had little in common with his - but Luke F-rd had no qualms about his decision, destroying a life in the meantime, though saving several down the road.

The adult film industry is hardly one based on full disclosure and honesty, and has for the most part been void of a regular media since its growth into a billion dollar business in the 1980s. The few bodies that did write about the goings on - Adult Video News Magazine being the most widely read - were part of the industry themselves, and without the impartial perspective of an outsider. Luke F-rd began his own breakneck style of covering the adult industry in July of 1997 on his Web site, l-keford.com, and soon garnered the attention of industry insiders for his unapologetic and unorthodox style. He would often print the tidbits no one else would, and step on toes that no one else dared touch. However, he was hardly a force to be reckoned with, regarded more as a harmless pest than a hard-cracking journalist.

In late April of 1998, Ford began hearing rumblings from several of his industry sources that there had been a rash of positive HIV tests among female performers, and the rumors pointed the finger at a lone source: male performer Marc Wallice. The industry was at the time largely regulated by blood tests, as performers needed regular exams to be allowed to work on movies. However, with no condoms in most scenes and the disorganization of the testing system, it was hardly as safe as it is today. Wallice, Ford was being told, had been faking DNA tests to continue to work, and in the process had infected at least five girls: Kimberly Jade, Brooke Ashley, Jordan McKnight, Nina Cherry and Caroline. With the opportunity at the scoop of the year, Ford decided to run the story on his site immediately after, on April 22, 1998, without getting confirmations or denials from Wallice or Protecting Adult Welfare (P.A.W.), the industry watchdog group that had performed his recent blood tests. The ethical question (and Potter Box definition) arose for Ford with little time to decide: should he run the unsubstantiated Wallice story on his site? True or false, it would clearly harm, if not destroy, Wallice's livelihood.

Most people in the adult film industry would argue that Luke F-rd is completely devoid of values. However, he does have some, just often differing from the norm. Even with two years to reflect on his decision, Ford still holds firm to the value system he employed. Among his most relevant beliefs in this ethical dilemma were immediacy (need to beat competition to the story), an obligation to protect other performers, and newsworthiness. The latter was clearly the one weighed most heavily by Ford. By his own admission, the story brought out a "raw journalistic instinct" that sent him after the story. He was caught up in the adrenaline of pursuing a breaking investigative story, a passion that has led Ford to disregard many traditional ethical rules, seek many breaking stories, and bring on several libel suits as well. The story was incredibly newsworthy if true, being the biggest HIV outbreak in the history of the business, and right in the midst of it with popular performers Wallice and Brooke Ashley involved. And Ford knew he had the opportunity to take this news public and scoop the other industry journalists, who were encumbered with so many restraints and loyalties he was not. He was an autonomous force in the industry, and holding the story out of imaginary loyalty for a stranger (Wallice) would have compromised that.

The greatest value to most observers was the obligation to prevent others from contracting a deadly disease when it could be avoided. If the story was kept under wraps, Wallice would continue to work, and continue to infect unknowing stars. They would in turn work until they tested positive, creating the possibility of an industry epidemic. Ford knew he had the opportunity to prevent this, if the story was indeed true.

Ford was, for the most part, without an obligation or loyalty to the industry or parties involved, so fairness was not a concern to him. If the story was true, he had done a noble journalistic thing. If it proved false, he had ruined Wallice's career, but that was a chance he felt he had to take. The chance of destroying a man's livelihood and presumption of innocence did not rank high on Ford's priority list. Wallice would not be able to get a job on a movie for at least several months even if tests came back negative, and it was a possibility that the rumor of his faking tests would blacklist him permanently. Male performers are readily available and hardly coveted, and the benefits of Wallice's expulsion from the industry, HIV positive or not, far outweighed the chance of him infecting other performers. Part of that were the rumors that Wallice had knowingly faked tests and continued to work while infected, a charge Wallice has fought to this day. While much evidence indicates that it did indeed happen, there is no conclusive evidence.

Though it is puzzling to most, while he works in covering one of the world's more debaucherous industries, Luke F-rd is a devout orthodox Jew, and most of his ethical decisions are driven by that, or at least so he argues. According to him, he had two key principles in making his decision: Judaic law and Mill's Principle of Utility. Immanuel Kant's Categorical Imperative ("what is right for one is right for all"), the Judeo-Christian Golden Rule, and John Rawls' Veil of Ignorance ("justice emerges when negotiating without social differentiations") are directly dismissed, as Ford stated that he would have handled the situation differently if it had been an industry friend, not Wallice, who had been the subject of the rumors, a clear acknowledgment of the lack of morality of his decision.

While running the story would clearly do irreparable harm to Wallice, the possibility of saving lives and protecting an entire industry of hundreds, if not thousands, of performers far outweighed that as laid forth by John Stuart Mill. But Ford claims his most prioritized principle was Jewish law, that states that outside of three specific sins (including murder), anything can be done to save a life. "I will lie, break one's trust, print something after I've said it is off the record, do just about anything if I feel it will help save a life," he said.

The most complex point in the decision comes while analyzing Ford's loyalties in this dilemma. Admittedly, his greatest loyalty is to himself and his own sense of fulfillment and accomplishment. By printing this story (due to the fact it turned out to be true), Luke F-rd made his career. And he sensed it would happen. "It created him. Without [the Wallice story], no one knew Luke F-rd," commented competing industry journalist, Kevin Moore of StunningCurves.com. From that point on "everything increased 25 times - the fear, the hatred, the respect, the loathing," according to Ford. Like him or not, the Wallice story made Ford a fearsome figure in the adult industry. It even gave him 15 minutes of celebrity in the mainstream media, being dubbed "The Matt Drudge of Porn" by such publications as The New York Post and Online Journalism Review, which praised him for his tireless reporting and scoop. Of course, his decision to run the story was hardly such a cut and dry example of good reporting.

Most of the other industry journalists have quite a bit of loyalty to the business as a whole and the people that make it up. You cannot help making friends in any job, and this one is no exception. Everyone from Adult Video News publisher Paul Fishbein to Ford has porn friends, and the normal prejudices that stem from it. And even more powerful in some cases is a loyalty to the industry, a respect for its rogue nature, and a passion for continuing the path it blazes. But not Ford. When asked if he felt any loyalty to the industry or its inhabitants, Ford responded with a blunt "Not at all." Even former friends, such as industry activist and former performer (and P.A.W. founder) Bill Margold broke off all ties, stating in the media that "Luke F-rd is a creation of his time. He's the journalistic suckerfish on the shark of X. We can't get rid of him, and he goes off and does whatever he wants. He's very interesting in a perverse way. But he's a lazy journalist and brings a lot a misery."

The most obvious example of this is the lack of loyalty to Marc Wallice. Though they were hardly friends or even acquiantances, and Ford admitted to "not trusting" him, most onlookers would agree that Wallice was given no slack when the story ran. Ford knew that running the story could potentially (and likely would) destroy Wallice's career, and in turn, put a major chink into the life of a man who had done little else for the previous decade. In actuality, soon after the story ran on l-keford.com, Wallice left the industry and descended into a month-long motel room drug binge, followed by months of aimless wandering and borrowing money from his mother. To this day, Wallice seems to have fallen off the face of the earth, and his whereabouts are known by few in the industry. Attempts to contact him for comment were fruitless.

The true loyalty felt by all involved, even Ford, was the obligation of preventing further spread of HIV. If Ford had decided to sit on the story, an epidemic could have soon followed. And if it had ever leaked out that he had avoided the story, he would have been looked on much as Wallice ended up: a blacklisted outcast. A journalist with no willing sources is hardly an able journalist. But there is a very human need to save a life if it can be saved, even at a high cost. This was the loyalty that Ford pursued, per his Jewish teaching.

Though there were certainly elements of moral obligation to save lives and stay true to the ethical principles of Judaism and Mill, Ford would likely be the first to admit that his ethical decision was mostly shaped by selfish needs: the need for success, the need for the rush of the hot pursuit of a story, the need to grab the industry by the throat and make himself known. That is his greatest value and greatest loyalty - arguably not a rare characteristic among the great journalists of our time.

What should Luke F-rd have done during this whirlwind 24 hours of April, 1998? The story that he reported on his site turned out to be almost completely true, though it has never been proven that Wallice knowingly faked positive tests. Wallice was quickly driven out of the adult business. If it had been proven false, as many thought it was at the time, the clarity of hindsight would call for a far different judgment. But as history stands, Ford should have stayed true to his loyalty to success and self, yet embraced the more traditional ethics of journalism with his reaction. Instead of running the story without an attempt to confirm or deny it from Wallice, he should have taken the standard steps of a reporter, something Ford admits willingly he did not, nor had any desire, to do in the heat of the moment. He should have at least given Wallice an opportunity to deny the charges before the story ran (something he did two days after publication), and proven to himself beyond a reasonable doubt that the story was true. Instead he plunged headfirst into the story without any confirmation of truth. It can not be expected that Ford would operate like a "traditional journalist" since he is a unique character in a unique position. But balancing that with the demands of good reporting would have simplified the situation, and made for both a good story and a journalist not feared and despised by his subject matter.

Marc Wallice Interview
2003-07-29 22:31:52
Marc Wallice says the report is totally false. He's done no such thing. Yes, he did shoot a movie about three months ago but he did not have sex with any of the actresses.

Wallice says he never forged any of his HIV tests, never had sex on film while knowing he was HIV-positive.

Wallice says he's been sober for six months.

Marc tested HIV positive by a PCRDNA test on April 30, 1998. He had sex with all the girls who tested HIV positive in the industry for the previous few years but there was never any proof that he was the infector.

I call Marc at 11PM Tuesday night.

Marc: "First of all, we shot the movie about three months ago, not six months. I can get each and every girl on the set and they will tell you that [story] is complete bulls---.

"I'm too busy directing and shooting. I'm doing everything man. That would be the last thing that I do, now that I'm making movies again."

Luke: "What's the name of the movie?"

Marc: "No name yet. We're still editing it.

"We can get everybody on that set to back me up. There is no girl on that set that would've said that. Let that girl [who spoke to l-keford.com] prove that she did my movie. Why isn't he going to say her name? Because he's a punk?

"Nobody wanted to talk to me. Nobody wanted to get my word on any of this. Everybody just made up their own little [thing]. They went off on their own little direction. And none of it is true. I never knowingly infected anybody and I never faked a test. And there's no proof of that."

Luke: "I've heard a comment you now have full-blown AIDS?"

Marc: "No. I'm working ten hours a day now editing. These people just love talking. If they can say something to get somebody aroused, they will say whatever they can. I don't know how anybody could say that as it is not true."

Luke: "How is your health?"

Marc: "My T-cells are at 550 and I'm still undetectable [for HIV]. I'm in perfect health. I'm in better health than when I didn't have it because I take better care of myself. You're not going to die from it [HIV]. You're not going to get sick.

"People love to slam somebody. I know how it feels. Here at work, I always love it when I see something that somebody did bad and I can bring it to someone's attention. 'Look at this sh-tty job this person did over here.' Everybody likes putting people down but just making up sh-- off the top of their heads is f---ed up. One day I will find a lawyer who will take this on and I will sue everyone for defamation of character. It's not freedom of speech when you write lies.

"Tell this [guy writing l-keford.com] that he's going to be hearing from someone soon if he doesn't prove that what he wrote is true. He's got to get the girl to do that.

"Everybody loves to have somebody to hate. I don't know if he's trying to get me out of the business. I was welcomed back with open arms. Everybody was glad to work for me again and glad to see me. It made me feel good.

"I was never hiding. I was always editing here. I finally got the opportunity to make a movie again."

Luke: "Did you read The Los Angeles Times article in January?"

Marc knows the one I'm talking about. "No, but that's all a bunch of bulls--- too. She [reporter P.J. Hufstutter] said she called me twelve times. She never called my house or left a message. She called here at work and I never got a message. She talked to Robert and he told me after the fact. That's when I got mad at Robert.

"I'm glad she said that she called me at home, because I know she's lying. I never got a call from anybody saying that I'm doing an article for the LA Times and I want to ask you some questions.

"I'd love to see this girl face to face and hear her tell me that she tried calling me twelve times.

"I had people read it to me. Marci [Hirsch] read pieces to me. Somebody else read pieces of it. I don't want to waste my time.

"I know the truth. Everybody wants to go on their little fantasies.

"I don't know where you are on this. The moral majority, after never hearing a word from me, just hearing the story that they came up with five years ago going around going around and advancing and prettying it up more and making it sound more colorful and bad."

Luke: "I just talk to people. There are some people who defend you and there are some people who hate you."

Marc: "They hate me without ever talking to me and knowing the truth. If somebody told you something, all of a sudden you'd hate that person because of what you were just told. This is bigger than that. Not one of these articles that ever wrote anything on me talked to me."

Luke: "If true, that's wrong. I don't know anything about HIV and how it's transmitted."

Marc: "I was infected in the business. I wasn't f---ing anybody out of the business except a couple of girls I was going out with that I had met on sets. And with two or three female producers. So it had to come from somewhere, from one of the three girls [who tested HIV-positive], and if so, I passed it on to the others. But I never faked a test. I never got a positive test and changed it to negative. I'll take a lie detector test to that."

Luke: "Why do you think your [1998] tests showed your age so wrong?"

Marc: "I don't know why. I've seen Sid Deuce's test on Bud Lee's shoot once. We're standing in the hallway and Bud says, 'Look at this. Sid Deuce's test has an M on it for male.' Mine had an F on it once too."

Luke: "Why did you go to that little clinic Cal Jammer went to?"

Marc: "That's why. Because he told me about it and it's cheap."

Luke: "Do you think the industry is doing a good job with STDs now?"

Marc: "I guess. I don't really know about it. I know that Sharon's [Mitchell at AIM] doing extra tests now. I even had to call her twice to get confirmation of tests because the girls showed up without their tests. Not on my set, please!

"Of all things. The girls say, I know my test was good. Right. If I let somebody work without at test, that'd be real good. Now you're saying I'm letting girls blow me too. That's the stupidest thing that somebody could make up.

"I wasn't hiding. I was Marc Wallice on the set. I had my dildo on the set, my realistic thing from Doc Johnson. It was in two scenes. The girls loved it. 'That's you?' Oh yeah, about eight years ago. 'You're cute.'"

Luke: "Your life is different from when I talked to you five years ago. You'd just come off a big cocaine binge."

Marc: "Did I meet you?"

Luke: "I met you in court in July of 1998. You were in bad shape."

Marc: "What else was I going to do? I couldn't deal with it. I said, 'f-ck 'em.' Then I realized, what am I doing, man? I've got nothing to hide and I am not going to hide."

Luke: "So you've turned your life around?"

Marc: "Yep. I've been sober for six months now. That was the last time I drank a lot."

Luke: "Do you think AIM and Sharon Mitchell are doing a good job at what they are doing?"

Marc: "Yeah, of course. It's good that one place has it all locked down. They don't have to do any comparing of information. They do it all. It's probably a good idea, you think?"

Luke: "I don't know. This stuff is too complicated for me. I don't know the difference between a PCR and..."

Marc: "That was the problem. Everybody's test looked different. Who could honestly know what they were looking at?

"Keep that on the top of your head. The only thing I have to say is that I did not fake a test, changing it from a positive to a negative. I did not knowingly infect anybody. I had to have been infected on a set by one of the girls and then passed it on."

Luke: "And you never avoided taking the PCR DNA test [HIV]?"

Marc: "I don't know. I never had to. It was about starting. I probably did a couple of them."

Luke: "I'm still waiting for somebody to do the movie about this."

Marc: "I should get somebody to do it. Watch! They'll make the movie and they won't even talk to me. They'll have somebody sitting in a room on their computer trying to figure out how to fake things, make things, and show me as a consciously-knowing guy with AIDS infecting people in the business. And they'll probably say I was infected for ten years. Some people have actually said that."

Luke: "I remember when Gene Ross wrote in AVN when Barbara Doll tested HIV positive (1995?), that Marc Wallice was a suspect."

Marc: "I remember talking to him a lot [in 1998 to early 1999]. I guess honestly nobody will ever know. They won't believe me. They're only going to believe what they hear from people who don't even know me."

Luke: "Whatever happened to Brooke Ashley's lawsuit against you?"

Marc: "I don't know. I never got anything. It was just a bunch of blabbing and hollering. I think she tried to sue a video company.

"I would like to find her. I would love to talk to her. I talked to her after this happened a few times. And I guess she was overwhelmed by the negative from other people and she wouldn't take my calls anymore. But I'd love to see her again. It'd be great for us to get together and be a couple. I'm ready for that.

"I go to these HIV-positive websites for heterosexuals. They HIV-positive women looking for HIV-positive men. It's kinda cool. I got a few dates from that.

"If you ever find her, get her in touch with me if you can. Give her my number. I know she probably wouldn't, but..."

Luke: "Last I heard, she lives in Hawaii."

MikeSouth.com reports: "I got a call today telling me that Mark positively is not shooting any porn, it's well known he works as an editor for Simon Wolf productions, that's no biggie but if this guy tries to get back into porn in any other capacity I will take it on myself to make his f-cking life miserable."