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Brooke Ashley Part Two

Asian Brooke Ashley tested HIV positive at the end of March, 1998. She probably contracted the deadly virus in early February during a 50-man anal gangbang for Kbeech Entertainment.

Brooke turned 18 years of age in May of 1991. She had her son in August, then entered porn in December of 1991 under the name Fantasia. She debuted in Sin City's Hooked, directed by Charlie Biggs. "I was wrapped in plastic… And it shows Ona Zee teaching me how to give a blowjob. Next scene I'm f---ing someone. Tanya Rivers was on the cover."

An anal queen, Ashley became known for her wild ways, on and off camera.

Reb Sawitz remembers the time several years ago [about 1992?] that Brooke "spent five hours in my bathtub, trying to sober her up. We had her at the house for a week, trying to get her off the stuff."

Ashley says she met Reb at a bad time in her life. "I was using speed, snorting some drugs…" Brooke says she has never used needles. "I have never injected anything into my body. I had a girlfriend who had a bad heroin problem. That scared the hell out of me. I have done cocaine and ecstasy but no needles."

In his March 1998 gossip column for Excalibur, Roger T. Pipe wrote: "Another of my personal favorites who has been talking retirement is Brooke Ashley. Word is, Brooke is taking pretty much all the work she can get at the moment in a final flurry before she packs it up and heads back to New York to dance full time. Say it ain't so Brooke."

After a 50-man anal gang bang in February 1998, Brooke tested HIV positive in March. She told AVN that her doctors believe that is how she contracted the virus, perhaps from veteran Marc Wallice.

Brooke hopes to continue her career stripping in clubs.

Evan Wright writes for the LA Weekly: "As Brooke told it, she was born on an American air base in Korea, the offspring of a U.S. soldier and a Korean mother. She was raised in Kansas City and molested at the age of 7 by “the old man down the hall.” According to Brooke, the old man pretended he was an invalid and needed a walker, but he was actually very strong when he got her alone in his apartment. He had lured her with ice cream. Things went downhill from there. Her mother left. Her father, once an avid porn-video collector, became a born-again Christian. Brooke grew close to an uncle who groomed her for beauty pageants. She often bragged, “I was a runner-up in the Miss Teen Kansas City Beauty Pageant when I was 16.” By the time she was 18, her uncle, who had functioned as her unofficial guardian, had been sent to federal prison on money-laundering charges. Brooke was working at Wal-Mart when she ran away to Florida, where she became an exotic dancer, and then to L.A., where she became a porn star.

"In addition to being a porn star, Brooke hustled men. Sometimes she did so professionally, as a call girl. She could do a wicked imitation of a local weatherman talking dirty to her, his distinctive voice breathless and excited. I believed her about the weatherman, because I had once met him on the set of a John Wayne Bobbitt porn shoot. He had told me he was there researching a potential news story, though I’d never seen his station run news stories reported by weathermen."

In the 6/98 AVN, Mark Kernes writes:

Brooke Ashley was looking for a job.

When we last spoke with her, she was trying for a receptionist position at a car dealership, but several job possibilities had already fallen through. And money was no longer as easy to come by as it had been when she was earning a living by looking good, sounding hot, doing the "pelvic thrust" and taking a dick or two up her pussy or ass. But barring a major advance in medical science, that's all over.

…The Tuesday of that "second week of February"…was the date of the big talent meeting about Tricia Devereaux's HIV problem, and PAW had asked everyone to stop production while they sorted out who should be on the quarantine list.

"I think I got [HIV] from doing this gangbang," Ashley said, "and I think that only three-quarters of those people came back in and got DNA tested. A quarter of those people came back in and got DNA tested. A quarter of those guys didn't come in and do their DNA testing. I don't know why that hasn't been enforced; why they haven't played those tapes and watched them and made a list of these guys and made everybody come back in."

Ashley remembered there were 32 guys in the gangbang, and most of the tests she saw that day were Elisas, though even before the Devereaux meeting, the PCR-DNA test was fast becoming the industry standard.

Thirty two shots of sperm. Thirty two chances for a forced ride on the cocktail wagon. Even Russian Roulette gives better odds than that.

Most of Brooke's friends have stood by her and provided comfort. Some, including her boyfriend, have broken off contact - and at this writing, Brooke still has no idea how she's going to break the news to her fundamentalist parents.

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At a February fourth, 1998 talent meeting, Tricia Devereaux told her peers that she had tested HIV positive in early January. Then Sharon Mitchell told the crowd of 200 that virtually everybody had been exposed the HIV virus, and that the then-current Eliza test was no longer considered suitable. The industry standard was no the PCR-DNA test for HIV.

Brooke tells Luke F-rd 7/8/98 about 3 PM.

"My doctor says that I was infected at the beginning of February [when she was anally penetrated by an HIV positive Marc Wallice in a "50-man" anal gangbang]. I took no other shoots [at this time period] aside from that movie [World's Biggest Anal Gangbang, directed by Cash Markman and produced by Dan Beck and Robert DuPree]. Kevin Beech aka Kbeech Entertainment/Midnight Video/Erotic Angel and Dreamland USA have released three movies from that gangbang. The World's Biggest Anal Gangbang, Fluffer Whores which features Bunny Bleu and Jamie Lee fluffing the guys… Bunny and Jamie were only paid about $300 each for a day's work. I don't remember the name of the other movie they're releasing from this…

"Late last year I broke up with my boyfriend. Then I started seeing this guy I'd known for years. We fell in love. But we always used condoms."

Luke: "I've been told that you did escort work?"

Brooke: "I don't even want to answer that question. Yes, I did do two guys. I was set up by [adult] video…people. And it was safe sex. With condoms. That was 18 months ago.

"I have always taken my HIV tests, sometimes two a month.

"Sharon Mitchell was supposed to have been the one who made sure that everybody got tested. She never checked Marc's. What made him so special?"

Brooke suspects that the other HIV positive girls [Tricia Devereaux and Caroline], with the possible exception of Kimberly Jade, were infected by Marc. "Kimberly had done a big fan-f---s thing… I won't say that she got it from Marc. I won't say that she didn't.

"PAW wrote me one check for $200. That's it. They said they were going to take care of my rent and my expenses. They did nothing but that one check. They said in front of a Vivid PA, to me, 'All you have to do is give us a copy of your bills, of your lease, and we'll write you a check.'

"PAW offered to get me that medical insurance [through the FSC]. It never went through. PAW told people [the insurer] that I was HIV positive, so they never accepted me.

"I had a meeting with Margold on the 29th of May. He said that because I was working at Shane's World, for less than $100 a week, and working under the table for Sin City, in the warehouse for two days a week…[that PAW did not need to take care of her].

"I had a two bedroom apartment with high ceilings… I had bills. I was tapping out my bank account. I was spending money on the doctors… My medical insurance didn't become effective until July 1st.

"You can either take care of yourself and get in debt or let yourself get sick. My doctor says that because I've gone on the medicine, I should not get sick from HIV. But there are other underlying medical things I have to worry about. I cannot go on AZT or Kryptophan (?)… that my friend is on. I have to go on less toxic drugs that will not toxify my liver.

"Once you have HIV… you become more vulnerable to other things [diseases]. I'm in contact with some of the other girls who've tested positive [I think she means Tricia and Kimberly]…I hear that PAW is taking care of Caroline. I find that odd. I spent seven years of my life in this. I've done over $200 films. And I get $200?

"They tried to set me up with Dr. Chang who told me he was moving to New York. They told me that I could go to s--- like Project LA.

"Do you know how Dr. York came into the picture? He was following Tricia Devereaux around. He followed her from convention to convention. She never liked him in the first place. When she became positive, he offered his assistance. He was like a fan… And now he's in charge of over 300 people's tests in this business?



"When they [FSC/PAW] did my first viral load they took three weeks… It's supposed to be a four day turnaround. And then at the end of the three weeks, they told me I had to come back in and have my blood drawn again. They took seven vials of blood from me. Then they tell me they lost the blood. How do you lose the blood of someone who might have HIV?

"And I came in and did it again. And the test came out "sample moderately hemolized…' Meaning, that they did not take the blood properly. They left my blood in Jim South's freezer. Are these people even running a proper medical facility? Out of Jim South's office building? I would like to know. That is a lot of people's lives to have in your hand, to be f---ing around with their tests and not doing it properly.

"Lots of friends of mine agree. If the business allowed them to go to another place, they would. They would go back to Culver City [Dr. George Boros Ten Minute Clinic] or another place…

"The day I found out I had tested inconclusive, I had a test from the Ten Minute Place [Eliza] the day before, saying that I was negative.

"I just don't like PAW… And if I don't like someone, there is no sense my working with them. PAW says that the reason they took care of Caroline, and not me, was that she went to government doctors and Project LA. I have good doctors, why would I want to go there?

"PAW was revealing everything about my medical condition. They have no right to do that.

"Before they found out that Marc Wallice was positive [discovered 4/29], they asked me to give up my blood, so they could try to match it with whoever would be responsible. But they never did anything…

"With the way they are handling everything, I don't want them to have my blood. On the 29th of March, two days after I found out that I was HIV positive, they told me that I could come in for some training program. I was on my period. I had a viral load of 40,000 and they wanted me to strip on the internet. Because they weren't going to pay my expenses, they said that I 'could go strip on the internet.' I wasn't even comfortable with taking my clothes off at that point. I felt contagious. I gave up on them in early April. Because every time I had interaction with them, everything they did was wrong.

"I was so run down by that gang bang. You can't imagine what that is like to do. It takes its toll. My boyfriend and I did not have sex for weeks [February, 1998].

"I had a shot [antibiotics] in my ass before the second day [of gangbang]. They say that brings down your immune system.

"They [KBeech] promised me Howard Stern, Jerry Springer… They promised me the world…This was supposed to be my final movie…My going-out movie. I guess it was."

Brooke laughs ruefully.

"I used to be roommates with Farrah… Who dates Kevin Beech. His contract girl. She locked me out of my apartment last fall. She changed the locks on me. She won't give me my stuff back. Because, she claimed, I did not pay the rent. I was ready to pay the rent. I was simply at the East Coast Video Show. Everything that I owned was in her apartment. I don't care that she's f---ing him… But she's saying, 'people are saying that if you go through with a lawsuit, bad things will happen to you.'"

[Last year, Shay Sweet said Farrah had threatened her that if she went public with complaints that Chuck Martino had beaten her, bad things would happen to her [Shay].]

"Kevin Beech wants to blame the producers of the movie (World's Biggest Anal Gangbang) Dan Beck and Robert DuPree… But the producers and everyone else on the shoot knew that that movie was going to Kbeech/Midnight Video/Erotic Angel and Dreamland USA. Cash Markman directed it. [Cash in the in-house director for Midnight.] Mickey Ray was on camera…

"It was a s---ty camera and the angles were bad. The reason I finally watched this movie was that my fans were writing into me about it… 'I was very disappointed with The World's Biggest Anal Gangbang..'

"The movie was financed by Kevin Beech. He's responsible. All the money that the producers got came from Kevin.

"KBeech has released three movies from this…including Fluffer Whores… Bunny Blue, Jamie Lee fluffed… only paid them $200-$300….

"I know Kevin because I used to date somebody who worked for Kevin. I've known him for two and a half years…

"Last year I spent a lot of time in New York. I was dating a boxer. They pitched this movie to me. I ended up breaking up with my boyfriend. I came back out here. I called Kbeech…

"I started seeing this one guy every day. He was at my apartment every day. I usually don't get stuck on a person like this. I've known him for a long time. He was like my best friend.

"The first day for the gang bang was January 28… Then the next two Wednesdays… February 4 and 11. And they finished it live on the Ecstasy Channel [cable TV?], on Saturday [February 14th?]. They wanted to delay it longer. I'm glad that I refused. My [HIV] viral load would've increased. I could've infected half the guys in the business.

"It was all shot at Rob Spallone's Star World… Gourmet Video…

"It was also in the contract that I could only have half the guys wear condoms. And they put somebody with full-blown AIDS into my f---ing movie? Then they couldn't even pay me. And nobody checked to see how I was doing? Nothing.

"Kevin knows I haven't been paid and he doesn't give a f---. And people are threatening me…to try to keep me quiet. I've been told what will happen to me if I go through with a lawsuit. Nobody gets really specific. 'You better be careful… If you go through with this, you better disappear. Because he will come after you. He will send people after you.

"Even Kevin Beech told me on the phone that Dan Beck had stolen footage that belonged to him [Kevin Beech] and that he'd [Kevin] sent somebody to find his address. Actually, Dan did not have all the model releases for that movie.

[Luke hears that supposedly, people came after Dan, and Dan filed attempted murder charges on Kevin. Dan Beck supposedly went back to New York.]

"Jack and Bruce at Legend Video have been paying for my medical expenses…

"Nobody wants to take responsibility for any of this.

"Director Cash Markman had the audacity to cal l me at work. He can't call me on my home number when I had given it to him, and told him, 'I do not take calls at work. Please do not call me here.' What was his reasoning for calling me? Nobody called me when I was sick. Nobody called me when I was in tears when I tested positive."

Director Cash Markman replies: "I saw the Brooke Ashley interview. You're just getting one side… Brooke has made no effort to contact me. I only had one number for her and that was at Legend, and she refused to talk to me. The other number she gave me was Steve Austin's number. She's playing a game.

"I understand her upset. What she's going through is terrible and my heart goes out to her, but that does not excuse her behavior, laying the blame on people who were not responsible. I was not the producer on that show. I did not hire her. I did not pay her. I did not inspect the [HIV] tests. I was only a hired gun, like her, except that I got paid a lot less money. I was not the director on that project. I was not supposed to get the director's credit. I was only a member of the crew. I headed the technical team with the three cameras. I'm getting a bum rap. If she should be mad at anybody, it should be Dan Beck, the guy who hired her, and Marc Wallice... The guy who inspected the paperwork, or did not inspect the paperwork…

"I called her because I wanted to express my regret to her and to help her to get additional money. She said she was owed additional money.

"Brooke has her wires crossed. Our hearts go out to her, as they would to anybody in this situation. She's completely wrong in all the things she's saying to you. Kevin Beecham did not finance this project. He bought it after it was shot and edited and shown to him. Yes, I am their in-house director but I direct for other companies as well and they use other directors than me."

Brooke Ashley continues:

"He [Marc Wallice] was on Tricia Devereaux's list. PAW told me that everybody DNA'd out. [That everybody who'd worked with Tricia had tested HIV negative on PCR/DNA HIV tests.] I don't know how many people did. Or how seriously they took that.

"I don't see how Marc could've done this entirely on his own. I don't understand how the guy didn't break down and cry. Didn't feel bad. But when you read the September HEVG interview with him. Do you understand the way the guy thinks? His way of thinking? I'm sorry, but I don't look at this guy as a normal human being."

Sharon Mitchell told the 7/98 AVN: "After an explosion of rumors on the Internet that Marc Wallice had knowledge that he had HIV for several years, and that he had been on everyone's list, I looked back, and I found that indeed I had made an exception in Marc's case, which was an error on my part, which is something I'll never do again.

"I distinctly remember telling Marc several times to get tested for the Trish Devereaux thing. Her list actually went from 65 people down to none. I had pretty much everyone else's test except for two people that slipped through at that time, one of which I doggedly pursued and found. She and Marc were the two that slipped through. Marc told me, 'Yeah, I'm getting tested,' and every time I would see him at Jim South's, I'd say, 'By the way, you haven't come in [to be tested]. Are you going elsewhere?' And he'd say, 'Yeah, I go to another clinic for my tests.' I took that as answer, and I took it as gospel, and the better part of the staff in the office here did too. He's been around so long, he's been a friend of mine for so many years, I thought, 'well, the guy is working for himself; that's fine.'"

Wallice's May 6 Western Blot test revealed six positive bands and a viral load in excess of 100,000 indicating that he had probably been HIV positive for a year or so.

AVN: "Mitchell also noted that Wallice's Eliza tests - he had never had a PCR-DNA test prior to April 29 - all come from a clinic which she refused to name "on San Fernando Road in Burbank, California" which Wallice told her had been recommended to him by the late Cal Jammer. Mitchell's best information is that no other performer obtains tests from that clinic. An inspection o f the test carrying Wallice's name, dated March 30, 1998, lists his age as 49 [indicating the test is fraudulent]."

Brooke Ashley:

"In mid-February, I was taking care of a friend who was about to go into the hospital for brain surgery. When it was raining all the time. I got really sick. On the third week of February, I was scheduled to move into a new apartment.

"My parents thought I had pnuemonia or a stomach flu. I had hot and cold sweats. I thought I was just running a fever [in mid to late February Brooke felt sick].

"In March I did a movie for Private and a blowjob scene for Sodomania 23 for Elegant Angel. I shot once for Rodney Moore. No condom.

"My viral load was so load that I was not detectable except by DNA. My doctor is a specialist and he has never seen somebody have their first viral load be that low.

"I took a test at Norton on March 24, the day after I worked for Private. The test was supposed to be ready the next day but it wasn't. I came in every day that week looking for my result. I was supposed to work Friday, 3/28, for Michael Carpenter.

"I found out March 27… And all my doctors agreed that the infection had happened in early February. And they wanted to know if I had engaged in risky behavior. And I said to them, 'let me break it to you this way. I'm a porn star. I've been doing a big movie.'

Brooke remembers the Thursday night of March 27, 1998. "Around 7PM, I was stopping by Nordstroms when I got a voice mail page from Jim South. "Hi baby, this is Jim South, honey. This is very important. I need you to not work. Call me Monday. I called him from my car phone. Jim said: "Hi baby, this is Jim. How are you? I already felt weird by the way he was speaking to me. Honey, this is very important. I need you to not freak out. We got a call from Norton's Clinic today. They say they've been trying to contact you all week.

"That's bulls---. They had all the numbers on me. I'd been in there every day. If Jim can page me, they can page me. I didn't know this was how it worked. But when you're with one of these agents, the agent is told before you're told. I think the person has the right to know first.

"Jim said: 'Your test came back inconclusive. That it is probably a lab error and they are sending your blood back out for more testing… I need you to not work, don't smoke any pot, and call me on Monday. I go in on Monday.

"Norton did not notify me in any way. This is what pisses me off. What if I did not have my pager on? I was scheduled to work the next day. What if I had been f---ing my boyfriend without a condom. They don't give me back tests in my hand until Monday, March 30. I received the inconclusive test and Norton said that the Western Blot test confirmed that I'm HIV positive. Norton said they would double check that by doing a viral load, a PCR/DNA.

"I took a PCR/DNA HIV test in 1997. Back when they were not enforcing it as the industry standard.

"When people try to deny that it [Brooke's HIV infection] came from this business, I think the whole business is in denial. People don't want to look. If it didn't come from this business, from that movie, why don't they play the tapes [master tapes of the gangbang] and make lists?

"I had no access to those tapes. Nobody would give it up. I don't remember which day I did Marc Wallice [probably either the 4th or 11th of February, 1998]… We will have to go through the papers. There were too many guys. Usually I know who I worked with, and what date. For the first time, there was a large number of people.

"I did drink on the set [of the gangbang?]… But since the first of this year I've been a good good girl. There were only two months last year when I did anything that people could say was bad, and it wasn't putting needles in my arm… or heroin.

"I think pot is great. Even my doctors think so, so long as you don't abuse it. It is ten times better than drinking a bottle of alcohol.

"When this first happened [testing HIV positive], I was drinking cognac all day. I couldn't even watch TV without crying.

"I have a seven year old son who lives back home with my father. My dad teaches Sunday School. After I finally told my dad [about the HIV infection], he won't speak to me. My dad disowned me for several years, the first time when I was raped as a teenager. I was molested at seven years old. My family has not been there for me.

"My boyfriend left me three weeks ago when I decided to press ahead with the lawsuit. He works in the music industry and he was afraid of all the publicity… He's well known in the music industry. That has been harder for me than dealing with the HIV. I really love him. He was my support. He was there for me.

"On May 2nd, I worked as a P.A. [production assistant] for Kelly Holland [Vivid director Toni English]. My birthday was May 5th. And on my birthday, Marc Wallice called me, saying, 'I think we've got this thing figured out.' What does that mean?

"That's when I started looking at Marc oddly. The following week was when everybody started saying that they couldn't get a hold of Marc, and they didn't know what had happened to him. 'He's been calling you, why don't you speak to him, Brooke.' I felt bad. I don't want him to kill himself. I've seen Savannah, Cal Jammer, Jordan go… It gives you the chills. I wouldn't want to be responsible for anything like that…

"Marc was drinking a lot during May. People would say, 'you've been through this. You've drunk a lot. You've seen some not-so-good times. You know him better than many of us. Why don't you speak to him? The only other person he'll talk to is Tom Byron.'

"So I speak with him [Marc]. He says, 'nobody cares…blah, blah, blah… Nobody's there for me.' That his life is over. Then he said, 'I'm just going to kill myself.' I said, 'What did you say?' He said, 'ohmigod, I shouldn't have said that.'

"And I said, 'No, Marc, nothing is worth that. I'm sure that since you're being honest with people, that people will be there for you. You've been around a long time. Nobody is just going to push you under the rug. He was, "no, no, no…" Then I said to him, 'A lot of people have been saying that you knew that you had this, Marc. You didn't have this, did you Marc?' And there was a long silence. And he hung up.

"This is what Patrick Collins [owner of Elegant Angel] said. Pat said that he had a similar conversation with Marc [an Elegant Angel director] when he [Pat] called from Europe [around 4/25]. Pat said the conversation went like this. Pat is more outspoken than I am, and not as nice about it.

"Pat: "Some people on the internet say you have AIDS. I want everybody in this office to go get PCR/DNA tested. You don't have this, do you Marc?"

"And Patrick got the same thing I got - silence. And Marc hung up the phone. When Patrick got back to the United States, [4/29?] he told everybody in the office that they had to go get tested. They had to drag Marc up the stairs [into PAW]. He was in tears. He knew he had it [HIV].

"I think people have been covering up. Why are people trying to protect somebody that was destroying our industry and destroying our people, and making us look like f----ups? When I entered this business in December of 1991, I had not heard of this happening, aside from John Holmes. And everybody said he did heroin and had homosexual tendencies. I don't know. Unless I see it with my own eyes, I don't consider it truth.

"How could this guy not know that his own contract player [Marc Wallice] had full blown AIDS when he is in charge of his own contract player's test ever 30 days. When you hire somebody, you're in charge of all the people you have under contract, whether they be producers or performers… I find it odd that Marc was given exceptions… Joey Silvera etc, had to go to a recognized testing facility. Why not Marc?"

Luke: "I'd love to see these people under subpoena."

Brooke: "If some of these people could've let this happen, they probably don't fear God. They won't sweat court. A few of the people will, those that are guilty of something. They are not going to want something to come out."

Luke: "Let's see these people like Patrick Collins, Jim South, Marc Wallice answer these questions under oath. Didn't they suspect that something was funny about Marc's test?"

Brooke: "When it said "anonymous testing" at the top of the paper."

Luke: "A test from someplace where no one goes. Where the tests say that Marc is age 49."

Brooke: "Another test [of Marc's] says he is 29 [years of age]. That seems odd."

Luke: "Marc was convicted two years ago of faking his tests for a VCA shoot."

Brooke: "All the girls [on the shoot] voted, and chose to not work with Marc."

Luke: "He's been semi-blackballed from the industry for years. Many people have long been suspicious of him."

Brooke: "Why did the industry go with Elisa tests instead of Western Blot. W.B. picks it up. I got negative Elisa March 29[two days after Brooke tested positive with the W.B. test].

The only money that I received [at the beginning of Brooke's ordeal] is from Steve Hirsch [Vivid]. Ed Powers has helped me and a couple of people who do not want to be named.

"I've been so appalled by people saying that all the [HIV positive] girls were heroin addicts. Honey, Trish Devereaux used to work at Jerry's Deli in Woodland Hills. That's how my boyfriend and I met her. She was waitress. A girl who made it through pre-Med. That she experimented with drugs and had orgies… Come on. She did not do IV drugs.

"Marc worked with Tricia Devereaux 11/27/97, not long after I worked with him in July. But his viral load must've been increasing to about 100,000. Tricia tested shortly before CES. She didn't find out until after CES.

"I didn't take any work for three weeks after the gangbang. I needed to recuperate. I had enough money. They told me they were going to pay me the rest of the money when the boxcover was shot. I had already promoted this on FM97.1 radio.

"I've got a big law firm on the West side [of Los Angeles]. They have 100 employees… Jacobs, Jacobs & Rosenberg in Brentwood…

"My first attorney would not allow me to talk to the press. He was having me turn down $1200 photo shoots. I have to support myself. He wanted me to go on welfare until our case came to trial.

"I am from the sex industry. I am pro porn. But people should not be allowed to get away with this. Even my HIV specialist says that this [Marc's HIV infection] is an infection that took well over a year. He did not get this [high] viral load over night. There is no way without doing blood work on him [when Marc Wallice got infected] unless you do it legally.

"When Marc started intimating that he got HIV in February [1998] was when I came unglued. There is no way. Who are you kidding?

"Last Wednesday, I left Marc this message: 'You're a f---ing asshole. I can't believe you knew this and did this. You are a f---ing asshole. I thought you were my friend.'

"I watched that gangbang tape Thursday. On Saturday, July 4th at 7:30 AM, I got these messages from Marc Goldberg [Wallice]. I hung up on him the first time. These are the messages he leaves."

Luke hears Marc's voice. He sounds angry. Marc says: "Hey, pick up the phone. What's your f---ing problem? How dare you call me and talk like that on my answering machine? You've got something to say? You f---ing say it to me, you stupid bitch. What's your f---ing problem? Speak up. Pick up the f---ing phone you stupid whore."

Next message.

"Hey, what is your problem? What is your problem? Why do you call me and talk like that and you won't talk to me? Why did you call me and talk s--- like that? Then you won't speak to me. Tell me what the f--- is going on. What did you hear? What did somebody tell you to make you talk like that? Huh? Can't you pick up the phone and speak? What the f--- is the problem?"

Next message.

"I expect a call from you sometime today. It's 7:30 in the morning. Call me any time today and let me know what is going on."

Brooke: "I've known this guy since I was 18. I used to request him and Randy West and Joey Silvera. They were the only three guys I'd work with when I was 18. I've known him [Marc Wallice] over the years. We smoked pot together. Somebody that you know and have been open and honest with.. Go way back. You think that he might care about you… It isn't the case. He doesn't even feel bad. The guy is sick. That he would do it in our industry where it is going to come back to him, you think he isn't going to do it in clubs, and people on the street? He's crazy.

"And why was he allowed to go to a clinic that none of us were allowed to go to? He says that he started going there because Cal Jammer recommended it… Cal committed suicide. That sounds odd. And what is up with the agents having seals that emboss people's tests? What gives them the right. A medical facility is supposed to do that. They can use that on faxed paper? They can't use it on other things. That needs to be investigated.

"Marc worked for Vivid in December. I did a movie called Kobe Tai. He f---ed a girl unprotectedly. It was a masquerade party where everyone had masks on. The movie has been playing on Playboy. It won't be released on video till September. So when he talks about disappearing for months… He's been working.

"In the [HEVG] article, it sounded like he was in a half-way house… I figured that he had gotten another drunk driving [arrest]… Because he's had a lot of problems with that.

"I have never claimed to be a saint, but I am honest with people. But I have never forged a test. When you f--- with someone else's life… Why can't you be honest and have your blood drawn? There is no reason to not take a test.

"Because we were using Elizas, anybody [HIV positive] could've come in this industry, and taken a cocktail [of anti-viral drugs] and gotten a negative test. I could do it now. My viral load is now undetectable again. After being on medicine for three weeks, my viral load is 553. I would test "not detected."

[Brooke's initial viral load was 5970 with only two positive bands, meaning that the infection was caught early, within a month of infection. Tricia's viral load, from her 1/98 test, was about 8000.

[Sharon Mitchell says that Marc Wallice was on the geneology list of everyone in the industry over the past few years who has tested HIV positive - Barbara Doll, Nena Cherry, Tricia Devereaux, Brooke Ashley, Caroline and Kimberly Jade.]

"My HIV specialist Jefferey Galpin has been an infectious diseases specialist for over 20 years. He's nationally recognized in national HIV magazines and newsletters…

"I have some of Marc's forged tests that are with my attorneys. Those records for the movie [anal gangbang] are public record. They have to be able to show those to everybody. They will show that those other people didn't have it…and that his test was no good. It even said on one of his test results, 'anonymous testing.' Doesn't that tell you something? Anybody could've gone into the clinic and had their blood taken, and claimed to be Marc. They could've had their blood taken and slapped down Marc's ID.

"My attorneys felt that it [Marc's previous HIV negative tests] were cut or altered from the black line down. They say there is no way of telling that this was even his blood [that was tested].

"I can't believe that the other girls [who tested HIV positive] don't come forth. They are like me when I was younger. You just trust people. You give them the benefit of the doubt. But people don't want to take any responsibility for this. This should never have happened, and if I have anything to do with it, no performer will ever do this again in our industry. It's insane.

"I went to work for Patrick Collins for one week as a receptionist. Everybody kisses his ass. I am a real person. If I have a problem, I say it. But everyone else kisses his ass and talks s--- about each other. There's been this dark cloud hanging over Elegant for so long. I don't want my name with it. Patrick even offered me a safe sex video series. Brooke Ashley's HIV positive line. I'm nobody's poster girl.

"Even when I first found out that Marc was positive, I thought he was a victim. It didn't dawn on me. But my best friend said, 'Brooke, you don't get it, do you?' I just got chills. They said, 'The girls did not just get this on their own, and everybody come down like dominos this year.'

"Even my doctor said that it was easier for people to get this once his viral load got so high. That makes you more contagious because you have more copies of the virus in the blood.

"I worked with Marc twice last year for Metro… July 18, 1997. Fortune Nookie and Thai Me Up. I did a DP with Julian and Marc. I was allowed to use condoms for the anal. I chose to have Julian do me in the ass and Marc take the bottom. After you've done anal for so long, it's not that exciting for me.

"Marc told me that he had his life together… That he no longer smoked pot. [7/97] He had been going to meetings. He didn't drink or do drugs. He was living a different life. I thought that was great, after years of being drunk and all the stuff he did… I just can't believed what happened.

"I have not been in front of the camera since I tested positive [3/27/98]. I either shoot camera or PA. I would like to do bondage and light fetish but I don't know if it would be a good thing with all of this going on now…to mix violence in with it. The public isn't going to see it the way we do. We know more about sex than most people. Most people who are not open about their sexuality, who are closet perverts, are the people who molest kids.

"If you would've asked me this [testing HIV +] at age 18, I would've said that I'd commit suicide…

"You should see Marc Wallice in the World's Biggest Anal Gangbang movie... His dick looks pale…diseased...

"They edited the movie…but if you could only hear the master tapes... Me asking for a break, 'please give me 15 minutes…' They treated me like an animal. I was crying for a break…

"I've always been paid until now.

"I did an R-rated movie last year… I was ready to move on from this industry… This business is about fresh faces…

"Elegant Angel just released Tails of Perversity (April 18th) which features Marc f---ing all their Elegant Angel contract girls…

"What I found odd was that I heard that you've [Luke] been speaking about this [Marc Wallice as the likely source of contagion] on the internet for a long time, and a lot of us didn't even know about it. When two girls came down, they should've figured out that something was up. They should've either stopped productions or used condoms. I love watching hardcore sex, but if it is going to be putting someone's life at risk, it is not worth it.

"I've had people from straight magazines, newspapers, even MTV calling me… It was reported in Newsweek…

"This industry has never been about hurting people, but the public is not going to see that unless we deal with what happened. If we just ignore it, it could happen again. We've got to stop people from thinking that they can do this [fake HIV tests]. Once you become infected, you're permanently changed. Part of you feels dead emotionally. You're sad.

"I love porn. I am pro-industry. I've spent too many years in this industry… [Brooke verges on tears.] This is my family. My own [biological] family rejects me. These people are the ones I spend Christmases with and holidays. But when this happened, people that I've known for years, freaked out. I don't hear from them anymore. Now, slowly, more people are starting to call me, and speak to me…

"One of my best friends was scheduled to do an unprotected anal sex scene with Marc for Vivid in the first week of May. That shoot was cancelled. He came so close to so many people. The guy would not stop. I don't care who you are, you have no right… People have done a lot of [jail] time for that [having sex while HIV positive without informing the partner].

"I have three witnesses to Sharon Mitchell telling people that I was a heroin junkie… She called me up saying, 'you love the attention you're getting, don't you?'"

A reporter writes:

"This has got to be the best interview I have read on here. The detail. The color. No industry fluff. Addressing the Marc Wallace "what did he know and when did he know it" head on from a victim and a second source. Love the bit about Trish Deveraux's doctor being a fan. The fact that her lethal gang bang was televised on Exstacy gives this such a modern spin. Almost sci-fi. I got to admit that the only place I seem to be able to read this honest down and dirty perspective is here on RAME."

defghijklmno@webtv.net (David Williams) writes on RAME:

On 05/05, when the news was breaking about Wallice having AIDS, and knowingly hiding it in order to continue working, I posted stating that what he had done was akin to attempted murder. I see by other threads being posted now that others agree.

I also stated that though I was [am] sorry about his condition, my thoughts toward him were of contempt--my sympathies are with those individuals whom he knowingly subjected HIV to, Brooke Ashley being one of them.

After reading this interview, it has fortified my original position more than ever. I can't even begin to express my sympathies for Brooke Ashley, though pity is not what I think she is seeking. Certainly she has every right in the world to be bitter and seek retribution from those responsible. Though I was lukewarm towards her as a performer, I have nothing but respect for Brooke Ashley the person for the courage and fortitude she is displaying in what is to be the biggest battle of her life.

It is truly a shame that she has to go through this fight alone--the fact that she has been desserted by friends, family and the industry when she needs them most is revolting.

I wish her the best of luck with both her health and her legal situation; if I were a religious man I would pray for her.

Wallice should be held criminally culpable for his actions, as well as his enablers for their gross indifference and negligence in permitting it to happen.

Hang in there and keep plugging away Brooke! You have at least one person in your corner!

7/10/98, Friday. 4:30 PM. Brooke Ashley calls Luke F-rd to say:

"As of yesterday, I have a new boyfriend, B.W. He is not in the business. Though he knows a lot of industry girls.

"My new attorney (Jacobs, Jacobs and Rosenberg in Brentwood) allows me to shoot photo spreads… On Tuesday, MTV comes into town. On Wednesday, we're shooting an interview…

"Especially girls in the industry are starting to call me again… A lot of people are scared of AIDS. Though I don't even have AIDS.

"The industry at first tried to portray me as a heroin addict and street hooker. It's not true. I have never injected heroin in my life.

"Three people told me that they had asked Sharon Mitchell for the black list for Brooke Ashley and she told them that there was no black list [because supposedly Sharon was sure that Brooke caught HIV from outside the business]. Sharon said: 'Brooke has admitted to me that she did heroin, and that she used to black out in places… And she doesn't remember what happened.' That's what Sharon was telling people about me.

"People at first were in denial. Nobody wanted to believe that this was happening in our industry. People were choosing to close their eyes and look the other way. But we [the HIV positive porn girls] knew that it was happening and that it wasn't a joke. We knew what we were doing personally, so we knew where we got it [the industry]. We didn't know exactly where we got it at that point, but we did know that it was from the business."

Luke: "Have you had more contact with Marc Wallice?"

Brooke: "No. I hope like hell he doesn't call me. I've had it with him."

Saturday 8 PM 7/11/98:

Brooke: "I just got a call from director Frank Thring, which was nice…

"It used to be that the worst thing you had to worry about was STDs. But then you just had to go to the doctor, and have it checked out. A girlfriend of mine is a contract girl. You don't know how many times that girl has gotten either gonorrhea or clamydia. Now, when the doctor prescribes her, he can't give her the normal shot…because she has built up an immunity to it.

"If you want to have kids later in life, you don't want to keep getting these STDs… Antibiotics tear down your immune system.

"I'm all natural. 36B-24-36. I plan to get them [breast implants] next year. My dance agent [Charlie Frey] wants me to do it. I've known Charlie since I was 19. Frey was dating Jamie Summers. He had just gotten her boobs done.

"Companies, numerous times, have offered to pay for them [implants]. One company in particular wanted to blow up my tits to the size of Cleveland. But that would not look right on me. I could go to a small D.

"I've broken the news [of Brooke's HIV positive status] to all my family. I don't know to what extent my son knows. He knows that I am sick… You have to be careful. Young minds are very impressionable. I don't want to scare him."

Luke: "I wonder how much Jim South knew [about Marc's HIV status]?"

Brooke: "I don't know. I will no longer book my work through him. Magazines that want me to do layouts. But no longer do I consider him my agent. He didn't do anything to help me through any of this. He fired Steve Austin. Jim could've hired me to answer the phones. I've been loyal to him for years.

"They tried to push the girls that happened [tested HIV positive] last year under the rug… I hadn't even heard of some of the girls [who tested HIV positive]…

"I remember Sharon Mitchell saying that Tricia Devereaux did not get it from the business. Many of the people who said that she did heroin [with needles], they've now [in the light of the revelations about Marc Wallice] retracted. I've never known her to do any IV drugs. She has admitted doing ecstasy…

"…Almost every performer has gone through a fling with drugs, but there's a big difference between something you put in your mouth and something you shoot in your arm. No one has ever seen needle marks in my arm.

"When I was younger, when someone would say, 'If you do a line of this through your nose, you'll feel good… You'll lose weight…' My head was not together.

"Tricia Devereaux is home in the Mid-West with her mother and family. She works in a medical office. Tricia misses the business.

"I feel great, spiritually and physically.

"Lots of my fans wrote in to me, saying they had heard different things on internet newsgroups. That spurred my interest in the internet.

"My girlfriend got arrested in Las Vegas in 1993 for doing what he said was ok to do… I have never thought greatly of Bill Margold. And for him to say all along that he was going to help me with my expenses… Bring in a copy of my bills. Bring in a copy of my lease. I never demanded this. Free Speech offered. Then, when I did all this [brought in my bills], when Bill said it had to go in front of a committee, I knew he was full of it…

"I received money from Steve Hirsch, which allowed me to not rely on PAW.

"Tricia says that they took care of her bills for one month. $1200. She had all her stuff in a U-Haul, on the day that she was leaving… And Bill Margold threw a fit, and wrote her a check for $1200.

I am outspoken. That's the thing [why Brooke received less help]."

I hear that Brooke Ashley has yet to sign with the Brentwood law firm Jacobs, Jacobs… she's talked about. They say they do not yet represent her.

I called Kevin Beech, the company that distributes her gangbang videos, this morning. The secretary asked what my call was regarding. I said, "Brooke Ashley and her gang bang." The secretary replied, "you know that we bought that from someone else." KBeech seem eager to distance themselves from the disastrous event.

Kevin Beech told Luke F-rd over the phone on Thursday afternoon, 7/23/98:

"Dan Beck ripped us off. Brooke says she did not get paid. She was supposed to have earned $7500 for the gangbang and $2500 for promoting the video. She says she did not get the $2500. That's supposed to be in her contract with Beck. It wasn't my shoot. I don't know…

"Dan Beck ripped us off. I tracked him down in New York. He tells me that because she did not do the promotion for the videos, she does not get the $2500. I don't know.

"Over a month ago, Brooke was crying about this to me. I said I would try to do anything I could. Now I find out that she's been badmouthing Midnight Video and us, as though we ripped her off. I called her up [a month ago]. She couldn't have apologized more. 'I'm so sorry. I talked to Mark Snyder at Sin City. Everybody says good things about you and it wasn't you.' I said, 'I already told you all that. We didn't shoot the movie, Dan Beck did. It isn't even our type of movie to put out.'

"To be honest, I don't know why I bought it. I didn't even watch it before I bought it [$35,000]. It's a piece of s---. It's terrible. We've sold about 3500 copies of The World's Biggest Anal Gangbang and about 1500 copies each of Fluffer Whores 1 & 2.

"We only made a deal for the gangbang after they finished shooting it [mid February, 1998]. They wanted $40,000. I blew them off. See, Cash Markman shoots our movies. Cash tells us it was good. Cash bought Dan Beck in here and we bought it off him for $35,000 and cut three movies out of it.

"Cash mainly shoots for Playboy. Our Erotic Angel line is mainly for Playboy. Midnight Video is harder core. Then we have Dreamland Video. Kbeech Video Inc is our distribution company. I have a telemarketer who sells to all the video stores direct.

"The market's so flooded today it's hard to sell anything. I just got off the phone with Steve Hirsch at Vivid. They're begging us to do business with them. All these new companies are hurting everyone. We won't buy from no knew companies.

"The gangbang was produced by HCTV. We thought Dan Beck owned HCTV. Dan Beck came in here and told us that his grandmother was dying. This guy was good. We had one last movie we were buying off him, The Mating Game 2. 'Could you pay me the ten grand right now?' I said, 'we don't have that type of money to pay you right now.'

"Dan: 'Give me something.' So I give him five grand. He goes into my office and tells my girl and my General Manager to make the check out to him. We didn't think nothing. We usually wrote the checks to HCTV.

"This Robert DuPree phones. 'You guys wrote a f---ing check to Dan Beck when it was supposed to be HCTV…' He tells me the whole story. He seems like the nicest guy on the phone. I don't like people getting ripped off. Come on down. I'll get Dan here at the same time.

"I thought I was Judge Wopner. I had them both sitting in front of me. He's crying this story. He's crying that story. They're both going back and forth. Then Ron Jeremy and five grand worth of people who didn't get paid, call us… We paid Ron. He couldn't thank me enough for the measly $400 [for editing work]. So we paid every body that didn't get nothing.

"Robert DuPree is out $25,000 to Dan Beck… Dan just worked for Robert. He'd take checks. Robert would tell him to write a check out to somebody and Dan would write it out to himself. Now Dan's selling sail boats in New York.

"I made these Johnathan Morgan dating game movies… Dan Beck took my movies, chopped them up, and sold them to Michael Esposito. We just caught Michael at it.

"We sent some guys to kick Dan Beck's ass. He called the f---ing police, the Hollywood organized crime unit on me. Attempted murder. But they can't prove nothing. The organized crime unit said that if anything happened to Dan, they'd come after me… But they can't prove nothing.

"I only have two contract girls (Farrah and Angelica Sinn) right now. We took back Farrah, who has drug problems. She was my girlfriend two years ago but I haven't f---ed her in two years… We're trying to get her straightened out…

"Chuck Martino is a good friend of mine. He's off the drugs and has gone straight. He's got a cute little girlfriend Shay Sweet. He looks great.

"Everything's fine with me [since Kevin's car accident a few months ago] except for my left arm. I have no range of motion so my fighting days are over. I used to box, wrestle, and street fight for money all the time. I've been in adult for 16 years.

"Who knows who infected her. I've said this before. If there was anybody in this biz who I thought would've got AIDS, it would've been her. It's not that I don't like her. I don't even know her that good. The chick hooked on the side all the time. The LAWEEKLY called me, and this guy is up on porn, and he had never even heard of her before. And I said, 'that's because she's a B actress.' Nobody used her for any main movies. All she did is the raunchy s---.

"I feel sorry for the girl. Even though I shouldn't. It's got nothing to do with me. We called her up [a month ago]. We told her that for every movie Legend sells [of the gangbang], we'll give you a buck for every movie. Just to help you out. So I'm surprised that she's badmouthing me again."

I talked to Brooke Ashley Saturday night, 7/25. She seems confused. She's feeling herself tugged back into the adult industry while she also harbors resentment against it for its sloppy handling of HIV infection.

Ashley is still talking to different lawyers. She is not yet sure about whether she wants to press ahead with a lawsuit.

She's annoyed at receiving phone phone calls from Marc Wallice and other harassment from other sources.

She's angry with comments made by Kevin Beech to Luke F-rd.

Brooke seeks grounded reliable people but some folks in her life seem flakey.

Ashley exemplifies ambivalence.

I talked to Cash Markman from 3-4PM, Tuesday afternoon, 7/28/98. "Kevin Beecham had nothing to do with it [The World's Biggest Anal Gangbang]. He didn't even know this movie was being shot. It was brought to him after it had been shot and edited. It was offered to him and several other companies.

"If I had not been involved in it, he may not have looked at it because we do have a relationship. Brooke's talking as if it was Kevin's idea to make it, and he should take care of her…

"I was directing for Dan Beck's company Hardcore TV {HCTV]. He was partners with Robert [Dupree]. We did shows called Ecstasy Girls Live and The Mating Game. We did that live every other week. Brooke was one of the guests… It was done live with three cameras from a broadcast studio. No one had ever done this before - live boy-girl sex scenes going out on this satellite channel. It was like David Letterman with sex. The Mating Game was like The Dating Game or Love Connection with sex, except the date would happen in front of the cameras.

"The producer was this monster named Dan Beck, who was new to this business. He had just come into town and I was one of the first people he ran into. We met in late September. I've done live TV in the past. He always treated me nicely but he was amazingly rude to everybody. He was from New York, an amazingly obnoxious, foul individual who believes that actors and crew are cattle to be mistreated. I'd plead with him constantly to be nice to people, and he'd say, 'Why?' And I'd say, 'if for no other reason than that word is going to get round that you're an asshole and nobody is going to want to work for you. And his response was, 'as long as I'm offering money, they will work for me.' Not that he was offering very good money. He'd lowball people to the max.

"People were always telling me that they were coming out because I was there. They told me, 'we heard bad things about Dan, but because we heard that you were doing it…' I'd try to touch bases with everybody before the shoot, and tell them: "It's a fun show but everything you've heard [about Dan Beck] is true.'

"It was difficult for me to say that because I don't like talking down people I've worked for.

"We did these live shows from October 1997 to February, 1998 when I quit. Around the end of the year, Dan decides that he wants to do this all-anal gangbang movie. I said, 'Dan, I don't do gonzo. I don't think it is a good idea to do this because Tricia Devereaux has just turned up [HIV] positive… I think the timing is bad…' He said: 'That's exactly why it is good timing.' He said that the guys that he respected in this business were Al Borda and John T. Bone, because they broke the rules. They were controversial. They weren't afraid to slam doors shut and hurt people's feelings.

"I kept saying, nobody is going to want to do business with you, and his response was - 'people do business with Al Borda, don't they?' He felt that he could behave like them and do well.

I turned the job down. I do story-driven couples movies. And he reminded me that I was his contract director for his live shows, and if I wanted to keep that job, I needed to come out and do the anal gangbang. So I agreed.

"He assured me that the show would direct itself. Dan said: 'I'll be there. I'll direct it. I'll be line-producing. All you've got to do is get me my cameraman and set up the technical end. Set this up like we did the live show. I'll line the guys up. I'll send one in to you every ten minutes. We'll have two fluffers.

"I started calling cameramen. Half the guys I called didn't want to do it. I found people who needed the money. We shot the thing at Gourmet. It was tough finding the talent because Dan was only paying the guys $150 each.

"Brooke was Dan's third choice. He already had other scheduled who backed out in money disputes. He called me up and asked, 'what do you think of Brooke Ashley?' I said, 'I like Brooke a lot. I've put her in at least a half dozen movies.'

"Brooke had done a lot of gonzo. Every time I'd go in the edit bays I'd see Brooke in a Jim Lane [Powers] gonzo, usually doing anal, usually unprotected.

"Dan had Brooke come on the live show and promote it.

"We shot in front of a crowd. Some guys came out from one of the local ball teams and watched. Then you had all the people in line who were doing her. That's why you hear so much chatter…

"She had agreed to do 50 guys and she only did 40. So she came on one of our live Ecstasy channel shows and did three guys live on the show to fulfill her contract with Dan. According to him, she was also supposed to do some promotion, which never worked out. I think Dan left town owing her money [about $2500, or 1/4 of her total payment].

"I resigned from the live show in late February. I couldn't stand the guy [Dan Beck]. I called his partner [Robert Dupree] to say, 'you need to come up to see what is going on.' Ecstasy came out and pulled the plug on the whole thing.

"Dan called me shortly after the news that Brooke was positive. Dan wanted me to do a bunch of new stuff and I said no.

"So, nobody twisted Brooke's arm to do the gangbang. She got a good chunk of change for little more than a day's work. We shot most of it in one day.

"I don't believe that Marc Wallice wore a condom… Because I remember her asking that some of the guys wear condoms, but she did not ask that of Marc. There were some other guys that she said she did not want to work with. So I pulled them aside and sent them home. That's the way I've always done my shoots. I've never made anyone work with anyone they did not want to work with. I've never made anybody do anything that they did not want to do. And I've never kept anyone from wearing a condom, if they wanted to wear a condom.

"So she had a lot of say in what was going on. And the guy she was working for was Dan Beck, not me. I was just an employee. Apparently she is not remembering things correctly, or reporting them correctly. Talk to anybody on that set and they will tell you that Dan was calling the shots. One camera was supposed to shoot hard, and one soft, and one general coverage.

"We had them send in a new guy every ten minutes. We stopped for a break whenever she wanted, which was about every 30 minutes."

Luke: "She says that there were times she was screaming out for a break, and nobody would give her a break."

Cash: "That's not true. We constantly asked her if she was ok. I would check out the positions in advance with her. I'd ask her what positions she wanted to do. Whenever she wanted a break, we gave her a break. When she wanted water, we gave her water. Whenever she wanted a towel, we got her a towel. Lube…lube. So, she's going to remember it the way she wants to… Maybe she's trying to play the victim and make it sound like the big bad porn industry gave her AIDS. Or maybe this is the way she's choosing to remember it, because she's having difficulty dealing with what she did, and its result. When you do that kind of movie, you're sticking your neck out. And you can't blame anybody for what it is - a business deal between her and Dan Beck. Two girls had already turned up HIV positive [Tricia Devereaux, Jordan McKnight, Nena Cherry?]. She must've known the risk. I knew the risk. That's why I told Dan to reconsider doing this kind of movie. Doing any unprotected anal sex is risky. Doing 40 guys is a big chance… Maybe she wanted all of them to wear rubbers and she didn't feel comfortable asking Dan Beck?

"I think there was one time when she was getting sore and wanted to stop. And I asked her if she could do one more guy, then we could take a break. We had trouble getting wood, and this guy had wood. He had to leave.

"I've never been a slave driver with any of my talent. You've been on my shoots. You know how I am. [True] I'm gentle with these people. It's a tough job. They deserve to get paid and to be treated well. Not all directors feel that way.

"About two years ago, for a show called Nineteen and Naughty 3, I called off an anal. This girl had never worked with Jake Steed before. She was really tight and he was really big. He started to do it and she started to cry because it hurt her so much. I took aside and told her, 'forget it. We're just going to do this as vaginal.' At this point I had already shot the other four scenes for the movie. So by not having her do an anal, I'm sticking my neck on the chopping block for the company [Midnight] I worked for, because they wanted an anal scene in that movie. Most companies want at least one anal scene. She said, 'I want to do it, because I need the money.' So I said, 'I'll pay you for the anal, but you'll only have to do the vaginal.'

"I'm not going to sit there and watch somebody get their butt ripped open, bleeding, and go to the hospital because they want to make an extra $200."

Luke: "What was the atmosphere like on the anal gangbang?"

Cash: "It was terrible, the worst shoot I've been on in my life. I got a horrible headache, which I've never had happen before. I had to send one of the P.A.s out to get me Excedrin. I almost walked off, which I've never done before.

"Halfway through the first day, I walked outside and smoked a cigarette, and popped some aspirin. I paced around and made a decision whether I'd stay. I decided to stay only because there were people there that I had contacted to work (cameramen, P.A.s), and I didn't want to leave them to the mercy of Dan Beck. And second, I didn't want to get a reputation for having walked off a shoot.

"Dan was so abusive that I couldn't stand watching it. I finally walked back on and threw him off the set. He'd come on the set and start screaming at everybody. It was his way of being - a hyper New York mentality. Guys would immediately lose their wood.

"I had set up the cameras and he kept changing them around, which made them a nightmare to edit. One camera doing hard, one soft and one coverage. He'd come on and see an angle that he wanted to get, and he'd start screaming at the cameraman to get this other angle, which screwed up the formula of how we were shooting. The editor quit. The footage was a mess. A tape labeled hard, halfway through, suddenly switched to soft. A tape labeled soft, suddenly switched to hard. It was a nightmare for the editor to put together 15 hours worth of footage from these different cameras. So I told Dan, either you get off this set or I'm leaving. I will not sit here and fight with you. We all acknowledge it's your show… So he left the set for 30 minutes and we got a lot accomplished. Then he came back on and started screaming again. I was too exhausted at that point to fight him.

"Dan even made Brooke cry at one point. She was lying down in another room. And Dan walked on to the set and started saying some off-color remarks in his big booming voice. We gestured to him to shut up, but he didn't get it. Suddenly Brooke screams out that he's a f---er. And she starts crying. And we look at Dan like 'you are just the biggest jerk who ever lived.'

"The cameraman and I walked into her room to see if she was ok. We said: 'Brooke, Dan's an asshole. He talks about everybody like that. He's not singling you out. Don't take it personally.' It was a horrible, degrading experience. It was a turn-off for the guys to have to watch five other guys standing in line jerking off. Each one steps up to her for ten minutes and you can tell that she's not enjoying it. It stunk. It was a bad experience for everybody. The only person who seemed to be getting off on it was Dan Beck who walked around counting the money he was going to make.

"I gave the editor a lot of input as to how I thought it should look. Dan told me to not write a script. We're just going to have all the guys line up and have two fluff girls keep them hard. There's nothing erotic or interesting about that. It's the crudest gangbang you can imagine. So I told the editor - 'You've got 15 hours of footage. Shake it up. Get artsy. Do it MTV style. It's one room. Visually it's going to be boring. Cut back and forth from the different angles. Go back and forth from color to black and white, from film look to video look. Use many extreme close-ups and don't go more than several seconds without doing a cut until you come to the actual hardcore and you can leave the camera on for a bit.

"I watched it. I think the first ten minutes are interesting to watch. The music is good. The editing is like watching a music video. Lots of cutting and dissolving. But after 10-15 minutes…let's change the channel. How long can your attention be held by one girl doing 50 guys? We had her doing a couple of guys at once. She'd give someone head while someone else f---ed her. She wasn't in the mood to let a lot of guys get on her at once. Besides, we had a lot of wood problems. The guys weren't turned on. When it is apparent to the guy that the girl does not want to be there, and you have the maniac [Dan Beck] screaming constantly, it's hard to keep wood. We had planned to have five guys on her at once. She'd be sucking one guy, jerking off two, taking one in the ass and another in the pussy… But we couldn't get five guys to get an erection at the same time.

"So, under the circumstances, it's not a bad job. I can't take a lot of credit for it. There's no script. It was Dan Beck's idea. I was not supposed to get a credit on it. Cash Markman is the name I use for cable. Bill Dollars I use for cheaper stuff. Yet my name is up there as director, because when Dan finished the movie and went to go sell it, the only way he was going to sell it was to stick my name up there. People know who I am. I have reputations with some companies. Nobody knew who Dan Beck was. Nobody wanted to know. The only way he could get them to look at the movie was to say that I directed it.

"He began to call companies that I worked for, including KBeech. Dan got Kevin on the phone: "I've got this 50 guy on one girl anal gangbang movie with Brooke Ashley. It's never been done before. Cash directed it. I think you should look at it. You can get three movies out of it. Elegant Angel and Patrick Collins are interested in buying it.' With that pitch, Kevin said 'come on in.' He looked at the movie. He bought the movie. A short while later, Dan is gone. I find out that there are a bunch of people that he owes money to. Some talent and crew. I called everybody I could think of, to get word out there… If HCTV owes you money, I'll try to get you paid through KBeech.

"Kbeech paid these guys because Kbeech still owed HCTV a final payment. Nobody had heard from Brooke at that point. Her home phone number was disconnected. Dan Beck and Robert [Dupree] were partners at HCTV. Robert put up the money and Dan put the deals together. What gave Dan his edge was that he had met these guys who run Ecstasy Channel, and he'd suggested to them to do a live sex show. They liked the idea.

"Robert put up the money to do the show. Then he needed a director and a video company to release it, because Ecstasy was only putting up half the money. He contacted a couple of directors and the first two shows were disasters. Ecstasy said 'if you can't get the third one right, we'll pull the plug.' So I came in.

"I really enjoyed the live show. It was a great adrenalin rush. I wish that I had not done the anal show. I don't think Dan would've fired me. I wish that I would've stood firm in my beliefs. I feel bad that I was even there.

"Kbeech released the first 12 episodes of the live show on video… The Mating Game and Ecstasy Girls Live which was retitled for video Latenight Sex With Johnathan Morgan.

"I asked Dan to not take the gangbang into Kevin Beech, because Dan wanted a lot of money. I feared that it would drain Kbeech [$35,000] and they wouldn't be able to do any movies for a couple of months. That is exactly what happened. I did not shoot for them in April, May or June."

Luke: "Brooke said there was something in her contract which said that no more than half of the guys in her gangbang could use condoms."

Cash: "That's probably true. That sounds reasonable. I wouldn't know. I never saw the contracts."

Luke: "What about checking the HIV tests? Were PCR DNAs required?"

Cash: "This was a transitional time. DNAs were not required. News had just come out about Tricia Devereaux [November, December]… Dan was the producer. It was his job to check the paperwork [AIDS tests]. I did not see a single HIV test. A couple of people started to hand me their AIDS test, and I directed them towards Dan. 'He's the producer. He's the guy who's paying you. He's the guy you give that too.'

"After the shoot was over, Randy Munee [aka Joe P. Straight] called me. He told me that Dan Beck is going to get himself in a lot of trouble. He's taking photocopies of these AIDS tests, instead of originals. That's my policy [originals]. That's what I always instruct Randy to do when he works for me. Randy says that he brought this to Dan's attention, and Dan said, 'don't worry about it.' And Marc Wallice was one of the guys on that shoot. And my guess is that Marc probably came with a photocopy of his test.

"Randy and Dan had a big falling out. Randy ended up hitting Dan. You won't find many people who have anything good to say about Dan. Brooke is in a situation where Dan's gone. So she's got to find somebody responsible who's not gone. So, it's me and Kevin Beecham. But that's not going to get her anything."

Cash began directing movies in December of 1995, and has 60 director credits under his belt. "I do about three movies a month. I do one a month for KBeech Releasing, depending upon how many [movies] they want to put out with their contract girls - Sadie Sexton, Tabitha Stevens [departed], Farrah and Angelica Sinn. I also direct a cable feature a month for New Sensations/Prime Video - owned by Scott Tiller, Eddie Martinez and Jerry Langdon. I also shoot for Nitro. They've been reorganizing and haven't shot anything for a while."

Over the past year, Markman feels particularly proud of two shows - Schwingin in the Rain (Nitro) and Palace of Sin. "Schwingin in the Rain was a musical which was up for nine awards at the last AVN show. Everybody in the movie sings and dances. Like Singin' In The Rain, the first talkie, this one is about the first adult talkie. They're trying to figure out where to put the microphone. They put it under the bed and all they can hear is the squeaking of the mattress. Brittany Andrews was wonderful as the movie queen with the terrible voice.

"In June I shot Palace of Sin at the Palace theater in downtown LA on Broadway. That was built in 1913. An old movie palace with double balconies, one over the other. Nobody had ever shot there before. I did something like Cinema Paradisio. It spans 20 years. It's about the life of this old movie palace that becomes an adult movie theater and the projectionist who worked there for 20 years and all the things that he sees. Not only in the movies, and how the business changes, but in the people who come into the theater."

Brooke Ashley Part Two