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Wednesday, September 23, 1998

I talked to Raven McCall by telephone this morning and she recounted a horrifying tale of being stalked and almost raped by a couple of porners. She's on the warpath against Jasmine St. Clair.

Porn actress Raven McCall feels annoyed with Jasmine St. Clair, the girlfriend of Earl Slate. Raven did five scenes for an upcoming video produced by Slate.

"It was that nasty message she left," says Raven, "and every time I pick up my messages, that message comes through. I've been out of this business for 18 months. I come back to help her boyfriend produce one movie and this is what I get… I don't know if she is mad because Tony [Earl Slate] and I were on the phone so much during that week of production."

We listen through Raven's saved messages but Raven can't find the one from Jasmine. It must've been erased.

"She said, 'you better put down that glass pipe.' She knows and everyone in the industry knows that I don't do drugs. It was a big insult.

"She was so cruel. 'I don't think that you could get a contract with anybody.' I'm in the best shape now I've been in my entire life. My whole body is real. Hers, she had to pay for.

"I started a pet sitting service [about a year ago] and I've started running an escort service where I send out other girls on call and collect a percentage. That's been doing well and getting me by.

Raven flew up to San Francisco Wednesday evening to make a porn video for Brandy Spear's new company Thursday. "She's been all over Howard Stern… I met her through Sharon Kane and John Keeler [Jane Waters] three years ago. Mark Spiegler wants to use me in a coming production."

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Raven, who's Jewish like Heidi Fleiss, entered porn in early 1996. "My friend Scott Weinstein's brother runs Bachus Films International. I had told him about a fantasy I had about being with a woman. He decided to fulfill this fantasy. He brought in this girl from Kentucky, Cynthia Hammers. He said, 'how would you like to make a $1000 free and clear for just playing around with her?' He said, 'don't worry. It'll only be on Sex Net. It's so low profile nobody will know.'

"The next day he asked me if I wanted to do a film for Bachus at the Bel Age Hotel. He said they'd pick me up in a limo. Give me my own make-up artist. Run a bar tab and a room service tab for me. It all sounded glamorous. We'll pay you $1000. I wound up doing three scenes with her. They paid me an extra $500. I had been busting my ass working as a production assistant in Las Vegas for Showtime.

"I cut out for a month but then I needed to pay some bills again. So I called Scott. He said that his brother needed to film again. I came down to Jim Lane's studio. They used me in a few scenes. I went home with $2000. After that I was hooked.

"I didn't know how to pursue consistent work. I went to Jim South's office, which was a big mistake. The only person who got me work was Scotty Baldwin [Schwartz]. And he was fired a week later.

"Jim liked me. He'd say, 'come on in. Sit on the couch. You'll find work.' I didn't get any work out of it. I just got hit on all the time. By Jim and others… I didn't know that he [Jim South] expected me to give him a blow job if I wanted to work… I didn't know anything. I never did. I talked to Montana Gunn. She introduced me to Rob Spallone who got me all kinds of work.

"After I met with Rob, I worked constantly. He never tried to f--- me… He made me lots of money. I'd do three scenes in one day.

"My favorite videos were the ones I did for Paul Thomas. I was his mistress for my first year in the business. He set me up with two nice scripts - Tattletails and The Censor.

"Paul is the most wonderful, sensual gorgeous attractive man. Great in bed. Generous. He took me out to the nicest places - wining, dining. He introduced me to some of the greatest people in the regular industry. He was always there to help me, like when my car got stuck out at Iverson Ranch when John Bowen tried to rape me. Paul used his AAA card to get my car out…

"It was my fourth month in the business [June '96]. Rob booked me to shoot for John. Rob felt so bad because the guy did not pay me for two months. John wrote me bad checks. Finally, Rob said, 'I'm going to beat your head in with a baseball bat if you don't pay me.' Rob went up and scared the living piss out of him and the next day I got paid. Even Reb got on the phone. Reb said, 'look, you're an illegal alien and so is your wife. We'll have you deported…'

"John had just moved into this place at Iverson. The bath got plugged up. It had no hot water. The shooting conditions were disgusting. He made sure that I was the last one to leave. He even told Rick Masters to leave. I was in the shower. He kept coming in the bathroom, saying, 'I need you to sign your paperwork right now.' He wouldn't let me put on any clothes. I came out in a towel and the next thing I know he's unzipping his pants and unleashing his cock and telling me to go down on me. He tried to force his cock into me. I told him, 'I came here to work for you. My work day is over. I'm not interested.'

"He became offended, said some nasty words to me and told me to get out.

"I've never done drugs. I have asthma and take enough asthma medicine so that if I ever tried coke or speed, which are popular in the business, I could cause myself cardiac arrest. I smoke pot. I have a medical prescription from my doctor for it."

Raven says she made about 300 videos before retiring in February 1997 after Nena Cherry and John Stagliano tested HIV positive. "Then Dave Hardman started taking the cocktail [anti AIDS medicine] because he had worked with Dawn [Nena Cherry] while she was on her period, and he was scared to death. Nobody knew if his test results were accurate because he was taking the cocktail.

"Then I had David Perry [JD Ram] breaking into my house and killing my dog. I had to have Jeffrey Douglas prosecute him. I've paid off half of the $2000 bill to get that guy [Perry] put in jail.

"He was trying so hard to get into the business. He came up to Ron Jeremy and I at the Rainbow, all innocent… 'Hey, I'm a new kid in town. How do I become a porno star?'

"Then he sat down at the table trying to get close to me… Then we went to a VCA meeting [in 1997?]. He hadn't even done sex movies. Just one bondage movie with Sharon Mitchell. He just kept watching me and looking at me. He followed me around. It was scary. He kept standing up and asking the most stupid questions. He made everybody pissed off. I asked my friends what to do and they said, 'ignore him. He's on drugs.' He used to be a major drug addict.

"By the time I went to this Bowlathon to raise money for PAW [Thanksgiving, 1997]… He had changed his hair color and cut it to this 90210 GQ cut and dyed it blonde. He wore a long sleeve dress shirt. He looked like a nice looking guy. If I had seen his tattoos, I would've known he was straight out of jail.

"The police thought that he had been stalking me for about six months.

"He's the laughing stock of the business. He killed my dog.

"When he was put in jail, he kept calling my house. At first it was so weird. He'd say, 'Raven I love you. Come bail me out. You need to bring $250 back to the jail. We'll work things out. It'll be ok." Like he was having a relationship with me. By mid-day, when he knew that I wasn't going to do that, his messages got mean. 'Raven, I'm going to kill you and your dog if you don't bail me out.'

"I went down to the police station and filed a report for harassing phone calls.

"The next day someone let my dog out of the back yard and he got run over. It seemed so premeditated, that someone was there ready with a car…

"After he was put in jail, he sent his buddies to harass me. They were drug addicts. They'd climb on top of my roof at three AM.

"He told the police that he'd had a relationship with me for two years. That's how long I'd been in the porno business. I guess he'd been watching my movies and had some kind of a fantasy about it.

"I decided to move. I disconnected all my phone numbers. I stopped contact with all people in the business."

Raven did five scenes for an Earl Slate video, including two with Earl, an anal with Claudio who took her first on-screen anal, and a scene with Claudio's wife. "I asked my boyfriend to do a scene with me but he couldn't get wood. I was blowing for two hours. I was blue in the face and my lips were puffy. I broke up with him. He still does my pet sitting when I go out of town for shoots. But he was an embarrassment on that shoot. We had to get into a fight over that."

BACKGROUND: 9/4/98:

10:10 AM. Luke crawls out of bed and connects his phone. It rings immediately. Earl Slate and Jasmine St. Clair, porn's most talked about couple, are on the line.

They want to talk about Raven McCall who supposedly phoned me Monday evening. I then wrote:

"Raven McCall is back in porn. She's a contract girl for Jerry Garfinkle's Impressive Video. "They've given me a one-year contract. The price was right. I'm his girlfriend now so he's [Earl Slate] trying to help me out. I had a bad setback a few months ago. But I live with Earl now... We got together a few weeks ago." McCall entered the industry in 1994. She's made her living off escort work the past year. A week ago, Earl told me that he was engaged to Jasmine St. Clair."

Today, Earl Slate denied that Raven was his contract girl and denied that Raven was his girlfriend and denied that Raven lived with him.

"She did five scenes for me for $1000," said Earl. "She's never seen me anywhere except on the set. I've never had a date with her." Jasmine: "Earl and I have had our ups and downs." Earl: "Luke, did Jasmine tell you that we were not together?"

On Wednesday, Jasmine phoned me and I wrote the following:

"Jasmine St. Clair says John T. Bowen owes her $5000. She congratulates Raven McCall on landing her ex-boyfriend Earl Slate aka Captain Asshole. Jasmine appears in a couple videos for Earl's series. Jasmine still seeks a boyfriend, "someone strong, ambitious, intelligent...maybe European...not in the business [of porno].""

Today, I read that back to Earl.

Earl: "She says that where she told you that where she told you that she's my ex-girlfriend and looking for a new boyfriend, that that is not true."

Jasmine: "Well, yeah, after I read that thing about Raven..."

Earl: "So you did say that?"

Jasmine: "I didn't say that I was looking for a boyfriend."

Earl: "You better get your lies straight because I am not going to be with you if you keep doing this s---."

Phone rings. It's Laurie aka Raven McCall.

Earl to Raven: "I'm talking to Luke F-rd right now trying to find out why you lied about all that bulls---...

"Luke, Raven says she never talked to you."

Raven comes on the line. It's a similar voice to what I heard Monday night.

Raven: "Obviously this guy is somebody who not only tries to dig up dirt but create dirt for people in the industry. That's no way to make a living."

Jasmine to Raven: "I think you're a f---ing skag. You're not even good enough to be a hair on my ass." Raven: "I'm sure that we could resolve this with a conference call." Jasmine: "Why don't you go back to being a f---ing whore, you bitch." Earl to Raven: "Honestly, I don't want to talk to you. This is a whole bunch of s--- that you've created for me." Earl: "She just hung up on me.

"Luke, she says she does not even know who you are and that you are f---ing insane.

"I know that you [Luke] twist up your stuff sometimes, but I don't believe that you make stuff up."

Luke: "She gave me her number...."

Earl: "That is her number."

Jasmine: "Just write that she has nothing to do with Impressive or Earl... That she is desperate for publicity... And that's the way she's trying to make a name for herself... Do five scenes for a $1000 and a free boxcover."

Earl: "Luke, I don't want you to be responsible for breaking us [Jasmine and I] up. So check your facts man. Before you write something about me next time, call me."

Earl and Jasmine then bicker but Luke is too lazy to further transcribe.

At 10:55, Raven and Earl phone. This Raven McCall says she has never talked to me. Now that I hear her voice more clearly, I hear that it is distinctly different. I now believe that I was had Monday night. The woman on that night claiming to be Raven McCall was not Raven.

According to several sources, Earl's girlfriend Jasmine St. Clair has been largely behind the rumors and gossip about Earl that have killed his performing career.

Raven: "There are lots of people in the industry who want to be mean and vicious because they don't feel so good about themselves. This is one of the things that turned me off about the industry. I did not want to deal with that type of mentality. I did Earl Slate a favor. He needed to put together his movie for a low budget." Earl: "She wanted to be the only girl on the boxcover. So she's the only girl basically in the movie... I can't afford to put anyone on contract. I finance my movies out of my pocket.

"I know for a fact that Jasmine is responsible for most of the rumors about me. I caught her red handed. I even have a letter signed (notarized) by her, admitting that she was calling people saying that she was from different production companies, warning them not to work with me. Because she's jealous. Not because she doesn't love me. She's so in love with me she can't stand to think that I'm working with other girls." Raven: "You need to call her and set her straight on these things or she will end up losing you."

Earl: "She [Jasmine] does not do drugs. She's beautiful, successful and intelligent, but for some reason she feels inferior to everybody...which makes her bad talk everybody..."

Earl says that Jasmine has repaid him for much of the money he lost as a performer because of gossip about him from her.

From 7/2/98

I talk with a tattooed short young male performer named JD Ram. A three year veteran, he complains to me about his ex-girlfriend, ex-porn star Raven McCall. He says that she made up a charge that he beat her, which resulted in Ram spending 60 days in jail (released 1/15/98). Ram copped a plea, rather than fighting the charge. He has an extensive criminal record from his days as a drug addict.

[Someone emailed me: "An aquaintence with the stagename "Dean Speed" who subsequently has crossed

over from straight to gay porn stayed with her for a week. She apparently did the same thing to him, but he left quickly when she started acting strange."]

Bill Margold complains about the feminization of society. "Power of the pussy. In this feminist structured society, a woman's word has far more credibility than a man's word. We men live under this fear of not getting laid, so we don't say anything… I remember people coming out of the movie WAITING TO EXHALE. A bunch of black men following black women out of the movie, which was absolute crap. The Klu Klux Klan would've been proud of the way it portrayed blacks. The women however loved the movie, because it showed them emasculating an army of black men. The women walking out told their husbands, "You liked that, didn't you honey?" The men said [submissively], 'yes, we did like it.' Then they looked down at their feet ashamed. We've become a nation of androgyny. We're afraid that we have to behave to get laid."

JD: "We broke up in Thanksgiving, 1997. We were together a month."

The young man obviously has strong feelings for her. He usually speaks softly and slowly, but at times becomes angry and defiant.

Bill displays a derisive attitude towards Ram. "You fell in love with her at the bowling tournament. You were with her a week."

JD: "It was longer than that. Raven was taking a drug called Ambian. We planned to spend Thanksgiving Day at Reb's house. That didn't work out. So we decided to spend the day together. We were going to the Rainbow for dinner and then see Boogie Nights…"

JD: "That fell through because she got a call from a john. She runs ads on the internet. It was a $5000 deal. I booked it. The guy wanted cocaine. I used to have a very bad drug problem. I'm not ashamed to admit it because I am in recovery. [Sharon Mitchell vouches that JD has been sober for weeks.] I don't do drugs anymore.

"I was trying to stay sober when I was with Raven, but she didn't care. She sent me on this journey to a madam's house to pick up an eight ball of cocaine for a client. Like a moron, I do it. I ended up doing half of the guy's stuff. I cut it with baking soda. When I got to the hotel, she told me to wait in the lobby for an hour [while Raven f---ed the john]. Then we'll spend the night together. Well, she came down. Her client had decided that he wanted to explore the world of bondage, S&M and B&D. We went to a dungeon to a well-known dominatrix within the industry."

Jim South comes in and pulls JD aside. I thought Jim was going to tell JD to not talk to me but instead Jim only told JD about his next shoot.

JD returns. "The client becomes scared. He realizes that I am her boyfriend and that I was also a porno star. He was so coked out he couldn't get it up anyway. He decided that he wanted to pay me to f--- Raven. We did that. The client then invited back to his motel in Bel Aire. He wanted another girl involved. He wanted to watch Raven and I f---, and he wanted to f--- Raven with me.

"We brought in Whitney Wonders, the big breasted porn star. We had a fairly erotic night. We were supposed to be on location at 9AM. We left the motel at 5AM. Raven is a selfish vindictive bitch. She only cares about what she wants. She only cared about her being ready for the set. But f--- me. While I was rushing to get ready, and load up the car with all her gear, and all her toys… She throws these candy bars in my pocket. I got pissed and threw them in the gutter. Now I've destroyed the marine life. She wanted to break the cement around the gutter and dig these candy bars out. Which is completely f---ing ridiculous. I got pissed and punched the tire of her car. She got bent out of shape and left me stranded. She stiffed me for the job [last night]. I was pissed.

"Finally, I got a hold of her. I did like her. Feelings were developing. I started to care about her. She started to get jealous of me… We talked about the business a lot. We were going to work together [in porno]. And we were going to work with others. But, it became cheating if I stated that I wanted to work with someone, then I couldn't work with that person. That was cheating.

"Raven was still doing videos last year. Half the time she was loaded [on drugs]. Her biggest client was Stevie Jones of the Sex Pistols and Charlie Sheen, who offered her $10,000 to get a boob job with the surgeon of his choice. She turned him down. I booked many of her [prostitution] jobs. Charlie Sheen paid her about $10,000 every two weeks.

"Raven McCall is a slimy piece of s---. She has a restraining order against me. Her real name is Lorie Duran.

"What brought the police in… Thanksgiving night she was loaded on Ambian, an anti-depressant. She was in therapy and her therapist prescribed the medication. I came home to find her unconscious. I did not know what to do. I called 9-1-1. The Fire Department shows up. She wakes up. She was furious. The Fire Department came in. She was mad at me for letting them in. At the time, a fan of hers was stalking her. The Fire Department asked her three questions. What was her name? Date of birth and who the president of the United States was. She couldn't answer the questions. Instead she yelled at them. "f--- you, get the f--- out of the house." She came running out of her room naked. They called the police. The police advised me to leave the night.

"I lived there. I had paid her rent. My attitude was, 'f--- you. I'm not going anywhere.' I should've listened to the cops. She called the cops five minutes after they left, and said, 'my boyfriend grabbed me. Threw me to the ground and massaged my breasts and slapped me.' I never touched her.

"I do have a dark past. I'm an ex-addict, in recovery. No record for violent crime. But I used to steal stuff from stores and sell it to support my drug habit. Or I'd do films when I could… This industry never made me a drug addict. I was a drug addict when I came into it. It was this industry that helped me get sober.

"Because Raven had me arrested, and all my prior arrests, I ended up taking a plea bargain on 90 days.

"Bill, how long have I been in the industry?"

Bill's trying to connect to the internet. "You've been a thorn in my side for at least two years…

"Look at this guy," Bill says to Luke. "Doesn't he look like a typical prison inmate?"

Luke has no comment.

JD: "Bill loves me. He's a good guy."

Bill: "I know JD was around at the end of 1996, because I missed a day of playing touch football taking care of you at that strange house in the Valley, lending you $300, to keep you in the home for the wayward dullards."

JD: I went to PAW for help because the guy said he'd throw me out if I didn't pay the rent.

Bill to Luke: You screwed up one of my quotes… It should be "boulders and bird baths." You wrote, 'boulders and bird bats.' These people on the internet are wondering, 'what is a bird bat?' These internet people are so pathetic. Let me show you on of the vilest things [Voyager7's post about the FSC switching blood].

JD: I did care about Raven. I did like her. She doesn't give a guy space. She smothers him. I needed to go to meetings. I needed to do things by myself. All she cared about was the relationship. She went through this with another addict. She likes to rescue people, but by smothering the person, she makes things 100x worse. She went through this stuff with Free Speech and PAW, trying to help her with this other addict. They ended up losing him. He's getting loaded now because Raven would not leave him alone.

I never did IV drugs. I used powder drugs like cocaine, crack… I was a toxic waste dump.

I came into this business thinking it was a big f---ing party. I did not realize it was job. I've met a lot of people in this business who don't do drugs and will never do drugs.

JD: "I have no use for her or anyone like her. I have no desire to see her. [Raven]

"On a happier note, I starred in this Sin City movie called THE MODELS - The Truth Behinds The Scenes. AVN has been raving about it. Mark Logan loves it. I haven't got a nomination from them yet, but I got a pre-nom from them for best-supporting actor. Kris Kramski directed. He's one of the best directors I've ever worked with.

Sharon Mitchell and Bill Margold indulge in a passionate discussion about AIM, PAW and the Free Speech Coalition. Sharon feels that some members of the FSC board are sniping at her, "stressing her."

Sharon and Loretta reside in one room and Bill Margold and Stephanie, the blood taker, in another. Sharon's room smells better. It's more feminine and frequently has incense burning.

Bill's small office now contains Sharon, Bill, Luke and JD, an intense combination of three dominating personalities.

JD: "The adult film industry has helped me by allowing me to let out my inhibitions, drop my shyness and build my self esteem. It's a homey environment to work in. It's safe, legitimate… For the first time in my life, I feel that I have people in my life who care about me. I was a throw-away kid. My parents wanted nothing to do with me. I got into trouble at school. I got into drugs… My mother told me that doing porn was the worst thing I ever did. It made me the slimiest, scummiest person on the planet. She is religious. She wanted to know what I would do if God came to one of my porno sets. My only response: 'I would tell him to get him out of my way because he's interfering with me getting wood.' The people in this business are the only ones who've been there when I've needed them. There have been people in AA who weren't there for me. My family never has been there for me. I love people in this business.

"If I meet a new performer, and I see a way to help the person, to get close, I will do so… And I don't mean that in a sexual manner.

"America is a controversial place. Thirty million of the mother f---ers jerk off to us every day. I have no problem with the porno fan. But those who get up on Jerry Springer or Geraldo Rivera, and say that we are prostitutes, a piece of s---, then they go home and jerk off to us… They are hypocrites. They are jealous that I get paid to get laid. They probably couldn't get laid in a crack house full of crack."

Bill Margold and Sharon Mitchell go back and forth in a passionate discussion about the FSC.

Sharon says she a couple of years to go before she gets her Bachelors degree. She says she completed in two years a graduate course (and certification) in addiction studies and HIV at Mission Hills college.

JD introduces me to his girlfriend of the past two months, Jolene, who is not in porn. "It's one strange trip [dating someone in the porn business]," she laughs. "The porno industry is its own little world. They welcome you in but you know that you are different if you are not in the business. You just have to get used to that."

Joanne: "It's good to be with a professional."

JD: Do I ever get wood problems?

Jo: No.

Selena, a black volunteer on the couch with us, says: "He gets every other kind of problem."

Jolene confirms that JD has been sober for about 90 days.

Later in 1998, JD Ram died of a drug overdose.