In January, former gay porn model Timothy Dean, who performed under the name “Hole Hunter,” was found dead under suspicious circumstances at the West Hollywood, California, home of Ed Buck—a major financial donor and fundraiser for the Democratic party, as AVN.com reported.
No action was taken against Buck at the time in relation to Dean’s death, or in the death of 26-year-old male escort Gemmel Moore, who died in Buck’s home on July 27, 2017. Both Moore and Dean, 55, were African-American, and at the time, some critics said that the race of the men, as well as Buck’s high-level political connections, caused authorities to go easy on him.
Los Angeles District Attorney Jackie Lacey, however, said that neither she nor anyone involved in the investigation knew Buck. "We were not at all moved by his reputation,” she said, as quoted by Fox News.
On Tuesday, Buck was arrested after a third man—whose name has not been released—also suffered an overdose at Buck’s home. This time, the victim survived, but investigators said that there may be as many as 10 more victims in the ongoing case, according to a New York Daily News account.
Prosecutors labeled Buck a “violent, dangerous sexual predator” who preyed on men afflicted by homelessness and adduction, injecting them with drugs to fulfill his bizarre “sexual fetishes,” according to a Washington Post report.
Instead, Lacey said that prosecutors had “insufficient admissable evidence” to charge Buck in the deaths of either Moore or Dean. But on Thursday, Buck appeared in a Los Angeles federal court where he was hit with a federal felony charge—distribution of methamphetamine resulting in death—in connection with Moore’s death.
Buck now faces life in prison if convicted of the charge, according to CNN.
Dean’s death, also by drug overdose in Buck’s home, remains under investigation, but the disgraced activist appears likely to face charges in that case as well.
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