Writes Salon: "Among the assorted porn stars, fetishists, erotic artists and misfits who've floated through the strange circle of Dr. Susan Block, sex therapist, and her husband, filmmaker Max Lobkowicz, there was, in the summer of 1996, a slim, effeminate young man who liked to tell people he was Steven Spielberg's nephew."
For his efforts at masquerade Taylor Spielberg, né Anoushirvan Fakhran, got himself arrested three times in the past month in Fairfax City, Va. for passing bogus documents to have himself enrolled at Paul VI high school, a small, tony Catholic prep school in Fairfax City. The Washington Post reported that the school's principal believed Fakhran's story (he claimed to be researching a film role) and graciously waived tuition. The young man was even allowed to park his blue BMW with the vanity plate "SPLBERG" in the principal's assigned spot. Fakhran, who's free on bail, faces charges that he defrauded Paul VI.
Max Lobkowicz to salon he also believed Fakhran's story when Fakhran approached him three years ago with an unusual request.
"We had our studios and offices in the Century Wilshire Hotel at the time," says Lobkowicz, who produces his wife's cable/Internet show and helps run her Institute for the Erotic Arts and Sciences in downtown L.A. "And Jonathan was staying there with his mother," Lobkowicz added. "One night during the show he came to introduce himself. He said he was Steven Spielberg's nephew, and he wanted to do a movie. He said, 'I have this idea. I want to play a transvestite. Will you film it?' So I said, 'Sure.' That's how these tapes came about."
According to Salon, The Century Wilshire Hotel's management confirmed that Block's show was at one time shot there. It could not, however, verify whether "Jonathan Taylor Spielberg" ever resided at the hotel with his mother.
Lobkowicz supposedly has over six hours of Fakhran on video. Some of it shows him being interviewed by Block and another woman on Block's trademark bed. Most of the footage, however, shows Fakhran, dressed in black pumps, sheer stockings and a miniskirt, playing a transvestite attempting to pass as a woman in a lesbian bar.
"There's no dialogue," explains Lobkowicz. "We were planning to have a voice-over. What happens is that he comes into a bar and meets these lesbian women. Ultimately they discover him. Up until then, they're touching him and seducing him. Afterwards, they take him into this shower, and all sorts of stuff goes on."
"Jonathan loves girls," said Lobkowicz. "And they love him. He's really not a transvestite. It's just a role he wanted to play. We were thinking of entering it in one of the festivals -- like Sundance -- as a short," Lobkowicz added.
