Jarec Wentworth Extortion Victim Revealed To (Likely) Be Gay Republican Businessman

The man identified in court documents as D.B. from whom Jarec Wentworth a.k.a. Teofil Brank allegedly extorted a half million dollars and an Audi, has been possibly identified as Republican campaign donor (and pro-gay marriage donor) Donald Burns, who’s also been linked to another model who’s worked for Sean Cody.

Commenters had already been chatting about Burns over the weekend, whose identity was initially concealed over concerns for his safety — part of the federal case against Wentworth includes the scary detail that he arrived for a money pickup with undercover agents with a loaded weapon in his car. As Str8UpGayPorn now reports, following an earlier report several weeks ago connecting Burns with Sean Cody’s Ashton whom he appeared to be taking around to various rich-people parties, Burns is the victim who went to federal authorities to bust Wentworth. After allegedly hiring Ashton, it seems that Burns, who made his millions from the MagicJack voice-over-IP phone system you may have seen advertised on TV, became interested in hosting/paying for other Sean Cody models, and it looks as though Jarec, whom he refers to in texts as Teo, was facilitating such “meetings,” i.e. acting as a pimp.

It’s still unclear what Teo/Jarec had on Burns that was worth blackmailing over. Burns has been photographed multiple times with Ashton — as he was here at a February 2014 event in Palm Beach for Anderson Cooper’s mom Gloria Vanderbilt — and Ashton has called Burns his “best friend.” And Burns has openly given money to pro-gay causes and has appeared in society pages in New York and Florida alongside Greg Connors, who appears to be his partner. Here they are at a benefit for Carnegie Hall in 2013. Does that look like a man who’s closeted?

And to get an idea of Burns’ wealth, Architectural Digest featured his multi-building Nantucket compound in the magazine last summer.

So, the theory that this was a closeted Hollywood person is out the window. The question of motive for the blackmail remains out there — did this Burns guy just not want everyone knowing that he hired hookers? I’m sorry, I mean “friends” who had sex with other men on Sean Cody?

Also, who was leaking all these screenshots of texts to a porn blog? Was that Jarec himself? Someone else who has beef with Burns now?

To be clear, Burns has still not been publicly identified in connection with this case.

Stay tuned.

[Str8UpGayPorn]

Previously: JAREC WENTWORTH PLEADS NOT GUILTY TO EXTORTION; WHO IS D.B.?!?!?

27 thoughts on “Jarec Wentworth Extortion Victim Revealed To (Likely) Be Gay Republican Businessman”

    1. Pronounced “tay-uh-Feel” in Romanian. A popular name for boys in the 1980s in Romania.

      He goes by “Teo” (pronounced “Tay-oh”. Not “tee-oh”)

      Equivalent names in other languages:

      Theophilos, Theophilus (Ancient Greek)
      Theophilus (Biblical)
      Theo, Theofilus (Dutch)
      Théophile (French)
      Theophil (German)
      Teofilo (Italian)
      Teófilo, Téo (Portuguese)
      Feofil (Russian)
      Teófilo (Spanish)

  1. As you may know, ANYONE–not just Zach Sire of SUGP–can download court docs from the federal judiciary’s PACER service at http://www.pacer.gov.

    That’s right, folks. Contrary to SUGP’s boasts of “exclusive” this and “exclusive” that concerning the case, SUGP does not have exclusive access to court documents.

    According to court doc #26, filed 4/1, it seems there are recordings of phone conversations that the govt wants to introduce in connection with defendant’s application for bail review, the hearing for which was set for 9 AM today (4/2).

    Court doc #28, also filed 4/1, is the govt’s application to seal the following:

    1) govt’s opposition to defendant’s application for bail review
    2) the declaration of Catherine T. Moore [a prison or FBI staff member?]
    3) exhibits to the declaration of Catherine T. Moore

    According to the govt, the opposition and declaration reference an individual who has provided information to the govt regarding defendant’s extortion scheme and who has expressed an interest in cooperating with the govt’s investigation.

    Could the cooperating individual be the obnoxious Zach Sire of SUGP? Please god, let it be ANYONE but Zach Sire!

      1. Apart from the fact that by any journalistic standard, Zachary Sire did break the story.

        He, Sire, was on this story two weeks ago.

        The LA Times is playing catch-up. Zachary Sire is on rock-solid journalistic ethical grounds here (as is Waxner-Herman in the way in which he’s treating this story).

        People like Reynard are entirely free to criticise Sire (and some of those criticisms, superficially, appear to hold water, while others seem petty and vexatious), but that’s the nature of a breaking and progressing news story.

        While I don’t agree with everything Reynard writes, I’m incredibly grateful that he is taking the time to make the points and arguments he does. He’s one of those people whose comments I eagerly look forward to when I’m reading about this case. While I don’t always agree with his reading of the facts, I never finish reading one of his posts feeling more dumb than I did when I started reading.

        But, in the same way that I’ll defend Reynard, I’ll also defend Sire for the way he’s reporting and controlling information on this story. There’s no debate about whether or not he’s a snarky porn blogger, but as a professional journalist myself (and someone who teaches the incredibly difficult topic of journalistic ethics), the LA Times should have credited him as a source.

        He’s not whining about it, he just mentioned in a throw-away comment.

        And if you’re wondering about why I’ve written about this at such length, it’s because I fiercely believe in journalistic ethics.

        If they’re good enough for The New York Times and Washington Post, they’re damn well good enough for The Sword and Str8UpGayPorn.

        1. In Zach Sire’s STR8UPGAYPORN! Twitter account, which he promotes as “EXCLUSIVE DAILY NEWS, VIDEOS, EDITORIAL AND MORE! No Agenda, No Censors,” he posted the following about 2 hours ago:

          “In 2012 DONALD BURNS bought the “Razor House” for $14 million. It’s right down the road from Sean Cody in San Diego!”

          Having lived in this area when I attended the University of California San Diego, located in La Jolla, a high-end district in the city of San Diego, I knew his claim that Razor House is “right down the road from Sean Cody in San Diego!” to be incorrect.

          So I tweeted the following reply under my @AndBender Twitter account:

          “@Str8UpGayPorn Down the road? Not exactly. The Sean Cody house overlooks I5/Gilman Drive. Razor house overlooks Black’s Beach in La Jolla.”

          I was immediately blocked. So much for Zach Sire’s claim of “No Agenda. No Censors.” He clearly can’t handle being corrected of having his yellow journalism exposed for what it is.

          1. He also deletes comments with links to information he insists on hoarding (so he can leak his “exclusives”). A lot of the information Zach’s using for stories is readily available in documents provided for free on The Smoking Gun.

      2. In the comments section of SUGP’s latest so-called exclusive at http://str8upgayporn.com/colt-rivers-exclusive-jarec-wentworth-used-str8upgayporn-to-threaten-donald-burns/

        “Andrew D” posted a completely innocuous comment that included this link
        http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/crime/gay-porn-star-extortion-case-897653

        to a well written article, dated April 3, by The Smoking Gun about the case. The article includes revealing excerpts from the transcript of March 27 trial setting conference. SUGP has not yet provided any pages from the court transcripts. Not wanting to be upstaged by The Smoking Gun, Zach Sire wasted no time deleting Andrew D’s post.

        But before Zach deleted Andrew D’s post with the link to the Smoking Gun article, another SUGP addressed the following insightful comment to Andrew D:

        Thanks for the link. It provides what appear to be excerpts of the transcript of the March 27 trial setting conference. But there are huge gaps in the page sequence: 18, 19, 25, 33.

        This is what I gather from reading those transcript excerpts:

        1. The judge was trying to understand what the relationship between the defendant and victim was before it disintegrated in 2015.

        2. Before the victim met the defendant, the victim had begun considering investments in the gay porn industry and having meetings and getting to know people in that industry. He was eventually introduced to the defendant and soon after began having a sexual relationship with him and paying him for that. (BTW: This would not fall under federal jurisdiction.)

        3. With regard to the referrals of “boys”, it does not appear that the government intends to file any charges unless any of the boys turns out to have been underage.

        4. The victim informed the government that all the boys were over the age of 18.

        5. The judge wanted to know exactly what was the scope of the government’s investigation and if it plans to supersede the Indictment.

        6. The government said, “Your Honor, there’s also evidence that other associates of the defendant [were] involved with this extortion scheme; however, the government continues to investigate that evidence. To the extent we are able to establish the involvement of these associates, we would supersede with the conspiracy and include in the conspiracy the overt acts, the additional communications for which we do not [yet] have an interstate nexus.”

  2. Wouldn’t it be all too funny if the defendant were granted bail and someone acting secretly on Burns’ behalf posts bail, whisks the defendant out of the country, and pays him a million dollars to get lost–in order to avoid exposing Burns to further trial publicity and possible criminal prosecution?

  3. Today (April 1, 2015) I downloaded the latest court documents to be filed in the case.

    One document orders the government to produce to defendant by 4 PM today any recorded phone calls it seeks to introduce in connection with defendant’s application for bail review tomorrow. Oh, oh.

    Another document is the defense’s brief in opposition to the victim’s motion for order protecting privacy rights of victim pursuant to Crime Rights of Victims’ Rights Act, 18 USC Section 3771. Of special interest in the brief are statements that seem to confirm that D.B. is in fact Donald A. Burns:

    “Furthermore, D.B’s identity and personal information has already been published in the public sphere in connection with this case.”

    “Furthermore, significant public disclosure of D.B.’s identity has already taken place. At least one website has published content on the internet, in the form of a blog post, about this case. The post refers to D.B. by name. Given that the public is already aware of D.B.’s identity and potentially criminal conduct, it is improper to prevent disclosure of his identity in the public record.”

    This seems to render pointless D.B.’s efforts to suppress his name from the publicly viewable court records and proceedings in the case.

  4. What a shame that Jarec is so stupidly greedy. He was a fave of mine at Sean Cody when he did bareback. I love his look and in behind the scenes vids Jarec seemed so funny and playful. I wonder if they are going to deport him after he serves his sentence.

    1. Just because Jarec was born in Romania doesn’t mean he can be deported. He and his parents have lived in the US since he was 2 years old. At least one of his parents became a naturalized US citizen before he turned 18, which automatically made him a naturalized US citizen. So he can’t be deported.

  5. You had me at “gay Republican” … that is just too funny. As if such a self-loathing creature could actually exist. Am I right, Aaron Schock?

  6. How nice that we are demonizing a gay man who has been a victim of extortion by a whore. I mean, what the hell Sword?

  7. There is so much incorrect information in your comments, I don’t know where to begin. It seems you’re just parroting the same incorrect information about the case that’s being bandied about in other porn blogs.

    1) The court docs that have been open to public view since the case was opened on March 6 refer to the victim only by the initials D.B. There’s been much speculation in porn blogs about the identity of D.B., but speculation is not identification. D.B. has not actually been identified by any REPUTABLE news source or witness.

    2) Have you even bothered to read the Indictment? The SOLE CHARGE against the defendant is that he “threatened to distribute sexually explicit photographic images and sensitive information, true or embellished, about victim D.B. … if victim D.B. refused to transfer money, a motorcycle, and the title to victim D.B.’s automobile to defendant.” There’s nothing “sexually explicit” or “sensitive” about the photos of Ashton with Burns posted in Str8UpGayPorn.

    3) The notion that the victim’s identity was “initially concealed over concerns for his safety” is complete fiction. There were NEVER any such concerns. It was NEVER represented to the Court that there were any such concerns. And even if there were concerns about his safety, what what does concealing his identity have to do with guarding his safety? Safety from whom?

    4) Common sense should inform you that the victim’s name was concealed simply to shield him from embarrassing inquiries, gossip, and publicity about “the sexually explicit photographic images and sensitive information” that he was willing to pay a half million to suppress.

    5) NONE of the federal case against the defendant concerns a weapon. The sole charge he faces has absolutely nothing to do with any weapon.

    6) NOTHING in the court documents indicates that the weapon found in a car was loaded. Finding “a … revolver along with six rounds of … ammunition” does not imply that the revolver was loaded. “Along with” does not mean “loaded with.”

    7) NOTHING in the court documents indicates that the car belonged to the defendant. An associate of the defendant drove him to the Starbucks rendezvous, so you might as well conclude that the car belonged to the associate.

    8) A “pimp” is a man who makes money illegally by getting customers for prostitutes. Teo wasn’t getting customers for prostitutes. Based on the prosecution’s statements at the trial setting conference, the victim had an arrangement with the Teo to pay him referral fees between $1200 and $2000. There was no allegation of prostitution.

    9) Presumably the people that provided the screenshots of the text messages were the message recipients: Nicholas (allegedly SC’s “Curtis”) and Kyle (allegedly SC’s “Jamie”).

    1. J.W. Waxner-Herman

      Well, what you call referral fees, I’m calling pimp fees. And if you read the above more carefully, you will see in paragraph 1, sentence 1, “The man identified in court documents as D.B.” and I say that he was identified by another blog as this person. “Likely” appears in the headline, because there appears to be a source close to this case leaking actual texts. And I add that he has not been publicly identified. I will say though that you seem quite invested in this, as you have everything pertaining to Jarec, Reynard.

      1. As I pointed out, a “pimp” is a man who makes money illegally by getting customers for prostitutes. The “$2,500 referral fee” Don offered Nick if he brings Randy along would not be a fee paid to get customers for prostitutes. And I’m not aware of any evidence of prostitution. Yet. lol

        Yes, I see the parenthetical in your headline. But your lead paragraph boldy asserts that “D.B. … has been identified as Republican campaign donor (and pro-gay marriage donor) Donald Burns, who’s also been linked to another model who’s worked for Sean Cody.” That makes it sound like D.B. has been positively identified. Perhaps, “has been linked to” would be more accurate than “has been identified as.”

        What does “publicly identified” mean? Announced on news at 11? Widely published? It seem that everything StrUpGayPorn says about the case, including incorrect information, gets widely published by virtue of being repeated by other porn blogs as though it were gospel truth. The utter nonsense being perpetuated about the gun being loaded and the victim’s identity being suppressed due to concerns about his safety is contradicted by the court docs.

        It’s amusing the way you parse your words. You cautiously assert “allegedly extorted,” rather than “likely extorted,” even though a “source close to this case,” namely the FBI special agent whose affidavit is included in the complaint filed with the court, quotes in the affidavit text messages from the defendant containing extortion demands.

        I have a source very close to the case. I knew about the case weeks before it was published as “an exclusive you’ll only read on Str8UpGayPorn.” Zach originally published that because of the gun, the defendant would be sentenced to 15 years, until I pointed out that the statute under which he’s being charged carries a max. term of 2 years. But the porn blogs keep talking about a “loaded gun” as if this were central to the government’s case, even no court document indicates that the gun was loaded and no weapon is mentioned in the Indictment.

        1. The Other Devin

          Thanks for the clarifications. It’s nice to get info on the case from someone who isn’t salivating over the more salacious allegations in the indictment – and who is reporting on the actual indictment and not exaggerations. Like what’s going on over at SUGP. And some commenter over there praised Zach’s journalistic integrity and used this story as proof of his top notch reporting. As the fuck if.

  8. This soap opera is getting more interesting than most of Jarek Wentworthless videos. This is his KARMA for being GREEDY, a demon in disguise who fooled many naive old gay men..but this is also a lesson learned to Davie Burns I hope next time he shouldnt cheat and become faithful to his partner. TRIUMP for gay models and gay men who support their own.

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