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   Unmasking The Ed Buck They Thought They Knew   
      
   In the week since news outlets across the globe picked up a   
   story WEHO TIMES broke last Monday about the death of a 26-year-   
   old Texas youth at the home of a politically influential West   
   Hollywood resident, a disturbing picture began emerging of a man   
   who evidence suggests is equally comfortable mingling among   
   America’s uppermost-echelon citizenry, as he is rattling the   
   nerves of sex workers by way of alleged coercion, heaps of cash,   
   piles of illicit drugs and allegedly involuntary injections of   
   methamphetamine.   
      
   A growing mountain of evidence obtained by WEHO TIMES —including   
   multiple eyewitness accounts, smartphone images, background   
   interviews, on-the-record interviews, court documents, hospital   
   bills and text messages—reveal a pattern that depicts a well   
   heeled politico named Ed Buck as a man with a history of   
   allegations that he pays young, good-looking African American   
   men anywhere from $500-$3500 to inject, smoke and otherwise   
   ingest potentially fatal doses of crystal methamphetamine and   
   GHB during allegedly paid sexual encounters.   
      
   But the sex takes a back seat to Buck’s alleged primary fetish,   
   according to several sources, who say his first interest is   
   getting young, black men to take dangerously large doses of   
   street drugs.   
      
   “My situation [with Ed Buck] was always, ‘how long do you want   
   to see me for and we’ll come up with a number that we both can   
   agree on,” said a 28-year-old, part-time sex worker who asked to   
   be identified by the alias, “Damar Love” to protect his full-   
   time job as a security guard.   
      
   “When I get there, I always want my money up front, and that’s   
   how it always started,” Love told WEHO TIMES during an interview   
   Saturday. “Initially, when I got there I understood that he was   
   already well under the influence because he told me he had   
   already been up for two days and was still doing drugs as far as   
   liquid GHB, shooting meth—crystal meth, and smoking it. When he   
   insisted that I get high and continue to get high, that’s when I   
   started to do my research on him.”   
      
   Damar Love believes that Buck was unaccustomed to his level of   
   concern for his own safety as a potentially vulnerable sex   
   worker in another man’s home environment. Buck, he says, did not   
   like his unwillingness to turn off his smartphone, which he used   
   to ensure his girlfriend knew where he was. Nor did Buck like   
   him using his phone to shoot photos inside the apartment. He   
   didn’t know the young man was also using his smartphone to   
   research his host a little before letting his guard down.   
      
   Says Love, the money Buck paid was incredibly good, but the   
   scene was unsettling.   
      
   “I was like, ‘why are you insisting that I be high?'” he said,   
   recalling his thoughts during the first of three visits he says   
   he made to Bucks apartment.   
      
   Indeed, WEHO TIMES has confirmed that photos of Love in his   
   underwear were taken inside Ed Buck’s apartment in West   
   Hollywood.   
      
   “‘Why are you insisting I shut my phone off and I don’t have any   
   contact with the outside world while I’m here with you alone in   
   your place,'” Love continued. “At that moment I knew it was time   
   to forget about pleasing the client and start asking questions   
   for my personal safety. That’s when I wanted to know what he did   
   for a living and when I wanted him to know that I had people who   
   knew where I was.”   
      
   Damar Love says he had never seen anyone as intoxicated as Buck   
   allegedly was during that first encounter.   
      
   “Being under the influence to the level that he was and the idea   
   that he was trying to get me to that level was—let me put it   
   this way, the only thing I could think of that was not about him   
   wanting to get me that high so he could do something bad to me   
   that I didn’t want done, was maybe he just didn’t want me to   
   remember anything,” Love said.   
      
   “Either way, I couldn’t see myself letting him get me that high.   
   First of all, GHB? The only thing you’re supposed to take with   
   GHB is water. It doesn’t mix with anything, not meth, not   
   alcohol, not poppers—not anything. You can die if you start   
   mixing that shit.”   
      
   The July 27 death of Gemmel Moore at Ed Buck’s Laurel Avenue   
   apartment near Norton Street in West Hollywood was quickly   
   classified by the Los Angeles County Coroner as accidental and   
   methamphetamine-caused. Multiple sources who have known Buck for   
   several years say, while they were shocked by the tragedy of   
      
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