The defense maintained that Burns “groomed and mentored” Brank, offering to help him begin a modeling career away from porn but then reneged on the promise and broke off their friendship.Īt that point, Brank threatened to use Twitter to expose the executive’s predilection for “sex for pay,” Assistant U.S.
Prosecutors said Brank had a two-year relationship with Burns in which the executive paid him $2,000 per sexual encounter, then asked the actor to introduce him to other male escorts, offering Brank a $2,000 “referral” for each introduction, and more if he joined in.
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Burns Foundation, testified during the three-day trial that he paid men for sex to avoid emotional entanglements. Weeks earlier, Burns had given Brank $500,000 and the Audi after the male escort and actor threatened to “bring your house down” by posting on Twitter details of the multimillionaire’s paid sexual encounters, according to evidence presented at the trial.īurns, who is the partial owner of the Internet phone company Magicjack and controls the Donald A. District Judge John Walter is expected to hear evidence of what happened to the money and where it might be located.īrank - who performed under the name Jarec Wentworth in adult films and on gay porn sites - was arrested in March in an FBI sting after an agent posing as Burns’ associate met with the actor at a Starbucks in El Segundo and handed over title to an Audi R8 and discussed a $1 million funds transfer.