Black gay porn star killer
In March 2009, he was convicted and sentenced to four months in jail.Īt 20, he responded to a Craigslist ad and began doing porn. After a drunken argument had turned violent, he assaulted her, leaving injuries on her head, back and neck. By that time, he was already facing domestic abuse charges. He married his girlfriend in Reno soon thereafter. He was the seventh of 10 children and, according to court records, lived in a physically and emotionally abusive household.Īfter graduating from high school in 2007, he worked in construction and as a residential painter. Although married to one woman and in a tumultuous relationship with another, the rugged, hawkishly handsome 25-year-old had found a niche in gay-for-pay porn, performing as Jarec Wentworth.īorn in Romania, Brank came to America as a toddler and grew up near Nashville and then Sacramento.
Much more.Īt that time, Brank, or “Teo” to his friends, was one of the most famous actors in gay porn, despite being heterosexual. With heaps of cash and a $180,000 sports car, Brank could have stopped there, but he had sunk his teeth into Burns and didn’t want to let go. Yim said Brank blew about $20,000 on hotels, clothes and bottle service. In a whirlwind of debauchery, they continued to San Francisco and then back down to L.A. After Vegas, the two friends stopped briefly in San Diego, then continued to Brank’s old stomping ground, Sacramento, where he gave his brother $10,000, according to Yim. On February 17, Burns wired Brank $500,000 from a Goldman Sachs account. Soon after, Brank and Yim tore through the desert in the sports car to Las Vegas, where they would do cocaine and hang out in strip clubs, celebrating the coming payday. He said he was blackmailing Donald Burns, a wealthy tech tycoon he met while escorting. Two weeks earlier, Brank had arrived at Yim’s San Diego apartment in a sleek black Audi R8 sports car and calmly told his French-born friend over beers that he was about to collect half a million dollars.