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On July 27, 2017, 26-year-old Gemmel Moore was found in the
bathroom of a West Hollywood, Calif., apartment belonging to Ed
Buck, 62. Moore was young, black and poor. Buck was white,
wealthy and powerful.

That’s all we know.

Moore’s family is searching for answers. Buck has not spoken
publicly about the incident. Police have not charged anyone with
a crime, even though multiple reports have surfaced that Buck
had a predilection for young, black men. Even after a number of
young, black male sex workers have stepped forward with apparent
photographic evidence that Buck was one of their clients. Even
after each one of those men separately told the same story: Not
only did Buck have a fetish for black men, but he was known in
West Hollywood’s gay community as someone paying top dollar for
the company of 20-something black escorts ...

But only after injecting them with drugs.

West Hollywood is known as the “symbolic heart” of LGBTQ Los
Angeles. During the 1930s, gay men and women gathered in bars in
the then-unincorporated part of the city to skirt federal and
state Prohibition laws. In 1967, two years before New York
City’s Greenwich Village Stonewall riots put the fight for gay
and lesbian rights on the map, a protest organized by the
Personal Rights in Defense and Education organization kick-
started the West Coast movement in West Hollywood.

Since then, the West Hollywood area has been incorporated as a
city and is known nationwide as a home for a thriving, affluent
gay population. The city is a liberal enclave and has recently
rebranded itself as WeHo.

Buck was born in 1954 and came out to his parents at the age of
16, according to WeHoville. In the 1980s, after living and
traveling as a male model and actor, Buck began working in
Arizona for a company that provided information for driver’s
licenses. According to WeHoville, in a 1987 interview with the
Arizona Republic, Buck said that he saw so much potential in the
struggling company that he bought it out of bankruptcy for
$250,000. Five years later, he sold the company for more than $1
million profit.

In 1987 Buck, described by the Arizona Republic in the same
article as a “millionaire, self-acknowledged homosexual and
registered Republican,” launched himself into politics by
leading an effort to impeach Arizona Gov. Evan Mecham.

Even though Buck’s campaign led to the successful impeachment of
the governor, Buck left the Republican Party because of its
intolerant stance on LGBTQ issues. According to the profile in
WeHoville, after arrests on narcotics and public indecency
charges, Buck eventually left Arizona and moved to West
Hollywood.

It was in West Hollywood that Buck became a major political
backer. He helped Democrat John D’Amico win a seat on the West
Hollywood City Council and pushed for the nation’s first ban on
the sale of fur products.

Although donations to political action committees don’t have to
be disclosed, Buck gave $2,700—the maximum amount possible—to
the Hillary Clinton campaign, and online sources show he has
donated more than $250 million to Democratic candidates. A quick
Google Images search turns up pictures of Buck with some of the
most powerful Democratic politicians in the country, including
Clinton and California Gov. Jerry Brown.

“If there was ever anybody in West Hollywood whose bed you
expected a dead body to turn up in, it was Ed Buck.” —former
West Hollywood Councilman Steve Martin

In 2017, Gemmel Moore relocated from Texas and moved to West
Hollywood. Numerous friends of Moore confirmed his struggles
with drugs, which, many say, were fueled by the fetishes of one
of his most frequent clients—Ed Buck.

Moore’s roommate and best friend, Samuel Lloyd, alleges that
Buck had an unhealthy obsession with Moore. “He went out there
searching for other men that were struggling and on the streets
and had no money ... men who had never experienced drugs
before,” said Lloyd at an October 21 community meeting. “This is
the kind of guys Ed Buck searched for.”

Lloyd added that Moore had grown afraid of Buck in the days
before his death, saying that “Gemmel was scared of this man. He
came and he laid in my arms and he was scared. Scared that this
man was going to hurt him.”

Lloyd said that Moore went to West Hollywood police a number of
times to warn them about Buck to no avail.

Lloyd’s allegations seem to be backed up by other men who
provided photographic evidence of Buck’s drug use with male
escorts. Damar Love provided the WeHo Times with photographs of
himself inside Buck’s home. According to the Times, the pictures
appeared to have been taken at the same apartment where Moore’s
body was found and show Love sitting next to a glass pipe often
used to smoke crystal meth.

Love told the WeHo Times that he serviced Buck at least three
times. He stated that Buck insisted that Love turn off his
cellphone and demanded that he do drugs before their encounter.
In an interview with the WeHo Times, Love stated:

When I get there, I always want my money up front, and that’s
how it always started. 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 ... I was like,
“Why are you insisting that I be high?”

Writer Jasmyne Cannick says she met with Love along with
journalists from ABC 7 and the Los Angeles Times and provided a
partial transcript of the interview, in which Love says he went
to the police with this information:

So I go there [West Hollywood Sheriff’s Station] and I basically
let them know I’m coming from an older friend’s house—at the
time I didn’t want to speak his name. But I did initially say
that I feel like I was drugged. And because I was talking
rapidly and constantly looking around tryin’ to watch my back to
see if someone was approaching me the only thing they would say
is, “You’re tweaking. You’re under the influence and if you
don’t get away from here I’m going to take you to jail for being
under the influence.” They didn’t care to ask who it was or
where did it happen, and I said, “Well just let me write a
statement down; you guys can give me a number for that I can use
if I need to come back it’d be available.” He said, “OK.” He
gave me a paper. I wrote it down. Sat there for about 10 minutes
and because I was still rambling about the situation they did
not want me standing in the front lobby of the department; they
told me to leave.

Another alleged client who only goes by the name of “Brian”
provided screenshots from the website Adam4Adam of conversations
with Buck arranging an encounter. Yet another man named “Blake”
has provided screenshots to Jasmyne Cannick from a man using the
name “Bucked,” purported to be Ed Buck. Blake provided
screenshots and photos from inside an apartment that appears to
resemble Buck’s home.

Buck’s neighbors and associates have allegedly fallen prey to
the bullying and erratic behavior of the wealthy donor. In a
2002 petition for a restraining order, therapist James E.
d’Jarnette told a court that Buck harassed him for days after
d’Jarnette informed the wealthy donor that he wouldn’t prescribe
amphetamines, the WeHo Times reports.

Former Councilman Steve Martin said that people in the West
Hollywood community often complained about Buck’s temperament.
“If there was ever anybody in West Hollywood whose bed you
expected a dead body to turn up in, it was Ed Buck,” Martin told
the WeHo Times.

Perhaps the most damning evidence comes from a journal that
Moore’s mother says belonged to Gemmel Moore discussing his fear
of Buck.

“I honestly don’t know what to do,” the journal excerpt reads.
“I’ve became addicted to drugs and the worst one at that. Ed
Buck is the one to thank he gave me my first injection of
crystal meth it was very painful but after all the troubles I
became addicted to the pain and fetish/fantasy.”

In the entry, Moore goes on to say, “If it didn’t hurt so bad
I’d kill myself, but for now I’ll just let Ed Buck do it.”

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When police arrived at Buck’s home to investigate the death,
they found drug paraphernalia, according to the Los Angeles
coroner’s office. Video also shows another young black man
looking for Buck showing up at Buck’s home and being turned away
by police taping off the scene.

Despite this abundance of evidence and more, including cellphone
records, West Hollywood authorities have not charged Buck with a
crime and have indicated that Buck is not a suspect.

“If it didn’t hurt so bad I’d kill myself, but for now I’ll just
let Ed Buck do it.” —Gemmel Moore
Moore’s family have asked the investigators to grant immunity to
witnesses who come forward, but the Los Angeles Sheriff’s
Department said that it cannot grant immunity—only prosecutors
can.

In addition to the launch of Justice 4 Gemmel, Moore’s mother
has enlisted the help of human rights advocate and attorney Nana
Gyamfi.

Through all of this, Ed Buck has remained silent. And free. He
dispatched his attorney to a West Hollywood City Council meeting
to urge citizens to stop the ongoing “character assassination.”

Meanwhile, 26-year-old Gemmel Moore is still dead.

Editor’s note: A previous version of this article misspelled the
name of LaTisha Nixon and listed the wrong year of death for
Gemmel Moore and an incorrect date for his vigil. The Root
regrets these errors.

https://www.theroot.com/the-curious-case-of-the-black-male- prostitute-found-dea-1820247720

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