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The sisters of a gay man who died in the West Hollywood home of
Ed Buck last year have filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against
the wealthy Democratic donor, alleging he was a drug dealer who
preyed on black men and injected their brother with a lethal
dose of crystal methamphetamine for his own sexual gratification.

Joyce Jackson and Joann Campbell filed the lawsuit Tuesday, the
first anniversary of the death of their 55-year-old brother,
Timothy Dean. Dean was found dead of a drug overdose inside
Buck’s West Hollywood home Jan. 7, 2019.

It was the second time in less than two years that a black man
had died of an overdose at Buck’s home. After significant outcry
from activists, Dean’s death prompted authorities to launch an
investigation into Buck’s actions.

Attorney Hussain Turk, who is representing the families of Dean
and Gemmel Moore, who was found dead in Buck’s home in July
2017, said it took unreasonable efforts from the community to
get the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office to look at
the information they had gathered about Buck, a longtime donor
to the Democratic Party and a fixture in West Hollywood.

Buck has been indicted on federal charges of providing the meth
that led to the deaths of both Moore, 26, and Dean. The L.A.
County district attorney’s office has also charged Buck, 65,
with battery and operating a drug den. He has pleaded not guilty
and remains in federal custody.

Prosecutors allege Buck preyed on vulnerable gay black men who
were homeless, addicted to drugs or working as escorts and lured
them to his Laurel Avenue apartment, where he manipulated them
into doing drugs for his sexual gratification.

“The issue of sexual violence has become very salient thanks to
the #MeToo movement, but one of the failures of the movement is
that really only wealthy, white women are trusted when they come
forward with allegations,” Turk said. “Had the victims in this
case been white or wealthy, then we firmly believe that the
claims would have been taken much more seriously.”

Several men have claimed Buck injected them with methamphetamine
as they slept. In one instance, a man said Buck referred to him
using a racial slur, according to the lawsuit.

The suit alleges that Buck “had a predatory and injurious system
of soliciting black gay men and watching them cling to life
while battling symptoms of methamphetamine toxicity after he
intravenously administered large doses of the drug to them.” The
men engaged in sexual acts with and in front of Buck in exchange
for compensation in the form of temporary housing, money,
alcohol, marijuana and other substances, court records show.

On occasions before Dean’s death, Buck had injected the man with
crystal methamphetamine without his consent and then forced him
to watch hardcore pornographic films and perform sex acts,
according to the lawsuit.

When reached by phone Wednesday, Buck’s attorney, Seymour
Amster, told a Times reporter that he was not aware that a civil
lawsuit had been filed. He did not have an immediate comment.

Amster has previously told The Times that critics had unfairly
used race to blame Buck for the deaths, saying, “Some people who
all of a sudden have media attention are trying to divide the
races.”

The lawsuit accuses Buck of sexual battery, assault, hate
violence, negligence and intentional infliction of emotional
distress as well as other crimes. A separate civil lawsuit filed
by Moore’s family last year, which in addition to Buck names
L.A. County and Dist. Atty. Jackie Lacey, is still ongoing.

A Times analysis of campaign finance records shows that, since
the mid-2000s, Buck has given more than $500,000 to political
candidates and causes, almost all of them linked to the
Democratic Party. Forty politicians currently holding office in
California have received donations from Buck, including Lacey,
Gov. Gavin Newsom, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, and U.S.
Reps. Ted Lieu (D-Torrance) and Adam B. Schiff (D-Burbank). Some
politicians have returned the money.

“The goal is holding not only Ed Buck to account, but also the
county and the leaders who are supposed to be protecting
everyone in Los Angeles,” Turk said.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-08/on-the- anniversary-of-his-death-timothy-deans-family-files-lawsuit-
against-ed-buck

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