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Mr. Buck finally faced consequences this week as prosecutors
charged him with operating a drug house and accused him of being
a predator who targeted vulnerable men.

When the lifeless body of a 26-year-old man was found two years
ago in the apartment of Ed Buck, a small-time Democratic donor
and political activist, the authorities described it as an
accidental overdose. Then, in January, a 55-year-old fashion
consultant died in Mr. Buck’s home in exactly the same way. Once
again, he faced no charges.

On Tuesday, after a third man survived a methamphetamine
overdose in the apartment, Mr. Buck was finally arrested and
hauled away in the back of a police car.

The sordid facts — and Mr. Buck’s seeming double life — are the
stuff of crime novels. The West Hollywood apartment building
where Mr. Buck lived, with its simple white facade, dirty with
stains dripping from air-conditioners, would be easy to miss on
another day, the kind of spot that the novelist Raymond Chandler
once described as a good place to have bad habits.

Prosecutors have charged Mr. Buck with operating a drug house,
administering methamphetamines and battery and accused him of
being a “violent, dangerous sexual predator” who targeted
vulnerable men. “Buck is clearly a predator with no regard for
human life,” the court documents said.

More repercussions may come. The charges relate only to the
latest victim, a 37-year-old who fled the apartment after an
encounter last week with Mr. Buck. Local supporters and the
families of the men who died said they were thankful after the
charges were filed.

“That’s what we have been pushing for, for the last two years
and 50-something days,” said Hussain Turk, a civil rights lawyer
who represents one of the family members. “We don’t want another
death. We don’t want another overdose.”

The first victim, Gemmel Moore, 26, died in July 2017 and
Timothy Dean, 55, died in January. The identity of the third has
not been released; he was referred to as “Joe Doe” in court
documents.

Mr. Buck faces up to five years and eight months in prison if he
is convicted of the current charges.

Court documents describe how Mr. Buck would lure men to his
apartment and administer large doses of narcotics to manipulate
his victims to participate in sex acts.

Mr. Moore was found dead in Mr. Buck’s apartment surrounded by
sex toys and 24 hypodermic needles, according to court records.
In a wrongful-death lawsuit filed in February, LaTisha Nixon,
the mother of Mr. Moore, claimed that Mr. Buck bought a plane
ticket for her son to travel from Houston. After Mr. Moore
arrived in Los Angeles, Mr. Buck injected him with crystal
methamphetamine, according to the lawsuit. It was a drug Ms.
Nixon said her son had never used.

Families of the two men who died in his apartment have accused
Mr. Buck, who is white, of preying upon black gay men. Ms. Nixon
said in the lawsuit that Mr. Buck had a “well-documented history
of isolating black men for predatory sexual encounters.” Crowds
of protesters, too, have gathered outside Mr. Buck’s home this
year to demand justice for the men.

“We know that, with the arrest of Ed Buck, that the life
expectancy of black gay men in L.A. County has substantially
increased,” Jasmyne Cannick, an activist and spokeswoman for the
families of the victims, said on Wednesday.

A lawyer for Mr. Buck, Seymour I. Amster, could not be reached,
but he has previously denied that Mr. Buck had any role in the
two deaths.

In the most recent case, “Joe Doe” visited Mr. Buck’s apartment
at least two times. On Sept. 4, he sought medical attention
after he was injected with methamphetamine. A week later he
returned to the apartment where, the Los Angeles County District
Attorney’s Office said, Mr. Buck again injected the 37-year-old
man with methamphetamine. He then fled and called 911.

In West Hollywood, Mr. Buck was a recognizable figure, a former
model who became a fixture in Los Angeles Democratic political
circles and who focused on animal rights. In 2007, he made an
unsuccessful bid for West Hollywood City Council.

Mr. Buck was not a major Democratic donor but he handed out tens
of thousands of dollars to California Democrats, including
Representatives Ted Lieu, Adam B. Schiff, Pete Aguilar, Jerry
McNerney and Jimmy Gomez. One recipient of larger gifts was
Kyrsten Sinema, a congresswoman at the time who is now an
Arizona senator. Mr. Buck also made contributions to the
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in 2016, and to both
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.

Politicians eventually began to distance themselves from Mr.
Buck. The campaign committee told Fox News in January that it
had donated Mr. Buck’s contributions to the NALEO Educational
Fund, a national bipartisan Latino group. Mr. Lieu said he would
donate $18,000 in contributions from Mr. Buck to civil rights
organizations. Ms. Sinema gave away her donations, too, as did
Mr. Aguilar and Mr. Schiff.

Douglas Wingate, a lawyer, said he met Mr. Buck in Paris when
both men were in their 20s and Mr. Buck was working as a model.
Mr. Buck owned golden retriever rescue dogs, Mr. Wingate said,
and had pushed the West Hollywood City Council to ban the sale
of fur clothes in 2011.

“He lives a very unextravagant lifestyle,” Mr. Wingate said. “He
doesn’t like to dine out at fancy places, he doesn’t like to
travel. He likes to play with his dogs.” He believed that Mr.
Buck was not rich. “I read stories about money he gave away that
I didn’t think he ever came close to having,” Mr. Wingate said.

Still, Mr. Buck was often seen at political events for the
Stonewall Democratic Club of Los Angeles, where he was a member.
When he ran for City Council, he drew donations from actors,
models, lawyers, writers and at least one television executive,
according to disclosure forms filed with the city of West
Hollywood in 2007 and 2008.

Lester Aponte, the president of the club, said he was surprised
to hear that Mr. Buck was a generous political donor. “His car
was a wreck,” he said. “It was constantly in the shop and
leaving him stranded. I didn’t understand how he could give
thousands of dollars to candidates for Congress and not have a
car that worked.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/18/us/ed-buck-west-hollywood.html

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