Gay News At A Glance SEAN CODY PORN STAR JAILED FOR BLACKMAIL. Jarec Wentworth, a 26-year-old Sean Cody model, who’s real name is Teofil Brank, was found guilty of six felony counts for blackmailing a wealthy telecom executive out of $1.5 million in cash and property. It was found he had blackmailed millionaire Donald Burns, 51, out of $500,000 in cash and an Audi R8 valued at $180,000 in mid-February. Burns, founder of MagicJack internet phones and a Republican donor, went to the FBI after Brank demanded another $1 million and a condo in Los Angeles. He also admitted to paying Brank and several other porn stars for sex, and paying some of the men thousands of dollars in cash for introducing him to new sex partners. Brank was arrested in an FBI sting in March. At trial, the prosecutor said Brank had been ‘vengeful and intentional’ in his blackmail scheme and had ’caused great emotional harm’ to the victim’. Brank will be in prison for 70 months and then serve three years of supervised release.
FORMER NY METS PLAYER LENNY DYKSTRA ADMITS TO BLACKMAILING GAY UMPIRES. In an interview on Fox Sports Channel’s ”The Herd”, Dykstra admitted to having spent half a million dollars investigating the private lives of pro-league umpires in order to blackmail them into giving him preferential treatment during his baseball career. . Dykstra revealed that he used private investigators to build dossiers against the umpires which included finding out which of them were gay and which were having affairs. ‘Their blood’s just as red as ours,’ Dykstra went on to say, ‘Some of them like women, some of them 36: November 6, 2015
like men, some of them gamble … some of them do whatever.’ Dykstra said the dossier allowed him to put pressure on umpires to give him more leeway when batting at the height of his professional career. ‘It wasn’t a coincidence that I led the league in walks in 1993,’ Dykstra said, ‘Fear does a lot to a man.’ ‘I had to do what I had to win and to support my family.’ Dykstra played for the New York Mets from 1985 to 1989 and then the Philadelphia Phillies from 1989 to 1996. After he retired from baseball Dykstra went through a series of failed business attempts, which ultimately led to criminal convictions. It is unclear at this time if any legal consequences will result from his on the air confession.