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I heard from a source that Derek Hay has offered Direct Models for sale to Gold Star Modeling owner Joel Lawrence. Gold Star is Direct’s biggest competitor. Would this merger create a near monopoly for the agencies?

Also Posted: It is starting to look like Derek Hay (aka Ben English) of LA Direct Models has more connection to Michelle Braun (aka Nici of NicisGirls) than he would have liked you to think. Things have allegedly gotten so hot after Braun’s arrest last month that the situation is approaching boiling point at the Direct offices. Kevin Kline, one of the agents at Direct (and Kelly Kline’s husband) thought things got to hot, and is laying low back home in North Carolina.

One source tells me the FBI has already raided Direct’s offices.

Another source tells me that Derek is trying to peddle his ownership in Direct Models and get out of town before everything comes crashing down.

I asked Derek for comment earlier this week, but he did not respond.

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We drove by on Ventura Blvd yesterday and there were FBI agents all over the place. I'm glad Derek is getting his the fucking prick.

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LA Direct's Derek Hay Denies FBI Investigation Rumors
Claims Joel Lawrence of Gold Star Modeling Started Gossip

By Peter Warren

Posted: 2:46 PM PST Nov 15, 2007
STUDIO CITY, Calif. - Rumors that the FBI has raided the offices of talent agency LA Direct Models in a prostitution investigation are completely false, owner Derek Hay told AVN.

"There is no truth to it whatsoever," Hay said. "I'm aware that Joel Lawrence at Gold Star Modeling is the source of much of these rumors, and I think it's a shame that a competitor in the industry has to stoop to such a low level to try and gain an edge in the marketplace. No one visited our office."

When informed of Hay's comment, Lawrence countered, "Give me any piece of concrete evidence that in any way supports that. If he has anything other than conjecture, please bring it forward. Find somebody who says I actually told them that, anyone, and if he can't do that, then he needs to really seriously think about what he's accusing people of."

At the heart of the situation lies a statement issued by Michelle Braun of now-defunct escort service Bella Models on TheEroticReview.com after she recently was inspected and arrested (on a possession charge) by the FBI. Braun wrote: "Everyone would be incredibly foolish to assume that I am the only one being targeted. Every escort and adult agency including ... LA Direct Models are very highly likely the subject of an FBI and IRS investigation."

Some adult gossip websites alleged that Direct Models had a business connection with Bella Models, which Hay adamantly denies.

"Direct Models never worked with or for or had any sort of working relationship with Bella Models," Hay said. "Many of the girls in this industry choose to work with agencies that provide the services that Bella Models did, through Bella Models and many other agencies, and they still do. It's something that's been increasing in popularity among the girls in recent years, and so, because Direct Models is a large and successful agency, of course some of the girls that work at Direct Models chose to work there also. That's all of the connection that there is."

Speculation has also been flying that Hay was considering selling LA Direct Models to Lawrence because of the alleged investigation, but both parties deny this.

"When people have called me up and said, 'Hey, I hear you're buying him out,' I've said, 'No.'" Lawrence stated. "When they called me up and said, 'Hey, did the FBI go into Derek's office the other day?' I was like, 'I doubt it.' Now, I have people that call me that say, 'Yes it did.' I don't have any idea whether the FBI has anything to do with him or not. If he's feeling competition, and the only way he can believe that he could be beat is if I was nefarious, then he is drastically underestimating me. It's just capitalism, baby, and he's just not winning as many rounds as he was in the past.

"I'm not out to get him," Lawrence concluded. "I honestly think it's a very low probability that the FBI is ever going to knock on his door. But it's not my problem."

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Lawrence concluded. "I honestly think it's a very low probability that the FBI is ever going to knock on his door. But it's not my problem."

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Maybe somebody should call ICE on that limey butt boy to check his work visa and/or resident alien status or is he a US citizen somehow?

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"Direct Models never worked with or for or had any sort of working relationship with Bella Models,"

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kudos to joel for working the word nefarious into a sentence. and kelly wells used to be repped by derek, willie.

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So Christian, how many times have you and Ben English slept together?

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kudos to joel for working the word nefarious into a sentence. and kelly wells used to be repped by derek, willie.

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So Christian, how many times have you and Ben English slept together?

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and kelly wells used to be repped by derek, willie.

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Some adult gossip websites alleged that Direct Models had a business connection with Bella Models, which Hay adamantly denies.

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An unnamed porn star writes in regarding the FBI’s probe into the dealings of Michelle Braun:



First I use to be represented by Joel and Derek. Both guys are dick heads. Joel never mentioned Bella don’t get me wrong he tried to get me to escort alot. On the otherhand Derek ask me to escort and told me to go to Bella Models. So I did and made money and the asshole made money from it to.

I am so fed up with this whole war between agents shit people blaming people. Both Derek and Joel book POV scenes and they are nothing but escorting jobs. I use to give my schedule to Derek when I was working with bella. Not only that but he had his own password to log onto her site and when he would see a girl with his agency on the site he would call them and say that is my girl and get a kickback.

So what am I doing a few girls and I have been talking to the FBI and giving them all of the dirty little details. If either one of them thinks that there girls are not going to talk well we are. We are tired of being belittled by pimps like derek and joel and hopefully the other girls will see and do the same.

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