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Was Lara Rox working legally in the U.S.? Aren't there laws about transporting people across borders for the purpose of prostitution.


The "Mann Act" of 1910. White Slavery!

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We've all seen Lara's story about having to make money to pay back the people who paid for her transportation to L,A. I doubt TT will provide evidence of this underlying felony in this case, especially since it was a person he contracted with who paid for her plane ticket.


I don't believe T.T. had anything to do with bringing her to the US. I've never heard that said and I thought there was a post on ADT, before the outbreak, from the Canadian guy who came down with her. T.T. seems not at risk here.

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But I disagree with lara making a bad witness. I think she will be a very sympathetic witness, who was coereced and corrupted by these evil pornographers(insert sarcasm here)


Her lawyer will no doubt do that. But his lawyer will paint her as an illegal foreign 'ho with a penchant for bareback sex with the John's for a little extra tax-free cash, who shot a couple of porn scenes for extra cash, without warning the producer or talent about her high-risk background.

My father was a lawyer and once said "There are at least three sides to every story, and the only one that doesn't matter to a lawyer is the Truth."

A lawyer doesn't start with the facts and try to find what they point to. The approach is to find a theory that supports the client's needs and then find facts that support or deny it. This is a very different thing than trying to find "The Truth". Her & T.T.'s lawyers will portray her so differently that it might as well be two different people.

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As far as the genetic tests to identify the particular strains, this is routinely done these days and is not that expensive.(600 to 800 dollars). These tests are done routinely when known hiv positive prostitutes are accused of infecting their 'johns" The tests are very accurate and have already withstood court tests in all 9 u.s. ditrict courts.


There are two different issues here.

Typing the virus to find out the "strain" is, as you say, neither expensive nor difficult to have done. Unfortunately there are only 50-70 - maybe a few more - identifiable this way, and they are geographically distributed. By this I mean that, say, 90% of HIV cases in LA might be only 10 different subtypes (totally made up numbers, but you get the point). Lara and Darren might share the same subtype, but hundreds of other people in LA probably do too.

(a break for her side might be if the subtype is shared between Lara and Darren but rare in the US)

Genetic fingerprinting is different. You can indeed say "one probably infected the other" and not some other circuitous path. But this is a very different thing requiring "expert analysis" and judgment & interpretation. Her lawyers will pay an expert to say "Yes" and his lawyers will pay a different expert to say "No". This is much more expensive, and vastly more expensive in trial if dueling expert witnesses are involved.

And this shows another risk: what if testing for a trial reveals she's carrying more than one strain, including some Darren doesn't have? If she needs cash she knows one way to get it, and many HIV+ patients don't seem to appreciate the need to avoid re-infection.

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As for TT fleeing the country, and I doubt he will, there are plenty of assets to be siezed to pay any monetary damages.


Like what?

If he treats Evasive as a piggy bank he may not have a lot of hard assets outside of his car and maybe a house, both perhaps complicated by loans and mortgages. Even Evasive's assets in equipment can be converted into leases and cash. Evasive's library of masters and titles in production may be the biggest asset, and that's pretty worthless to Lara's lawyer.

I have no clue about T.T.'s finances or whether Evasive is profitable (or if he even owns Evasive like everyone assumes). But as plaintiff's lawyer I'd certainly worry about it.

And there are risks. What if T.T. goes out of business for some other reason before trial? What if some state action eats up the cash he might have had to pay out a settlement or judgment? What if there are other civil suits that mean divvying up the cash with other lawyers, cutting your take? "A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush" and there reasons beyond T.T. heading to Brazil for her lawyer to take a "small" settlement now.

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JRV, does the timeline i put up there help at all? I'm not trying to pick a fight here, but do you see how it appears most unlikely thata nyone but darren was patient zero. If you see any flaw in my timeline please point it out.


"Patient Zero" was probably the tranny Bianca in Brazil. Lots of history posted earlier. A plausible progression in Bianca-tranny -> Biance Biaggi -> Darren James -> Lara

But, since that's not a favorable theory to T.T.'s lawyer, he'll pursue something different. His best shot might be to try to muddy the waters and claim that Lara might have started it all. That's an uphill battle since there are timeline issues he has to explain away or muddy up, but it's what he has to work with. Of course, getting Bianca deported might help. Maybe hire a P.I. to see if he can trap Lara into hooking (while HIV+).

You need to shed the idea that a lawsuit like this is about some idealized "Truth". Not by any means. Her lawyer will be willing to get closer to the "Truth" in this instance because it seems to support her better, not because it's "the right thing to do", and her lawyer will move away from the "Truth" wherever the "Truth" is inconvenient (such as prostitution, especially bareback). T.T.'s lawyer will do the same.

If Lara's lawyer has to go to trial she can probably win, but no way should she let it get that far.
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