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That whole era predates me, but the whole thing seems hazy anyway and Luke is probably the only one that remembers with any precision. But I think it went something like:

1. Luke printed that Wallice was HIV+.



A couple of things worth pointing out:

At that time Marc Wallice wasn't some marginal meatpuppet. He was effectively A-list (yeah it was that bad back then). Marc had been in the business for a dozen or more years, was well known & was friends with many people in all parts of the business. Tricia has said that she turned down shooting with some new guy (either Brandon or Erik Everhard, I can't remember) to shoot with Marc instead because Marc was established & trusted by everyone ... and she thinks that's the shoot where she was infected by HIV.

I don't recall Luke backing off on the story. Luke kept beating the drum until Patrick Collins (Marc worked at Elegant Angel at the time) finally made Marc get tested for real. Had Luke not kept at it Marc might have gotten away with it for longer.

What struck me at the time was that Luke wasn't told by Elvis that Marc was The One, nor did Luke discover this on his own. Someone told Luke. That means someone knew. I have never heard who finally blew the whistle; it was probably a friend of Marc's or an employee at Elegant Angel, but it still leaves open the question of how they knew. It may be someone had seen Marc's tests and noticed a pattern of suspect, perhaps faked, results. But it may also mean people other than Marc knew he was performing while HIV+.

I don't remember AIM “releasing” Marc's older tests. I think AIM started after the Marc Wallice outbreak? Federal privacy laws on medical tests wouldn't have allowed releasing results anyway unless Marc had signed the right kind of release, which probably wasn't done at that point (prior to Marc I don't recall people thinking in terms of deliberate fraud – they just wanted to make sure people got themselves tested).
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