Lara Roxx Interview: " ?Well, that?s what we need. It?s either that or nothing.?"
 

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Mark Kernes


CHATSWORTH, Calif. - Lara Roxx, the first innocent victim of the HIV firestorm sweeping through the adult industry, never wanted to be the center of attention.

When she arrived in L.A. in mid-March from Montreal, on a ticket paid for with borrowed funds, her short brown hair streaked with pink, all she wanted to do was perform in enough scenes to create a nest-egg that she could take back to Canada and use to go on with her life.

Instead, she?s now broke, jobless and had been staying with friends, and if the tests come back Saturday evening as she?s hoping they won?t, HIV-positive.


It was Tuesday, April 13, the day the news broke that popular performer Darren James had contracted HIV ? the first active performer on the straight side of the industry to do so in nearly five years.

But for Roxx, the story started two months earlier.

It was around February 10, 2004. Roxx had been performing, mostly for Canadian-based Internet sites, for exactly one month, and she was about to do her first boy/girl scene for an American video feature.

?When I first walked into Daniel Perrault?s office, I told him what I was ready to do, and he told me he wasn?t ready to represent me under those conditions,? Roxx stated on April 16. ?I told him I wasn?t interested in anal at all, and I was a little freaky about the no-condom thing, too. I?m educated about the STDs since I?m in grade 3. I was educated about condoms. I knew I didn?t want any STDs. I was protecting myself in the proper ways to not catch STDs, the ways I was taught.?

But though she?d been a dancer for three years, Roxx wasn?t very familiar with the adult video industry, and she admits that later, when she decided to accept offers to do scenes in L.A., Perrault advised her that he thought she was too innocent to survive the U.S. porn scene.

Perrault nonetheless brought Roxx into contact with director Marc Anthony, who was reportedly in Montreal scouting for talent, and he in turn introduced her to his actors, Darren James and Max Black. Roxx thinks there was another actor, possibly Canadian, named Max who was also present.

Perrault had arranged for Roxx to have an HIV test, but she?s not sure what kind of test that was; just that blood was drawn for it.

?Really, that?s a question for Daniel Perrault or the lab where I took my test,? Roxx responded. ?I think it?s AIM?s equivalent in Canada, but we don?t have to test for Chlamydia or gonorrhea; we only test for syphilis and HIV.?

Patricia Petite, who also works with Perrault, is said to have been working with an ELISA test. Petite is on the first-generation A list, those who had sexual contact with James.

At this point, Roxx doesn?t know whether the test was PCR-DNA or ELISA, but when she flew to Los Angeles a few weeks later, at the urging of L.A.-based manager Thomas Hope, one of the first things she did was go to AIM for a new PCR-DNA test, and that was negative for HIV.

?There?s a rumor out there that I might have given him [Darren] the virus,? Roxx noted, ?and I don?t care about what people say because I know the truth and that?s what?s important to me.?

The executive director of AIM, Dr. Sharon Mitchell, confimed today that James' is still believed to be the source of the HIV-virus, and he is believed to have obtained the virus from Brazil.

Now freshly tested, Roxx was booked for some scenes for Devil?s Films? and then she got another offer from Marc Anthony for March 24.

?When I got there, me and Marc had a little conversation, because Thomas Hope told me I was going to do a d.p., and so I get there and Marc Anthony tells me it?s a d.a., which stands for double anal, ? Roxx recalled. ?And I?m like, ?What? I?ve never done a double anal.? And he?s like, ?Well, that?s what we need. It?s either that or nothing.? And that?s how they do it.

"But Marc Anthony was playing that, and I think that really sucks, because I?m mad at the friend I thought I had in Marc, because he knew double anal was dangerous. I knew it too, really, probably, but I was just putting it way back in my mind because I was down in California to make the maximum amount of money, to come back home wealthy. I had plans for the money.?

The scene was to be with Marc and Darren, but before getting into the action, the performers chatted, with Marc telling Roxx about his and Darren?s recent trip to Brazil.

?He told me that, but I didn?t take that as, oh, people in Brazil may be fuckin? dirty or whatever,? Roxx explained. ?I was like, ?Oh, cool; how was Brazil? How was their festival over there? Was it fun?? I didn?t ask him if Darren slept with a girl with HIV over there, you know.?

But not being schooled in the ways of porn, Roxx didn?t know that it was commonplace for performers to show each other their tests before beginning a scene.

?I wasn?t experienced enough to go up to people and ask them for their test, and the only person that showed me their test before we had a sexual relation was, unfortunately, Marc Anthony.?

The double anal came off as planned, but the next day, Roxx made a painful discovery.

?The day after that scene, I had a rash appeared on my ass; a rash like I?ve never had before, and I was in pain. I couldn?t sit on my butt.?

Roxx went to the medical clinic run by Dr. Rigg, where a doctor ? Roxx?s not sure who ? prescribed a course of antibiotics.

?That stupid doctor prescribed me stupid antibiotics without even looking at it [the rash],? Roxx protested. ?He was like afraid.?

A friend, actress RayVeness, took Roxx back to the Rigg clinic on March 30 and raised hell about the treatment she had been given there.

?The first medicine, the antibiotics I was taking,? Roxx said, ?were so strong that they gave me a yeast infection, so the rash on my butt was gone, but I had a huge, huge ? the biggest yeast infection I?ve ever had in my life.?

?I spent all my money from that scene that was remaining, after I paid [them] back for my plane ticket, on doctors,? Roxx said bitterly.

?After that, I saw another doctor from AIM,? she continued, ?because I was like, ?Fuck Dr. Rigg.? I felt sick and I didn?t want to work while I was feeling sick; I felt so sick I wasn?t able to work. So I went to see that [AIM] doctor; he was very young, but I?m sure he was very well intentioned and he very much cared about his job and the people he was taking care of, and I think that was a good doctor. So we did all kinds of tests, but they wouldn?t give me test results because I just spent all my money at Rigg.?

Roxx isn?t sure just when she saw the AIM doctor for her yeast infection, but she knows it was sometime in early April.

?They were not only taking my blood; they were doing all kinds of ? they were taking mucus samples from my toes, my vagina, everywhere,? she recalled. ?The AIM doctor prescribed me something for bacterial vaginosis, which I took, and I hope I?m rid of that shit now. And he diagnosed me with genital warts, which I think that might have [caused] the rash on my butt on that day. I don?t know too much except for what was on that paper from AIM.?

Roxx also developed a case viral pharyngitis, for which she went to Northridge Hospital on April 10 and received medication. It was while she was taking the prescribed drugs and recuperating that Roxx received the fateful call from Perrault.

?When Daniel told me that Darren James was HIV positive, it totally freaked me out,? Roxx said. ?It totally made me realize how I trusted this system that wasn?t to be trusted at all, because it obviously doesn?t work.

?We should think about these issues right now, to change stuff around to make this a safer fuckin? business. It isn?t a safe business, and I thought it was, and I would have not did that scene with no condom with Darren James if it would have crossed my mind that those tests weren?t good and that I couldn?t trust him or the people he?s been with. I thought porn people were the cleanest people in the world, is what I thought.?

As this is written, Lara Roxx is waiting for the results of her second round of tests for HIV, hoping that the first positive test was just a mistake. She?s also thinking about what her future will be like if she has the virus, and muses about taking some classes in filmmaking at UCLA ? if she can afford it.

DA is everyday term now.

That's how they work. Not right. You tell a girl before she gets there what she's being hired for, that's an agent's job. She was sandbagged as many are. Yes she could have said hell no and walked out but $1500 when you've been counting on it and you're broke is tempting and the producers and shooters know it.

goddamn thats rough..

if it's any consolation i just raw-dogged a transexual prostitute.

Someone from the adult industry with some money better take this girl under their wing and make sure she's taken care of, or someone who wants to see porn shut down will. She's ripe for exploitation by the right wingers.

doh........ i looked pretty carefully on this board to see if anybody had posted this interview .... now I see Dr. Dre already had.

she's no innocent as many people are saying, she could have said no - but she was still sandbagged. Most likely even if she had been told the scene was a Double Anal she'd have taken the job. But there's also a chance she'd have told a friend like this Rayveness chick about it and maybe she'd have been scared off by her on the double anal job.

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?The day after that scene, I had a rash appeared on my ass; a rash like I?ve never had before, and I was in pain. I couldn?t sit on my butt.?

Roxx went to the medical clinic run by Dr. Rigg, where a doctor ? Roxx?s not sure who ? prescribed a course of antibiotics.

?That stupid doctor prescribed me stupid antibiotics without even looking at it [the rash],? Roxx protested. ?He was like afraid.?
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I'd be pretty scared to look at a rash on an ass of some chick who had been spread open by two dicks.

Or maybe if she wasn't a greedy slut she wouldn't have done it. They had the same motives the directors, producers, agents and her they're all greedy and all worthless.

ever met Rayveness? hahaha

she sure has been around thats for sure.

and WTF are you?

ever use a naked girl to make money?

please..... doctors within their first few weeks of internship at a hospital have seen it all, a whole lot worse than a rash on an an ass.

I was talking about myself. I'm not a doctor :)

i've heard of Rayveness but I don't know what she looks like. Was she a VIVID chick?

Double anal is big in gonzo porn but not even half the girls in porn have or will do them. There are still plenty of girls who don't even do anal.

Oh I got ya so because I'm involved in porn I'm forbidden from having any morals or ethics.

:1orglaugh

According to her story Laura Roxx started breaking out with diseases the day after having sex with Darren James.

AIDS is constantly mutating (which is one of the things that makes treating it and finding a cure so difficult). If she decides to sue there is a very good chance that DNA tests can determine if the stain she has is the strain he has. Unless Darren James has a doctor willing to go to jail for him a subpeona or 2 could prove he had all the other diseases she claims to have gotten from him.

If we were talking about months I wouldn't be as suspicious but since we are talking 2-3 weeks between "the scene" and the HIV+ diagnosis I have to say the chances are huge her infection was prior. She can't even say what kind of tests she had. She left it up to whoever. I feel bad for her, but she was stupid and I wish her luck trying to sort things out but she is solely to blame for where she is. I think everyone involved that suggests a short-term test means anything realistically among people who make a living fucking is doing a HUGE disservice to anyone who reads/hears their drivel.

wow, she has almost every disease and infection out there

Exploitation? At least right wingers take care of the people you toss in the trash.
If she gets a good lawyer there will be exploitation
bigtime.

:Graucho

shes been around for awhile, one of those girls with their name on their thighboots, oldschool peformer kind.

http://www.rayveness.com/page2.html

It's unfortunate for her. But being a pornstar was her decision to make, and she'll have to live with the consiquences... Time for her to get a dayjob.

you mean one of those kind of girls that wants you to trust her so she can pimp you herself rather than let the guys she hates make money.

Oh give it no time before AIDS is added to the reasons for war on porn. Anything to keep it a "them" disease. :2 cents:

1.) The Story I got from people at the set was the she showed up with a rash, and lesions as well and they shot her anyway.
2.) She shot with Darren James in Canada in a B/G Scene.
SO she was doing boy/girl scenes before she ever came to L.A.
3.) Having been a registered nurse for 21 years before coming into the porno biz. I find it odd that her and Darrin are the only 2 positives so far, in spite of the fact that other girls shot "Anal Creampies with him, as well as oral cumshots.
This would indicate medically that they are at or near the same stage of the disease process which brings me back to point #2.
She shot with Darrin James in Canada in Febuary,
which is more than Likely where the disease was exchanged between the 2 of them.
Was Laura Roxx tested before she started working in L.A.??
If so when was her test done??
not the one that was thrown out because she left the clinic without paying for it............................
The one she produced at the set, the day was suppodely conned into doing a double anal scene.
Or did she produce one at the set that day??
An AIM test........
Not a canadaina test which is what she was suppodedly running aound shooting with

not based on the same grounds you judge other ppl...

you profit from sluts who fuck for money...

deal with it...

but don't bash it.. hypocrite

Are you joking or just brainwashed by Rush? :1orglaugh

The only reason the right wing would care about her is if they thought they could exploit her and use her to promote their own agenda.

What is their agenda? To destroy the Constitution and put people like you in jail for exercising your free speech rights. They want to turn the U.S. into a country like many of the Islamic countries where free speech doesn't exist. Do you support that?

Did she shoot any scenes after the double anal with all the diseases that she talks about in the interview?

You get it, and I can tell you that many higher ups in the industry want a lot of people to keep quiet about this- i spoke about it last night on the evening news here in my city- I kept it as brief as possible and tried to explaing that it's unfortunate, but it's representative of any business anywhere in the world- You have good people in every industry, and a few bad ones as well.


It's not good from a liability perspective for the agents and producers, and AIM. It is raising a lot of eyebrows, and in a year that has seen a horrible media story with " Bella Donna's Prime Time Live", infighting between Larry Flynt and Rob Black over his obscenity charges in PA, and his consequent impending trial. The" right wingers" are having a field day.


In an election year that is seeing "Mcarthyism" re-flourish- the Right Winger's have launched an assault on our freedoms. Starting with Janet Jackson's bare breast at the Superbowl, Howard Stern and Bubba "The Love Sponge's" FCC fines-, and now the mad push for the "V" Chip- The government loves this kind of bruhaha. It's just unfortunate that an industry that can make over 13 Billion dollars annually can't police itself 100%

Then again, I don't know of any other industries this profitable that can say the same thing. There are loopholes and glitches in the system in every industry. Should we attempt to unionize the industry? That's laughable- You can't even get pornstars to all show up at the same time for shoot. Should the industry be responsible for the health and insurance of the performers? A good idea in theory , however it'd be so high risk for studio's to insure this kind of " labor force". it would no longer be such a viable business.

From what I am seeing in the media, I am only seeing and reading about the HIV infections and how it could or couldn't have been avoided. I still have not seen or heard too much regarding the coaxing of her from Canada to the States to do work she didn't want to do- Which we know is not the case. She willingly performed and no one put a gun to her head- Was she uneducated about the perils of HIV?

However the media as this progresses and the story loses it's steam would love to push the boundaries right now with the use of words like " Double Anal"- I smell it coming ( no pun intended).

Just my

:2 cents:

The question is did she fuck a couple other guys in another room for free at another set where a freind of her's was shooting.??
Ask Jullian :Graucho

It wouldn't be a real suprise if she did now would it?

No surpirse at all..........................................
If she were not playong sooo innocent

I think you ae the one who is brainwashed or blind.

:Graucho

there are no innocent adults in this world they just don't exist and that's the truth

There are many in the porn industry, the 'old guard', who wouldn't mind seeing a crackdown on the gonzo studios.

If AIM threw away a test because the girl could not or would not pay for it AIM should be closed down.

as for James and Lara working together in Canada back in February, notice how AVN avoided that question, and it was the one I was looking for most in this interview. I really hope AIM is tracking that rumor down.

Testing is not all AIM cares about. We all know they and Sharon have other motives as well.

And have you as a responsible human being and a registered nurse of 20 years called AIM and AVN and told them this? Did Julian fuck her? Is Julian on the first generation list? Should he be?

trust me they know..............

Notice how they convinently skipped over the fact that Darrin and
Her shot together in Canada??
And they are the only 2 positives up to this point??
I think they are well aware of the facts

For those of you who don't know...............................
AVN cares about one thing M O. N. E. Y.
they take care of their advertising clients, (A.I.M.) and they don't give a fuck about the talent, producers, or anything else that does not pay them.
There is only one activity that goes on out here in porn valley more then sex.................................
It's called politics

this guy knows his shit.

this is very serious business for people whose lives are at risk, even though these rumors are all over the place, if you know something you should call AIM, email AIM, AVN, anybody. If you know of any porn industry people who've had sex with Lara on a non-work basis and AIM has neglected to put on their lists then you need to tell them - not assume because 'everybody knows'.
At worst when this is all over, AIM and AVN will have to defend themselves.

I know there was a letter on ******** from an anonymous hahahahahar who seemed to know alot about Montreal and he had tried and tried to get through to AIM by phone to tell them what he knew.

AIM is in over its head, AVN is what it is, sooner or later this will be taken out of their hands.

The information I got came from an insider at A.I.M..............
so why call and tell them something they already know????
They are in over their heads at this point

To start quarantining performers based on the suspicious March 10th date doesn't make sense to me. Due to the inaccuracies of the HIV tests, there is a 50% chance that James was already infected when he had his last 'clean' AIM test. Same with Lara Roxx.

ANY sex that James has had in the last year, protected or unprotected, should be considered a risk. Same goes for Roxx. If I didn't know better, I might think that AIM is trying to keep as many people out of the quarantine list that they can get away with... :2 cents:

no way they're way above having a personal agenda related to how they do their testing and all that shit.

yeah right

I hope it didn't start in Montreal...

then send off an anonymous email from a hotmail account to Paul Fishbein, Tim Connelly, Luke Ford, Gene Ross, ******** etc. Yeah I'm sure they have heard the information you have but it's good to have a record of who knew what and when they knew it.
People's lives at at stake.

So true... it can take months or even a year to show up positive.

OMP kicked me off thier site for being too honest & upfront with models and Thomas Hope ran an underage girl around LA & does a bait_N_switch double anal with a broke new girl and ther you have it. The system hard at work.

And for the lack of a little reasearch ... Another young life is lost. Sad.

Christ almighty... this girl has more problems than even I imagined.

The rash on her butt, feeling sick, the pharyngitis she was diagnosed with, and all the other stuff she mentioned, didn't come from the HPV (warts). She obviously already had that when she arrived. Those are all *classic* symptoms of an initial HIV infection. I believe rash and fever are the two biggest predictors of HIV infection after recent exposure.

I was also sort of suss about who infected who, but everything she just described sounds exactly like what would be expected if he had infected her that day. She seems absolutely clueless, though. Surely the AIM people told her she had basically every hallmark of a new HIV infection.

I've never seen a 'double anal' scene, but wouldn't condoms break or possibly get pulled off from rubbing against each other?

I'm no expert on current condom technology, could someone enlighten me?