Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012

Damon Kruezer’s Bogus Film Investment Fraud

Published on June 9, 2010 by   ·   22 Comments

Online cyberstalker and documented bamboozler Damon Kruezer has been proclaiming for many months now that his fictitious gay porn film, Brad Buddies II is nearing release. Recently Kruezer has added yet another well known gay performer (Troy Michaels) to the cast of this bogus film – using photos of Michaels that were produced almost 10 years ago. As always is the case with Damon Kruezer, the images being depicted are being used without permission from the owner and more important the images are being used for a criminal scam.

The website where all these images and outrageous commentary is dubbed BradBuddies2.info, published by Damon Kruezer and being used as what seems as the promotional portal for a bogus film scam.

The registration to the domain name being used is listed under the name of Kent Barclay (Kruezer’s real name) and uses a box number that is managed by Earth Class Mail an ONLINE marketed remailing service. Since the U.S. Postal Service requires that a Postal Consent Form (USPS Form 1583) be maintained, Gay Porn Gossip has requested a copy of the form from the USPS. It’s a classic characteristic of most scams to use a “mail-drop”.

In a June 7, 2010 update to the fictitious film’s website, Damon Kruezer depicts 2 photos of porn performer Troy Michaels. These photos that appear on the website (screencap: above) date back to around 2001. These photos of Troy Michaels used by Kruezer are photos of when Michaels was 20 years old. Troy Michaels is 30 years old now.

Gay Porn Gossip contacted Troy Michaels and Michaels related he had never heard of Damon Kruezer, Damon Pictures, nor Kent Barclay much less casted for any video project entitled Brad Buddies II. Michaels with some assistance is now working with the copyright owners of the photos depicted to have them removed from the website thru filing a DMCA with GoDaddy.com who provides Damon Kruezer with an inexpensive shared hosting platform. Pictured below is a recent photo ( see set here ) of Troy Michaels taken earlier this year.

You may recall our post sometime back about this investment scam when Damon Kruezer attempted to contact gay adult film superstar Brent Corrigan seeking to cast the highly sought after actor in this bogus film. See our post here: Man Posing As Film Producer Seeks To Cast Brent Corrigan In Bogus Porn Movie

Unzipped Editor Zach Sire discovered late last year that one of the other images (screencap: below) used by Kruezer was in fact a perfomer for the popular web portal, SeanCody.com. You can see Dylan perform on SeanCody.com here


Anyway, if you check out the Brad’s Buddies 2 website, you’ll see that his cast seems to have been assembled off of Google image search instead of any actual talent obtained by Kruezer. Kruezer merely displays images of young guys to give the illusion that he is in fact developing a motion picture.

Damon Kruezer whose real name is Kent Barclay has been able to successfully swindle a gay porn fan who lives in San Francisco into investing $11,000.00 in the bogus film project. The victim has furnished the emails and voice mail audio files sent by Damon Kruezer to Gay Porn Gossip. After having seen the emails and listened carefully to the voicemails it’s clear that Kruezer was conducting a phony film scam. Kruezer ceased communications with the victim and has not to date returned the victim’s investment. Further, Kruezer has recently admitted on his Twitter account that he had in fact taken the fan’s money but alludes that the fan’s investment was a “freewill donation”.

The photo to the right is a snapshot from a television news station who aired a short broadcast where Damon Kruezer furnished them this image. The news reporter and program director later learned that Damon Kruezer was not a gay media journalist as he proclaimed when he contacted the television station claiming to have information about a gay porn producer being murdered. It is not certain that the image is in fact Kent Barclay, as he has used a vast number of images to hid his true idenity.


Federal law enforcement agents are now inquiring into the alleged investment scam involving Damon Kruezer’s movie production and also an ongoing investigation with matters involving an online male escort scam where it is alleged that Kruezer has collected monies in advance from men online seeking prostitution services thru Western Union and the United States Mail. Kruezer is also suspected of working with a website in collecting upfront fees and posting profiles of porn models who are not escorting nor being aware that their images and name are being used to entice users to pay fees upfront.

More information about Damon Kruezer may be found at KruezeratNight.info

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  • Kevin Clarke

    Lets just for a second look at what is going on here. He defrauded someone 11,000 to make make a movie that he has not made. He committed wire fraud in taking the money half on western union and half in a bank account he set up in Rhode Island specifically for the purposes of committing this fraud. In that process he attempted to keep the amounts from being reported to the IRS by keeping an individual transfer under 10,000. This is wire fraud across state lines, bank fraud, IRS fraud.
    The trail of emails and voice mails that have been turned over to authorities speak very clearly to the point that this was an investment in Brads Buddies 2. What Gayporngossip shows here is that the fraud is ongoing. Just look above and you see a Sean Cody model that has been cropped to hide identification and presented as from Brad’s Buddies 2 and property of Damon pictures. Both acts continuing the ongoing fraud.
    As Gayporngossip has so insight-fully pointed out the pictures of Troy Michael are 10 years old were obviously not shot for Brad’s Buddies 2 and Troy Michaels has gone on record that those pictures are indeed of him, That Damon Pictures does not own them and that he has not worked for Damon pictures. He went further and provided a recent picture of how he looks now to prove the point. Another example of the continuing fraud.
    The remainder of the pictures will be identified and shown to be frauds as well.
    Notice how he is trying to claim now this was directed by Wayne Barclay, and Mark Holstrome. Neither person exists. Nice try Kent but that is also part of the fraud. The bottom line is he is trying to pass off stolen pictures to cover his fraud. Kent has engaged in many crimes is under active investigation, and is trying to cover his ass. Won’t work.
    Park of this investigation has to and will be are those feeding him like Chris Steele feeding him pictures so they can give him credibility in this fraud? Is Chris Steele part of this fraud scheme? He knows just what Kent is, knows he ripped off someone for 10,000, and continues to feed him pictures to continue to perpetrate this fraud.
    Seems that is it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck odds are it’s a duck. The best you could say about Chris Steele is that he is an unwitting participant in an interstate wire fraud scheme. However we all know that Chris Steele knows just what Kent is, and what Kent does. As I said to Chris Steele 2 years ago my Irish mother used to say tell me who you go with and I will tell you what you are. When you took the phone Chris and handed it to Jason Pitt and told him talk to this guy he will get you publicity, and Kent quickly said can I have your personal cell number and you let Jason Pitt give it to him you showed just what you are.
    You can bray at the moon in public about Kent Barclay but like a cockroach in the darkness you turn a first time model over to Kent in an attempt to get into his pants knowing full well that it was a matter of time before Kent tried to damage this young man tells us all we need to know.
    My guess is that he is an active participant in this fraud, but thankfully my guess is not where this ends up, This ends up with the authorities seeing clearly that there is a definite connection between these two, and that Chris Steel’s culpability will be determined during the investigation. Did you get into Jason’s pants Chris?

  • http://dewayneinsd.com/ DeWayne

    I met Troy Michaels at Mike Donners book signing last June a classy and handsome young man who left an early Twink career behind and moved to Europe with a BF. He would not know who Damon is any more than a Sean Cody model so he is the perfect type of model for Damon to use in a scam!

    Good Post!

  • http://www.gmifilms.com DexxJones

    as always he uses real life people as pretend dolls in his increasingly chaotic pretend storyline. anybody see grey gardens? at least that lunacy had some basis in fact. hey kentie. i am back to stay with some shocking storyline twists which will curl barb’s wart hair. :)

  • http://www.gmifilms.com DexxJones

    hey kent. hint hint the cat is now a lion. follow my clues. muhahahaha

  • I’m That Guy

    Well folks, it looks like (Thank God), the truth is now being spread WITH FACTS on my part of unfortunate involvement in this sick story.  I was (loong story) stupid enough to allow this entity to steal over $11K from me…that I really did NOT have the documentation to show you, those interested, just how devious Kent Barclay (is that his real name?) is.  I DO know he cares not for any fellow human being.
    Roy R.

  • I’m That Guy

    I miss wrote the previous, in that I DO HAVE ALL THE DOCUMENTATION to back up my allegations.  Too much anger pulsing through my body, so I apologize for the “mis-write”.  Have a good day and beware….VERY aware.  ;)

  • I’m That Guy

    Me again – Thank you Kevin.
    Roy R.

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  • Kevin Clarke

    Geee Kent must be embarrassing to be caught so quickly and publicly in your fraudulent use of stolen photos lying about a movie you never made. Too bad for you that copies of your Troy Michaels fraud were saved and sent on to authorities. You know claiming copyright ownership of pictures you do not own, and have stolen is juat another crime to your fraud. Nice to see you took Troy down, but it was way to late.
    Now anyone who has ever made a video (That leaves you out) knows full well the value of production stills and alas the only production still you have is stolen from a Sean Cody scene shot years ago. By now those production stills would be out in the world promoting your video, but that is difficult when you have no production stills, and no production.
    You have not been able to produce one person anywhere who claims to have worked on the project, the only proof it exists is your word, the word of a liar who just got caught stealing 10 year old images and saying that you had shot them and this person over the weekend.
    Why not ask your good friend and co conspiritor Chris Steele if the best way to promote a movie that you have not shot is to steal old images and claim they are yours. Funny none of these models have names, all are cropped to avoid identification, all have differant exposures and ancient hairstyles yet miraculously you expect people to believe you?
    Now honestly Kent if you are going to lie at least have attractive a line models. I would pay several of those guys to keep their clothes on..
    PS do have your friend Chris Steele enjoy the knock on his door…

  • Kevin Clarke

    Not to be pickey Kent but months ago you mentioned your distributor was thrilled with what he had seen so far. How could you have a distributor then and need to make a deal now? You have also claimed to be in the editing suite for months. How do you edit footage that does not exist? BTW where are you incorporated? Hmmm nowhere. A shame you have nothing of value as the attachments would take it away. Either way will you be able to tweet at 1 AM eastern time from jail?

  • will g

    “Not to be pickey Kent but months ago you mentioned your distributor was thrilled with what he had seen so far.”

    Good catch Kevin, he did indeed say that he had a distributor. I was going to go back through his tweets to find that one but Twitter makes it so difficult and time-consuming to go through their archives.

  • TheREALDaveofDaves

    It continually amazes me how this criminal scum is still slumming the streets, when time after time after time his frauds are exposed for what they are. It further astounds me that he believes his constant shouts of ‘gay-on-gay discrimination,’ ‘haters,’ and ‘anti-competitive schemers’ will somehow cover-up his crimes and deflect the efforts of those who have exposed him. I also certainly hope he shouts to the high heavens yet again about his ‘legal eagle’ who is going to file a Federal suit, or a RICO charge or some such nonsense – he’s been shouting that over at Twitter for quite some time. Gee, Kent, you think you would have filed all of this by now. As I’ve said over at Twitter – some of us really DO have lawyers, Kent. Be aware.
    I also wish to echo the comments which were made some time ago by Elmysterio – I am ASHAMED to be a gay adult fan. This industry could have come together ages ago and done something to get rid of and wipe the stain that is Kent Barclay off of the net, and they refuse to do it. Only a dedicated few, and a lot outside the industry for that matter, are doing anything to stand up for young performers/models and try to put a stop to this scum. I have said it before and I will say it again, I will refuse to purchase any Jet Set product, and those performers/models who actually follow Kent on Twitter should be ashamed of themselves – just because he ‘doesn’t bother you’ only means…..YET.

  • will g

    By the way Kentie your removal of Troy’s pics will be Exhibit A at your trial, you have now acknowledged that you are posting photos on that site under false pretenses. You do have some gall in keeping that Sean Cody picture up though, you’re lucky they’re not as litigious as Corbin Fisher. Or are they? I just e-mailed them again yesterday….

  • http://gayporngossip.com QueenGossip

    I’m checking older image files for the ownership and name of model on the many other images deing used by Kent Barclay on the BBII website. I should have the name and copyright owner of the young man with the” Laugh Now – Cry Later tattoo” ( http://www.bradsbuddies2.info/BB2%20updates/costar2.jpg ). Soon as I can get Scott Oakley to look at these images, we should have the other older pics as well named.
    I’ve also contacting the company that may have allowed Kent to subscribe for the mail-drop.

  • TheREALDaveofDaves

    FOUND: The blond, spiky haired model being kissed on the cheek in the section under “Our Favorite Players” on the Brad’s Bullshit Site is a former Pacific Sun model named Brett Dimineo. I believe he did DVD work for them in the early 00′s. So, yet another copyright and model identified!

    • Mark Wilson

      I’ll have this post updated with the new information discovered by Dave. We will just need to get some more information about Brett Dimineo.

      • TheREALDaveofDaves

        Thanks, Mark. I don’t believe he’s done a film in quite some time, but he did appear on numerous DVD covers for Pacific Sun productions (which was how I made the ID). That pic on the BradsBullshit part deux site about looks to be a candid/personal one of some kind. Anyways, keep up the great work, and let’s take this scum down once and for all.

  • Mark Wilson

    The image on Kent’s BradBuddiesII (see: http://www.bradsbuddies2.info/BB2%20updates/duostars.jpg ) pointed out by DaveofDaves is truly Brett Dimineo – however in this image Dimineo is somewhat older than most of his known videos. I carefully searched the PacSun retail site website ( see: http://gaymagix.com/search.php?search=Brett+Dimineo&searchString=Search ) – I cannot however find a video with Dimineo as depicted in the image being used by Kent.

  • I’m That Guy

    I will clean my language up for this post but BASICALLY, KENT BARCLAY, YOU ARE VERY, VERY SCREWED this time around as far as I am concerned.  NO ONE that I am aware of in my portion of your ILLEGAL & unethical dealings is holding back  and you thought I would roll over & let a mentally disturbed no one such as yourself continue your sickness over any means of communications you can find and/or afford?  WRONG!

  • I’m That Guy

    One more thing to those who know the truth about Barclay – Thanks for your words as it indeed does feel supportive, and some folk know at the beginning of my “Damon” brainwashing I allowed some ugly words from myself towards the very people who are now VERY GOOD FRIENDS FOR LIFE.  Thanks guys -all of ya!  I am only one part of the whole story, so all please know I am aware of much, much more dastardly schemes & people Barclay is involved with – sick as they are.

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