JustForFans Owner Dominic Ford Hires Nazi-Defending “Attorney-To-The-Trolls” Marc Randazza To Sue One Of His Alleged Rape Victims
In June of this year, gay porn star Justin Stone became the second performer to accuse JustForFans owner Dominic Ford of sexual assault (following the first sexual assault accusation made by performer Tannor Reed). After Stone—a 22-year-old who lived with the nearly 50-year-old Ford in 2019, traveled with Ford to Europe for adult industry events (where the alleged sexual assault occurred), and worked for Ford as an independent contractor on Ford’s amateur porn video site, JustForFans—accused Dominic Ford of raping him, Ford (via one of his attorneys, Gill Sperlein) sent multiple intimidating letters to Stone, threatening to sue Stone for defamation unless he deleted his tweets accusing Ford of rape. Specifically, Stone was given until June 24th to delete the below tweet, in which Stone wrote “Dominic Ford is a rapist” three times:
While the tweet was still up on June 26th when Str8UpGayPorn did a follow-up report on the allegations and threats, Stone’s tweet accusing Ford of rape has since been deleted. Dominic Ford promised to proceed with his defamation lawsuit against Stone (as well as a defamation lawsuit against performer Mickey Taylor, a supporter of Stone’s and Reed’s), and Str8UpGayPorn can now report that Ford’s suit against Stone was in fact filed earlier this month in the circuit court for Broward County, Florida.
Ford is suing Stone on two defamation counts, seeking damages “in excess of $30,000,” (the total amount in damages would likely be determined during trial, should Ford win), and demanding a jury trial in Florida after suffering “mental anguish” due to Stone’s allegations. Ford also claims that he’s suffered “monetary damages” due to Stone’s accusations (a key factor in proving defamation cases), and that Stone made the accusations knowing they weren’t true. Here’s the full complaint:
Stone has not yet been served with a summons on the suit, and he tells Str8UpGayPorn that Sperlein has been emailing him asking if he’s received documents sent to him by Ford’s other attorney who filed the suit, Marc Randazza, whose name can be seen above.
Marc Randazza is the disgraced former Corbin Fisher attorney who has solicited bribes, filed bankruptcy to avoid paying Corbin Fisher $600,000, and been nearly disbarred for numerous ethics violations, as detailed extensively in this 2018 HuffPo article:
While working as the in-house general counsel for gay pornographers a few years ago, [Randazza] solicited bribes, embraced conflicts of interest, relied on ill-gotten privileged information to gain a legal advantage, made misrepresentations about his fees to various courts and despoiled evidence of his treachery, according to an arbitrator’s findings, sworn statements in legal proceedings, interviews with opposing counsel, Randazza’s own admissions and thousands of pages of court records.
In addition to representing accused rapist Dominic Ford, Marc Randazza and his firm have also defended neo-Nazis, psychotic conspiracy theorist Alex Jones (as seen above), and several alt-right racist groups tied to mass murderers:
Randazza and his firm represented neo-Nazi publisher Andrew Anglin; white nationalist Republican congressional candidate Paul Nehlen; white supremacist patriarch Jared Taylor; Holocaust-denying slanderer Chuck Johnson; Pizzagate peddler Mike Cernovich; pro-rape misogynist Daryush “Roosh” Valizadeh; an alt-right member who helped organize the deadly white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia; the booking agent for white nationalist Richard Spencer; 8chan, an online message board teeming with neo-Nazis; and Gab, the alt-right social media platform where Robert Bowers, who allegedly killed 11 people at a synagogue in Pittsburgh in October, appears to have radicalized himself.
So, Dominic Ford files a defamation lawsuit because he’s concerned about his reputation, and this is the attorney he’s hired to sue an alleged rape victim?
Performers and customers of JustForFans probably weren’t aware that they’re now helping Dominic Ford pay a defender of neo-Nazis, alt-right trolls, racists, and groups connected to murderers, and this presumably won’t sit well with most of the site’s users (except for maybe Daniel Hausser). Furthermore, JustForFans and Ford’s phony support of Black Lives Matter and any other social justice movement is completely belied by the fact that he’s literally funding a supporter of white supremacists, and one has to wonder how any LGBT performer can feel comfortable being associated with JustForFans now. (Read the complete HuffPo article on Dominic Ford’s attorney, Marc Randazza, here.)
For his part, Justin Stone was not concerned by news of the lawsuit filing today, telling Str8UpGayPorn, “I’m used to things like this, so it doesn’t bother me. It will be dealt with, and then it will be over. And then life will resume again.”
