Has Violent Felon And Gay-For-Pay Porn Star Robert Van Damme Been Released From Prison Early?
Those of you with long memories will recall that gay-for-pay porn star Robert Van Damme was sentenced to nine and a half years in prison in the Czech Republic back in 2014 after being convicted of multiple violent armed robberies (one of Van Damme’s victims was shot in the head and chest). After Van Damme—whom the court considered the organizer of the crimes—and his gang of thugs committed the violent robberies in the early 2000’s, Van Damme fled eastern Europe and came to the United States, where he worked as a gay-for-pay porn star from 2004 to 2013 at all the major studios (Falcon, Men, Hot House, etc.). In 2013, Van Damme was finally deported back to the Czech Republic, where he had been convicted of the robberies (even though he wasn’t present during the trial). Here’s a 2014 news article from the Czech Republic (translated via Google) detailing Van Damme’s (legal name Robert Kovarik) sentencing:
A year ago, he was deported from the United States back to the Czech Republic, and Robert Kovařík immediately asked for a reopening of the trial, which he sent in absentia for ten years in jail for two robberies of the delivery of jeans and a real estate broker of the Kremlin at the turn of Millennium. Kovařík, however, did not believe the court believed he had not participated.
The chairman of the Senate of the Regional Court in Brno Aleš Novotný delivered a sentence just after noon to the former Prostějovský hokejist, for half a year shortened the original punishment, but sent to the security jail with the fact that he was the main organizer of both robberies and most probably also by themselves participated. “The defendant has the right to lie and defend himself so that he receives the lowest possible punishment. However, the Court assessed all the evidence very carefully and in detail. And he concluded that Mr. Kovařík can not be trusted, “he said in a statement of reasons, Judge Aleš Novotný and Kovařík sent nine years and six months to jail.
Image of Robert Van Damme during sentencing:
Again, that was in 2014, meaning that Van Damme should be in prison until at least 2023. But, maybe they have early release programs in the Czech Republic, because someone claiming to be Robert Van Damme posted three tweets to Van Damme’s formerly dormant Twitter account today, which included photos that show a noticeably aged Van Damme. Surprise:
Van Damme’s Twitter account was regularly updated throughout 2014 and 2015 by a fan (or someone with ties to Van Damme), but they stopped posting in December of 2015. That same fan could arguably be the one who reactivated the account today and sent the above tweets pretending to be Van Damme, or maybe Van Damme was released from prison early? Given how much older he looks in the above photo, it might’ve been taken recently, and the tweets may actually be from him. Str8UpGayPorn has reached out to the person operating the account for clarification, and this post will be updated if we receive a response.
For those who might be dreading Van Damme’s return to gay porn, don’t worry, because that’s never going to happen here in the states, whether he was released from prison or not. While some gay porn studios have been known to hire convicted felons in the past, foreigners who are violent convicted felons aren’t granted entry into the United States, so we won’t have to see Robert Van Damme in any American gay porn ever again. He could, of course, find work in European porn, presuming there are European gay porn stars who’d be open to filming sex scenes with a violent felon.
