Hullender had cocaine and counterfeit cash on him. Police soon arrested him retrieved his pants and discovered a screwdriver, pot and alprazolam in the pockets. When the rent-a-cops chased Snavely, he dove into some bushes and took off his pants. When Snavely was 17 years old, security guards spotted him and friend Kevin Hullender breaking into a parked car. The offenses ranged from ridiculous to absurd. John’s other pastime, however, was petty crime. The pastime helped protect him in the poor, dusty neighborhoods of San Antonio, and also gave rise to his later reinvention as Champ. Without his older brother around, John took up Golden Gloves boxing. Police records show Justin paid the family’s bills by selling drugs, at least until his first arrest in 2001. With their father nowhere in sight and their mom frequently in jail, John and Justin learned to fend for themselves. The whole story is a gruesome look at a subculture that seems particularly unhealthy for someone like Snavely, whose life in San Antonio, where he lived with his brother and his frequently-arrested mom, indicates a person who was probably not going to thrive in an environment where a lack of impulse control carried few consequences: It took three years for the Miami police to identify Snavely as a suspect, but he’s currently in jail awaiting trial. Bloody sneaker prints at the scene reportedly matched Snavely’s feet, and his DNA was all over the room. That took a much darker turn in Miami, when a 60-year-old man named Samuel Del Brocco was found dead after leaving a club at which Snavely had been dancing. The client, expecting more than a simple dance, would pay-and then the large, well-built Snavely would dance for a few minutes and leave, while the customer was unable to either call the police or physically confront the muscular dancer. Miller describes a scam that Snavely picked up in San Antonio, when he worked as a stripper, where he’d go home with his male clients for a “private dance” for $500. But what the Press details goes beyond that: author Michael E. The idea that a young man enticed into the world of sex work by the promise of easy money might lead to self-destruction isn’t surprising in itself it’s basically the plot of Magic Mike, and all of the drugs and emotional damage that you might suspect are a part of Snavely’s story. Snavely’s not the subject of a longform story strictly because the world of gay porn and how a person enters it is so compelling-though it certainly is that-but because the life that he found himself living once he got to South Florida led him to genuinely shocking and horrifying situations-of which, according to police, he was the perpetrator. Then he moved to Fort Lauderdale in early 2010, staying in what Baileey called his “model house,” a low-slung three-bedroom home in Searstown. He flew to Los Angeles for his first porn shoots. In the end, the offer was too tempting for Snavely - a poor kid from the wrong side of San Antonio - to ignore.
“John had a universal look: good-looking, clean-cut, white guy, no tattoos, well-endowed. “I’ve been in the business for 21 years, so I pretty much know what people are looking for,” he says.
But Baileey nonetheless saw in him the makings of a star. Despite dancing for men, Snavely insisted he was straight. It would take several months of flying to San Antonio for Baileey to persuade Snavely to appear in gay porn. “Whether it was stripping or porn, he knew what his best attributes were.”
“John knew how to sell himself,” Baileey says. Listening to his pitch, Snavely was polite but confident, asking questions about how much money he could make in South Florida. …Soon Snavely found himself talking to the stranger’s associate: a South Florida porn recruiter named Justin Caro, better known as Baileey.īaileey was himself a former gay-porn star who now excelled at enticing young hunks from across America into similar careers. One night, an older customer sidled up to the stage where the young Sylvester Stallone lookalike was gyrating in a baseball hat, sneakers and underwear. He was stripping at several gay clubs in his hometown of San Antonio. Here’s how a person get recruited into the world of gay porn, according to a completely bonkers story about one such recruit-a 26-year-old man from San Antonio named John William Snavely-from the Houston Press: