Frank Parlato
Some of the names in this article have been changed to protect the identity of the source from the vengeful and retaliatory nature of Ayries Blanck.
A Company and a Controversy
OneTaste Inc. is a San Francisco educational company that teaches a two-person meditation practice called Orgasmic Meditation, combined with lessons on sexual maturity and consent, taking personal responsibility, and not blaming others for one’s own adult decisions.
The Lawsuit Begins
In 2022, OneTaste sued its former employee Ayries Blanck in the Los Angeles Superior Court for breach of contract and fraudulent inducement. In OneTaste’s civil complaint, Blanck emerges as the antithesis of almost everything the company teaches.
If the OneTaste complaint is valid, it shows a shocking feature of today’s accuser-driven criminal justice system and how much damage a single false accuser can do in weaponizing law enforcement and the media to ruin the lives of innocent people, without much, if any, checks and balances. Or even the natural skepticism required of the average person, let alone trained investigators and seasoned journalists, to filter out truth from lies.
Somehow, when it comes to any allegation of a sexual nature, regardless of how implausible or transparently driven by financial opportunity the story, the accuser “must” be believed.
Investigating the Accuser
Frank Report, smelling something inordinately foul in Blanck’s story, has been investigating whether the woman who initiated the FBI investigation into the co-founder of OneTaste, Nicole Daedone, and her head of sales, Rachel Cherwitz, was lying to the FBI and the media about the abuse she claims she suffered.
Yes, I know OneTaste teaches that adults should be free to enjoy sex with any consenting adult without guilt or shame. They encourage the exploration of sex and desire, even for women, without shaming the woman, even if her exploration leads to intimacy with more than one partner, and this teaching is a fairly radical departure from traditional teachings that assign virtue to a woman in large part based on her lack of sexual adventurousness.
Readers do not have to ascribe to OneTaste’s teachings, which have a decidedly feminine slant, to recognize that the First Amendment protects their teachings and that any prosecution based on “the ends justify the lies” fails from the point of law if not in the court of public opinion.
OneTaste’s Consent Policies
OneTaste’s policies on consent are clear and well established in their written materials and from ample evidence of public teachings.
Yet accuser Ayries Blanck paints a picture precisely the opposite. She claims OneTaste forced her to have sex with various men, both participants in OneTaste classes and men she met on Tinder.
Blanck’s Background and Allegations
Ayries Blanck, who now uses the alias Ares Milligan, attended OneTaste classes with her boyfriend, Ravi, in 2013. Both became attracted to the teachings. Blanck became a salesperson for the company in 2014. Ravi became a coach.
Ravi, though wealthy through inheritance, was a sickly man. Blanck, on the other hand, was an athlete, a martial artist with a black belt.
Witnesses to Violence
Despite Blanck’s accusations that Ravi beat and raped her, eyewitnesses told Frank Report that Blanck had an explosive temper and sometimes physically abused Ravi, her physically weaker boyfriend.
Blanck’s roommate Janet recalled, “I would see her physically violent toward Ravi. I’ve seen her hit him a few times. I’ve seen her hit him open hand. I’ve seen her try to punch Ravi in the head. She kicked me once… She was a violent person.”
An Incident of Abuse
The violence escalated. On one occasion, witnessed by a half dozen people, she locked Ravi in a room, physically restraining him from leaving. Several roommates had to intervene and remove the door. Once freed from his captor, Ravi fled from his life of domestic abuse.
After Blanck and Ravi broke up, he met Aubrey Fuller, another OneTaste employee. They became enamored and chose to engage in a monogamous relationship. When Blanck heard the news, she became enraged and went to an apartment where Fuller was visiting and attacked Fuller.
Attack on Aubrey Fuller
John, a witness to the scene, told FR, “Ayries came straight at her, swung at her, and that’s when I grabbed Ayries by the waist and picked her up and dragged her back to the doorway to get her out. She kept yelling and screaming stuff. I wasn’t paying attention to what she was yelling and screaming. I was just focused on: one, making sure she didn’t swing at me, and two, grabbing her so she wouldn’t get out of my hold, because she was gonna go after her again.”
Another witness, Janet, said, “She lunged for Aubrey. …. I put myself in front of Aubrey, and then a man put himself in front of Ayries to hold her back. And she almost tore right through him. She was strong. She was petite, but very strong.”
The Aftermath
Janet continued: “She punched Aubrey in the side of the head with a closed fist. She didn’t get punched square in the face, in the eye, or the nose because Aubrey turned her head, so she ended up getting punched in the side of her head instead. And then a second woman had to help the guy pull Ayries back. So now we’re talking about two people, both larger than Ayries, that it’s taking to hold back this woman who is just out for blood with Aubrey.”
The victim, Aubrey Fuller, described it: “Ayries ran into the apartment and punched me in the head before several people physically restrained and carried her away from me. I did not call the police. I did not press charges. I absorbed her rage and jealousy and violence into my own body and took it deep inside me.”
After attacking Fuller and realizing she would not get her rich boyfriend back, Blanck quit her job with OneTaste. Her date of departure was January 8, 2015.
Blanck’s Pursuit of OneTaste
Eight months after quitting OneTaste, Blanck retained an attorney to threaten a lawsuit against OneTaste for alleged California labor violations – none of which involved sexual misconduct claims. In employee-friendly California, where competent attorneys start at $1000 per hour, OneTaste settled what promised to be a multimillion-dollar lawsuit in legal fees as a “nuisance suit” without admitting wrongdoing.
The settlement, reportedly for $325,000, was conditional on confidentiality, non-disparagement, and non-defamation of the company, its personnel, and owners.
Breaking Confidentiality
After collecting her settlement, Blanck violated the confidentiality and non-disparagement terms of her agreement by going to Misha Safyan, another former OneTaste employee, and the male roommate of a female reporter at Bloomberg News. The Bloomberg reporter wrote a story about Misha, her roommate, Misha’s ex-wife, another OneTaste student, and Ayries Blanck without disclosing that her source, one of the “victims,” lived with her.
Media Involvement
Bloomberg published a sensationalized story that included Blanck’s brand-new claims that OneTaste forced her to engage in sex with multiple men against her will.
The 2018 Bloomberg story inspired an FBI investigation into OneTaste on possible sex trafficking and forced labor charges. Blanck next went to the BBC, where she claimed a UK man attending OneTaste classes in NYC coerced her into having sex when she wanted to be faithful to Ravi.
A roommate of Ayries, Courtenay Lapovsky, a NY State certified school teacher with a master’s degree, claims Ayries is lying about everything.
Courtenay lived with her boyfriend Chris, and Ayries lived with Ravi when they were roommates. The two couples would swap partners, with Ayries often initiating a request to Courtney to have sex with her boyfriend. Courtenay also spoke about how excited Ayries was to have sex with the UK man she knew.
Continued Deception
She and the UK visitor had consensual sex. They were friendly. They were friends, and they had consensual sex on more than one occasion.
In the BBC series, Blanck assumed the name Cassidy. Blanck also went to Playboy, assuming the name Diana. Playboy published a critical story about OneTaste that the publishers later removed from its website.
Blanck then coordinated with Netflix to have her sister, Autymn Blanck, appear on camera reading her journal, which she purportedly wrote in 2015, following her departure from OneTaste.
In the journal, which court records show Blanck sold to Netflix for $25,000, she claims OneTaste forced her to have sex with multiple men, some of whom she names. Others she cannot name, for she met them on Tinder, with a planned sex session in her bedroom for which no money changed hands. She did not bother to take names.
The Tinder Hookups
She did not claim OneTaste forced her to have sex with these strangers. Instead, she blamed the teachings for making her mind susceptible to wanting to do these hookups when she tried to be monogamous with Ravi.
Roommates observed men coming in and out of her bedroom, staying for 20 minutes to an hour. After leaving, Ayries would describe the sexual episode to her female friends, often discussing her level of enjoyment, which friends said was usually high.
Contradictions
Far from claiming OneTaste forced her to have sex with men, she seemed energetic about it. She said she enjoyed her encounters and determined, after she broke up with Ravi, to have at least one new sex partner every day.
While the FBI investigation lingered for five years, based on Blanck’s allegations that OneTaste forced her to have sex, Blanck continued to participate in the clickbait-driven and gullible media telling and retelling her version of forced sex that completely contradicts what her friends said they witnessed.
OneTaste’s Legal Response
Finally, OneTaste sued Blanck in Los Angeles for breach of their settlement agreement in October 2022.
They claimed she was lying and causing enormous damage to the company. The FBI investigation threatened the liberty of two women who had nothing to do with Blanck’s violent temper or her voracious sexual appetite.
The violence and her sex addiction may have been the reason Blanck lost her rich boyfriend to a kinder, gentler, more intelligent, and honest woman.
Indeed, as for Ravi, he made a blessed escape. If only it were so easy for OneTaste.
Stay tuned for Part 2.
Frank Parlato is an investigative journalist, media strategist, publisher, and legal consultant.
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I knew both Ayries and Ravi. They were One Taste disciples so they were hard to miss. Ravi was not sickly from what I could tell and you describe a different Ayries than I came to know. Man, talk about a writer with an agenda. Dude, what a hit job. Why did you fail to mention Ravi was Daddy Big Bucks for the New York branch?
Wow, what a misrepresentation of Ayries. I knew her and all of this has been twisted. I also knew Ravi. He was skinny but I did not know him to be sickly, or weak. The “article” fails to mention he was basically the franchise owner/investor type.
This post and most comments are dripping with misogyny and sexist stereotypes, both positive and negative. You sound like you’re talking to children. Also much https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARVO happening. Even if what you say is true and Ayries lied, it is dishonest, misleading and disingenuous to portray OneTaste and its staff as pure, innocent, benevolent only etc. Give me a break. Wake up
so you’re telling us that some people who joined a crazy sex cult weren’t the epitome of human decency?
oh my
Where art thou – NutJob?’
Nut J. stands up for Salzman, but not Ayries?
Ayries crimes are alleged……
Salzman is guilty of her crimes. It’s why she pled her case out…
Mmh….
Is NutJob on the up and up….
…..I wonder.
“The plea bus goes round and round.”
-Claviger
I defend Ayries for always wanting to get laid. Ain’t no shame in her game. Kinda hot…
But, Nutjob doesn’t like liars. She’s all yours.
It amazes me this case has ended up in Federal Court. I hope justice will be done in this case. It seems clear that this has nothing to do with Nicole Daedone and Rachel Cherwitz.
Richard Luthmann has been afraid to post here under his own name for weeks. Why?
Can you provide some news about his tortious interference claim against Chris Ambrose <aka, Sir Salad Tosser> and his upcoming televised deposition of incorruptible_BK. Waiting for that big unmasking!
Yeah, I can see it. The news stories are all these little clips that make it sound like some helpless girl but when you put all the details in a row (and some stories from the room mates), it paints a way different picture
The average hot dog server will see around 500 weiners come and go and collect at least 500 dollars
I stand for Ayries. I choose to believe all victims. I choose to not care if she is lying or not. She is a woman. Women are easy manipulated by cunning con artists.
Sure she wanted to be monogamous with her boyfriend. But with those crazy teachings she was led astray.
Sure she beat Ravi and locked him in a room. He had all the money. He was rich. She was poor. I would punched him out too and beat the ass of the new girl. I protect what’s mine.
Then I would have done what Ayries done – gone out and fucked every man in sight while I kept Ravi locked in a room.
#believeAllWomenEvenIfTheyTellLie$
The difference between prostitutes and Blancks is prostitutes get paid for sex acts. My question is, is Aryes just a broke horney slut? Thanks 😊
Horny slut, definitely!
Broke? Reportedly, she got a six-figure settlement from OneTaste.
A percentage should go to the house then
What a horrible thing to write.
What’s horrible is that I came for the ribs and got a belly full of undigested ramens busting of a red bikini. Like Deodone I want my money back.
We need to know more about Atrocious Ayries Blanck
All you need to know is she can kick you ass in a bar brawl. At least that’s what I gather from Frank ground-breaking investigative reporting.
Because nothing else is going on in the world?
The civil lawsuit against Blanck also targets Does 1-100. There must be other people who will testify at trial. I’m buying lots of popcorn for this trial. Sure hope it is televised!
there’s a suit against Blank and 100 other people? where;s that?
With all that’s wrong in this world the federal government is wasting time on this bullshit case? A case where all are consenting adults and there are no victims.
As children are being trafficked and brutalized, the government is wasting time fabricating just cause to pursue two businesswomen who dared to use their sexuality for profit.
This person sounds sociopathic. Does the judge have all of this information? I’m assuming so. There’s so much information here, and what Mr. Parlatto has written previously that seems to indicate this case is severely corrupted and should be thrown out.
That’s EXACTLY how the court system works. If a someone writes something bad about a potential witness in a case the judge MUST throw the case out!
Too bad prosecutors are hellbent on prosecuting even when they have no case.
It’s good they have the money to fight the corruption. Most people would have no chance. These women will prevail.
Time to drop the charges.
Seems like Frank has a thing for Aubrey. She slept with guys to get them to sign up for expensive courses. Then dropped them for the next. Wake up Frank.
that’s the best ad for this company I’ve ever seen
It’s business
Frank, did you ever take any OneTaste courses? Are you a Certified Master Stroker?
I have never taken a class or course. I do not need to take a class to know that it is a legal practice and people have the right to teach it. That’s what I am defending.
You have this so wrong. They manipulated people, they were not paid even close to minimum wage, promised commissions they never received, commission plans changed without notice, had to “work off” courses, THEY WERE told to have sex with customers, co workers, investors, etc. AND just because the feds didn’t charge forced labor doesn’t mean it didn’t happen. The feds only charge what they are 100% sure they can convict. You have no idea if there is evidence of forced labor. Have you been allowed access to all discovery???? I doubt it.
Well actually all the documents are public. The government just banks on people not reading them, but Frank is actually reading these public documents and reporting factual information.
And I was In Onetaste for years, no one was told to have sex or forced into anything, stop with the victim mentality nonsense. If you were there you know for a fact consent was a major teaching and they taught people how to say NO as soon as they begin OM courses.
“Fatso” Ayries Blanck needs to be charged.
It isn’t illegal to have a black belt in martial arts and be able to kick your ass.
If there’s all this solid evidence against Ayries Blanck to impeach her in court, why this big PR push? Why let the prosecution know what’s coming in the trial? Dumbest defense attorney move I’ve ever seen. But… sometimes clients are dumb and don’t follow advice of counsel.
So they’ll realize they will have no case and step back
Bad press is better than no press. Its free advertising.
True. Lots of bitches gonna be signing up for the OneTaste coaching training programs. Sooooooooo much money to be made teaching chicks to get stroked by paying customers.