Frank Parlato
Turning to the chief accuser of OneTaste, the sine qua non of the charges and the bad publicity, let us look again at the notorious Ayries Blanck, AKA Ares Milligan.
Blanck’s central allegation against OneTaste is that the company forced her to have sex when she worked there between July 2014 and January 2015.
Blanck wrote in a journal, made public in 2022, but dated in 2015, right after she left OneTaste:
“I never wanted to have my body touched. It was always forced, and my body feels filled with shame and disgust.”
“I never wanted to have sex. I can admit that now. Not with Peter, not with Ryan or Hamza, Not with Eli or Kozer. Not with Josh or Moe…
“It is a disorienting and horrible feeling recognizing that your body has been violated.
“… I never wanted to sleep with anyone. All of it was forced by either fear, shame, or guilt. …”
Blanck’s Allegations and Destroyed Evidence
Today, Blanck is embroiled in a lawsuit that OneTaste has brought against her, and she may be a witness in a criminal prosecution against Nicole Daedone, OneTaste’s co-founder, and Rachel Cherwitz, its former head of sales. Blanck claims she destroyed or lost all her electronic evidence, including her email account, phones, and computer and the above-quoted journal itself.
She said all contemporary records of what she communicated when she worked for OneTaste from July 2014 to January 2015 – a period of six months—are lost.
Yet by piecing together emails and texts sent to others and preserved by them, a record emerges that contradicts Blanck’s claim – made to the FBI – which, if untrue, is a felony. The record shows that OneTaste did not force her to have sex but instead sought it out and enjoyed it.
In addition, evidence from both metadata and content analysis shows that her 2015-dated journal, which was used publicly for the first time in 2022 to support her claims of forced sex, was not written until at least late 2019.
Blanck’s sister, Autymn Blanck, sold Ayries’s 2015-dated journal for $25,000 to Marges Charges LLC, a production company owned by actress Lena Dunham, on April 15, 2022.
Blanck’s sister, Autymn, read from the journal on Netflix’s documentary “Orgasm Inc. The Story of OneTaste.”
Evidence Contradicting Blanck’s Claims
Netflix reports Ayries emailed Autymn the “journals” as “part of her therapy” after Ayries left OneTaste in January 2015.
Blanck’s journal begins with entries for January 2015, describing events that allegedly happened right after she left OneTaste as she tries to recover from the forced sex she claims she experienced.
The content-driven evidence that the journal is falsely dated includes information in an entry dated February 22, 2015.
On that date, Blanck mentions a book, The Post-Traumatic Growth Guidebook, which she says she is reading to help her heal from her trauma.
Blanck quotes the book’s author, Arielle Schwartz, PhD, who wrote, “Traumatic events can be catalysts for growth.”
February 22, 2015, was two months after leaving OneTaste but more than four years before Dr. Schwartz published her book.
Ayries writes:
“I was reading the book Post Traumatic Growth Guide and I used to believe I was a survivor, that I was stronger, more resilient, a better person because of the things I went through. …. Now I know it is not because of them but in spite of them… It makes Onetaste the catalyst for my growth. … It was my hard work, my integrity, my compassion that has made me who I am. That helped me survive.”
Blanck claims she was reading The Post-Traumatic Growth Guidebook on February 22, 2015, but how could it be true since the United States Copyright Office established a December 3, 2019, publication date and a February 24, 2020, registration date for the book.
Blanck’s sister Autymn appears in Dunham’s documentary on Netflix, reading the journal, which Netflix assures the audience Ayries wrote in 2015. Discovery evidence produced by Autymn Blanck shows she used a Google document and wrote at least part of the journal after 2020 – five years after it was dated.
Blanck’s Legal Troubles and FBI Involvement
Ayries Blanck’s attorneys told a Los Angeles Superior court that Ayries does not have the journal anymore because she destroyed it along with her phone, email account, and computer because of the trauma she experienced with OneTaste.
She could not bear the sight of it, so distressing were these trove of records of her time at OneTaste and afterward.
OneTaste is suing Blanck for violating an agreement, and the evidence in her accounts could prove or disprove the claim. The evidence in the destroyed accounts might also prove Blanck lied to the FBI, which is a felony offense. Blanck claims the FBI told her to destroy her evidence. There is proof that FBI Special Agent Elliot McGinnis told her to delete her email account, which could have contained proof of when she created and emailed the journal.
As for destroying her phone and computer, no written evidence suggests the FBI told her to destroy anything besides her email account.
However, in the email exchange between the FBI and Blanck, she mentions she had a private Google voice call with Agent McGinnis. The emails indicate that she and McGinnis would have another call within hours of her asking about it and being told she could delete her email account.
The FBI has not released records of the calls between Agent McGinnis and Blanck.
Evidence supports a theory that Blanck may have secretly recorded the call from her location in Ireland and may not have destroyed the recording.
It may emerge in discovery.
If it does, the recordings might settle whether Blanck deleted evidence to protect herself from perjury charges or to protect the FBI’s case against Daedone and Cherwitz in an apparent act of subornation of perjury or obstruction of justice.
Stay tuned for our next which directly addresses the validity of Blanck’s charge that OneTaste forced her to have sex.
Frank Parlato is an investigative journalist, media strategist, publisher, and legal consultant.
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Well no shocker here that the FBI is acting illegally and also supporting illegal behavior with a supposed victim. The government is known for corruption.
The simple fact that Trump can be indicted and still run for President is a prime example of the government allows illegal activity for some and then prosecutes others when they feel like it.
Frank Report is exposing this kind of illegal activity and I hope that more people start paying attention to this case and how it will play out.
I am following your stories. It seems there’s a fair amount of proof that at least the journal evidence is invalid due to falsifying dates. It will be interesting to see what else comes up.
one taste. another group of pigs in the United States exporting women for money. Carry on with prosecution. Operation cleans up America
The Democrats sex traffic children
On the edge of my seat here…
She seemed pretty enthusiastic about it (the sex) to me when we were going through the coaching program and lived in the same house together.
So what?