Frank Parlato
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The government has decided not to use Ayries Blanck’s journal after all.
The case is United States v. Rachel Cherwitz and Nicole Daedone. The U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York filed the indictment on April 3, 2023. U.S. District Court Judge Diane Gujarati has scheduled the trial to commence on May 5th.
Prosecutors from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York allege Daedone and Cherwitz conspired to force employees, students, and volunteers of their company, OneTaste Inc., to work. The government has not filed charges for forced labor.
For a long time, the evidence against Daedone and Cherwitz included Ayries Blanck’s journal, dated with 28 entries between January 15 and March 14, 2015. This was right after Blanck left OneTaste.
The journal paints a damning picture of Daedone and Cherwitz. The journal almost makes the case for the prosecution if it is true.
But what if Ayries didn’t write the journal in 2015 but wrote it seven years later?
Violent Lady
Blanck worked for OneTaste in 2014. During this time, she repeatedly beat and abused her weak and sickly (but wealthy) boyfriend Ravi. Blanck also had sex with random men, including a spate of men on Tinder. According to texts, (Blanck thought were destroyed), she sought men to quench her insatiable sexual appetite. She once wrote that she wanted to have sex with her boyfriend and five men. Another time she wrote that she would have sex with a different man every day for 30 days.
When her boyfriend left her for another woman, Blanck beat up the woman and quit OneTaste.
July 2018:
The FBI’s investigation began when Special Agent Elliot McGinnis interviewed Ayries Blanck. During the lengthy interview, which is documented in an eight-page interview report, Blanck never mentioned the existence of a journal.
In fact it was not until April 15, 2022, that the idea was hatched to write one.
Blanck’s sister, Autymn Blanck, sold Ayries’ to-be-written journal to Lena Dunham for $25,000 and began working with her film producer Sarah Gibson in connection with a Netflix documentary.
May 4, 2022, through May 25, 2022,
Blanck, her sister and producer Gibson wrote the journal for the Netflix film. The journal underwent a significant evolution in its content on a Google Word Doc. The Google Doc “initially created” by Autymn went through 54 major drafts and 500 minor edits.
From the first draft on May 4 to the second on May 6, not a single word was retained. In the transition from the second to the third draft on May 6, nearly everything changed again, with only five words remaining the same. All 54 typed versions are different.
According to her journal, Ayries was a skeletal creature in January 2015. The journal says
“I left weighing 98lbs. As I stand in front of the full length mirror I barely recognize the woman I have become. My hollowed out cheeks, deep circles under my eyes. My bony ribs stick out even when I don’t lift my arms above my head. The smile that at one time reached my eyes is no longer there. The innocence and young girl filled with sparkle and magic is no longer there. Only deadness. Flat and endless. At times I feel the wasting in my body is only a reflection of the disintegration of my will to live.”
“Every morning I count my ribs as I get dressed.”
Ayries’ journal entry of Feb 22, 2015, says she was reading a book not published until 2019.
Ayries’s sister Autymn Blanck (in wig) reads from Ayries’ tyoed journal on Netflix for Orgasm Inc. The Story of OneTaste, and for which the producers paid Blanck $25,000.May 27, 2022
Netflix filmed Autymn Blanck in Brooklyn reading the journal that was written that month, but was portrayed in the film as having been written seven years earlier, in 2015.
June 1, 2022,
A few days later, Blanck emailed FBI Agent McGinnis and told him, for the first time, about journals she purportedly wrote in 2015.
November 5, 2022
Netflix released its film about OneTaste. The Typed Journal was featured in the film through Blanck’s sister. Netflix presented Ayries’ journal as though it was written fresh off her hurt to show the pain she endured new and raw.
March 9, 2023
Blanck sent the Typed Journal to FBI Agent McGinnis, providing it via a Google Docs link. She claimed that she had kept these journals while she was a “member” of OneTaste in 2015. The journal was edited on the same day it was provided to the FBI.
April 3, 2023
Less than a month after receiving these journals, the prosecutors instructed the grand jury to indict in this case.
September 18, 2023
The government produced the 30-page typed journal as part of discovery, reflecting the dates of January 15, 2015, to March 14, 2015. In the cover letter, the government described them as “Journal entries regarding experiences at OneTaste maintained by [Ayries Blanck].”
April 11, 2024
Ayries Blanck’s sister shipped handwritten journals to FBI Agent McGinnis.
July 2024,
The government produced for the defense a 25-page handwritten journal, which was nearly identical to the 30- page typed journal.
October 11, 2024
The government specified in its motion in limine that the handwritten and typed journal were written shortly after Blanck left OneTaste in 2015. The government argued that Blanck’s journals were admissible under exceptions to the hearsay rules—all of which were predicated on Blanck having written the journals contemporaneously to the alleged events in 2015.
They said the journal is Ayries’ “excited utterances” written while “still under the stress and excitement of her departure from OneTaste.”
It details Ayries’ “relationships with the defendants… shortly after the time she performed labor and services in connection with the charged conspiracy.”
She “recorded” the journals “much closer in time to her experiences at OneTaste as part of her own personal healing process, indicating a high degree of trustworthiness. The journals constitute the best evidence of [Ayries’] then-existing psychological and emotional state; accordingly, their admission would be consistent with the rules of evidence and the interest of justice.”
Prosecutors admit the journal was typed in 2022 but transcribed from the 2015 handwritten journal
December 4, 2024
The FBI interviewed Ayries Blanck. Later that day, the government admitted the typed journal was not created in 2015. Instead, the government claimed the Typed Journal was transcribed in 2022 from the 2015 Handwritten Journal for use in the Netflix film.
The government stated as follows, with respect to the Typed Journal:
“Journal Sets 1 and 2 are not [Blanck]’s original journals; they are typewritten documents initially created by [Blanck]’s sister, who transcribed excerpted portions of [Blanck]’s handwritten journal entries and subsequently used them in connection with a documentary about OneTaste that later aired on Netflix in or around November 2022. Blanck has stated that she reviewed and edited the typewritten documents prior to their use in the documentary.
Having admitted the Typed Journal was not written in 2015, the government then advised it would not seek to use the Typed Journal at trial. Instead, the government would only use the Handwritten Journal.
The prosecution says the handwritten came first. Ayries, they say, handwrote the journal in 2015, right after she left OneTaste.
The prosecutors said Autymn “initially created” the typed version by transcribing Ayries’ handwritten 2015 journal and “used them in connection with a documentary about OneTaste that later aired on Netflix in or around November 2022.”
If Ayries hand-wrote the journal in 2015, and Autymn faithfully transcribed it on a Google Doc in 2022, then edited it 53 times, how come the handwritten matches the last typed version? Not the first?
Defense demands an evidentiary hearing to expose discrepancies in government evidence
January 23, 2025
During a meeting, the defense asked the government for its basis to believe the Handwritten Journal was written in 2015. The government said Blanck would testify they were written in 2015.
The defense advised the government that it intended to request an evidentiary hearing pursuant to Fed. R. Evid. 104(c) to determine the inadmissibility of the Handwritten Journal.
Later that day, the government emailed the defense that, “while we continue to believe that Ayries’ journals are authentic and were written on the dates disclosed … to the extent we can avoid unnecessary litigation, we do not intend to admit Ayries’ journals in our case-in-chief.”
While the government claims that it still believes the Fake Handwritten Journal is legitimate, its decision to drop this key evidence from its case, rather than to test it at an evidentiary hearing, speaks volumes whether typed or handwritten.
Frank Parlato is an investigative journalist, media strategist, publisher, and legal consultant.
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Be interesting if the fake journal gets used to impeach Ayries’ testimony if she testifies. Too many variables to go into here, but the prosecution will ask that the diary be excluded from evidence and the defense will be watching for ways to use it against her.
LOL “if”? Bonjean is going hard. The prosecution can’t ask for the journals to be excluded they were the ones who put them into discovery and had them as part of their case in chief. Agree they will try to distance but whats good for the goose is good for the gander.
How much for one rib?
Ayries is fat
She is not really fat at all. She is just not as skinny as she claimed to be.
But its fun calling her fat. I tell women they are fat all the time. I don’t like fat chicks and I am very vocal about it when J see them. Even women who are not fat, I tell them they are fat just to make them insecure. They are easier to control that way.
I fired a fat woman last year. She was thin and hot whrn I hired her, then she put on weight. So, I fudged some numbers to make it look like she screwed up her reports, then fired her on her birthday. Then fixed the numbers so I did not get in trouble.
But now, I need to replace her but all the female applicants are fat, so I am struggling to find suitable applicant. This is becoming a big problem for me.
Fuck Ayries, that fat bitch.
Do we know who “transcribed” the journal to create the Typed Written version with new elements to support an indictment?
The transcriber must be held accountable.
Stop mocking Ayries. So she lied. She ain’t getting charged for lying to the FBI. If she didn’t get caught she might have helped put the defendants in prison for a long time. Whats wrong with a little perjury if it gets the FBI what it wants?