Ed Buck jailed for 30 years after Dem donor injected men with meth overdose in fetish ritual

POLITICAL mega-donor Edward Buck has been sentenced to 30 years in prison after he was found guilty of injecting several men with high levels of meth in a fetish ritual.

Buck, 67, was convicted last year of nine felony counts stemming from the deaths of Gemmel Moore and Timothy Dean.

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Gemmel Moore was found dead of an overdose in Buck’s West Hollywood apartment in July 2017[/caption]

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Timothy Dean, 55, was found dead two years later at his home[/caption]

Moore, 26, was found dead of an overdose while lying naked on a mattress on the living floor of Buck’s apartment in West Hollywood in July 2017.

Dean, 55, was found dead two years later at his home.

Dubbed Dr Death – among the homeless community in LA – Buck would allegedly pay men experiencing homelessness to come back to his apartment, use drugs, and engage in sexual acts.

Prosecutors also claimed that the former model, actor and businessman enjoyed injecting the men he brought over with high doses of crystal methamphetamine for sexual gratification.

During the trial, Assistant US Attorney Chelsea Norell told jurors: “The party is the drugs, the play is the sex. If they didn’t party, he wasn’t interested.”

Before he was sentenced, Buck spoke briefly to Judge Christina A. Snyder, and he apologized “for my part in the tragic deaths of Gemmel and Timothy.”

“These are men I cared for and loved. I did not cause their deaths,” Buck said.

He asked Snyder to “look at the good in my life,” saying he is not the “meth-fueled ax killer” the government portrayed him to be.

Despite his plea, Snyder called the case “one of the most difficult and tragic” she has ever presided over.

“These lives mattered. What happened here was reprehensible conduct.,” Snyder said.

Millionaire Buck – known for giving large amounts of money to Democratic causes and candidates – was charged in 2019 with three counts of battery causing serious injury, administering methamphetamine and maintaining a drug house.

In April 2020, he was then charged with four more counts, including, enticing another man to travel with the intent of engaging in prostitution and two counts of distribution of controlled substances resulting in death.

LaTisha Nixon, the mother of Buck’s victim Gemmel Moore, spoke after the verdict was announced last July.

“Thank you to everybody who believed us,” Nixon said, “This is my baby, my son, a human being. He’s loved by a lot of people.

“We got victory today. So, I’m grateful, and I’m happy.”

Her son is said to have kept a diary about his time with Buck.

In one journal entry, Moore reportedly wrote: “I honestly don’t know what to do. I’ve become addicted to drugs and the worst one at that. Ed Buck is the one to thank.

“He gave me my first injection of crystal meth it was very painful, but after all the troubles, I became addicted to the pain and fetish/fantasy.

“My life is at an all-time high right now & I mean that from all ways. I ended up back at Buck house again and got manipulated into slamming again.

“I even went to the point where I was forced to doing 4 within a 2day period. This man is crazy and it’s sad. Will I ever get help?”

Moore was found dead in Buck’s apartment surrounded by two dozen syringes, five glass pipes, meth and sex toys.

In December 2016, before he died, Moore reportedly wrote: “If it didn’t hurt so bad, I’d kill myself, but I’ll let Ed Buck do it for now.”