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Jury selection is expected to start today in a wrongful death lawsuit against Ed Buck. The former West Hollywood Democrat donor has been locked up since 2021 after being convicted for the overdose deaths of two black men.
Evidence in the criminal case showed Buck lured young Black men who were often experiencing addiction to his apartment for sexually charged so-called “party and play” sessions where he would drug them with sedatives and inject them with methamphetamine. Prosecutors said Buck caused those deaths as a result of his “fetish.”
Gemmel Moore and Timothy Dean died of methamphetamine overdoses 18 months apart, Moore in July 2017 and Dean in January 2019.
Buck is now being sued by the family of Gemmel Moore after Buck failed to finalize and sign the agreement for a settlement with Moore’s mother, LaTisha Nixon, reached in 2024.
