There have now been three porn stars that have come forward and accused adult film actor and director James Deen of sexually assaulting them on and off set.
Ashley Fires, Tori Lux and Stoya are the three adult film actresses who have told their disturbing stories about Deen, 29, over the past few days, according to New York Daily News. The three women are accusing Deen, whose real name is Bryan Sevilla, of being violent toward them on multiple occasions.
"He almost raped me," Fires told the Daily Beast on Monday. "I was getting out of the shower of the communal bathroom at Kink. I reach for my towel to dry off, and he comes up from behind me and pushes himself and his erection into my butt." She then continued to explain how he would not back off until she repeatedly told him "no."
From there on out, Fires would continuously tell people in the industry what had happened and that she refused to work with Deen. A year later, he demanded that she "stop telling people about it."
Just a few days before Fires' allegations became public, Stoya, who dated Deen in 2013, went on a Twitter rant about what had allegedly happened between them. "That thing where you log in to the internet for a second and see people idolizing the guy who raped you as a feminist. That thing sucks," she wrote, and later added, "James Deen held me down and f--ked me while I said no, stop, used my safeword. I can't just nod and smile when people bring him up anymore."
Once Deen got word of Stoya's accusations, he also took to Twitter to respond. "There have been some egregious claims made against me on social media," he wrote. "I want to assure my friends, fans and colleagues that these allegations are both false and defamatory." He then added, "I respect women and I know and respect limits both professionally and privately."
Once Deen made this public denial following Stoya's claims, Fires and Lux decided to come forward to The Daily Beast. Lux wrote an essay and went into details about how Deen allegedly attacked her in 2011 at a porn studio, even going as far as calling him the Bill Cosby of the porn industry. She recalled a time when he allegedly grabbed her by the throat, shoved her onto a mattress and pinned her arms down with his knees while straddling her.
"Then, he raised his hand high above his head, swinging it down and hitting me in the face and head with an open palm," she wrote. "He did this five or six times - hard - before finally getting off of me." She then went on to explain how he had allegedly forced her face into his crotch multiple times. "I was completely stunned," she wrote. "Having no idea how to react."
Deen has not yet responded to Fires and Lux's accusations, but once all three girls came forward, he voluntarily resigned as chairperson of the Adult Performer Advocacy Committee's board of directors, according to Us Weekly. Amelia Magritte, who is editor-in-chief of The Frisky website, also tweeted out that it would be suspending Deen's sex advice column "for obvious reasons."
"APAC recognizes the seriousness of the statements made by performers in the community and that they indicate a major conflict between a board member and other members of the organization," the APAC said in a statement, according to Xbiz. "The APAC Board wants to state unequivocally that we stand with performers and other sex workers who are victims of any sort of sexual assault."
Kink.com, which bills itself as "the largest producer of BDSM and fetish pornography in the world," also severed all ties with Deen following the allegations. "For the Kink.com community, as well as the larger BDSM community, consent and respect are sacrosanct," Kink said in a statement to Buzzfeed. "Effective immediately, Kink.com will cease all ties with James Deen, both as a performer and a producer. Our performers deserve not only safe sets, but the ability to work without fear of assault. Rape or sexual assault, with or without a safe-word, off-set or on, should never be accepted as a hazard of adult production. While many of the allegations against Deen are new, the pattern is alarming."
Porn company Evil Angels also told Buzzfeed that it has suspended all of its relationships with Deen "until more information is available."
