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Guy Who Outed Duke Porn Star Gets His
If you're a fan of karma, then you're in luck. The Duke frat brother who outed his fellow classmate as porn star Belle Knox is getting some Internet push back of his own. Thomas Bagley seemingly didn't care about opening a young woman up to public ridicule, but that doesn't mean everyone else is OK with his decision to do so. Not only has he been criticized on Twitter, but now porn industry executive Mark Kulich has sent him an open letter, mockingly offering him a porn job himself. It's probably not quite what people usually mean by "revenge porn," but we'll take it.
Kulich, who is not affiliated with the site on which Knox's videos appear, says that his offer to fly Bagley to Los Angeles and pay him $10,000 to shoot a scene with an actress of his choice is a legitimate offer, but that the point was to expose the hypocrisy involved in the whole situation. "There's a saying in porn," Kulich told The Huffington Post. "'People j*** off with the left hand and point their finger with the right,'"
In the letter, Kulich thanks Bagley for subscribing to porn sites, and adds that he's glad Bagley is "spending the $200 a week [his] parents send [him] every week for living expenses wisely." He also extends his congratulations that Bagley got into such a good school where he surely "pulls straight A's when [he's] not whacking it to Facial Abuse and Casting Couch movies."
You can read the full text of the letter here.
"I want people to know that porn stars have families and they're just trying to make a living. If you're enjoying their work, why ruin their lives?" Kulich says. "I know [Bagley] probably won't take the money, but maybe by making the offer public, he'll see how everyone is entitled to privacy regardless of what they do."
For his part, Bagley has said he regrets outing "Lauren" (the alias she uses online) as Belle Knox. He told the Duke Chronicle, the first source to reveal his name, that he "would take it back," if he could. But the damage is done. And hey, who knows, this might be the chance to launch his very own porn career. What do you say, Bagley?