Let's discuss Mark Kurian and his straight, male model escorts!

Why did that dump close? It was essentially a druggie den

I'm surprised he knows Ben Baur. I wonder how they met. I remember Ben from when he used to work at the gay Starbucks in West Hollywood ages ago.

[quote]Mark was unmistakably his short tiny self, wearing some sort of oversized poncho/shawl

Was it a three-way poncho?

I don't know who he is, but wow, he is tiny!

Wow, that's a hard however years-old he is. He should hire a facialist instead of a hooker.

Was he the one who played all the Oompa Loompas in "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"?

Say what you will, but he’s a former fatty who’s managed to lose a ton of weight

^ link

R7 Saggy and Faggy.

"12 years ago when I, along with my MOTHER decided to start BHL I had no idea how much my life would change."

R7, I wonder if lypo was part of any of that, especially since he lost so much and is now quite toned.

R11: I was thinking it’s more like stomach stapling, as he’s managed to keep the weight off for years, which is the hardest part of losing weight

He is the kreepiest kreeper who ever krept.

He and Aaron Schock became close as soon as Aaron moved to LA. They claimed to have met at a Mosaic megachurch. (All of this info is from their mutual posting on Instagram.) Before long, Aaron had one of his former congressional interns, very young, out there hanging out with him and Kurian, both Aaron and the intern shirtless in hot tubs with Kurian tagged. Very creepy. Then Aaron began posting photos with Eliad Cohen, the intern and Instaho/naked 'fitness model'/OnlyFans creature Nick Sandell.

At that time, Kurian's Twitter and Instagram profiles both said that he was vice chair of the Trevor Project board of directors. But his name was not listed on the Trevor Project's website. And then the Trevor Project confirmed they didn't know him or why he was claiming to be on their board, and they said they had contacted him to remove the info. He finally did after a couple of months and then he set his profiles to private for a while.

When there was a big backlash against Schock for sticking his hands down a man's pants at Coachella while still claiming homosexuality is against his values, Kurian deleted all the photos of himself with Schock from Instagram, but he still shows off his newest (alleged!!!!) young whore recruits endlessly.

It's a marvel to me. It seems blatantly obvious that he is (allegedly!!!) some kind of gay Heidi Fleiss who recruits modelesque young men and brings them to Hollywood as a purveyor to wealthy and connected people via his Beverly Hills Lifestyle magazine, yet it's no big deal to anyone.

Very interesting that Lisa Vanderpump and her daughter Pandora were or are his business partners and that he managed to land Nicole Kidman for a cover. That must have gone a really long way in getting him more connections to rent his hot little items to as he imports them from small towns across the country and rents them out to rich entertainment execs.

Taken while Schock was under federal indictment and still claiming to be antigay because homosexuality is "against my values." I bet they had a lot to talk about!

Schock's face has gone straight off the cliff in the years since.

R15 Globetrotting as an in-demand kink whore for sheikhs and oligarchs in repressive nations is probably stressful for the body and immune system.

Also, steroids.

OMG.

Thuper legit.

I've never heard of this sloppy pocket gay, but he has a face fit for radio and a gloryhole.

Le Hideux Seacow, of the Brooklyn Seacows, is breathlessly posting all over this sad thread. For the fortunate uninitiated, DL pariah Brooklyn Seacow is a Queerty-certified Schock stalker, so it is no wonder it thinks it has the “scoop” at [R13] from years of scouring social media. Important to know the origins of Seacow’s Schock vendetta and its stalking proclivities. Here’s a choice except from Queerty article linked below.

“Montan.ez then says that, coming from a conservative family himself, he totally understands Schock’s struggle… He immediately follows that message with a post script that reads: ‘This may be inappropriate but you have a very edible ass. Just needed to say that. I’m very impressed.’ To which Schock answers by saying he doesn’t hang out in West Hollywood… Montan.ez responds: ‘I would eat that up like it’s my final meal… Just being honest. I love eating ass and yours is my type….’”

Would you be able to catch your breath if you were eating his ass as your “final meal,” as you messaged him, Brooklyn Seacow?

Cringe from beginning to end.

Weird. I am the person who posted about Schock and I am not the person.

This forum has become QAnon-like in always suspecting some kind of conspiracy about everything and assuming everyone who posts is pretending to be someone who they are not. I'm knowledgable about Schock because I followed his antics from the time of his gay picnic outfit, Men's Health cover and "I do not thupport gay marriage!" interviews when he was a congressman from Peoria, and I learned about him from DataLounge. I'm not a Schock stalker anymore than any DL poster who has posted about 'the Cockgobbler,' and I have not communicated with him.

I watched his whole creepy rise and downfall in realtime over the years, again, primarily via people's posts here on DataLounge.

How did this culture of "THAT PERSON IS NOT WHO THEY SAY THEY ARE!!!" develop on DataLounge? Is it an outgrowth of the Milo Yiannopoulos and Russian troll infestations? Is it just a performed part of the DL's current identity, or what? It's gotten to be really annoying.

At this point, I feel like I could post about Shania Twain, astrophysics, cat foods, toenail clippings or chicken McNuggets and be accused of impersonating someone and having a nefarious agenda.

It's *really* annoying. Everyone here acts paranoid these days. If nothing else, then simply my ability to communicate with clear, correct English language should be enough to make people understand I am not [that person who DL won't allow to be named] or a Russian troll or the Janbot or some other bonkers person.

I am getting tired of the exchanges on this site. People here once were witty, sophisticated, interesting, intelligent, had nuanced understandings that allowed for subtext and humor. Now it's bizarre finger pointing and polarization of every single comment. Fucking weird.

He goes unnoticed 1)because of that face and 2) because the DL only recognizes one Hollywood Madam.

I wonder how much money you need to make to get on his list of johns.

That...thing is a prostitution whore??? I'll start to think less of prostitution whores.

R21 I suppose we won’t be asking you back?

"I shall call him... MINI-ME!"

--Allan Carr, before his death

He has micropenis hands.

Chaperoning young Talent around

R21: Now it's bizarre finger pointing and polarization of every single comment. Fucking weird.

It is weird. That, and the "You're BLOCKED" crap, which is basically an admittance that the 'blocker' can't handle any opinion that disagrees with his entrenched need to be right.

But it's happening everywhere online. Everyone is so polarized and defensive, just as bad as any politician.

Anyone want to clue us in on who this Kurian midget is?

What is it?

Who cares?

*blocking OP*

[quote]Mark Kurian

Stop trying to get Internet traction on some nobody the entire planet has never heard of.

Big fat fucking fail.

Don’t be jelly, bitches!

Actually, tiny skinny fucking fail, R31.

Not gonna hate - he lost weight and looks much healthier and happier. More power to him.

But he is an odd-looking duck.

They were exchanging stock tips, or discussing tips. Well, I'm sure tips were involved in some way.

R34 I don't care how he looks. He has little control over that; it's a lottery as with all of us.

He does have control over being creepy or not. He seems to be a purveyor of young men who brings them to Hollywood and pimps them out to rich people under the guise of being the publisher of a bougie magazine. That is creepy.

He apparently brokered Aaron Schock, criminal refugee from Washington, into high-yield wealthy circles in L.A. That's condemnable.

He lied about being on the board of a gay suicide prevention organization for reasons unknown to anyone, and he never had any relationship at all to that organization according to that organization. That's disturbing.

Think about it: He falsely claimed on at least two social media platforms, Instagram and Twitter, that he was on the board of the Trevor Project. Simultaneously, he was meeting/wooing/scouting/recruiting attractive young men and bringing them to L.A. (He has posted videos on IG documenting his road trips across the country to pick up young guys in their hometowns and drive them to LA, sleeping in shared hotel rooms with them and posting video of them in the shower, or with him taking video as he pulls the covers down while they sleep.) Claiming to be affiliated with a youth support or suicide prevention network to engender trust of a stranger and then abuse that trust is the sort of thing sexual predators do.

So his appearance is irrelevant. His behaviors are extremely suspect.

Assuming you are also the OP, R36, it would probably have helped to lead with this information.

R37 I am not the OP.

Did he an Andrew Neighbors have a falling out, they don’t seems to cross paths anymore. Did the rest of the BHL magazine staff put a moratorium on any more Andrew glamour shots in the issues?

R39 I have a theory about how the whole thing works.

Kurian is...not conventional looking. Let's put it that way. He is gay. He is male. Therefore, he wants to fuck attractive young men. It's probably a Harvey Weinstein situation: unattractive guy with high libido cannot get laid, and so he devises a profession for himself that positions him to get sex through power.

So Kurian procures guys he wants to bang from throughout the country. We know through gay porn that countless young men will have sex with anything for money or other advantages. Kurian finds ambitious, attractive young guys, physically brings them to LA and rents them out until they have their wings and can fly on their own without needing him, and once they don't need him, they want nothing to do with him for obvious reasons.

From Schock to Sandell to Neighbors, look at how guys have come and gone in his life. He always promotes them on IG as his close friends who would do anything for anyone. They get their IG followers and their private clients and then his 'close friends' shut him out and he moves on to opportunistically hunting down fresh young meat for 'friendships.'

That's depressing, R40.

Sleazy too, but depressing.

R41 Well think about it. Gay men are so discriminating and unlike women who seem to be able to totally overlook appearances and fall in love with the human being inside, the vast majority of gay men only want the meat on the outside and barely even see other gay men as human beings—more like sex dolls to be used once and then consume another.

And this way of life for many gay men is not restricted to gorgeous gay men—ugly ones, too, want to fuck hot guys once and then move on. So Kurian seems to have (allegedly!) established a business model to make that happen.

Just like Weinstein. He looks like some kind of hoggy animal and his genitals reportedly are freakish, so he is entirely repugnant physically. That is probably the basis of his ambition that drove him to be a great producer of many great movies. The quality is what drove his renown, and the renown is what gave him power, and while I'm sure a lot of it was about money, he always maintained his position specifically to make calls about casting young women so that they would have to make the ultimate sacrifice to him to get through that door. All because he was too repulsive to get laid. Evil, traumatic events came from that and some very good movies came from it, too.

I'm not sure how traumatic and evil sex with this finger puppet is. On the other hand zero great movies came from it.

R43 You don't think sex with it would leave a person traumatized??

I'm not sure sex with it would leave a person with more than the impression that they had rolled over on a cocktail gherkin, if you take my meaning.

I dunno, R45.

Have you seen Mulholland Drive?

If you have, you'll remember...that face. I imagine anyone being penetrated by the wrinkly gherkin would imprint something similar grinning at them and never recover from the visual memory.

R46 - fun fact - the "hobo" in Mullholland Drive is a woman made up to look like a witch. Actress Bonnie Aarons, whose unusual face can also look quite elegant, as in the linked picture, where she suggests an early Flemish Renaissance portrait.

Yeah, R47, she is like a more pleasant-looking version of the woman who plays Pepper on American Horror Story.

I'll repeat myself over and over - Schock cruised me on the boardwalk in Fire Island she looked...bad.

Short, leathery, busted face. Good body, I suppose, but everything attached to it was a no.

I’m guessing he is one of those only in LA types who has no real career but being around famous people. No idea who he is.

R42, gay men are absolutely awful to each other . They objectify and dehumanize and discard

R50, from what I can gather, his mommy bought him a present years ago called Beverly Hills Living "magazine", which I'm guessing sells only in Beverly Hills.

He hated himself so he ate his share of ALL THE PEEPS, HO-HOS, and DOUBLE-STUFFED oreos he could cram down his throat. That just made him feel worse, so he/mommy hired some dieticians/trainers, and perhaps plastic surgeons -- and how he's 3 feet tall, 1 foot wide, and has the complexion of a hard leather saddle.

Gotta give him credit for keeping the weight off, but he still doesn't look healthy, even when he uses a half-dozen snapchat filters.

r52 now, not 'how'...

He looks like the bits of Joycelyn Wildenstein that got thrown away.