There, over dinner and drinks at the Bellagio, Cuadra had proposed going into the porn business with Lockhart, offering him $20,000 for their first film together. Two weeks before the murder, it turned out, Cuadra and his boyfriend, another male escort, had met with Lockhart in Las Vegas. Within weeks, it became clear that Danny Moilin was a fake identity used by a young Navy veteran named Harlow Cuadra, who worked as a male escort in Virginia Beach. The fire was so devastating that Kocis had to be identified using dental records. Then his house was torched, his body lying on the living-room couch. After he died, Kocis was stabbed another twenty-eight times. His hyoidbone, trachea, left carotid artery and left jugular vein were severed. Kocis’ neck was slashed, nearly decapitating him. The killer or killers left little to chance. Less than two hours later, Kocis had been brutally hacked to death. There was no sign of forced entry at his house, no struggle, nothing to indicate that he sensed what was coming.
Whatever transpired, Kocis was in his element, taking a new actor under his wing. Kocis apparently opened a bottle of wine at some point and showed Moilin his upstairs bedroom, suggesting that the boy move in with him. No one knows exactly what happened that evening after Moilin arrived. “No worries.” Bring your stuff, he suggested, and spend the night. The boy wrote back, “Umm, can we please be alone. “Don’t have much experience with this at all.
“Would like to meet with you and talk about filming and stuff,” Moilin wrote. From the photo he sent of himself, Moilin looked almost too good to be true: fresh-faced, smooth-skinned and naive, just the way Kocis liked his boys. The kid, who called himself Danny Moilin, had been e-mailing Kocis for several days. He was also waiting for a new boy to come over, an aspiring actor he hoped might take Sean’s place. Now, sitting in his home on a cold day last January, Kocis was on the phone with his lawyer and his distributor, ironing out the final details of a legal settlement that would guarantee him continued profits from Lockhart. “Think Catherine Tramell in Basic Instinct.” Lockhart and Kocis began a bitter public feud, which culminated last year in the director filing a $i million lawsuit against his star for breach of contract. “Sean has all the elements of a lovable villain,” says Jason Sechrest, host of an adult-industry radio show in Los Angeles. Lockhart looked sweet onscreen, but being in porn had hardened him. Kocis, by contrast, reportedly cleared $2 million a year. Kocis was paying Lockhart only $2,000 per sex scene - about the industry standard - for a handful of scenes each year. A lot of boys just show up to a shoot and ask, ‘Where do you want me to stick it?’ and ‘When do I get my check?'”īut as Lockhart’s fan base expanded, Kocis faced a problem: The young star wanted to strikeout on his own. He has a pretty dick and a great ass, and even though he looks underage, he’s no innocent boy. “On set, he always acts like a brand-new porn star, with great energy and charisma.
“Brent looks like a fifteen-year-old boy, which is what a lot of the older men who buy gay porn like,” says Chris Steele, a veteran director. One film, Schoolboy Crush, was the most downloaded gay video in 2004. The DVDs and downloads of Lockhart - who went by nom de screen Brent Corrigan - quickly became top sellers in the industry.