A poverty-stricken Oklahoma woman turned unwitting youngster intercourse star is making an attempt to show the tables on the New York man she accused of grooming and raping her — demanding $150,000 for each one of many a whole bunch of risqué photographs and movies of her that he allegedly posted on-line.
Audrey Burns was simply 14 and desperately making an attempt to keep away from homelessness when she started modeling to earn cash, after her mom was severely injured in a automobile accident.
“It was tough,” Burns, now 29 and a pregnant, single mom of three. “This was the summer season of my eighth-grade 12 months. I didn’t wish to begin highschool in a shelter and my mother couldn’t come dwelling from the hospital in a shelter. So I needed to do one thing.”
After one picture shoot, a photographer linked the younger teen to Dutchess County resident James Lidestri, who she claimed shortly started urging Burns to ship “attractive” photographs of herself and acquired different photos of her almost nude and in suggestive poses, she stated in a Manhattan Federal Courtroom lawsuit.
Lidestri, 65, posted photographs of Burns and different women on his site, TeenStarlet.com, and in April 2013 — when she was simply 16 — flew her and her mom to the Large Apple for a photograph shoot with him at his Hudson Valley dwelling, she claimed.
“When Audrey and her mom received to their room, they discovered at the very least ten $100 payments lined up on the mattress alongside a bag from Juicy Couture,” in keeping with the lawsuit.
As soon as at his home, he plied her still-recovering mother with beer and whisked Burns away to totally different bed room, the place he gave the woman booze and “always groaned” whereas photographing her on the mattress, she stated.
Finally Lidestri pinned her on the mattress and assaulted her, then advised her “to not inform anybody about what had simply occurred, explaining they might each get in bother for the previous photoshoots,” Burns claimed.
When she gained a following on-line, Lidestri — who additionally made a site for her below a pseudonym — allegedly pressured Burns to reply vulgar messages from grownup followers and chastised her when the excessive schooler didn’t spend sufficient time doing so.
“I didn’t perceive the issues they had been saying,” she recalled.
He additionally inspired the woman to ship him photos of herself in trade for money he’d ship through Western Union, Burns alleged.
Finally, Burns’ on-line life caught up along with her in highschool — forcing her to drop out as she was taunted by friends, in keeping with court docket papers.
Burns fled the state, later chopping ties with Lidestri altogether. Penniless, she grew to become a stripper to outlive, she stated. And she or he remains to be haunted by “followers” of her teenage pictures.
“Audrey remains to be contacted by males who bear in mind her and possess pictures and movies of her as a minor and who implore her to ship them unreleased content material from when she was a toddler,” she stated in authorized papers.
“No less than two of those males have knowledgeable Audrey that they bought and possess the video of Lidestri performing oral intercourse on her when she was a toddler.”
When she spoke publicly about Lidestri and the assault, Lidestri sued her for defamation. The case is ongoing.
Lidestri insisted in his personal court docket papers every little thing along with his internet sites was above board and that he didn’t know Burns earlier than she turned 16.
“Burns alleges that I gave her mom alcohol and advised her that she couldn’t be current through the photoshoot. That is unfaithful,” he stated within the submitting, including “I by no means grew to become aroused at any level and most significantly, I didn’t come into bodily contact along with her at any time.”
Burns, who stated she forbids her oldest youngster from social media due to her personal expertise, labeled Lidestri’s lawsuit an “abusive litigation tactic.”
She continues to do OnlyFans content material to outlive.
“It doesn’t really feel good,” she stated.
Burns has requested a decide to dismiss Lidestri’s defamation case, stated her lawyer, Daniel Szalkiewicz, who added that she determined to file her personal go well with as a solution to struggle again.
“It’s a testomony to any individual who has overcome each hurdle in life,” he stated, including, “She deserves justice in opposition to this particular person.”
A lawyer for Lidestri didn’t reply to a message looking for remark.
