Anyone up for some of Wendy's PORN? March 4, 2005
Porn Nazi: The Sequel
Sobaka's Notebook
by Cali Ruchala
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The poor little porn girl turned fire-breathing sex kitten of the Aryan Nations is in the news again - and out on bail.
Keeping tabs on one Wendy Iwanow - the Nazi formerly known as the Latin Princess of Porn, Bianca Trump - is becoming a full time job. Since our story first ran, I've been flooded with emails, letters, and even a few phone calls from ex-friends, comrades, and masturbators with tips about the background of and present whereabouts of Wendy. I didn't want to be the custodian of records for Wendy's second career as a jaded felon (I suspect Jimmy D is the only one who gets that joke), but it appears I have no other choice.
On February 2, 2005, Wendy's home in Spokane was raided by the local police force's SWAT team. According to local media reports, a woman had earlier been arrested while trying to cash a check with a phony ID. She led the police to Wendy's house - or, as it's being characterized by police, her home "counterfeit ID factory."
Wendy made bail, but police went looking for her again last Sunday to press additional charges. On Monday they found her hiding in her mother's basement, according to this news report (note the image is credited to "sobaka.com" - nice fact-checking there, distinguished journalist colleagues).
All of this - or at least all of this that we're dealing with now - started a little more than a year ago, when Wendy was arrested at the airport in Spokane, Washington on an old forgery charge. Her heavily-inked body and seeming descent from the height of porn success ("1 corperation, [sic] 1 website, 1 car, 1 house. not done yet I spent my savings on boob complications," as she told Sobaka's favourite Australian Orthodox Jew/porn scribe, Luke Ford) was overshadowed, however, by her curious choice of a traveling companion: "Pastor" Richard Butler, the superannuated chieftain of the neo-Nazi Aryan Nations. Butler, his assistant later said, had taken Wendy into his home with the most benevolent intentions: to minister to her spirit and teach her how the Anglo-Saxons are really Jews and Jews are the spawn of Satan, as these Christian Identity kooks believe.
I recently had it confirmed by the authorities in Spokane that she had beaten the forgery charge. She may have walked out of Spokane County Jail as a free Aryaness, but her arrest had led to dozens of media reports - including ours - about her porn and prostitution background. Most of the accounts focused on the smattering of interracial sex scenes in her adult filmography, or her former strip-club billing as "the Latin Princess of Porn." In fact, her background in porn had included appearances on both Howard Stern and that seminal terrarium of white trash biology, The Jenny Jones Show, where she promoted her supposedly six-figure escort business.
"I'm the new Heidi Fleiss," she told Jenny's audience as they furrowed their brow, "only I'm smarter than her."
That claim is in question, if it hadn't already been laughed off by her former $1000 an hour johns, by Wendy's latest arrest. Aside from having every neo-Nazi vigilante high on glue out to sacrifice her as a "race traitor," she now has Johnny Law on her tail again.
During the SWAT team raid on her Spokane home (attentive readers may note that this is her second encounter with the boys in black flak jackets - and in two separate states!), police found a closed-circuit security camera aimed at the front welcome mat. Next to the door was a loaded rifle, and scattered throughout the house were stolen credit cards, checks and still more guns and ammo. She's did the perp walk for the cameras and was taken to Spokane County Jail on charges of forgery and possession of a firearm by a felon.
Wendy's latest seedy venture had been going on for at least six months, according to police. Wendy would allegedly use a digital camera to take pictures of people, print them out and slap the new photo over the old one. Some of the IDs were meticulously altered, while others were done in the most half-assed manner possible. It wouldn't surprise any of The Artist Formerly Known as Bianca Trump's fans in the prostitution racket that she had habitually misspelled the word "license." Her inability to use spellcheck is now tying her to dozens of phony IDs seized by police across the city.
Most of the licenses were being used to cash stolen checks or use stolen credit cards. Wendy herself was said by police to have become the star of a different kind of video - a security camera - using one of her mangled creations to cash a pilfered check at a grocery story.
Typical of Wendy, there's also a man involved. At press time, I wasn't able to learn his identity from the Spokane sheriff's office but he was said to be "co-habitating" at least part-time in her house/factory/den of iniquity.
This is pretty much par for the course with Wendy. I can now claim the dubious distinction of having watched this woman crack out from USENET flamewar whore back in the 1990s (here's a quick Google search of her posts - all 763 of them) to tabloid TV sensation to grist for the average skinhead's sex fantasy. Along the way, I've spoken to and heard from at least three dozen ex-employers, promoters, friends, lovers, roommates, "racially-aware colleagues" and, lately, legal clerks and police PR flaks. Except for the latter, with their fondness for dry and tasteless facts, each seems to have some juicy if poisonous morsel rolling under their tongue. Even at her high point, Wendy wasn't above a little creative redistribution of property. Things had a way of disappearing around her. She wasn't without charm and many at one point could have called her a friend. None of them do today, and the falling out was almost always bitter.
A former porn producer that had worked with Wendy said it best. He had originally discovered our story in a copy of Sobaka his brother was reading, and wanted to fill me in on the details. Leaning over a scotch in a hotel lounge near the airport, he said "Wendy will absolutely use anyone to her advantage. Anyone. And you can catch her in the act, doing something she shouldn't be doing, and she can convince you not that she's innocent, but that it's your fault she was doing it. The sickness is that so many people in her life were really kind to her, and all she did was fuck them over."
Sobaka's Notebook is a daily column of news and notes from developing stories by Sobaka publisher Cali Ruchala.
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