Four For Friday - A New Ringmaster

He calls himself the ringmaster. He said it was because he used to organize a circus when he was working full-time. Not an actual circus, but definitely was juggling multiple performers and schedules and responsibilities. He did it well. There is no doubting that. He still calls himself the ringmaster now but says it is not just about juggling performers, but juggling who goes where and when and how can he get a piece. He also likes to make jokes about animals and whips which may have something to do with it too, but that is for a later day.

The thing is, all of you know him. Every single last one of you reading this site. I would say a fair share of the in line checkout readers of weekly magazines probably know who he is or at least the people he was wrangling. He likes to pretend he is still in the closet but all of you know better. The weekly checkout readers? He made sure none of that reached those pages. He still has the power to keep that out of there, but not off the websites. We all know the real story. He is not hiding it from his family. Maybe he is hiding it from the people in his past who frowned upon gay people and said they were all going straight to hell. Maybe he thinks he still needs their favor. Maybe he does. Maybe they are his best customers. I have no doubts that those people from his past life before he became famous are his customers. They certainly sampled that former A list actor he used to keep around back in the day. How do you think he became A list? Our ringmaster was a collector back then. He kept them close and traded them for favors to help out his charges. The people that built his empire. The thing is though that empire was built on him offering up underage teen boys to power players. He took the risks and the powers that be delivered. They ended up delivering for the boys too because that was part of the deal.

Our ringmaster liked that power. There was a time when he was too busy doing other things to collect. Oh sure, he would collect for himself but those were one night stands which often led to embarrassing situations and a lot of extortion. He was too trusting of his one night stands. After all, for years he had loyalty from his collection. He wanted something more like that not only for himself, but for others. There was always a demand, you just needed the right person and he was it. He still is it. He still has cache that others don't/ He drops a couple of names and possibilities for those young men and invites them to his place in LA or takes them in a private jet to Florida where they roll around in the sun and takes videos of them. He then offers them up. They don't get paid. Our ringmaster gets paid cash and the young men/teens get a chance at either working in the business or a chance at being kept by a successful man in business/entertainment. Of course our ringmaster samples all the products first for himself and is also known to make sure the boys report back to him any information he can use about their new benefactors.

It is because of a boy he provided many years to a man that he made his greatest wealth and the wealth of one of his empire builders. They live off that deal. The deal that saw the 15 year old from a small town in a very large state become the plaything for a very very wealthy man. The man was so happy he made a sweetheart deal that made millions for the ringmaster and his charges and left the 15 year old a college dropout at 19 and dead on the streets by 22.

Our ringmaster says it is the cost of doing business.