New charges in Bumfights case: beer-and-donut conspiracy

By at 11:57 am Wednesday, Nov 20

A new round of charges were filed yesterday against producers of the online cult video series Bumfights:

[Prosecutors say] the defendants induced some of the brawls by offering beer and doughnuts... In one sequence, a homeless man named Donald Brennan is shown having sex with a woman described as a drug-addicted prostitute after the filmmakers paid $100 to have "Bumfight" tattooed on his forehead. For beer and doughnuts, Brennan and another homeless man, Rufus Hannah, fought each other Jan. 5 in a La Mesa parking lot while one of the defendants filmed and cheered them on. The following month, Brennan broke his leg fighting with Hannah.

A homeless woman "known only as 'Pork Chop'" was paid $20 to attack Peter LaForte in a San Diego beach bathroom, prosecutors say. The filmmakers later told LaForte that "Pork Chop" accepted the money "because she was hungry," according to the complaint.

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