My semi obligatory not quite obituary: Andrea True Connection RIP
tMore More More ... Andrea True at the height of her fame
I only learned this morning from Vicky Gallas aka The Accused Madam who often comments on this blog, that Andrea True connection died on the 7th November at a Kingston, New York hospital, aged only 68.
Ironically we had a little natter about her last month on her blog after I saw a You Tube video on her site, of Andrea singing More More More, her popular 1976 disco hit.
Andrea Worked for me in the early 90′s back in Los Angeles. She wasn’t quite what I was looking for, she seemed desperate and I got the impression she needed to make money fast, but in the world of paid companionship, there is a type for everyone, so I decided to meet her.
I remember driving to meet her from where I lived in the San Fernando Valley, to Hollywood and picked her up outside her apartment not far from Hollywood Boulevard. For some reason we ended up driving back to the San Fernando Valley and had lunch at Mel’s Diner in Encino.
Although I didn’t recognise her, I was aware of her hit song, but not of her porn career, which she mentioned. Long story short she didn’t work with me for long, we parted ways and some time later I found out she either had every intention of passing on my information to LAPD Administrative Vice or already had.
A mutual friend of ours found personal details about me, in Andrea’s belongings while she was helping her move apartments. The sheet of paper included my description, the registration plates on my car, the fact that I was British and the name of all my ads in the Los Angeles Yellow Pages (this was before websites).
Andrea could have saved herself a lot of bother as Administrative Vice were already aware of me, and had been so for years. In fact they knew of me well before I returned to Los Angeles, after first opening shop in New Orleans and spending a year there. I parted ways with the crescent city after I agreed to a plea bargain with the DA, in my lawyers office. I agree to have my phone lines (I had 5 of them) terminated and plead to a lesser charge. Yes, Pandering, which is the procurement of a person for sex in exchange of money, is a big deal in all US states, a felony punishable by a 3 year minimum mandatory sentence. Mind you this is the same state where giving a blow job is a felony on the statutes. It’s called: “a crime against nature“.
The DA was a nice fella who didn’t think I belonged in a Louisiana prison, the judge, who coincidentally I met at a crayfish broil party a few weeks before he sentenced me to 6 month suspended prison sentence and a $250 fine, agreed. The head of vice in the New Orleans Police Dept wasn’t so charming, and told me to get out of town telling me, he would “give me hell”. To be more exact ; “I’ll be darned if some nigger is gonna pimp a white woman’s ass”.
LAPD Vice were alerted to my arrival in the city not by the NOPD, but by a particular statewide task force based in Iowa (of all places), that was investigating the use of credit cards by clients to pay for escort services but that’s a whole other chapter for another blog post. I doubt if Andrea could have provided them with any information they didn’t already have on me.
According to her long time friend Louise Marsello, Andrea’s cause of death was heart failure.
RIP Andrea I guess I won’t be seeing the $500 you owed me.
That is my bio on her.
This is what the New York Times has to say:
In a 2002 interview for a VH1 documentary, she described the unlikely events that led to the making of “More, More, More.” Preparing to return to New York after recording a commercial in Jamaica in 1976, she found that a government ban on asset transfers barred her from taking her earnings home. (The ban was a response to United States sanctions imposed on Jamaica after the election of Michael Manley, a Castro sympathizer.)
Unable to leave with her cash, Ms. True hit on the idea of investing it in a studio demonstration record of a song she made up. The Jamaican authorities let her take it home to New York, where friends in the record industry helped her develop the idea into “More, More, More,” which was released by Buddah Records.
The song produced royalties for Ms. True throughout her life, most recently as the soundtrack for a TV commercial for Honey Bunches of Oats cereal.
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Interesting Duchess… I still won’t play her song on my blog though. I encountered enough snitches and thieves from the escort business to last a lifetime and dead or alive, they all suck.
Thinking of the trouble you suffered and trash like this had the audacity to steal your fees leaves me ticked-off. The snitch problem is another, worse, issue. A thief and snitch is dead now – oh well, no loss. Bet the NY Times didn’t know she worked as an escort too… lol
This is why the world needs bloggers like us – to post the real stories.
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Hey Vicky, I figured since she passed on I may as well. I remember being pretty shocked when I found out, who knows how many other people she grassed on while she was alive.
Her death sounds kind of sad…no mention of any family
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What a nasty little bio on someone who has just died. So what if she owed you $500. RIP Andrea.
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Me nasty? Snitches are nasty…dead or alive and that is what Andrea True was a snitch…deal with it.
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Duchess,
Anyone that would respond in anger to your bio of Andrea True Connection must be just like her (a rip-off snitch).
I missed the negative responses till this moment – What freak appreciates a snitch? Another snitch. They are all over the place here (Orlando area).
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I respect your point of view, and the best thing I can do is to give you the benefit of the doubt that what you are telling us is true. But, we must all realize that your story presents strictly your own point of view, and nothing more. I think the really unfortunate thing is that Andrea is no longer here to provide her own side of things, or if necessary, to defend herself.
It seems quite apparent that the two of you had a falling out over some money-related issue. If someone reading your story wants make to sure they are staying in an unbiased perspective, I think that is the only fact that they can safely gather from this whole scenario. Please be aware that I am not trying to take Andrea’s side over yours, or to belittle your story in any way. I just want to point out that without knowing Andrea’s side of the story AT ALL, one can ONLY see things from your perspective, and that probably isn’t entirely fair, since there are almost always two sides to any story.
Anyway, for better or for worse, thanks for your story, and I’m sure we can agree on one thing: RIP Andrea.
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I wouldn’t call it a falling out, she just flat out avoided paying me money she owed. This was something I ran into from time to time.
It was a 40/60 split (I got 40%) but for some unreliable women, they chose not to pay for whatever reason….I blacklisted them.
I know it’s a one-sided account but and she is no longer around to put her side…nothing I can do about that.
Cheers
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