The second gay black man to be found dead inside a Democrat donor's house in 18 months described him as the 'f***ing devil' before his death, it has emerged.
Timothy Dean, who died of an apparent overdose at the West Hollywood home of Ed Buck in January, had been warning friends for months that he was bad news.
DeMarco Majors, who had known Dean for 20 years, claimed to have seen strings of text messages from Buck to Dean trying to get him to go over to his house, which Dean had been ignoring.
'Don’t you go over there,' Majors recalls 55-year-old Dean telling him in November last year. 'I'm not going over there either. S***, I’m not trying to end up dead.'
Timothy Dean, 55, painted Democrat donor Ed Buck as a dangerous predator in conversations with five friends before he was found dead at Buck's home last month
Dean described Buck (pictured), who he had known for years, as 'the f***ing devil' and a 'horrible, horrible man', his friends claimed
But two months later, Dean did go over to Buck's house and was found dead on January 7. Majors told the Daily Beast that he has no idea what changed Dean's mind.
In total, five of Dean's friends who claimed to have known him for decades spoke to the Beast, all of whom said Dean was fearful of Buck and described him as predatory.
Walter Harris said Dean had gotten involved with Buck years ago and their relationship involved lots of 'odd behaviors' - such as Buck's insistence that he wear white long johns - that bothered Dean.
But things changed in 2017 after 26-year-old Gemmel Moore was found dead at Buck's home.
After that, Harris said that Dean became afraid of Buck and 'didn't want nothing to do with [him]', Harris said.
In text conversations with multiple friends in which they discussed Moore's dead, Dean described him as a 'horrible, horrible man', 'the f***ing devil', and mused 'this might be it for Ed Buck'.
In the end, no charges were filed against Buck after Moore's death, though the investigation has been reopened since Dean died.
Speaking about Dean's death, Buck's lawyers say that Dean reached out to him while going through a hard time.
Dean (left) had been in an 'odd' relationship with Buck for years, but became afraid of him after Gemmel Moore (right) was found dead at his home of a suspected overdose in 2017
Buck is a prominent donor to the Democrat party and has been pictured alongside the likes of Hillary Clinton (above) and California governor Jerry Brown
They say Dean and Buck had been friends for years and that Dean had arrived at his house high on drugs, while Buck was trying to get him clean.
Buck's attorneys refute claims that Buck had been reaching out to Dean, and say Dean was the one to make contact.
They also point to the existence of text messages which they say show Dean was living a 'secret life' that his friends were not aware of.
'That is as far as we will go with what we and law enforcement possess,' lawyer Seymour Amster told Fox.
'If this matter ends up in a courtroom, and that is a big "IF" we will then decide if it is necessary to disclose Mr. Dean's secret life.'
Police have yet to file charges over Dean's death
Dean worked at Saks Fifth Avenue was a member of the National Gay Basketball Association and of One LA - a religious group - prior to his death.
But before working in retail and pre-baptism, Dean was actually known in the gay porn industry as a dominant top named Hole Hunter.
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