Topher DiMaggio Denied Raping Gay Co-Star!

Five days ago, gay adult film actor Tegan Zayne accused fellow performer Topher DiMaggio of raping him the night before the duo was set to film a scene for Cockyboys.
According to Zayne, DiMaggio pressured him into having sex the night before the scene while they were sharing the same quarters.
Zayne said that after the incident he felt “belittled and degraded” and “told how I’m such a girl.”

Said Zayne: “I’ve seen a lot of stories come out about the metoo thing, but it’s (sic) feels like no one cares about the male victims, or the sex workers. As someone else said “rape doesn’t exist in this line of work”, and it couldn’t be more true.”

Porn actors, gay men, men and sex workers can all be raped, and DiMaggio seems like a total ass, but if every word of what Zayne says is true, this story is not going to strike everyone who reads it as rape or even assault.
(I do think porn actors have it especially hard when calling out men for raping them — so much of the porn we consume, gay and straight, fetishizes rape!)

Oddly, Zayne later tweeted that he doesn't authorize porn blogs to to use his story, even though it is a publicly issued statement (and accusation of a crime), and even though he posted it on Twitter, which allows embeds. He also expressed disdain for blogs not seeking to interview him, but said he isn't looking for attention (or pity).

Late yesterday, DiMaggio denied the allegations in a tweet that was later deleted, presumably because it was discovered that DiMaggio had not only lifted tweets about other men from Zayne’s account to set up a false narrative that Zayne had willingly had sex with him, but that he had also lifted his denial statement directly from one published by Russell Simmons in the New York Times in response to sexual assault allegations.

In his denial, DiMaggio included a tweet of Zayne’s that said “even though I was willing to sleep with him” to prove that Zayne was a willing participant in the alleged rape. Unfortunately, when Zayne’s tweet was put in its proper context, it was clearly not about DiMaggio but about another man he had slept with.
Zayne had this to say about it: “Imagine screenshotting a tweet that wasn’t about you, and making it about you to further your defensive agenda when you know you’re wrong”

Additionally, DiMaggio’s text statement read like this:

I vehemently deny all these allegations. These horrific accusations have shocked me to my core. All of my relations with this person have been consensual and willing. The current accusations against me range from the patently untrue to hurtful. Also, stating he WILLINGLY had sex with me (see screnshot below). Furthermore, he never said “no”. I’m hurt by these false accusations and malicious slanderous statements that are simply not true. The presumption of ‘innocent until proven guilty’ must not be replaced by “Guilty by Accusation.” Not wanting to further a relationship or not being friendly enough after having consensual sex doesn’t give the other person who had different expectations of a romance the right to accuse someone of something so awful.

 Rape is a very serious thing and not a word to be thrown around. To all my friends and followers please use this opportunity to open a healthy dialogue and not as an opportunity to attack or belittle anyone.

It can be clearly seen that he lifted major portions of it (bolded above) from Russell Simmons’ statement to the New York Times as pointed out by a commenter on the str8upgayporn website.
DiMaggio has since deleted the tweet.