The LA Weekly‘s Linda Immediato visits Jeffree Star at home (below right). You might have heard of the misfit teen from Orange County who became the reigning Queen of the Internet. In fact, it’s very likely you’re one of his “friends.” Here’s an excerpt from Immediato’s home invasion:
“I was the first one to have high-speed Internet before all my friends,” he says. “I’d take crazy pictures. I was really good at having guys on the Internet buy me stuff. I would never send nude pictures or anything like that, but these guys would become obsessed with me.” One guy sent him a thousand-dollar camera. He used it to take higher-quality images of himself. Star wants to show me a few he and photographer Heidi Calvert took back then, so we go to his pink bedroom where, as promised, there is indeed a tattooed-limbed boy wrapped in Hello Kitty sheets. The picture hanging above the vanity where Star’s makeup brushes live shows him as a blonde in fishnets and hooker heels, with slit wrists, blood smeared up his forearm, and a tissue spotted with blood in his other hand. ”Oh, and it was all real, girl,” he says, showing me the scars on his wrists. “[Heidi] wanted me to hold a gun in my mouth, and I was like, fuck that. I took a razor and slashed my wrists. So I got a weird cult following.” (Photo: Kevin Scanlon; t/y Thairin)