Stolen Images, Lies & Extortion:
Scammer Jonathan Ayana Unmasked

Originally Posted by Pat Lee Photographer on Tumblr on 12/3/14. Reposted here and updated 2/7/15. Click here to jump to the Comments.

Mini Update 2/7/15: He's now changed his Instagram usernames to @gqjadore and @LiamFitzPatrick777. His @BlakeDavinci account is finally closed, but some cached posts remain. Click here to view his other known aliases.

Ayana is still active as of 2/1/15. We need your help! If you have received threats from Jonathan Ayana, please file a police report with your local police department. Refer them to this website and ask your local officials contact Sgt. Bradley Curtis at The City of Denton Police Department at (940) 349-8181. You must file a local police report first!

Above Sources: ( Link 1 | Link 2 | Link 3 | Link 4 | Link 5 )

Those are just some the threats of a self-professed modeling scout and agent. He is neither. He is a college student in Texas with absolutely no connections, experience or credentials in the industry. And disturbingly, his threats aren't even an isolated occurrence. He's been harassing and threatening people online like this for years, all the while stealing photos from other models and photographers to bolster his deception. Those rebuffing his advances and refusing to send their "private" photos to him triggers a vicious tirade of threats, vowing explicitly to ruin their careers and lives.

In early December, I was informed by a fellow photographer that there was someone named Jonathan Ayana on Facebook, on Instagram as @JadoreGQ and a @BlakeDavinci trying to pass himself off as modeling agent, while falsely claiming to represent several of the models I know personally by ripping off photos I'd shot from myself and other photographers. He claims to be able to provide lucrative modeling gigs ("six figure" payouts are repeatedly touted), but it is all just a deceptive ploy to get models to send him private photos of themselves under the guise of applying for a potential modeling gig. He's gained a reputation over years for his prolifics online stalking of HUNDREDS of male models and athletes, threats and harassment, and a short temper which lashes out at the slightest hint of rejection. On Facebook he had previously gone by the alias "Jonathan Saint James" and is now operating under what's been revealed to be his personal account under his real name, "Jonathan Ayana" (account disabled as of 1/13/15). He solicits models online claiming to offer lucrative modeling gigs if models sent nude photos of themselves for consideration -- if they refused, he would then threaten online retaliation and public smearing of their reputation. His tactics have even included making threats to a model's own family.

As more of this has come to light through my own friends and colleagues, Jonathan Ayana has been at this for at least a few years. Even though his online aliases continue to change, his solicitations, bad temper, and threatening retaliatory behavior triggered by even the slightest rejection is a common reaction, all the way down to his dramatic tantrums and threats to smear individuals by posting their personal information and posting their private images to gay porn sites and as fake profiles on gay dating websites. Jonathan Ayana repeats this threat regularly, despite being openly gay himself.

His posts commonly referenced his other Instagram aliases (see below) to create the impression that they are associates of the same modeling agency -- though a specific business agency name is never mentioned, I believe these are all operated by Jonathan Ayana.

I've compiled here as much public information as I could about Jonathan Ayana, as well as comprehensive documentation of his online harassment and threats. Essential to this was the multitude of testimony made public by my colleagues consisting of models, photographers and agents active in the fitness modeling industry. It is extensively sourced and annotated. Jonathan Ayana's digital trail is expansive, and his sheer carelessness makes me wonder if his obsession extends beyond the reaches of even common sense.

It is my hope that anyone being approached by Jonathan Ayana and who seeks out any info online about him will find this as a valuable resource. Don't waste your time with him! However, if you are threatened and harassed, please document and report this to Facebook, Instagram, or Kik, respectively.

Other Known Identities

• JonnyBoyGQ on OkCupid (Link) -- Disabled 1/21/15
• jonathan.ayana on Skype (Link)
• JonnyBoyGQ on Youtube (Link)
• Jonathan Ayana on Google+ (Link)
• Jonathan GQ on Google+ (Link)
• JadoreGQ on Tumblr (Link -- Disabled 1/13/15 - View Cached Site)
• JonnyBoyGQ on Tumblr (Link -- Disabled 1/13/15)
• HollisterMayne5 on AIM
• preachamayne27 on Myspace (Link)

Prior Identities (No Longer Active)

• @JadoreGQ on Instagram
• @BlakeDavin on Instagram -- renamed to @BlakeHavenn as of 1/11/15 (Link)
• @BlakeDavinci on Instagram -- renamed to @BlakeDavin as of 12/4/14
• Jonathan Saint James on Facebook
• Jonathan Saint Cloud on Facebook

Above: Prior to being publicly exposed as a scammer on this page on December 2nd, 2014, Ayana had previously used his own photo as an avatar on several of his social media accounts.

Please refer to the section "The Solicitations" below to see how Ayana's three known Instagram user accounts used for perpetrating fraud and sending threats are directly connected to one another, as well as how Ayana's own primary Instagram account is linked to social media profiles directly associated with his real-life identity.

Who is Jonathan Ayana?

¨Source: http://music.unt.edu/acda/member-roster?page=1

The scammer has been unmasked and confirmed as college student Jonathan Ayana of Denton, TX. After his prior Facebook accounts under aliases Jonathan Saint James and Jonathan Saint Cloud had been disabled, Ayana had apparently begun using his primary real-name Facebook account to send messages to models via Facebook Messenger. This was surprising in its carelessness -- however Ayana had apparently been at this for at least 3 years and he may have felt confident he was getting away with swindling people. In addition, performing a simple Google search on the phone number known to be associated with the scammer matched publicly-posted information about Ayana from his own university website. Screen captures of conversations Ayana had with several models reveal his personal Facebook account was used for solicitation of models as well as the subsequent threatening messages.

Jonathan Ayana, full name Esosa Jonathan Ayana is a senior at the University of North Texas in Denton, TX just outside Dallas. He is a member of the American Choral Directors Association, where he is listed publicly on their online member roster. This university page lists his email address as esosaayana@my.unt.edu and a phone number of (718) 704-8142, which is the same phone number reported by those harassed by him. 

This number has a 718 New York area code, which would be possible to obtain by anyone using a freely available call forwarding service such as Google Voice, which allows users to select their own mobile number and area code. Through his online personas he has claimed to have a New York office in Soho, and using a false number with a NYC area code would enable him to fake being based in New York, when he is actually just a residing in Texas.

A public records report from Intelius reveals that Esosa Jonathan Ayana is from San Angelo, TX and has a prior criminal history for misdemeanor theft in 2012.

Note: Despite the fact that Jonathan Ayana routinely threatened people with exposing their personal information, phone numbers, home addresses and made threats toward models and their families, I've still chosen to obscure his home address from this screen capture above. However, this information can be found as part of public record.

The Stolen Images & False Claims

Not all of my stolen photos are included here. There are over a dozen, but this is just a small sample. Numerous photographs taken by myself and other photographers were stolen by Jonathan Ayana under Instagram username @BlakeDavinci ( Now Closed as of 1/13/15) and he used those images to falsely claim model representation.

Jonathan Ayana's Instagram accounts are now currently set to Private as of this writing.

Stolen photo of Brandon Bass. And he's not a model from Kansas City, either.	Stolen photo of Francisco Colon, also not from New York.	Stolen photo of Lloyd Herford, also not from Nebraska.
Stolen photo of John Gioffre. He's not from Miami.	Stolen photo of Todd Whiting. Not from Columbus.

... he's also kind of a jerk. But it's nothing compared to what's next...

The Solicitations

Here is just a small sample of the solicitations. Solicitations were made to models from three known Instagram user accounts @JadoreGQ, @BlakeDavinci, and @SeanPatrick77777. These three usernames would post virtually identical solicitations, mentioning one another as associates. Because the associates' referenced job titles seemed to shift between conversations very inconsistently, it's highly likely that these are all Jonathan Ayana.

http://instagram.com/p/tgc4DcJ-_p/	Account Now Closed	http://instagram.com/p/seHj5PjblR/

Source: Jorge Ivan Guevara at http://facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10200244791078897

Source: Thomas Murphy screen capture from Facebook chat on 10/22/13. http://facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152777700143682 (Show Post Context) This connects Facebook alias Jonathan Saint James to the known Instagram username @jadoregq used by Jonathan Ayana. The conversation continues...

Source: Thomas Murphy screen capture from Facebook chat on 10/23/13. http://facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152777703668682 (Show Post Context) Thomas agrees to send some gym pics, but declines to send nude photos. Ayana adamantly says that sending nudes to him are required and that he has recruited "15,642" models who have sent him nude photos. "I guarantee you they did," he says. Later that night...

Source: Thomas Murphy screen capture from Facebook chat on 10/23/13. http://facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152777638968682 (Show Post Context)

Model Monroe Stevens shared a screen capture of his Facebook correspondence with Jonathan Ayana, documenting the initial solicitation as well as the subsequent threats from Ayana when Stevens expressed disinterest.

Source: Monroe Stevens at http://facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=587954031351003

Source: Monroe Stevens at http://facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=587953571351049

Source: Monroe Stevens at http://facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=587954174684322

Source: http://instagram.com/p/tgc4DcJ-_p/

Source: http://instagram.com/p/oEpcWDBExE/

Above: Interactive gallery of assorted cookie-cutter solicitations from Jonathan Ayana on Instagram.

Click here to see more via custom Google search.

Harassment & Threats

Jonathan Ayana's posts under several online personas -- @JadoreGQ (Now @GQJadore), @BlakeDavinci (Account Now Closed). On Facebook he was formerly known as Jonathan Saint James and and Jonathan Saint Cloud. Surprisingly he is also documented as having sent these solicitations and subsequent threats to models through his personal Facebook account -- one that was bearing his real name this time.

Source: Tim Terwilliger at http://facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=548701471917199

Screencap of a Kik conversation between model Tim Terwilliger and Jonathan Ayana, via username JonnyBoyGQ, one of Jonathan Ayana's known profiles and the same Kik username he mentions in his other Instagram solicitations.

Source: Jonathan Irizarry at http://facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=266794296814596 and http://facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=26679428014793

In retaliation for refusing his solicitations, Ayana falsely reported model Jonathan Irizarry's Facebook profile as "fake" profile, prompting Facebook to deactivate his account. Ayana proudly admits to being responsible for taking down Irizarry's Facebook profile and business page, and makes further threats, then claims to have done the same to Irizarry's friend, another bodybuilder named Cody Montgomery.

Source: http://instagram.com/p/ruhjLbFcOS/

Source: http://instagram.com/p/uMBI6FNaO3

Source: Gabriel Sey at http://facebook.com/gabriel.a.sey/posts/10151970700568328:0

Source: Aaron Clark at http://instagram.com/p/mX8j73LrFh/

Source: Shannon Thomas at http://facebook.com/shannon.thomas.54/posts/10201048165593408:0

Source: Brad Cikana at http://facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151897663746707

Source: Matt McCutcheon at http://instagram.com/p/jeUf0_BWP2/

Source: Screen capture submitted to Pat Lee by Korey Shaun Gonzalez. The second screen-capture was taken later when Korey had been blocked by Ayana.

Source: http://instagram.com/p/o2EPQ2OGn_/

Source: http://instagram.com/p/sgTR1rBhWh/

Source: http://instagram.com/p/uqwB_SBhYU/

Source: http://instagram.com/p/us7zdvi3z_/

Source: http://instagram.com/p/uwzKhto7Hy/

Even though Ayana routinely used the threat of having models' personal information and photos posted onto gay porn websites -- he himself is openly gay, according to his publicly-accessible OKCupid dating profile -- just in case his primary objective of soliciting male models for their nude photos weren't an indicator enough. Taking pride in being gay while simultaneously using it as a threat is particularly reprehensible -- but that didn't stop him from telling someone to "go gag on a cock fag" when responding to the scrutiny of commenters when confronted and exposed on Instagram in early December.

Want to see more yourself?

This custom Google search reveals the large number of solicitations by Jonathan Ayana's prolific Instagram scamming accounts directed toward other users.

• Click here to view all Instagram.com solicitations made by Jonathan Ayana under his known Instagram personas, @JadoreGQ (Now @GQJadore), @BlakeDavinci (Account Now Closed) and @SeanPatrick77777.
• Or, view all comments where all three original personas are concurrently mentioned? Compelling evidence these social media accounts are directly involved with one another, if not the same person.

Ayana is still active as of 1/13/15. We need your help! If you have received threats from Jonathan Ayana, please file a police report with your local police department. Refer them to this website and ask your local officials contact The City of Denton Police Department at (940) 349-8181.

Warnings from Others

For over a year, numerous models, photographers and (yes, real) model agents have posted warnings regarding Jonathan Ayana's unscrupulous behavior.

Source: http://instagram.com/p/uy3ZQwl76Y

Source: http://instagram.com/p/rnXi2suChS

Model Ian Lauer warns against the scammer. Even without mentioning his name, the solicitation contains details identical to Jonathan Ayana's other solicitations.

Source: Adam Silver, president of Silver Model Management from NYC at http://facebook.com/silvermodels/posts/10152892521867451

Source: Justin Smith at http://facebook.com/physiquejustin/posts/635653673165461

Source: Chase Aaron Pool at http://facebook.com/chase.pool.1/posts/10201018461637105

Source: Marshall Arkley at http://facebook.com/MarshallArkley/posts/10153114793825078

Source: Blake Elarbee at http://facebook.com/blakeelarbee/posts/10104178377998843

Source: Mike Jones at http://facebook.com/Mikeyjones385/posts/10202482929306891:0

Source: Ryan Nickerson at http://facebook.com/ryan.nickerson.144/posts/10152289016741870

Source: Miroslav Zikic at http://facebook.com/ibffmiroslav.zikic/posts/1449675191921019:0

First Reactions

Shortly after I originally posted this page and warning on my Instagram account, Jonathan Ayana finally speaks up, offering some of the most vitriolic and delusional reponses I've seen, despite being directly rebuffed by other models and photographers recounting identical experiences of harassment and threats.

Source: http://instagram.com/p/wHtzd4yMsr/

Note: Jonathan Ayana deleted his comments about a day after it was posted. All other responses from other people including those responding to him remain intact. Here is another thread of Instagram comments involving Jonathan Ayana on the offensive.

Source: http://instagram.com/p/wH-VYXLNtQ/

Source: Matt Mendrun at http://facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10203017386823709. (View Context) It has since been edited by Jonathan Ayana, presumably after seeing this post.

Ayana's Attempts to Suppress Information

Shortly after I originally posted this expose my Tumblr blog, Ayana attempted to have Tumblr remove my post. On what grounds? He claimed his copyright was being violated.

Funny, considering that I got wind of all of this in the first place because Ayana was stealing MY photography to pass himself off as a modeling agent! I appealed to Tumblr that the likenesses of Ayana fell under fair use and the report itself was newsworthy and essential to informing others of fraud. The post remained active.

Then on January 8th, I received this email from Ayana via email jadoregq@gmail.com.

I did not respond to his email. Honestly, it kind of made me laugh. Not only was he denying everything and accusing me of harassing him, he then went to acknowledge that he had indeed confronted me on my Instagram page when I initially had exposed him. This whas when he posted under @JadoreGQ and had commented on my Instagram post where I exposed him. This complete exchange is documented on my page (see above, First Reactions), which also included his veiled threats towards me. During this exchange, he also made a big deal bragging about having a NYC office in Soho. My question is, if he really did have an office in NYC, why would he be filing a police report in Dallas?? If he's really trying to defend himself, then he needs to decide if he's a NYC modeling agent, or a music student in Texas with ZERO credibility in the modeling industry whatsoever. Because in his message above he is acknowledging being complicit in both scenarios.

Also, if Ayana had indeed spoken to "two lawyers in the Chicago area", they should have corrected him on the difference between slander and libel. Slander is spoken. Libel is written. But to be qualify as either slander or libel, the claims must be proven to be untrue. The evidence against Ayana is overwhelming. And the digital trail does not lie. And this trail will remain, even if those accounts are deleted.

Unfortunately on January 10th, Tumblr removed my page, citing privacy violation presumably reported by Ayana. I countered that the information I presented was already public (Ayana's contact information was already plainly visible on the UNT Choral Director's Association member page). Unfortunately the page was not restored. Interesting that he would claim privacy violation when he routinely threatened to post people's own personal phone numbers and home addresses on pornography websites.

The page was updated and revised, and posted here as you see it now. I will not be taking it down.

And in Ayana's own crass words that he seemingly relished while taunting, harassing and threatening so many others, "enjoy Googling yourself... you bitchass cunt!" Right back at you!

Even as Ayana plainly acknowledged that his colleagues had all been made aware of his activity, he still continued his lies and harassment...

Stalking & Harassment Continues

Early January I was informed by several models that Jonathan Ayana was continuing to actively solicit models.

Source: http://facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=926720544005497 on 1/11/15

According to model Nat Paul, Jonathan Ayana "contacts so many people he doesn't remember who he's already contacted." Nat Paul was contacted three times already by Ayana.

Source: Cole Carmichael at http://facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10203346407370215 (View in Context)

As seen above, as of 1/10/15 Jonathan Ayana is now using a revised version of his solicitation message.

Source: Submitted directly to me by model Jorge Ivan Guevara.

...wow. Really?

Source: Skype conversation screencaptures submitted to me by UK model Adam Fletcher on 1/13/15 As of 1/13/15 Jonathan Ayana is still reaching out to people, and now via his Skype username jonathan.ayana. UK model Adam Fletcher sent me these screenshots and indicated that Ayana had been contacting him over a three-year period. Adam also sent me a screen capture of the User Profile page for Jonathan Ayana's Skype account, further confirming a phone number match.

... and it's a match!

Click here for up-to-date Google search results showing scam solicitations made by Jonathan Ayana's various scamming accounts.

We need your help!

If you have been threatened by Jonathan Ayana, please document any conversations with screen captures and file a police report with your local police department first! Click here to look-up your local law enforcement contact info.

Refer your local law enforcement officials to this page, and have them reach out to Sgt. Bradley Curtis at The City of Denton Police Department at (940) 349-8181.

Do you have something else to report? Please email me or comment below.

Other real-time Facebook comments and discussions about Jonathan Ayana's prolific fraud can also be found here, here, here, here and here.