Ed Buck - Net Worth, Age, Height, Birthday, Bio, Wiki!

Sophia Al-Mansoor

• Oct 14, 2026 • 7 min read

A fresh look at Ed Buck - Net Worth, Age, Height, Birthday, Bio, Wiki, highlighting critical context.

On July 27, 2017, a young African-American man named Gemmel Moore died in Buck’s apartment. Paramedics found Moore, who had worked as an escort, naked on a mattress in the living room with a “male pornography movie playing on the television”, according to a Los Angeles County coroner’s report. A spokesman for the coroner’s office, Ed Winter, said Buck was inside his Laurel Avenue home at the time of Moore’s death and that drug paraphernalia was recovered from the scene. Police found sex toys, syringes, and “clear plastic bags with suspected methamphetamine in a tool box roll-cabinet in the living room”, 24 syringes with brown residue, five glass pipes with white residue and burn marks, a plastic straw with possible white residue, clear plastic bags with white powdery residue, and a clear plastic bag with a “piece of crystal-like substance”. The death was investigated by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, and District Attorney Jackie Lacey declined to charge Buck on July 26, 2018.

Since the death of Gemmel Moore, multiple reports have indicated that Buck had a history of luring young, black gay men to his apartment, where he would inject them with crystal methamphetamine for sexual gratification. Jasmyne Cannick, a local writer, activist, and political candidate who investigated Gemmel Moore’s death, predicted on Twitter on July 28, 2018, that any further deaths at Ed’s residence would be the responsibility of the Los Angeles County District Attorney, Jackie Lacey, for failing to bring charges.

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