A perverted leading acting coach in Hollywood? No way!
Via Hollywood Reporter:
Around 10 a.m. on March 11, 2014, an attractive young woman with curly blond hair and hazel eyes walked into a Starbucks at a Barnes & Noble at The Promenade in Westlake Village. She ordered a soy chai latte and took a seat facing the magazine racks. She wore a cream-colored dress and boots and carried a cellphone. At a nearby table sat Nick Coulter, a plainclothes detective with the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department’s Special Victims Unit. A tattooed veteran of the gang wars in Southeast L.A., Coulter was watching over the girl, an 18-year-old community-college student named Jordyn Ladell. A half-dozen officers had helped plan this operation — a sting in which the young woman would face a man she says sexually assaulted her nearly five years earlier, when she was an eighth grader who liked country music and ballet. More undercover officers took up posts outside, and a patrol car sat around the corner. In a nearby office, police sat with Jordyn’s family, waiting for the operation to begin. Jordyn had her instructions — she was the bait.
Everything was in place — detectives had placed a wiretap on her key chain — but Jordyn still was jittery. She hadn’t been alone with the man they were after since 2009, and the idea of sharing a coffee with him made her want to vomit. Jordyn was pretending to fiddle with her phone when a fit-looking man in his 50s with light-colored hair walked in. (“He came up and gave me the biggest, grossest hug ever,” she told me later.) Jordyn stole a nervous glance at Coulter, who nodded back reassuringly.
According to a preliminary hearing filed with the Superior Court of California, the police target in the Starbucks that day was Cameron Thor, an actor with many TV and film credits to his name, including a small role in Jurassic Park (he played Lewis Dodgson, a villain who plots to steal dinosaur embryos). Thor, now 55, also is one of Hollywood’s best-known acting coaches, and the Carter Thor Studio he runs with his wife, Alice Carter, has catered for years to a steady stream of working actors in Studio City. The studio’s website asserts that Sharon Stone and David Fincher have given “vibrant talks” there and a cached version cites a long list of Hollywood A-list students, including Cameron Diaz, Helen Hunt, Drew Carey, Faye Dunaway, Courteney Cox and Madonna. Thor’s professional lineage extends back to a longtime association with celebrated acting coach Roy London, one of Hollywood’s premier acting teachers during the 1970s and ’80s, and, Thor has claimed, his mentor.