Some of the names in this article have been changed to protect the identity of the source from the vengeful and retaliatory nature of Ayries Blanck.
A Company and a Controversy
OneTaste Inc. is a San Francisco educational company that teaches a two-person meditation practice called Orgasmic Meditation, combined with lessons on sexual maturity and consent, taking personal responsibility, and not blaming others for one’s own adult decisions.
The Lawsuit Begins
In 2022, OneTaste sued its former employee Ayries Blanck in the Los Angeles Superior Court for breach of contract and fraudulent inducement. In OneTaste’s civil complaint, Blanck emerges as the antithesis of almost everything the company teaches.
If the OneTaste complaint is valid, it shows a shocking feature of today’s accuser-driven criminal justice system and how much damage a single false accuser can do in weaponizing law enforcement and the media to ruin the lives of innocent people, without much, if any, checks and balances. Or even the natural skepticism required of the average person, let alone trained investigators and seasoned journalists, to filter out truth from lies.
Somehow, when it comes to any allegation of a sexual nature, regardless of how implausible or transparently driven by financial opportunity the story, the accuser “must” be believed.
OneTaste’s founder, Nicole Daedone staged demonstration of OM.
Investigating the Accuser
Frank Report, smelling something inordinately foul in Blanck’s story, has been investigating whether the woman who initiated the FBI investigation into the co-founder of OneTaste, Nicole Daedone, and her head of sales, Rachel Cherwitz, was lying to the FBI and the media about the abuse she claims she suffered.
Yes, I know OneTaste teaches that adults should be free to enjoy sex with any consenting adult without guilt or shame. They encourage the exploration of sex and desire, even for women, without shaming the woman, even if her exploration leads to intimacy with more than one partner, and this teaching is a fairly radical departure from traditional teachings that assign virtue to a woman in large part based on her lack of sexual adventurousness.
Readers do not have to ascribe to OneTaste’s teachings, which have a decidedly feminine slant, to recognize that the First Amendment protects their teachings and that any prosecution based on “the ends justify the lies” fails from the point of law if not in the court of public opinion.
OneTaste’s Consent Policies
OneTaste’s policies on consent are clear and well established in their written materials and from ample evidence of public teachings.
Yet accuser Ayries Blanck paints a picture precisely the opposite. She claims OneTaste forced her to have sex with various men, both participants in OneTaste classes and men she met on Tinder.
Blanck’s Background and Allegations
Ayries Blanck, who now uses the alias Ares Milligan, attended OneTaste classes with her boyfriend, Ravi, in 2013. Both became attracted to the teachings. Blanck became a salesperson for the company in 2014. Ravi became a coach.
Ravi, though wealthy through inheritance, was a sickly man. Blanck, on the other hand, was an athlete, a martial artist with a black belt.
Witnesses to Violence
Despite Blanck’s accusations that Ravi beat and raped her, eyewitnesses told Frank Report that Blanck had an explosive temper and sometimes physically abused Ravi, her physically weaker boyfriend.
Blanck’s roommate Janet recalled, “I would see her physically violent toward Ravi. I’ve seen her hit him a few times. I’ve seen her hit him open hand. I’ve seen her try to punch Ravi in the head. She kicked me once… She was a violent person.”
An Incident of Abuse
The violence escalated. On one occasion, witnessed by a half dozen people, she locked Ravi in a room, physically restraining him from leaving. Several roommates had to intervene and remove the door. Once freed from his captor, Ravi fled from his life of domestic abuse.
Ravi with Ayries Blanck
After Blanck and Ravi broke up, he met Aubrey Fuller, another OneTaste employee. They became enamored and chose to engage in a monogamous relationship. When Blanck heard the news, she became enraged and went to an apartment where Fuller was visiting and attacked Fuller.
Attack on Aubrey Fuller
John, a witness to the scene, told FR, “Ayries came straight at her, swung at her, and that’s when I grabbed Ayries by the waist and picked her up and dragged her back to the doorway to get her out. She kept yelling and screaming stuff. I wasn’t paying attention to what she was yelling and screaming. I was just focused on: one, making sure she didn’t swing at me, and two, grabbing her so she wouldn’t get out of my hold, because she was gonna go after her again.”
Another witness, Janet, said, “She lunged for Aubrey. …. I put myself in front of Aubrey, and then a man put himself in front of Ayries to hold her back. And she almost tore right through him. She was strong. She was petite, but very strong.”
Beautiful, intelligent and compassionate, Aubrey Fuller was the innocent victim of the vicious Ayries Blanck on January 7, 2015.
The Aftermath
Janet continued: “She punched Aubrey in the side of the head with a closed fist. She didn’t get punched square in the face, in the eye, or the nose because Aubrey turned her head, so she ended up getting punched in the side of her head instead. And then a second woman had to help the guy pull Ayries back. So now we’re talking about two people, both larger than Ayries, that it’s taking to hold back this woman who is just out for blood with Aubrey.”
The victim, Aubrey Fuller, described it: “Ayries ran into the apartment and punched me in the head before several people physically restrained and carried her away from me. I did not call the police. I did not press charges. I absorbed her rage and jealousy and violence into my own body and took it deep inside me.”
After attacking Fuller and realizing she would not get her rich boyfriend back, Blanck quit her job with OneTaste. Her date of departure was January 8, 2015.
Blanck’s Pursuit of OneTaste
Ayries Blanck moved to Ireland and changed her name to Ares Milligan
Eight months after quitting OneTaste, Blanck retained an attorney to threaten a lawsuit against OneTaste for alleged California labor violations – none of which involved sexual misconduct claims. In employee-friendly California, where competent attorneys start at $1000 per hour, OneTaste settled what promised to be a multimillion-dollar lawsuit in legal fees as a “nuisance suit” without admitting wrongdoing.
The settlement, reportedly for $325,000, was conditional on confidentiality, non-disparagement, and non-defamation of the company, its personnel, and owners.
Breaking Confidentiality
An expert at projection, Ayries Blanck habitually accuses others of what she herself has done.
After collecting her settlement, Blanck violated the confidentiality and non-disparagement terms of her agreement by going to Misha Safyan, another former OneTaste employee, and the male roommate of a female reporter at Bloomberg News. The Bloomberg reporter wrote a story about Misha, her roommate, Misha’s ex-wife, another OneTaste student, and Ayries Blanck without disclosing that her source, one of the “victims,” lived with her.
Media Involvement
Bloomberg published a sensationalized story that included Blanck’s brand-new claims that OneTaste forced her to engage in sex with multiple men against her will.
The 2018 Bloomberg story inspired an FBI investigation into OneTaste on possible sex trafficking and forced labor charges. Blanck next went to the BBC, where she claimed a UK man attending OneTaste classes in NYC coerced her into having sex when she wanted to be faithful to Ravi.
A roommate of Ayries, Courtenay Lapovsky, a NY State certified school teacher with a master’s degree, claims Ayries is lying about everything.
Courtenay lived with her boyfriend Chris, and Ayries lived with Ravi when they were roommates. The two couples would swap partners, with Ayries often initiating a request to Courtney to have sex with her boyfriend. Courtenay also spoke about how excited Ayries was to have sex with the UK man she knew.
Continued Deception
Ayries Blanck seemed eager as she waited for her various lovers to have sex with her.
She and the UK visitor had consensual sex. They were friendly. They were friends, and they had consensual sex on more than one occasion.
In the BBC series, Blanck assumed the name Cassidy. Blanck also went to Playboy, assuming the name Diana. Playboy published a critical story about OneTaste that the publishers later removed from its website.
Blanck then coordinated with Netflix to have her sister, Autymn Blanck, appear on camera reading her journal, which she purportedly wrote in 2015, following her departure from OneTaste.
In the journal, which court records show Blanck sold to Netflix for $25,000, she claims OneTaste forced her to have sex with multiple men, some of whom she names. Others she cannot name, for she met them on Tinder, with a planned sex session in her bedroom for which no money changed hands. She did not bother to take names.
The Tinder Hookups
Psychopathic and vengeful, Ayries Blanck could maintain enough stability to tell her deadly lies with a coolness that could fool inexperienced and gullible reporters and less than competent law enforcement investigators. Anybody else could see that behind that smile was hatred and vengeance and a desire to destroy.
She did not claim OneTaste forced her to have sex with these strangers. Instead, she blamed the teachings for making her mind susceptible to wanting to do these hookups when she tried to be monogamous with Ravi.
Roommates observed men coming in and out of her bedroom, staying for 20 minutes to an hour. After leaving, Ayries would describe the sexual episode to her female friends, often discussing her level of enjoyment, which friends said was usually high.
Contradictions
Far from claiming OneTaste forced her to have sex with men, she seemed energetic about it. She said she enjoyed her encounters and determined, after she broke up with Ravi, to have at least one new sex partner every day.
While the FBI investigation lingered for five years, based on Blanck’s allegations that OneTaste forced her to have sex, Blanck continued to participate in the clickbait-driven and gullible media telling and retelling her version of forced sex that completely contradicts what her friends said they witnessed.
OneTaste’s Legal Response
Ayries Blanck had a rare ability to cry on cue.
Finally, OneTaste sued Blanck in Los Angeles for breach of their settlement agreement in October 2022.
They claimed she was lying and causing enormous damage to the company. The FBI investigation threatened the liberty of two women who had nothing to do with Blanck’s violent temper or her voracious sexual appetite.
The violence and her sex addiction may have been the reason Blanck lost her rich boyfriend to a kinder, gentler, more intelligent, and honest woman.
Indeed, as for Ravi, he made a blessed escape. If only it were so easy for OneTaste.
Stay tuned for Part 2.
