Porn Valley- If you were casting the sweet and the innocent, Allie Ray’s got to be on top of the call sheet. Tuesday morning I spoke to Ray on Rob Spallone’s set- right before she was going to participate in an all-girl orgy. I ask Ray what’s the story.
“Which one?” she asks as though there are many to choose from. I tell her I’d like to know how she wound up from being in the Valley one week and just about being a love slave at the top of a mountain in Idaho the next. The explanation sounds simple enough. That is, if you’re Allie Ray.
“I met this guy,” she said. “He’s a martial arts instructor. It’s called Shaolin. He was supposed to teach me it. But he was saying in Los Angeles the energy is really bad. So he’s saying if you want to do this, you have to commit completely. You have to quit the industry, yadda, yadda. He was always talking about God, too, and I just thought- I don’t know what I thought.”
Ray said she met this guy- Daniel Cook- in Reseda, that some of her guy friends trained with him.
“They thought it would be good discipline for me,” states Ray. “So I met him. I went to his house. One time. It was crazy. He saw me and thought I was really troubled, that I was a good person and that he could fix me. He thought I was procrastinating but I wasn’t. I thought I can’t leave with this guy- I don’t know him. He was upset so he took all my stuff and he’s like we’re going to Idaho. I have a house there.”
By stuff Ray means her purse and its contents. Just about all she had when she came over to Cook’s house.
“He took my purse and my phone was in his purse,” Ray continues. “I was over his house and he was just supposed to be explaining to me what the whole martial arts process was. He just turned out to be a weirdo.”
And here’s where the story gets crazy. Ray said she wanted to leave Cook’s house.
“I was calling people, all my friends- dude, I’m with this guy and he’s about to put me in his car,” Ray continues. “I can’t leave his house because he has my purse. And there is no walking out his front door. I would have gone out the front door if I thought I would have made it. But he had it set in his mind that I was going to Idaho and that was it.
“We were driving there and it took two days,” she continues.
“Did he drag you?”
“Pretty much,” states Ray. “He drives this huge, White Dodge. He was just crazy. I was trying to text people: help me. I texted everyone.”
“How did he get you in the truck?” I ask. “Did he grab you and throw you in?”
“He didn’t have to,” said Ray. “He would have.”
“So in a sense you willingly went along with this.”
“Not willingly,” Ray states. “Because as soon as he said we’re leaving I didn’t want to leave. I have a step mom here and work. And I didn’t want to get up and leave. It’s not in my nature, anyway. It was a pretty long time until we got to his cabin. His cabin was 25 miles up a mountain. It took a really long time and when I got there he was weird. He would just lash out and stuff. I would cry, and say I wanted to go home, I have responsibilities. I can’t be here any more. Seriously, can you just take me to a hotel? I can get a flight and go home. He was, like, no. You made a promise to me and at one point he pointed a gun in my face.
“He said you made a promise to me and if you break it, you’re better off dead.”
Ray said that night was the first time she had a gun pointed at her.
“He had episodes before but not like that bad,” she continued. “Where he would just lash out and get in my face and scream at me.”
During the two-day trip Ray said they would stop.
“It was every time we stopped somewhere it was nowhere where I could get away. When we got to his cabin it was horrible. There was no leaving. From the time at the bottom of the hill to all the way up the hill it was so far. It was really bad. And I was stuck there for a really long time.”
“But you managed to get away?”
“Yes,” says Ray. “He wanted everything to look normal on the outside, obviously. He had this friend at the bottom of the hill who owned a cafe. And to go into town was a big deal because it took all day. His friend asked him do you want to take the kids [there was another kidnapee involved]into town. He [Cook] didn’t want to make it look suspicious. He was like you can take the kids into town.
“It was me and this other boy who was there,” Ray explains. “The boy was there for seven months. When we showed up, the boy hadn’t seen another person’s face in seven months.”
“So there was another kid there?”
“Yes,” says Ray. “It was a 19 year-old kid from Reseda. It was this guy named Leif and Leif told me that the guy [Cook] told him that he was going to come back for him in a week and that he left and came back to Los Angeles. He [Cook] left him in that cabin for seven months. I was the first person he had seen in that seven months. And there is no getting down that hill. I would have tried.”
“How did you get out of there?”
“The friend took us into town,” said Ray. “It took a really long time. We ended up going to a Costco and I was, I’m not taking any chances, seriously. This is my chance to get away. So I gave the boy [Leif] a hug. I bought him a hot dog and I left. I ran out of Costco and went to the first hotel I saw.”
All told, Ray was supposedly in Idaho for three weeks and describes the experience as horrible.
“The hotel was across from Costco- I had to run a little ways,” she continues. “I went in there and was can I get a room? I probably looked really suspicious to them. I was all shaky and had mascara running and looked like shit.”
[Ray says at some point she gets her purse back.]
“I was going to buy the food so I needed my purse,” she explains. “That’s all I had and the same pair of clothes when I left. I tried to get a room and I did. They put it under a different name for me because I explained to them without explaining. I said I had a boyfriend who was after me. I made it a simple story. They gave me a room and I called Rob [Spallone]. Unintentionally. I didn’t know it was his number. I was calling everybody. And he answered. He was stay there and I’m going to call the cops. I’m going to get you home.”
Ray claims Cook also had conversations with her step mom in which he allegedly told her if she calls the cops he was going to burn her house down and kill her whole family.
“My step mom is going to be a sheriff- she already passed all the tests- she’s, like, excuse me? You don’t even know who you’re dealing with. But I had to call her and tell her you can’t do that because while you’re saying all these things, I’m the one who’s up here in the mountains at his house- not you guys. You guys are getting him all riled up and guess who he’s going to take it out on? If everyone knows what’s best for me, don’t call. Don’t threaten to call the police.
“Because this guy had some equipment in his house,” Ray states. “Like he had all these weird guns and he said if someone would come up the hill, he’d see them. That was true. He said he would just blast them away.”
“Rob got me home- the cops came; they talked to me for six hours,” says Ray. “They just kept saying this isn’t our jurisdiction. I’m just glad to be home.”
I was curious if the cops did anything with this guy.
“I don’t know,” says Ray. “Because the number I gave them to my cell phone is off. The cops did show up to my house five in the morning but I didn’t answer because I was scared. I didn’t know if it was in regards to the kidnapping or like if it was something else I could be in trouble for. I didn’t want to go to jail and that’s where I kind of feel stuck. I want to go and see what happens but I’m afraid to go because they might want me for something else that I did.”
Once back in town Ray supposedly saw this guy’s truck.
“My girlfriend and I were driving to this guy’s house in Chatsworth,” says Ray. “This guy [Cook]lives in Reseda so I asked her can we drive by this guy’s house because he was going to drive back to California and leave me and that boy there [in Idaho]. So I was wondering if he was home already. So we passed by and his car is there. And his car is very distinctive because there’s a big circle of an Asian doing a martial arts move. And his license plate says Shaolin. It was his truck and my heart just dropped. I was, holy shit. But I don’t think he’s going to come after me because I don’t think he thought I’d have the balls to even leave.”
I ask Ray if she was assaulted or abused.
“Yeah but nothing I couldn’t handle,” she responds. “When he pointed the gun in my face is when I was, oh my God. This guy is nuts and I better act as sweet and on his side as I can. After he did that I didn’t talk back or argue. What was making him mad was I was just shaking my head and listening to him.”
“Here’s a point I’m not clear on,” I ask Ray. “You’re over his place and he grabs your bag. How did he get you into his truck?”
“The truck was in a parking lot,” she answers.
“Did he force you into it?”
“He didn’t have to,” contends Ray. “I already caught that drift from him. I already caught that vibe and the fact that he took my purse. I was, okay, I want my purse. What am I supposed to do? I can’t go out the front door. I don’t have a phone and it’s not like I could run very far and this guy is, like, 6’4″. He was really crazy.”