On 6/8 at 1:48 pm UniStar Talent was contacted by our client Alyssa Belen with regard to a acting job with Taylor Hayden. She had responded to an ad on Craig's list with regard to an acting job with Mr. Hayden. She indicated that she was very skeptical because of the posting she had read on this site with regard to Taylor and on Google and asked us for our assistance. We got back to her and told her he appeared to be a producer of films but did have enough information to make a recommendation. Shortly thereafter we contacted Mr. Hayden and asked for information. It was then that Mr. Hayden informed us that he was the producer of a number of films and he was in need of actors. We also recommend other actors with our agency and submitted head shots as well. On following up with Mr. Hayden he revealed that he did not pay actors for their work, which was very odd. We did some checking and found the same information on RipOff Reports and Google found by Alyssa. We are very careful about recommending jobs that are posted on Craig's list for actors as this can be very dangerous. Shortly thereafter Alyssa then notified us that she had received a number of harassing emails from him during this two hour period and would not be working with him. We then contacted him as well via email and informed him that our actors expected to be paid for their work and could not perform for free. He responded and stated that he had already replaced Alyssa with another actress that had applied that had more experience. A few minutes later we received another aggressive email where he was very upset and threatened to make the report on this site as he did. As an agency, we cannot force our talent to take a job, whether it is paid or "free", as we informed Mr. Hayden. Furthermore, there was no written agreement for Alyssa to perform. We also received a large number of harassing and extremely aggressive emails from him in a short period of time. We informed Mr. Hayden that we would be reporting this to our attorney and to the Texas Attorney General. We recommend that anyone that responds to Craig's List acting roles due complete and diligent checks on the person prior to any personal contact as this can be extremely dangerous as evidenced by this episode.
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