1. Mr Marcus started work in the pornography industry in 1994.
13 Facts About Mr Marcus
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Mr Marcus began his career as a director with the movie My Baby Got Back 7.
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Mr Marcus has been married since the early 1990s and has two children.
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The investigation revealed that Mr Marcus was the first infected with syphilis and that he had provided incomplete information to the producers.
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Mr Marcus first noticed evidence of the infection as a rash of brown spots on his hands.
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Mr Marcus attempted self-diagnosis by Internet searches and asking other people, with no success.
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Mr Marcus assumed it was due to stress or a vitamin deficiency and started taking vitamin supplements.
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On June 13,2012, Mr Marcus passed a medical test performed by Cutting Edge Testing because testing for syphilis was not standard at that time.
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Mr Marcus believed this to just be a rough patch of skin or a reaction to a personal lubricant.
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None of the other performers or production crew mentioned anything, and with the recent clean test, Mr Marcus still believed it was due to vitamin deficiency.
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Mr Marcus was first diagnosed with syphilis on July 12,2012, by his personal doctor and received a shot of penicillin the next day.
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On July 14,2012, Mr Marcus went for another routine medical test with Talent Testing Services, which had added syphilis to its standard tests two weeks previously.
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On June 4,2013, Mr Marcus was sentenced to 30 days in jail and 36-month probation for "knowingly exposing at least two co-stars to syphilis after testing positive for the disease days earlier" In June 2014 a $129,360 judgment was made in favor of Lylith LaVey, a costar who Mr Marcus had exposed to syphilis.