A California acting coach and actor was arrested in 2014 and now faces multiple charges stemming from an alleged kidnapping and sexual assault of a 13-year-old girl.
Now, his accuser is breaking her silence.
Jordyn Ladell, now 18, recently divulged details of the alleged 2009 assault to The Hollywood Reporter nearly a year after Cameron Thor was arrested and charged with 11 counts of kidnapping, robbery, rape and sex crimes on a child under 14, in relation to the incident.
Officials say Thor, who worked primarily as an acting coach at Carter Thor Studios in Studio City, was coaching the teen and, during one of the sessions, drove her to a secluded area in Agoura Hills where he allegedly gave her marijuana and sexually assaulted her in his vehicle.
Thor, 55, is known for a small role in 1993s ‘Jurassic Park.’ His studio, which he co-founded with wife Alice Carter, boasts Hollywood A-list students such as Cameron Diaz, Courteney Cox, and Madonna, THR reports.
Years after the assault, Ladell courageously cooperated with the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department’s Special Victims Unit in two separate sting operations in an attempt to get her alleged attacker to confess to the assault.
Evidence wielded from the operations led to the man’s arrest. However, Thor has pleaded not guilty to all counts and his attorney, James Blatt, holds that no sexual encounters between Thor and Ladell took place.
Evidence from the stings will be admitted in court.
Ladell told THR that she met Thor in 2008 when she accompanied her mother, Pattie, to Alcohol Anonymous meetings that Thor attended as well.
Pattie and Thor became friends but both Ladell and her mother hold that when the she began attending the meetings with Pattie, Thor immediately directed his attention to the then-12-year-old.
Ladell said that shortly after she and Thor met, he began calling her his ‘muse’ and his ‘minx.’
Soon he began texting the minor and, in court, Ladell said Thor had become a father figure to her as her parents were fighting at the time.
Soon the texts began to come regularly, Ladell told THR.
Thor would reportedly send her numerous long, cryptic messages throughout the day that she didn’t understand and she recalled waking up to several texts he would send throughout the night.
Soon, Thor persuaded Ladell to become a student at his studio. In a preliminary hearing, Ladell recalled Thor saying that ‘the most f—ed-up people were the best actors, so that’s why I should do it.’
He even reportedly offered to teach Ladell for free, both she and Pattie recalled, as he was aware that the family couldn’t afford the studio’s fee of $240 a month.
Though she wasn’t much interested in acting, Ladell said Thor also offered to pay for the gap-toothed preteen to get braces — that’s what sealed the deal for Ladell.
She told THR that while Thor’s behavior may have been inappropriate up until that point — she recalled him once calling her ‘sexy’ — he hadn’t overstepped any boundaries.
That changed when Pattie took her daughter to Thor’s home for her first acting lesson in March 2009.
Ladell holds that soon after the session began, Thor began touching her shoulders and rubbing her thighs.
At the end of the session he reportedly gave her a hug and told her that he was ‘hard.’
The preteen kept the encounter a secret, fearing that she would be blamed and worse, that her mother would slip out of sobriety, THR reports.
‘What was I going to say?’ she said. ‘That I made Cameron hard? I assumed that I did it. So what was I going to tell my mother?’
At their second session — which also took place in the nearly 50-year-old’s home — Ladell said Thor touched her chest and when he hugged her after the session, she said in court, she could feel that he was erect.
At their third session, a similar encounter allegedly occurred.
Thor’s attorney, Blatt, told THR that he is confident his client will be exonerated.
‘I don’t believe they’re going to come close to proving any of the sex acts — that includes the nonsense in the bedroom,’ Blatt said.
‘We’re going to be able to prove that nothing occurred in that house, ever.’
For their next session, on March 29, Ladell said, Thor requested that the two meet in a park because his home wouldn’t be available.
Pattie, who seemed oblivious to the dangerous relationship between her daughter and Thor, agreed to let Thor pick Ladell up near their home — Pattie said Thor told her he was afraid of her husband, Dean, and didn’t want to be seen by him, according to THR.
Thor reportedly picked Ladell up and the two spent almost 30 minutes at a park in Agoura Hills. Ladell said that Thor asked her questions about sex: If she had ever given a man ‘head’ and if she had ever been ‘eaten out.’
She reportedly said no and informed Thor that she was a virgin at which point Thor allegedly began telling her about his extramarital affairs.
Thor then reportedly suggested that the two drive to Malibu. Ladell asked her mother’s permission via text to which Pattie replied ‘not so sure.’ Thor persisted, Ladell said, and eventually Pattie agreed, telling him to ‘have her home soon.’
Ladell told THR that Thor then took her phone from her and stashed it away.
As the two drove, Ladell said, she noticed Thor veering off-course and she assumed he was taking a shortcut. Soon, he allegedly pulled into a turnout and parked before locking the doors and pulling out a pipe filled with marijuana.
‘Have you ever gotten high? he asked.
At this point, THR reports, Ladell had grown silent and sullen. She said in court that Thor grabbed her and kissed her, blowing smoke into her mouth and ordering her to inhale.
He allegedly ordered her into the backseat of his four-door sedan, kissed her, and began taking off her clothes. She said he touched her breasts and penetrated her with his fingers before placing her hands on his gentials.
Ladell alleges that Thor told her to perform a sex act on him and, when she refused, he told her to leave the car.
She stood naked near a cliff outside of the vehicle for a few moments before Thor let her back in.
Although Ladell said her memory was a bit hazy afterward, she recalled ‘giving him what he wanted’ — performing a sex act on him — feeling pain between her legs, and seeing blood.
She said that though she believes he had sex with her, in court she would not definitively say it happened because her memory of that portion of the assault was unclear.
Blatt confirmed that Thor and Ladell had driven to the mountains that day, but holds that Thor had permission from the minor’s parents to do so and claims that the two had no sexual encounter.
After the alleged assault, Ladell said Thor fondled her during the car ride back to the park where they met her mother who took Ladell home.
Once home, Ladell said she ran to her room and stayed inside all afternoon.
The next week, Ladell returned to Thor’s home for another acting lesson where, she says, he told her he was sorry for getting her ‘so f***ed up the other day.’
He also allegedly threatened her at the meeting saying no one would believe her. He also allegedly said that if she said anything to her mother, it would ruin Pattie’s sobriety.
Ladell told THR that she returned to Thor’s home because she was afraid to tell her parents about the assault.
‘I didn’t want to say anything, and [my parents] would be upset and I was terrified, and after that he told me it was my fault that — what was I supposed to do? I did not want to tell my parents. I was scared,’ she said.
Over the next since months, Ladell kept the assault a secret, enduring nightmares of the attack. She said she blamed herself and believed that telling anyone would result in her mother returning to alcoholism.
She would later reveal information about the assault to her cousin who later told Ladell’s parents.
She eventually opened up to her parents and to her dance teacher; she filed a complaint in 2013 — four years after the alleged incident.
Many of Thor’s friends and colleagues described the 55-year-old to THR as a good, family man. Thor pleaded not guilty to all charges, Deadline reports.
Blatt holds that his client had no sexual encounters with Ladell.
Dean, Ladell’s father, thinks differently.
‘I’d rather be dealing with a daughter telling a fib than a daughter who got raped by a 50-year-old man. But I’m not,’ Dean told THR.
‘If there were a kink in the armor, the DA would have come to us and said Jordyn’s changing her story or something, and they never did.
‘If Blatt and I ever had a face-to-face, that’s what I’d ask him: “You don’t think she’s credible, fine. But what about everybody else? They’re all wrong? Everybody’s wrong except you?”‘
More than six years after the alleged assault, Ladell attends community college in Ventura and has plans to transfer to a four-year college soon, THR reports.
She has renewed her Christian faith and said her experience has led her to take action whenever she sees an adult behaving inappropriately with a child.
