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Melissa Pastore
Current pastor of Dr. Gene Scott's University network.
Widow of Dr. Gene Scott in February 2005. They were married in Reno,
Nevada 8/2000, when he was 70 and she was 32..
Has a past, including associations and described nude photos available
online, under the professional name "Barbie Bridges" and "Barbi
Bridges."
Barbie Bridges was Miss Nude Can-Am Exotic, out of Tornoto, Canada, in
1994. Barbie Bridges Enterprises, operated out of (personally
identifying information removed), California, was financed by her to
$40,000. and operated in partnership with her 1992-1996 husband Paul J.
Pastore (22 years her senior). Several adult films, with explicit
titles, are described on the Internet as having been produced in the
1990's by her firm. Paul Pastore has more recently operated "Beverly
Hills Records" (1998-2003) and "Universal Images."
Her Maiden Name, per the 2000 and 1992 Nevada marraige licenses:
Melissa Peroff.
She was the daughter of a "Frank Peroff" of Canada, born on (personally
identifying information removed). There was a mobster operating out of
Canada in that approximate timeframe, as Frank Peroff, who was later
the subject of a book by L.H. Whittemore.
She was sued in 1998 for "Fraud and Deceit" in Los County Superior
Court, for non-payment on a $30,000. promissory note linked to "Barbie
Bridges"
She has not repented publicly, or explained her past in full, to her
congregation.
There are also links, to the attorney handling the Scott Church/Estate,
and the Church of Scientology.
Other sources and information on Melissa Scott.
The 1996 LA County divorce file has been imaged.
Some of the highlights:
Confirms that it is the same Paul Pastore, as was married in Vegas on
11/24/1992, and includes the (personally identifying information
removed) address.
Reports that Melissa financed "B B E Ltd" to about $40,000.
Includes a restraining order on Paul, including damages of $100,000.
(!!) for each instance of distribution of an image of "Barbie" via
photo, print, video, etc.
She got a 1990 Corvette, and he kept the lease on the apartment and a
1992 Ford van.
IMPORTANT: If anyone can locate a copy of a video named "Picture
Perect," it might explain the reasons for this court action -- I
suggest a search of available film databases for this. Might be
something really interesting there.
I didn't locate this, but checkout Los Angeles Superior Court Case
BC186128 (filed 2/17/1998).
Filed by Plaintiff Ronald Atkinson against Defendants:
(quote) "Barbie Bridges Entertainment; Paul Pastore individually and
dba Barbie Bridges Entertainment, Melissa Paulina Pastore**,
individually and dba Barbie Bridges Entertainment."
This complaint alleges "Fraud and Deceit" with regards to a Promissory
Note that the Plaintiff alleged was not repaid. In the intial suit,
Plaintiff asks for $30,000.00.
Plaintiff's Attorney was Robert B. Silverman, who according to
California State Bar records now practives from Westminster (phone
listed on CA Bar website at (personally identifying information
removed)).
Defendant's Attorney was Robert M. Ross, who according to California
State Bar records now practives from Encino (phone listed on CA Bar
website at (personally identifying information removed)).
Source: http://members.calbar.ca.gov/s <caron><caron>earch/member.aspx
Don't believe this? GET ON THE PHONES.
Note: Apparently Melissa has some concerns about using her middle
name. On the Scott marriage certificate there was no middle name or
initial.
Quotes, from the case (LA Superior Court #BC186128):
"Third Cause of Action -- Fraud and Deceit -- Promise Made With No
Intention to Perform"
26: "BBE (Barbie Bridges Enterprises), Melissa, Paul and the Defendants
("John Does #1-#20), and each of them agreed to repay (Plaintiff)
Atkinson for the money advanced by Atkinson
pursuant to the terms of said agreement."
27. "As of December 1997, BBE, Melissa, Paul and the Defendants, and
each of them, have failed to pay Atkinson any amounts whatsoever."
28. "Atkinson is informed and believes and thereon alleges that BBE,
Melissa, Paul and each of the Defendants made said promise to pay
without the intention performing on said promise to pay."
29. "As a direct and proximate result of the fact that Atkinson lent
money to BBE Melissa, Paul and each of the Defendants and that at no
time whatsoever
has BBE, Melissa, Paul and each of the Defendants ever make even one
payment, Atkinson is informed and believes and based on said
information and belief herein alleges that BBE, Melissa, Paul and each
of the Defendants never intended to perform on said agreement."
Comment: Kinda cuts to the heart of the credibility question, doesn't
it?
The guy who sued Paul & Melissa Pastore in 1998 (claiming "Fraud &
Deceit), comes up in searches as:
Ronald B. Atkinson Date of Birth (personally identifying information
removed)
Addresses: (personally identifying information removed) (personally
identifying information removed)
Phone at (personally identifying information removed)
Rings 4 times and no answer at the (personally identifying information
removed) phone number, then a fax picks it up.
Another search shows him at the following adult entertainment outlet:
(personally identifying information removed) Ron Atkinson (personally
identifying information removed) (personally identifying information
removed)
---
Notes from "Peroff: The Man Who Knew Too Much" (by L.H. Whittemore,
1975, in LA Central Library #364.92 P 453)
Can't guarantee PMS and this particular Peroff are related, but the
biographical details in this book and the observed aspects of PMS's
"character" do seem to coincide. Both of PMS's Nevada marriage
licenses, list her father as "Frank Peroff" (her mother is named Leona,
but the provided name of "Ruth" there may have been a protective
pseudonym). The chronology also works out, as does the multi-lingual
impression PMS conveys.
If this all checks out, then PMS is quite likely ethnically Jewish, as
in the book, Frank Peroff is described as a Jewish mobster who roamed
with gangs of Germans and Italians in the South Bronx growing up. In
his teens he was a nightclub singer who played the trumpet and hung out
with gamblers and the showbiz crowd, then joined the Navy at 17 where
he learned how to fly planes.
After starting small businesses like beauty shops and a clothing
business (which led to a charge of fraud at age 25), he moved into
appliances, where he learned how to sell to construction firms (by
eliminating competitors through sabotage of their products).
After operating 3 car washes in Washington DC in the mid-1960's, he
moved to Orlando, Florida where he graduated to higher-stakes financial
crime.
As a "con artist" known as "Miami Frank" he reportedly passed millions
of dollars worth of bad paper such as counterfeit traveler's checks and
stolen bonds and stock certificates, largely to mob-connected
construction interests who needed to show assets to secure bank loans.
Frank Peroff was a large man, over 6 feet tall and weighing over 250
lbs. He targeted institutions rather than individuals, including the
Mafia, international governments, and even the Vatican. With a personal
fleet of 8 planes, he shuttled mob figures and stolen loot from country
to country. His financial links extended to construction of hotels in
England, France and Gambia, a hospital in Rome, and a shipyard
elsewhere in Italy.
At various times, he shuttled his family from Montreal to Spain and
then to Rome by 1973. At that time, they were described as a daughter
born @1961, a son born @1966, and the youngest daughter, of unstated
age (note: PMS was born in Canada on (personally identifying
information removed)). Frank himself was multi-lingual, speaking at the
least, English and Yiddish, and it is likely the traveling immersed
various languages as partial "mother tongues" in his young children.
He started to get too big, from about the time he tried to take control
of a Hollywood film production company then blackmail the Zambian
Government by threatening its currency, and ended up caught in an
undercover DEA operaton involving heroin importation described as being
financed by President Nixon financier Robert Vesco.
A Senate Subcommittee chaired by "Scoop" Jackson of Washington,
questioned him on matters of transactions involving stolen financial
documents and mob-connected international drug cartels. In the book an
article on the matter was described as having been printed in the NY
Times in late November 1973 by Wallace Turner. The book itself, may
have been an attempt to explain his side of the story, at a time when
he feared for his life from government and mob assassins.
Repost (from another thread);
Who are her advisors, and is she still in contact with David Resnick of
"Action Productions" (who is listed a partner of Paul Pastore at Barbie
Bridges Enterprises, and whose name is in databases as also tied to the
LA Scientology HQ at 6331 Hollywood Blvd)??
Consider this reported connection, between Patricia L. Glazer (her
reported attorney), Sam Mudie (Patricia's husband) and assest tied to
Scientology:
Link: http://www.environment-hawaii. <caron>org/nov96sci.htm
Source: 1996 Environment Hawai`i, Inc.
Volume 7 Number 5 (November 1996)
Land Under Lease By State Was Owned by Scientologists
When Don Williams purchased the Ma`alaea property in August 1994, the
seller was a branch of the Church of Scientology, which had had an
ownership interest in at least part of the land dating back to the
early 1980s.
In the late 1970s, two of the three separate tax map parcels that now
make up the area were purchased for $700,000 by Ma`alaea Landing, Inc.,
which planned to develop a condominium building on the land. Architect
Ormond Kelley drew up plans for the building, which was dramatically
different from the rather architecturally nondescript structures that
line the Ma`alaea coast. In the words of the Maui County Planning
Department, the architectural style for the development represented "a
significant departure from the contemporary character of proposed and
newly constructed adjacent buildings... However, considering the
building's strategic location, it is felt that the building's
romanticized pseudo-victorian character is a softer, more harmonious
statement in sympathy with the existing character of buildings within
the Ma`alaea Small Boat Harbor."
Ma`alaea Landing, Inc., appears to have run into financial trouble. In
1981, title to the land was transferred to Pioneer Federal, which held
the mortgage. According to the conveyance tax stamps, Pioneer Federal
paid $325,000 for the land.
In November 1983, three individuals, all giving addresses in
California, purchased the property from Pioneer Federal for $350,000,
of which $262,500 was financed by Pioneer Federal on a three-year
balloon note. The three individuals are Patricia L. Glaser (identified
as the wife of Samuel H. Mudie); James S. Schreier (unmarried), and
Marc M. Seltzer (unmarried). This transaction appears to represent the
earliest involvement of the Church of Scientology, or its members, in
the ownership record for the Ma`alaea property.
In February 1984, Glaser, Schreier, and Seltzer conveyed the property
to Oceanfront Associates, which also assumed the mortgage held by
Pioneer Federal. Oceanfront Associates, according to documents at the
Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, is a limited partnership
formed in 1984 to "develop ... resort condominium projects" on the
island of Maui. The two general partners in this firm were identified
as Gray Productions, a Hawai`i corporation whose nature of business is
described as real estate development in its filings with the DCCA; and
COFE, Inc. The DCCA filing of COFE identified it as a California
corporation whose president, vice president, secretary, and chief
financial officer were all Samuel H. Mudie (Glaser's husband).
Identified as a limited partner was an Oklahoma corporation, FSO
Oklahoma Investments Corp. Signing the partnership papers for FSO OI
were David Cusworth and Ellen Reynolds, identifying themselves as
"directors and attorneys in fact" for the corporation.
Not only did Oceanfront Associates assume the Pioneer Federal mortgage,
it executed another mortgage for $775,000 in favor of the Church of
Scientology, Flag Service Organization, Inc., whose state of
incorporation was said in 1984 to be Florida. In 1987, the Pioneer
Federal mortgage was itself assigned to the Church of Scientology, Flag
Service Organization.
Two years later, Oceanfront Associates assigned its title to FSO
Oklahoma Investments Corp., the limited partner in the firm.
The Ma`alaea parcel owned by Williams originally contained two other
tax map parcels in addition to the two mentioned above. After a long
quiet title case, ownership of both ended up in 1992 in the hands of
FSO Oklahoma Investments Corp. These two parcels were later
consolidated, so that now Williams' land consists of three separate tax
parcels.
Documents filed in September 1994, when Williams executed his lease
with the state of Hawai`i, show that the Church of Scientology, Flag
Service Organization, Inc., released the two mortgages it held on the
property in October 1993.
On August 4, 1994, Williams paid $1.35 million, for which he received a
warranty deed from FSO Oklahoma Investments covering the Ma`alaea land.
Four weeks later, on September 1, the state executed the 30-year lease
with Williams.
Williams was asked if he had an option to purchase the land from the
Scientologists at the time he was negotiating with the state to lease
the property. "No comment," was his reply.
Last updated: 10-16-2005 11:30:22
Last updated: 11-27-2006 10:18:40
http://arthistoryclub.com/art_history/Melissa_Pastore
Current pastor of Dr. Gene Scott's University network.
Widow of Dr. Gene Scott in February 2005. They were married in Reno,
Nevada 8/2000, when he was 70 and she was 32..
Has a past, including associations and described nude photos available
online, under the professional name "Barbie Bridges" and "Barbi
Bridges."
Barbie Bridges was Miss Nude Can-Am Exotic, out of Tornoto, Canada, in
1994. Barbie Bridges Enterprises, operated out of (personally
identifying information removed), California, was financed by her to
$40,000. and operated in partnership with her 1992-1996 husband Paul J.
Pastore (22 years her senior). Several adult films, with explicit
titles, are described on the Internet as having been produced in the
1990's by her firm. Paul Pastore has more recently operated "Beverly
Hills Records" (1998-2003) and "Universal Images."
Her Maiden Name, per the 2000 and 1992 Nevada marraige licenses:
Melissa Peroff.
She was the daughter of a "Frank Peroff" of Canada, born on (personally
identifying information removed). There was a mobster operating out of
Canada in that approximate timeframe, as Frank Peroff, who was later
the subject of a book by L.H. Whittemore.
She was sued in 1998 for "Fraud and Deceit" in Los County Superior
Court, for non-payment on a $30,000. promissory note linked to "Barbie
Bridges"
She has not repented publicly, or explained her past in full, to her
congregation.
There are also links, to the attorney handling the Scott Church/Estate,
and the Church of Scientology.
Other sources and information on Melissa Scott.
The 1996 LA County divorce file has been imaged.
Some of the highlights:
Confirms that it is the same Paul Pastore, as was married in Vegas on
11/24/1992, and includes the (personally identifying information
removed) address.
Reports that Melissa financed "B B E Ltd" to about $40,000.
Includes a restraining order on Paul, including damages of $100,000.
(!!) for each instance of distribution of an image of "Barbie" via
photo, print, video, etc.
She got a 1990 Corvette, and he kept the lease on the apartment and a
1992 Ford van.
IMPORTANT: If anyone can locate a copy of a video named "Picture
Perect," it might explain the reasons for this court action -- I
suggest a search of available film databases for this. Might be
something really interesting there.
I didn't locate this, but checkout Los Angeles Superior Court Case
BC186128 (filed 2/17/1998).
Filed by Plaintiff Ronald Atkinson against Defendants:
(quote) "Barbie Bridges Entertainment; Paul Pastore individually and
dba Barbie Bridges Entertainment, Melissa Paulina Pastore**,
individually and dba Barbie Bridges Entertainment."
This complaint alleges "Fraud and Deceit" with regards to a Promissory
Note that the Plaintiff alleged was not repaid. In the intial suit,
Plaintiff asks for $30,000.00.
Plaintiff's Attorney was Robert B. Silverman, who according to
California State Bar records now practives from Westminster (phone
listed on CA Bar website at (personally identifying information
removed)).
Defendant's Attorney was Robert M. Ross, who according to California
State Bar records now practives from Encino (phone listed on CA Bar
website at (personally identifying information removed)).
Source: http://members.calbar.ca.gov/s <caron><caron>earch/member.aspx
Don't believe this? GET ON THE PHONES.
Note: Apparently Melissa has some concerns about using her middle
name. On the Scott marriage certificate there was no middle name or
initial.
Quotes, from the case (LA Superior Court #BC186128):
"Third Cause of Action -- Fraud and Deceit -- Promise Made With No
Intention to Perform"
26: "BBE (Barbie Bridges Enterprises), Melissa, Paul and the Defendants
("John Does #1-#20), and each of them agreed to repay (Plaintiff)
Atkinson for the money advanced by Atkinson
pursuant to the terms of said agreement."
27. "As of December 1997, BBE, Melissa, Paul and the Defendants, and
each of them, have failed to pay Atkinson any amounts whatsoever."
28. "Atkinson is informed and believes and thereon alleges that BBE,
Melissa, Paul and each of the Defendants made said promise to pay
without the intention performing on said promise to pay."
29. "As a direct and proximate result of the fact that Atkinson lent
money to BBE Melissa, Paul and each of the Defendants and that at no
time whatsoever
has BBE, Melissa, Paul and each of the Defendants ever make even one
payment, Atkinson is informed and believes and based on said
information and belief herein alleges that BBE, Melissa, Paul and each
of the Defendants never intended to perform on said agreement."
Comment: Kinda cuts to the heart of the credibility question, doesn't
it?
The guy who sued Paul & Melissa Pastore in 1998 (claiming "Fraud &
Deceit), comes up in searches as:
Ronald B. Atkinson Date of Birth (personally identifying information
removed)
Addresses: (personally identifying information removed) (personally
identifying information removed)
Phone at (personally identifying information removed)
Rings 4 times and no answer at the (personally identifying information
removed) phone number, then a fax picks it up.
Another search shows him at the following adult entertainment outlet:
(personally identifying information removed) Ron Atkinson (personally
identifying information removed) (personally identifying information
removed)
---
Notes from "Peroff: The Man Who Knew Too Much" (by L.H. Whittemore,
1975, in LA Central Library #364.92 P 453)
Can't guarantee PMS and this particular Peroff are related, but the
biographical details in this book and the observed aspects of PMS's
"character" do seem to coincide. Both of PMS's Nevada marriage
licenses, list her father as "Frank Peroff" (her mother is named Leona,
but the provided name of "Ruth" there may have been a protective
pseudonym). The chronology also works out, as does the multi-lingual
impression PMS conveys.
If this all checks out, then PMS is quite likely ethnically Jewish, as
in the book, Frank Peroff is described as a Jewish mobster who roamed
with gangs of Germans and Italians in the South Bronx growing up. In
his teens he was a nightclub singer who played the trumpet and hung out
with gamblers and the showbiz crowd, then joined the Navy at 17 where
he learned how to fly planes.
After starting small businesses like beauty shops and a clothing
business (which led to a charge of fraud at age 25), he moved into
appliances, where he learned how to sell to construction firms (by
eliminating competitors through sabotage of their products).
After operating 3 car washes in Washington DC in the mid-1960's, he
moved to Orlando, Florida where he graduated to higher-stakes financial
crime.
As a "con artist" known as "Miami Frank" he reportedly passed millions
of dollars worth of bad paper such as counterfeit traveler's checks and
stolen bonds and stock certificates, largely to mob-connected
construction interests who needed to show assets to secure bank loans.
Frank Peroff was a large man, over 6 feet tall and weighing over 250
lbs. He targeted institutions rather than individuals, including the
Mafia, international governments, and even the Vatican. With a personal
fleet of 8 planes, he shuttled mob figures and stolen loot from country
to country. His financial links extended to construction of hotels in
England, France and Gambia, a hospital in Rome, and a shipyard
elsewhere in Italy.
At various times, he shuttled his family from Montreal to Spain and
then to Rome by 1973. At that time, they were described as a daughter
born @1961, a son born @1966, and the youngest daughter, of unstated
age (note: PMS was born in Canada on (personally identifying
information removed)). Frank himself was multi-lingual, speaking at the
least, English and Yiddish, and it is likely the traveling immersed
various languages as partial "mother tongues" in his young children.
He started to get too big, from about the time he tried to take control
of a Hollywood film production company then blackmail the Zambian
Government by threatening its currency, and ended up caught in an
undercover DEA operaton involving heroin importation described as being
financed by President Nixon financier Robert Vesco.
A Senate Subcommittee chaired by "Scoop" Jackson of Washington,
questioned him on matters of transactions involving stolen financial
documents and mob-connected international drug cartels. In the book an
article on the matter was described as having been printed in the NY
Times in late November 1973 by Wallace Turner. The book itself, may
have been an attempt to explain his side of the story, at a time when
he feared for his life from government and mob assassins.
Repost (from another thread);
Who are her advisors, and is she still in contact with David Resnick of
"Action Productions" (who is listed a partner of Paul Pastore at Barbie
Bridges Enterprises, and whose name is in databases as also tied to the
LA Scientology HQ at 6331 Hollywood Blvd)??
Consider this reported connection, between Patricia L. Glazer (her
reported attorney), Sam Mudie (Patricia's husband) and assest tied to
Scientology:
Link: http://www.environment-hawaii. <caron>org/nov96sci.htm
Source: 1996 Environment Hawai`i, Inc.
Volume 7 Number 5 (November 1996)
Land Under Lease By State Was Owned by Scientologists
When Don Williams purchased the Ma`alaea property in August 1994, the
seller was a branch of the Church of Scientology, which had had an
ownership interest in at least part of the land dating back to the
early 1980s.
In the late 1970s, two of the three separate tax map parcels that now
make up the area were purchased for $700,000 by Ma`alaea Landing, Inc.,
which planned to develop a condominium building on the land. Architect
Ormond Kelley drew up plans for the building, which was dramatically
different from the rather architecturally nondescript structures that
line the Ma`alaea coast. In the words of the Maui County Planning
Department, the architectural style for the development represented "a
significant departure from the contemporary character of proposed and
newly constructed adjacent buildings... However, considering the
building's strategic location, it is felt that the building's
romanticized pseudo-victorian character is a softer, more harmonious
statement in sympathy with the existing character of buildings within
the Ma`alaea Small Boat Harbor."
Ma`alaea Landing, Inc., appears to have run into financial trouble. In
1981, title to the land was transferred to Pioneer Federal, which held
the mortgage. According to the conveyance tax stamps, Pioneer Federal
paid $325,000 for the land.
In November 1983, three individuals, all giving addresses in
California, purchased the property from Pioneer Federal for $350,000,
of which $262,500 was financed by Pioneer Federal on a three-year
balloon note. The three individuals are Patricia L. Glaser (identified
as the wife of Samuel H. Mudie); James S. Schreier (unmarried), and
Marc M. Seltzer (unmarried). This transaction appears to represent the
earliest involvement of the Church of Scientology, or its members, in
the ownership record for the Ma`alaea property.
In February 1984, Glaser, Schreier, and Seltzer conveyed the property
to Oceanfront Associates, which also assumed the mortgage held by
Pioneer Federal. Oceanfront Associates, according to documents at the
Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, is a limited partnership
formed in 1984 to "develop ... resort condominium projects" on the
island of Maui. The two general partners in this firm were identified
as Gray Productions, a Hawai`i corporation whose nature of business is
described as real estate development in its filings with the DCCA; and
COFE, Inc. The DCCA filing of COFE identified it as a California
corporation whose president, vice president, secretary, and chief
financial officer were all Samuel H. Mudie (Glaser's husband).
Identified as a limited partner was an Oklahoma corporation, FSO
Oklahoma Investments Corp. Signing the partnership papers for FSO OI
were David Cusworth and Ellen Reynolds, identifying themselves as
"directors and attorneys in fact" for the corporation.
Not only did Oceanfront Associates assume the Pioneer Federal mortgage,
it executed another mortgage for $775,000 in favor of the Church of
Scientology, Flag Service Organization, Inc., whose state of
incorporation was said in 1984 to be Florida. In 1987, the Pioneer
Federal mortgage was itself assigned to the Church of Scientology, Flag
Service Organization.
Two years later, Oceanfront Associates assigned its title to FSO
Oklahoma Investments Corp., the limited partner in the firm.
The Ma`alaea parcel owned by Williams originally contained two other
tax map parcels in addition to the two mentioned above. After a long
quiet title case, ownership of both ended up in 1992 in the hands of
FSO Oklahoma Investments Corp. These two parcels were later
consolidated, so that now Williams' land consists of three separate tax
parcels.
Documents filed in September 1994, when Williams executed his lease
with the state of Hawai`i, show that the Church of Scientology, Flag
Service Organization, Inc., released the two mortgages it held on the
property in October 1993.
On August 4, 1994, Williams paid $1.35 million, for which he received a
warranty deed from FSO Oklahoma Investments covering the Ma`alaea land.
Four weeks later, on September 1, the state executed the 30-year lease
with Williams.
Williams was asked if he had an option to purchase the land from the
Scientologists at the time he was negotiating with the state to lease
the property. "No comment," was his reply.
Last updated: 10-16-2005 11:30:22
Last updated: 11-27-2006 10:18:40
http://arthistoryclub.com/art_history/Melissa_Pastore