The following excerpt comes from an interview with Bill Margold on the old Pervert Radio about six years ago. Margold honestly believed then that porn performer Marc Wallice wasn’t guilty of malfeasance during a 1998 HIV outbreak. [I haven’t asked him if he changed his opinion.]

The facts as far as I’m concerned are still in dispute as to whether Wallice, diagnosed to have HIV, doctored his tests so he could continue working.

I saw those documents. They clearly stated they were those of a 49 year-old female. If Wallice were making a concerted effort to present a fraudulent bill of health, wouldn’t he have taken the pains to alter that information somehow? You almost have to give Wallice the benefit of the doubt here. Did the testing clinic give him some other person’s test results by mistake? Did Wallice “steal” someone’s test results? And why did no one challenge those papers?

From the AdultFYI files, October, 2004: Referring to the HIV outbreak of 1998 and Marc Wallice’s name being in the center of it, Margold said you can’t convince him that Wallice was a culprit.

“To this day, Marc Wallice, by the way, has never been proven to be guilty,” said Margold.

“He’s been speculated but never proven. And that’s where [Mark] Kernes [senior editor at AVN] and I have our biggest problem. Because Kernes says he’s absolutely sure Wallice knew and he has all the proof. I keep on telling Kernes if you got it, show it.. And he doesn’t have it. And he can’t show it.

“I’ve been trying to get Wallice, by the way, a lifetime achievement award through Free Speech. Because he deserves it for being the performer that he was. Absolutely. One of the three great studs of an era that included Peter North and Tom Byron. He’s the third of those three and should have his award. The man is a Legend of Erotica. He got a medallion. I’m sure a lot of people resented that.

“If it it was proven to me that he was culpable; if it was proven to me that he knew, then of course I’d have to see him in a different light,” Margold continued.

“But there is no proof that he knew. And until you prove to me, you are innocent until proven guilty. Not according to Kernes of course. But, of course, Kernes has a lot of guilt wallowing up from within his lack of soul.”