My 20 years are up, so for the first time I can legally speak about my brief time I spent with Milla, her mother Golina, father Bogi and their little dog, Doc. To this day, I have never seen any of Milla’s movies or ads. I purposely avoided all her movies and magazines. It was a sad reality for me in many ways, and I turned my back on an industry that turned its back on me. While editing my Stranger video starring Milla, it brought back a lot of memories. So, I looked her up on the net and what I found were untruths about the beginning of Milla’s career. So I wanted to set the record straight.

 

I was young, aggressive, and I made a lot of enemies from the success I had as a Model, Photographer and Agency Owner (Prima Modeling) all before I was 24 years of age. But the barrio that I grow up in wasn't enough training for the ruthless back stabbing business that I made so many waves in. But truth is truth and here it goes.

 

Neither Herb Ritts nor Richard Avedon discovered Milla, nor did they take her first pictures. In 1987 they were more than a year too late. Besides, they were my friends and I introduced them to Milla by showing them pictures of her that I took. Milla didn’t start her modeling career at age 11, it was 10. Her first job was for Sports Wear International that I shot in 1986. I shot film of Milla that’s featured in my Stranger video in 1986 and 1987... before Two Moon Junction was released two years later in 1988. Jeffrey Dashowits was not the master mind behind Prima models nor did he discover Milla , he was the bookkeeper. Wow, that’s fun to write down! I was forced out, shot at, cameras and negs stolen and black balled in the industry... all over an amazing little girl and a lot of greed. I have hundreds of photos and a good half hour of film to prove it.

 

I shot Hillary Swank at 14 and Cameron Diaz at 16, and I thought they might be stars one day. But Milla... I knew she would be a star at 10. So the businessmen lined up and the artist was out, and I never saw them again.

 

They were my friends. Milla was always all over me, just like the little kid she was. She sang me her first songs on piano. Her mother, Golina, always called me a Russian Czar because of my goatee. Little did she know that I had a crush on her. It’s hard to believe that Milla is now in her 30’s, near the same age as her mother was when I knew them. Our destinies parted, but I hope they will cross again now that my 20 years are up.    

 

 

First Modeling Job 1986

First pictures 1986

Milla & Carlos

Puppy Love

Lullaby

Stranger

Music Video coming soon 2008