The Curious Case of...

My name is Dawn DaLuise.

I was a celebrity esthetician for 30 years.

Dawn's studio was in West Hollywood.

It really was holy .

I noticed a new skincare business opened next door to me.

The name's Smooth Cheeks.

You know, it's a double entendre,

cheeks and cheeks.

And I'm thinking there's trouble in our midst.

I noticed a slashed tire one night.

My face had been Photoshopped on a woman with her legs spread

wide open and the crotch showing.

And there were people actually banging on her door,

"I'm here to rape you." -It just kept getting worse.

The only thing I did know

was who I felt was responsible for it,

and it was Gabriel Suarez.

So Dawn had sent me a text message saying that she had

found somebody to take Gabriel out.

And I was just like, "I can't believe this lady

has this many problems."

He ended up arresting her for solicitation to murder Gabriel.

And they released that mugshot, which was a very rough mugshot.

I was in the dark completely about how she hated me.

She's dangerous.

"I could even have lured Gabriel to my home.

I would have shot him."

That is all troubling.

No, we keyed Gabriel's car.

Nick and I also posted Craigslist ads

with her phone number and a Photoshopped face

of a woman in various sexual positions.

Dawn DaLuise is locked up behind bars on a million-dollar bond.

Right now, as we speak, she is in jail.

While I was in jail, my landlord managed to send

an eviction notice to the jail

that I hadn't made my rent in a month.

And then the same thing happened with my clinic.

And I just had to watch my life fall apart in slow motion.

Nothing I could do about it.

This is my jail uniform that I wore...

when I was in LA County Jail.

I'd always been active,

and it was very important to stay fit.

What this originally was was the backing of a bra.

The two bras actually, not unlike what they have in gyms

when you want to do some strength training.

I needed these things to basically feel like I was still

a woman, still feminine, not just a number,

not just an inmate.

I was shocked when I learned how Nick and Ed generated this

whole campaign of denigration against me.

By the time I was in jail, by the time I'm learning that,

well, these two men are stalking you, it was so

devastating to me. I was numb.

Somebody could have pushed me over a building

and my heart wouldn't have even gone up

before I splattered on the pavement.

So the flyers that were distributed had Dawn's face

Photoshopped on somebody else's body in a sexual situation with

some catchy taglines -- "First time free."

"Sex party tonight" was a good one.

We had flyered her office

and we had flyered her apartment building.

It really got crazy, right?

So Dawn's friends, the ones she confided in,

they're the ones behind all this abuse.

The whole context for her anger, outcry against

Gabriel Suarez was orchestrated,

was manipulated by Nick and Ed.

Meanwhile, Dawn's facing charges of solicitation

of murder, about as serious as it gets.

Prosecutors offered her plea deals,

but she wouldn't take them.

So now this case is headed to trial.

Every time I laid my head on the pillow at night,

I knew I was innocent.

I was never gonna concede to something I didn't do.

Why in the world would I say

I was trying to have someone murdered?

Just so that I could go home early?

Hell no, no!

This story, it's got everything.

It's got Hollywood, it's got revenge,

it's got betrayal, intrigue.

The public, eager to find out what really happened,

is going to get an answer.

We had kind of heard tidbits about it as we were getting

called for jury duty, and you could tell

this was gonna be kind of a salacious case.

Dawn DaLuise made a series of really bad choices.

And the more she dug her heels in,

deciding that Gabriel Suarez was her nemesis

and she needed to get revenge,

the more trouble she got herself into.

It would never dawn on me that we're competitors

because I predominantly wax.

Little did know that she was festering all this

behind my back, and I had no idea.

In one hand, we're being presented this white,

privileged lady who has friends in high places,

and maybe she just got fooled.

And then on the other side, you're being presented this

monster of a person who went after somebody.

I was very confused, to be honest.

So we know that Dawn told the police that if she could

have lured Gabriel to her house,

she would have shot him and argued self-defense.

So she had the capacity to kill.

She could have done that, but instead she went up to

Big Bear, and she found this big, beefy former NFL player

who listened to her...

tell her sob story about the harassment.

And it was terrible harassment.

She texted to Ed Feinstein,

"I found someone who will take Gabriel out."

Yes, Dawn DaLuise was in fact victimized by

her so-called friends.

However, you don't get to take the law into your own hands.

You don't get to become a vigilante.

The lead detective was making this seem like a slam-dunk

solicitation for murder, but the gentleman that

they were claiming that Ms. DaLuise was soliciting

for murder, he was not arrested.

He gave no indication that he was, in fact, solicited.

I was sitting on my couch, and the phone rang.

He said he was a detective,

and I thought someone was pranking me.

You know, I said, "Come on, who is this?"

You know, this is funny. Ha ha ha, OK?

And he said, "You might want to turn on the television."

And I was like, "What the heck's going on?"

The media was saying that I was hired by Dawn to be a hit man

against this skincare guy, which was ludicrous.

The most that I ever said was that I would show up with

her arm-in-arm and walk by.

That's it. That way I'd be a deterrent.

Of the 6,000 messages, there were two messages that

they tried to say connected her to this solicitation.

And even those were not conclusive of trying to solicit

somebody to murder Mr. Suarez.

I didn't think clearly when I sent those texts out.

I was just blowing off steam and blowing up phones with,

"If I could just kill this with my bare hands, I would.

I can't stand him."

You know, "I'm going to copy these Craigslist ads and send

"men to his home to rape him.

"And I'm going to use the same language.

"We're gonna put a blindfold on you.

"And this son-of-a-bitch, douchebag,

you know, I'm gonna kill him with my bare hands."

And then I would say in that same thread

to Edward Feinstein, "Oops, I'm running late for work

and have to get my oil changed first."

Ms. DaLuise, even through all of this turmoil and all these

things that she thought he was doing,

she never marched 20 feet down the hall and said,

"Gabriel, WTF?

What's going on? Why are you doing this to me?"

That never happened.

Instead, she communicated to Chris Geile via text,

"Is the Aryan Brotherhood only in prison?

"I can't believe I can't find some white supremacist who'd

want to do harm to a double minority, a gay Mexican."

It was a decidedly disturbing text message that she'd sent.

And I think the jury from initially was looking at me

kind of like, "Why are you on this case?"

I think as jurors, we were all pretty disgusted at the time of

hearing these things being said.

She was talking about people that, you know,

represented people in the jury, and it affected me.

I was definitely upset.

Is this a woman in distress, or is this a woman who's just

racist and doesn't care about anyone else but herself?

Dawn said she was trying to find somebody to take out

a double-minority Mexican gay.

Take him out where? I mean...not dinner.

Dawn sent my picture to Chris Geile.

"This is what Gabriel looks like.

This is where he lives."

That's not an innocent person.

She may have shown me, like, his Facebook page

or something like that.

Anything else, that was all in her head.

Just merely sharing a photo of someone is not solicitation.

Now, if she would have shared a photo and then there's

a discussion of when, where, and how this is gonna

be done, then, of course, that photo would be

damaging information.

Geile didn't have to say, "Oh, yeah, she promised me

the moon if I would kill this guy."

And I knew I wasn't gonna get that out of him.

They tried to make it seem like it was the facials in lieu

of the financial compensation.

But the thought that somebody would murder somebody for

free facials is just a hard pill to really swallow.

I know it looks like I need a lot of facials, but still,

I would never do anything like that.

I don't care what the price is.

The alleged victim, Gabriel Suarez, came off as