Audrey Hollander is speaking out about a violent 2004 shoot with late pornographer Raymond “RC” Horsch after police uncovered his Philadelphia “house of horrors.”
Hollander, 47, an adult-film actress and 2024 AVN Performer of the Year, told The Post she was 23 and newly arrived from Kentucky when an agent sent her to Horsch’s Chew Avenue home for what was pitched as a music-video casting. The appointment came during a string of Northeast gigs she had booked to break into the industry.
The moment she entered, she knew something was wrong. “It was like a hoarder’s nest — junk piled everywhere,” she said. “But mostly it was the odor, which still haunts me more than 20 years later — a funky smell, rotten, like something spoiled.”
Hollander said the house carried “a dark energy” that left her “fully creeped out.” She recalled: “Even then I felt like I was being cased out for a body part or a snuff film. I had this feeling he was feeling me out, seeing what he could do to me.”
She wanted to flee but feared her agent would drop her if she refused the gig.
When she asked to use the bathroom, Horsch led her to a damp basement where she found an AVN magazine beside the toilet. “Being a newcomer in the industry, of course I’m going to flip through it,” she said. A baggie of brown powder fell out. “I’ve never done drugs, but I know heroin when I see it.”
She later realized Horsch had planted the magazine deliberately. “It all made sense when I rejoined Horsch and he told me some of the models he worked with were really bad on drugs and he wanted to document their lives,” she said. “I realized he placed the magazine there with the drugs for me to find, hoping I would do them.”
Hollander got the job. A month later they shot in California at a fetish studio belonging to a Playboy photographer. The track was called “Bad, Bad Boy,” and Horsch claimed he had licensed it from Madonna, which she recognized immediately as a lie.
The setup seemed simple enough: Hollander would lip-sync while bent over a wooden desk as Horsch simulated sex from behind. She did not want a reputation for being difficult.
The shoot turned brutal. “By the end of filming, my fingers were bloody and I had severe bruising on my hip bones,” she said. “He was violently hitting and slapping my rear-end, knocking me into the desk and demanding that I dig my nails into the wood harder and harder.”
She continued: “He wasn’t satisfied until I had left deep scratch marks smeared with streaks of my own blood. My nails had splinters in them and my fingers were bleeding when it was all over. This was no simulation, I thought.”
At one point Horsch snapped at the camera operator: “Show the claw marks!”
Hollander also said Horsch forced her to wear “a grotesque wig” over her red hair. “I thought it was strange he was trying to make me look as ugly as possible,” she said. “We usually sell fantasy in this industry but it became clear that wasn’t what Horsch was going for: he wanted me to be clownish and degraded.”
She left bruised and bloodied, swearing never to work with him again. Horsch called her agent nonstop asking her to return to Philadelphia. Hollander refused. “I knew this was a messed-up guy and I didn’t care if I never worked again — I wasn’t going back,” she said.
Looking back, she understands why he targeted her. “I was super skinny, waif-like with a young face,” she said. “I had that wounded ‘heroin chic’ look, and Horsch, we now know, preyed on drug-addicted women.”
She pushed the experience aside and built a successful career, eventually winning AVN’s top honor and entering its Hall of Fame. She also launched a dog-walking business and is planning what she calls “a sexy coffee company.”
The Horsch case came back into her life only recently when a fan commented on a social-media post asking what she knew about him. She searched his name and found news of the investigation. “When I saw the news, my heart sank to the floor,” she said.
Horsch died last year at 83. After his death, police searching his Olney home found more than a million pieces of graphic digital evidence, chemical equipment, weapons, disturbing recordings documenting abuse and asphyxiation of women, urns containing ashes, and containers of an unknown oily substance. The federal and local probe centers on at least seven women tied to the house who vanished beginning in 2012.
Hollander said she always sensed Horsch’s evil. “When I dealt with Horsch I knew down to my core that this was an evil guy,” she said. “I know he definitely had plans for me and I’m still psychologically processing all of this.”
She added: “I’m even going to therapy about it. I think about those poor missing women and how I could have been one of them.”
She is grateful she never went back to Chew Avenue. “I’m so thankful I never went back to that creepy house on Chew Avenue,” she said.
Hollander decided to share her story publicly in hopes of aiding investigators and honoring the missing women. “If my experience can help in even the smallest way to advance the investigation, then I believe it is worth sharing,” she said. “And I hope that in some small way I can give a voice to the missing women who never got a chance to speak.”
