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This letter is written to acknowledge that, yes, fame does cost money if you do not have natural talent. JRP Agoura Hills, California is one of the franchises that really has no interest in getting you discovered by any talent agency.

For starters, we were recruited by Jeff Jones, the supposed child star from "Full House". Jeff Jones has stated clearly that he appeared on 6-8 episodes as Stephanie Tanner's boyfriend and first kiss and was Zack Zack "the Lego Maniac". These are completely bogus statements. It has been confirmed by multiple credible sources that they have no record of a Jeff Jones acting in any of these shows nor commercials. Jeff Jones has also stated that he was an Entertainment Attorney. This statement is completely false. We contacted all 50 states Bar Associations and they have no record of Jeff Jones being licensed. "Mr Jones BEWARE!! If you wish to make this statement and give legal advise to any consumer it is against most state laws and is a criminal offense".

JRP will use multiple outside sources, e.g. "Rad Kids" to go out and find cute kids and tell parents to bring their child or children in for an audition. The audition is only a sales pitch to actually feel out the parents to see if they can afford the expense. They will pitch it to you to death and tell you that your child has what it takes to get discovered. Once you are suckered in, the classes are a joke. I have sat in on a few and they are horrible. The only class worth while is the beginners class for children 4-8 years of age. This class WILL prepare them on how to audition for an agent.

The other classes are not worth the $3600 dollars for the supposed Career Level. The photographer they use is horrible. And photos take sometimes 6 weeks to come in once you pay the additional $350 dollars, plus the $75 make-up from an employee at John Robert Powers that has no business doing make-up.

The revolving door of staff seems to confuse most parents and to get information from any of them is similar to getting a wisdom tooth pulled without novacane. In my eyes, this is poor business practice. Even the employees complain of delayed paychecks or paychecks that have bounced.

Oh' and IPOP will cost more than $9500 dolllars to attend and these classes are also worthless. Go audition for an agency or a show or movie on your own if you know how. Just look for the ads in Back Stage West for casting calls.

Stay away from JRP Agoura Hills, it is not worth the hassle. If you feel that your child has what it takes, hire a professional acting coach and not some large franchise that is only interested in the mighty dollar.

Location: Los Angeles, California

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A lot of people do spend their living scamming actors, models, singers out of money because they prey on people who have big dreams, are desperate and vulnerable. People who are starring in movies have been scammed early on.

I will tell you about some of my scams. I had a 8 by 10 photo , one for commercial , one for theatrical and one character in pig tails and goofy as I am the very flexible type. Not here at JRP, but just want to tell you. One agent took me on the side lines, but than wanted to send me to a "certain " photographer to get a kick back, a certain acting school to get a kick back, or ask for stamps to mail my photos for money and you know where my photos would had gone?

in the garbage. These people sleep fine at night. They may get you a extra part, or submit your photos to a couple casting people and they think they've done their good deed or nothing. Managers always ask for a percentage up front but agents are not suppose to ask for any thing up front.

If you don't have a producer for a father, a mother who directs tv shows or works in a agent's office, ect. you need to keep your eyes wide open because you will get scammed. Even these casting showcases, people spend so much money getting in front of agents and casting directors and most have no intentions of taking anyone from them. once in a blue moon they may find somebody that really extremely did beyond good or just has that special look, but rarely.

I was hired from one casting showcase and I won the lottery, basically. There was other showcases, i swear i beyond blew it out of the water and did beyond great and nothing/ and out of site out of mind.

The best thing you can do is take classes that's affordable and where the teacher or coach is highly respectable, do plays, people get discover all the time doing plays, and look in the back stage west for independent films and student films and just keep auditioning. That's it.

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I would like to add. If agents already have people "your type" they won't take you unless you are some major star or have extensive background in support roles not extra.

And girls make the same mistake of glamorizing themselves for photos. Doing their hair and make up for a glamour look, having their photos touched up so when you walk in they are pissed "she or he don't look that much like their picture" big turn off. they're mad. you're gone and never will hear from them again.

And unless you are beyond striking, and strictly leading. ( I know all women want to be beautiful and have glamour" parts but to come down to reality, the beauty leading roles are very competitive, you're better off when starting out, put a pair of glasses on, tie your hair back, get jobs, once you're more establish you can be going for better parts.

Guest
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I made the same mistake "no I don't want to look ugly" well guess what? You will rot waiting for the more competitive parts with very little to no experience waiting tables and doing phone sales.

Be smart, don't let your ego distort you from getting work in the highest competitive business there is. you may think "maybe I am hot enough " Hollywood considers somebody who is five foot eight , 100 pounds with a pretty face ugly or average trust me. Unless you have a beyond perfect body and slim, toned, and perfect and a face beyond stunning, don't get fooled because of your ego, you will be walking out crying. Casting directors can be quite cruel, somebody ten times prettier than you could be called a dog and fat by a casting person.

trust me on this.

If you're just a kid, that's different. and than still, beware

Guest

they are scammers and heartless cruel nasty people. I worked for them a long time ago

Raphael Vml
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Then say your name

Guest

You are absolutely right .. I worked for them a very very long time ago as a telemarketer.

I was and am in Screen actors guild. I have done some small acting jobs and I understand that you do need classes and head shots before you start a acting career or start auditioning and looking for an agent. But JRP made false promises to people, they made us tell people there was an open audition for acting and modeling, when they just wanted anything willing to pay for classes, I knew this but I needed my job at that time as a telemarketer. I agree if you want to pursue acting, go to a good coach and don't give out thousands for two bit classes and broken promises.

I knew they were not going to get these people modeling and acting jobs, only a start in learning some to start pursuing a career but they were not going to employ them and I could not be honest and say this is an acting school because I would not have appointments and I would not had a job. But it wasn't a complete waste of time for anyone who had money, it's a start, even if it's expensive so my conscious was not that much bothering me.

The thing is the staff and co workers were disgustingly immature, rude and mean. There was one lanky girl named Jennifer with buck teeth, greasy hair who plotted around in there because she had some minor modeling gigs, selling portfolios , teaching classes and stuff and just because some inexperienced plan woman is lanky does not mean they know all about modeling.

Than there was my direct co workers such as Julie, Billy, keisha and others who would call me names and yell and laugh and scream while my mom and I were on the phone talking to people. My mom and I ended up getting let go after we were told we were not on the phone when we were the only ones who were basically working most of the time and brought in a lot of people. Anthony, one of the managers at that time could only say he felt bad because we did a good job, but let his friend Billy Nadel get away with getting us fired because they were friends. When Billy was fired numerous times for actually not doing his job and was brought back and hired as the telemarketing room manager.

The owner at that time Patricia Brown would come into the telemarketing room and threaten us because her horrible sales lady did not have the skills to sell you the classes after we got them interested in coming in. I was a very voluptuous blonde and they were calling me "cow" , the whole staff, and I am very slim now but I was not obese or fat then. And Julie was walking around hipcupping and giggling with her swallen ape fat face and three chins spreading lies about me. Yelling and laughing all night and the sales manager Michelle at the time would call me names low and have daggers in her eyes staring at me and all I did was my job.

Billy would say such things like "I hate that ***" about me. I never did anything to him. Was he mad I wasn't flirting with him? Did people lie to him about me?

The place was a zoo.

and they are very mean and immature and unprofessional. After that my mom and I would had not worked for them again if our lives depended on it.

Guest
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I live in Sherman Oaks not San Bernadino

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and I never wanted to be friends with my co workers or bosses, and I was never attracted to them either. But I'll never forget the time , I was 34 at the time, and some of the co workers were 25, I was being bullied by them and so I said "nobody is nice to me or wants to be friends" and one of my bosses says, "you're not our age" but yet he was mid twenties dating 18 year olds, and all I wanted for some professional respect and platonic friend ship and not be insulting me and putting me down when all I was doing was my job and minding my business.

and now they're in their 40s lol. While I look even younger than I did then.

Guest
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I was an employee there years ago, should had explained better. What I am trying to say in my other message is if you didn't like me and at least want to show platonic friend ship is fine, when all I was there to work and get paid, but to be calling me names and doing crap to me is a whole different situation and was bs not right.

If I could at least come in, in peace, do my job without all this mocking, name calling and hostility, I would been fine. As I said people in there were not my cup of tea and not stunning looking but should had at least let me do my job without insulting me and doing crap to me

Guest
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Another words, they were making fun of me and calling me fat and *** when they were not stunning

Guest
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They're in their 40s and probably still going after 18 year olds LOL. And botox, fillers and the gym , I look younger than I did then and I have good looking young guys chasing me.

But I was always nice to Julie, she would call me names low, Jennifer , Barbara (middle aged woman at that time), and Anthony, I know the whole world does not evolve around me, but Billy was obsessed with putting me down, when all i did was work hard and mind my business. He had the problem. It's like high school, rumors, crap talking and suddenly the whole group is calling you names. They probably still haven't grown up and NONE of us are young now.

ha and 34 was old?

LOL. at that time maybe the way I was voluptuous, work a lot of make up and fixed myself, maybe I did appear older than I was, but one day I hardly wore make up and my mom was saying to me "today you look 23" and now I hardly wear make up and I can vouch I look years younger than all you late 30s and 40s now .

Guest
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And Julie would yell like a mentally challenged kid (older than me and you were all friends with her) KEISHA, laughing, screaming and she was late 30s with kids. Billy was constantly going "fat blonde just like my mom" and spreading his hands making sounds.

I was the only blonde in the room, and even Julie would tell us to stop fighting, when I came back reminding him he was a very chubby character looking fat boy. I had large breasts and rounded hips with a small waist, I wasn't round and huge. Now I am skinny but they were attacking me and exaggerating with their insults and all I ever did is come in, sit at my desk and do my job and only talk to my mom because they were all just attacking.

And me being an actress, they never saw my skills, I wasn't saying I was a model. Then they didn't even do their jobs, and Billy was fired 7 times and Anthony kept getting his friend back to cause more trouble and not do his job

Guest
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and the funniest part is when a secretary named Makeila started, she was heavy breast and Billy yells in my face "At least she is only big in her chest unlike you" and I didn't say one word ever about anyone's body , looks, they were the ones like high schoolers but yet this girl had thick thighs and a bulbous butt and than Billy told Keisha she was sexy when she was obese , way bigger than me but called me fat. I am just pointing this out to show the intentional personal hatred he had towards me and I never did a thing to him.

I only got mean in retaliation after months of abuse. Julie was the one going around calling Keisha and me "cow" low under her breath, with her swallon face and three chins... and eat like a pig and hiccup everywhere out loud. And than would say about Jennifer "she looks so good" with a sad look.

Like high school, everything about everyone's bodies and looks.

Jennifer had a big waist and no tits, she had long thin legs and a very unfirm flat behind and buck teeth and unkempt hair so I was like "really?" but I never cared about anyones' looks if they were nice to me. High school bs

Raphael Vml
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One sided

Guest
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I wasn't doing anything to anyone and I was being called names and made fun of....

Guest
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and one more point about Billy's personal hatred towards me, not only did he compliment obese women, three chins and plain woman, and a porky girl who had big breasts and bigger waists and thighs than me and call me fat, every time I saw him with a girl friend, she was fat and ugly. Now it looks like I am the one that deserved it saying this but I swear, when I worked there, I never said one word about anyone's' looks or bodies, just insulted Billy one time noting he's fat when after months of abuse on me, I gave it back.

But I am just pointing out now what was always on my mind. And one time I was getting into the car and he said "I hate that *** " and I never once did a thing to him till I finally fought back way after that. He must like porky, because he is and that's all he dates and what did my body have to do with any of them? and I am skinny now and I was just voluptuous then.

And if Jennifer was so attractive and was a JRP staff member, why did she have to work at JRP and than in real estate , she could not make it big in the business because she was tall with thin legs and nothing else.

But all the sheep bha bha if the word gets around you're hot, you're hot even if you're just skinny unfirm flat chested buck tooth *** And she too insulted me, the whole staff was. And this is exactly why there are shootings.

Guest
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and if you had to be rail thin to do telemarketing at JRP, they should had not hired most of us then. seriously. I never asked them to get me into modeling or asked them to do a profolio, I sat there doing telemarketing

Guest
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I have one last thing to say about this "funny farm" when I worked there. Anthony knew my mom and I did a good job, we were always working and bringing people in while Billy was fired numerous times and brought back by Anthony, they were friends.

And finally became the telemarketing room manager. He hated me, and him, Keisha, and Julie were not on the phone most of the time. My mom and I came in one day, the desks were changed and all our lead sources to call were gone except for three leads on each of our desks, I told Billy "I don't have anything to call" he ignored me. That night after weeks of Julie yelling "KEISHA" and them all yelling, laughing and raising *** while my mom and I were on the phone Billy got us fired when we were looking for work to call.

Anthony's brother Nick came in and this was the biggest joke in history. They all knew my mom and I were the only ones who did our jobs steadily. Than I saw Julie in the mall a year later and she was laughing like a hyena "You got let go while I quit cause they didn't give me my vacation" and kept laughing out of control. I said to her "you know my mom and I was always on the phone" she just kept laughing.

I kept asking myself if there is something wrong with her or is she on drugs.

I said "it's fine my mom and I are content and moved on, we have jobs and would never work there again" and she just kept laughing than she had enough nerve to try to sell me something she was doing on the side for herself and tried to give me her phone number. The whole thing was such a joke

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You know what I think, why they hated me so much ? My mom and I use to do our jobs, unlike them and made them look bad.

Secondly, they were so unhappy with their looks, life and failures they hated me who came in full of dreams, hopes and joyful and self confidence and they wanted me to feel like them. truth hurts

Guest
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I swear if I got down to 90 pounds then which would been way under weight for my height, they would still had call me fat names and compliment an obese person or called me something else. The problem with them is they want others to be down like they are. Why would they care if I thought I was hot *** , I wasn't disrespecting anyone, just doing my job and should had actually fought back more , sooner and more viciously

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