I came out cold and hard, with this chip on my shoulder. I fought for him his whole life, and this was a time he wanted to stick up for me and he couldn’t do it because there were walls between us.”Īfter three-and-a-half years, Goffney said he emerged a changed man - for the worse. Visits with his brother were difficult, Goffney said. He said he rarely left his cell for the first two months but eventually did so to avoid being targeted for being a recluse. “All these guys were super big and I was this skinny, 18-year-old kid. When those doors slammed, it felt like I was never coming out,” he said.
Goffney said the incident was a joke, but it was one that landed him more than three years in prison. He and a friend were accused of robbing someone with a starter pistol. When he was 18, Goffney had his first major run-in with the law. “But we ended up learning from all the wrong people.” “My mom did what she could with twins at 15,” Goffney said. Their mother gave birth to them when she was just 15, and they grew up in poverty in Camden. While the twins had a strong connection, their home life lacked stability. “I’d be in school and close my locker door and there’d be three guys standing there wanting to fight me because of him. He was the only one Keyontyli confided in about his sexual orientation. Goffney said he stepped in frequently to defend his twin. In school, Keyontyli, who is gay, was often picked on by classmates for not being “manly” enough. Goffney won awards and trophies - some taller than he was - for karate, while his brother excelled at gymnastics. Goffney’s path wasn’t always pointed toward prison.įrom a young age, the twins exhibited an aptitude for physicality.
Goffney spent the last six years behind bars, an experience he said put him back in touch with the young man he was before his life took a dark turn - and that convinced him to help keep others from following in his former footsteps. But it was the brothers’ past involvement in the gay-porn industry that earned them even more notoriety than their crimes. Goffney, 32, and his twin brother, Keyontyli, made international headlines in 2008 after they were arrested for a daring burglary spree that netted them more than a half-million dollars. His quest for cash took him from the drug circles of Camden to the rooves of Philadelphia businesses - and into the center of a multi-state, multi-agency manhunt. He was motivated by getting as much of it as he could - however he could. I know, I’m fighting like hell to get mine back.”įor years, Taleon Goffney placed value, above all else, in money.