BY JIM DOOLEY AND MALIA ZIMMERMAN

Hawaii Reporter

An X-rated local escort service called “The Volcano Girls” is being operated out of the Waikiki residence of University of Hawaii Professor Lawrence W. Boyd, Jr., a Hawaii Reporterinvestigation shows.

An “appointment” booked by Hawaii Reporter with aVolcano Girls escort took place Friday afternoon in a bedroom inside Boyd’s apartment at 250 Ohua Street.

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A Hawaii Reporter staffer posing as a customer arranged the appointment in a series of telephone calls to the website contact number that has since been disconnected. The entire website –http://www.thevolcanogirls.com - has been shut down for “maintenance” since Friday night.

A woman first answered The Volcano Girls phone when we called Friday morning and a manager took later calls, referring to the woman as “the receptionist.”

In an interview Tuesday, Boyd denied any connection to the escort service, saying it might be operated by a woman, Lorraine Drake, who rents a room from him in his apartment.

“I can be very specific.  I’m just saying flat out I didn’t talk to you on the phone Friday,” Boyd said.

The Volcano Girls number is listed in the phone directory as the number for Lorraine Drake. Attempts to reach Drake this week were unsuccessful.

Boyd said Drake helps care for his partially disabled wife, but he hadn’t seen or spoken to her for four days, adding that her absence has “perturbed” him.

He said it “is kind of hard to believe” that she could be operating an escort service out of his Ohua Street condominium.

In arranging the Friday appointment with an escort, the manager at The Volcano Girls recommended a young woman named "Kendra" who is featured prominently on the website and is reviewed by "Laurence" as "smoking hot."

She was described as “a busty Caucasian (of) part-Italian/Brazilian background.”

When asked the price of the encounter, the manager said, “The gift is three.” That was understood to mean $300, a charge that conformed with fees cited in the comments section of The Volcano Girls website.

“It’s a flat rate,” the manager said, with “nothing hidden” in the charge.

Kendra has her own site on the web, http://kendrakanexxx.com/kendra-kane1.phtml, which lists the prices of “gift donations” as $300 per hour for in-call appointments and $350/hour for out-call visits.

“All gifts must be placed in an unsealed white envelope marked ‘GIFT’ & left in the bathroom or on the table, no discussion necessary,” her website ways (underlining in original).

Boyd has owned Unit 1C since 2006, claiming it as his personal residence to qualify for an $80,000 exemption from City property tax valuations, real estate records show.

The resident manager of the building, Christopher Jacobowski, said he has “never seen” any signs of escort service activity there. Jacobowski also lives on the first floor of the building, several doors down the hall from Boyd’s unit.

The Honolulu Police Department had no immediate response to questions about The Volcano Girls website or the activities at 250 Ohua Street.

The University of Hawaii said through spokeswoman Lynne Waters that it was unaware of any allegations linking a professor to escort service activities.

"We have no specific knowledge of this matter. In general, if a university employee is investigated we will, of course, cooperate fully," said Waters.

Jim Dooley and Malia Zimmerman are award winning investigative reporters for HawaiiReporter.com