It gets DARK
Lebanese businessman Elie Nahas was once a regular at the Cannes Film Festival. Nahas, who owns a Beirut-based “modeling agency” with branches in Caracas, Dubai and New York, was best known for throwing a $1 million birthday party for Moatessem Gadhafi in Marrakesh in 2004.
Nahas paid Enrique Iglesias $500,000 to attend and flew in Carmen Electra for $50,000, he says. Kevin Costner also attended.
Nahas boasted he used to work as a right-hand man to late Libyan dictator, Muammar Gadhafi’s fourth son from 2003 until 2007. Nahas said playboy Moatassim Gaddafi “liked models.”
Nahas vehemently denied running the prostitution ring that supplied more than 50 women “of various nationalities” to the younger Gadhafi and other rich Middle Eastern clients during the festival. According to Patrick Ardid, the president of the court, the women were paid for by businesses and sometimes even the Libyan embassy.
The Guardian further reported that his crime exposed the underbelly of the festival's glittering facade; the arrest and subsequent media frenzy cast a spotlight on the escort industry.
Nahas lured international beauty queens to the French Riviera with a promise of modelling contracts and then forced them into prostitution.
In a press interview after he returned to Beirut in 2008, he admitted having invited Farias and the eight escorts to his yacht in Marseille, but stressed that they were returned for baseless reasons. He said the French authorities claimed the women did not have enough money and had no hotel booking and that they came to France to work as illegal immigrants.
Police said that the women would fly in small groups on their own, mainly from Paris, London, Venezuela, Brazil, Morocco and Russia. They ran the gamut, from full-time escorts to models to beauty queens. Some of the women were brought to Cannes under false pretenses and coerced into prostitution. Mr Martinelli reported that they serviced men in hotels, in the palatial villas in the hills above Cannes, and on yachts. And he shared, “They didn’t hesitate to force all these girls who slept with Moatassim Gaddafi to have blood tests when the client didn’t want to use a condom.”
“Please,” says Nahas. “Every year during the festival there are 30 or 40 luxury yachts in the bay at Cannes, and every boat belongs to a very rich person. Every boat has about 10 girls on it; they are usually models, and they are usually nude or half nude. It’s drugs and drink and beautiful women. Go out on one and you’ll see. The girls are all waiting for their envelopes at the end of the night. It’s been going on there for 60 years.” “The police know what goes on during the film festival, and they turn a blind eye. But they went after me. Why? Because I worked for Gadhafi.”
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