One of the film industry's most prestigious gatherings inadvertently hosts a shadow economy.
Every year, women ranging from what the French call putes de luxes (high-priced call girls), to local streetwalkers, converge on Cannes for what one Parisian prostitute calls “the biggest payday of the year.” The money ranges from little more than $50 or $75 an hour turning tricks in nearby Nice, to an average of $4,000 a night on the high-end.
Prostitution is legal in France,
but soliciting,
whether with advertising
or on a street corner,
is not.
The influx is hard not to notice. During the 10-day festival, an estimated 100 to 200 sex-workers stroll in and out of the big hotels every day, according to hotel sources. “Hookers stand out in Cannes. They’re the ones who are well-dressed and not smoking,” tweeted Roger Ebert in 2010.
An insider shared: The most beautiful call girls know to target the high-end hotels “where all the Arabs stay.” Arabs are the most generous people in the world. If they like you, they will give you a lot of money. At Cannes, they carry money around in wads of 10,000 euros. To them, it’s just like paper. They don’t even like to count it. They’ll just hand it to the girls without thinking. I know the system.”
A “gift” contained in an envelope, according to Nahas and a number of veteran Cannes escort women interviewed by THR, is how prostitutes get paid at the festival.
Sources:
https://www.sizezero.org/blog/darksideofmodeling
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuElbzeSEA4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-FEaFcyj3Q
https://nsp.lse.ac.uk/articles/158
https://scandalous.media/blog/dark-hollywood-yachting
https://www.the-triton.com/2023/04/the-dark-side-of-yachting/
https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-66479335
https://www.superyachtcontent.com/superyacht-crew-lifestyle/sexual-abuse-in-yachting/
https://www.courttv.com/news/lawsuit-targets-diddy-and-son-apple-does-not-fall-far-from-the-tree/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jho_Low
https://www.businessinsider.com/kim-kardashian-flew-home-vegas-250k-trash-bag-jho-low-2023-3
https://fortune.com/2022/03/07/jho-low-fugitive-1mdb-financier-biography/
https://nypost.com/2018/09/15/i-own-you-youre-my-bitch-jho-lows-hollywood-power-play/
https://blog.limkitsiang.com/2015/12/29/the-rm7-bil-petrosaudi-caper/
https://myassets.theedgemalaysia.com/pics/2024/1MDB_1_TEM1542_theedgemalaysia.jpg
https://www.malaymail.com/news/malaysia/2022/06/09/najibs-trial-ambank-official-says-1mdb-asked-to-remove-petrosaudis-name-as-us95m-beneficiary-and-to-record-bank-account-number-only/11523
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/standard-issues-white-supremacy-capitalism-influence-beauty
https://femlens.com/blog-post/skin-whitening-obsession-a-post-colonial-hangover/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0014292115001658
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/81/Modern_Empires.svg
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/hookers-at-cannes-40000-a-497667/
https://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012%2F10%2F25%2F245860
https://www.thetimes.com/article/gaddafis-pimp-jailed-by-french-court-7tdbxvjczsn
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/side-cannes-exposed-debauchery-danger-793536/
No comments:
Post a Comment