For years, adherents of the pro-Trump QAnon movement and MAGA influencers in its orbit spread unhinged conspiracy theories about human trafficking and the sexual exploitation of children by powerful liberal elites. Many believed that Trump was engaged in a secret war with this cabal of predators and would eventually bring …
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Virginia Giuffre, the woman who stood up for victims of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein when she accused him of trafficking her as a teenager, wrote in an Instagram post on Sunday that she had been hospitalized after a traffic accident and was in critical condition. “This year has …
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Michael Jeffries, who served as CEO of Abercrombie & Fitch from 1992 to 2014, was arrested on Tuesday, and faces federal charges related to sex trafficking. Jeffries and his partner Matthew Smith were arrested in Florida and are expected to appear in court today, Oct. 22, The New York Times …
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O n an August night in 2003, a young woman who went by the name Paulina sank into the sofa of her modest, rented apartment, opened up her laptop, and began talking about sex with a man she’d recently met in a Yahoo chat group. His name was Stephen Bolen. …
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Since Jeffrey Epstein died under mysterious circumstances in his prison cell in August 2019 while awaiting sex-trafficking charges, and his right-hand woman Ghislaine Maxwell received 20 years behind bars for her part in the sex-trafficking operation (in a low-security prison, without having to name names), there’s still an overwhelming air …
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Andrew Tate was released from house arrest but will remain under judicial control as he awaits trial on rape and human trafficking charges in Romania. The controversial, far-right influencer, his brother Tristan Tate, and two Romanian associates, Georgiana Naghel and Luaana Radu, had appealed the house arrest sentence, which was …
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When far-right influencer Andrew Tate was arrested by Romanian authorities on suspicion of sex trafficking last December, the Romanian agency DIICOT argued that Tate and his brother Tristan used the “loverboy method” to lure women to their compound in Bucharest under the guise of having a relationship with them before …
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The US Virgin Islands is seeking $190 million in penalties from JPMorgan Chase for the bank’s failure to report disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein’ssex-trafficking operation, according to a court filing on Friday, the Wall Street Journal reported. In the filing, the Virgin Islands’ attorney general’s office said it wants JPMorgan Chase …
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As one of the most well-known tube sites in the industry, to the degree that its opening music is a meme on TikTok, Pornhub has become a prime target for the religious right’s war on smut. Most recently, the website was subject to litigation filed by NCOSE (the National Center …
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“Another day, another request to talk about Pornhub.” That’s what I thought when director Suzanne Hillinger and Oscar winner Alex Gibney’s Jigsaw Productions asked me to appear in their new Netflix documentary Money Shot: The Pornhub Story. The film recounts how Pornhub exploded in popularity until The New York Times’s …
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