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Prostitution ring recruited escorts for sex with top footballers

Prostitution ring recruited escorts for sex with top footballers

Published by Sam Flores

A prostitution ring in Italy recruited escorts for sex with leading Italian footballers, with one of the young women falling pregnant after a party fuelled by canisters of laughing gas. The parties in exclusive nightclubs and restaurants around Milan involved about 70 football players from several top-flight Serie A clubs, including Inter Milan, Juventus and AC Milan, according to investigators. The players’ stimulant of choice was nitrous oxide, or laughing gas, because unlike cocaine and other drugs it does not turn up in the anti-doping tests that players have to undergo. Police intercepted phone calls and text messages between the alleged organisers of the prostitution ring and the escorts, with one of them saying that she had been made pregnant by a client during one of the sex parties. The woman, who has not been identified, wanted to trace the player who impregnated her. “I’ll tell you something, but don’t tell anyone … I just took the test and I’ve been pregnant … for more than three weeks,” she said in a conversation intercepted by …

Man on trial for conspiring to hire sex workers for prostitution syndicate

Man on trial for conspiring to hire sex workers for prostitution syndicate

Published by Sam Flores

SINGAPORE: A 47-year-old Singaporean man went on trial on Tuesday (Mar 24) for more than 30 charges linked to the sex work of at least 10 women in Singapore. Weiss Tan Yi Xun is accused of offences including living in part on the earnings of a woman’s sex work. This relates to a period of around end-2020 and mid-2021, with charge sheets listing at least 10 women aged between 23 and 56. He is also accused of abetting by engaging in a conspiracy with another person to get women to be sex workers for the “prostitution syndicate” known as “SgSocialites”. These charges allege that, on dates which include 2020 to 2021, Tan worked with women including a Mavis Toh En Xuan and Yap Yuxin to get the agreement of women to work in Singapore for SgSocialites. Tan arrived at the court building dressed in all black, with his face completely covered. SEX WORKER TESTIFIES The prosecution called only one witness on Tuesday – a sex worker surnamed Tan. Ms Tan said she had been introduced …

Unhappy Ending: Chinese National Pleads Guilty To Money Laundering Over Prostitution Scheme

Unhappy Ending: Chinese National Pleads Guilty To Money Laundering Over Prostitution Scheme

Published by Jenni Sidey

Authored by Frank Fang via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A Chinese national has pleaded guilty to laundering more than $2 million from a prostitution enterprise run through spa businesses in New York’s capital region, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of New York announced on March 11. The U.S. Department of Justice in Washington on Aug. 7, 2025. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times Xia Ming, 41, of Flushing, New York, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering on March 3. According to his plea agreement, Xia operated a prostitution enterprise from 2019 to 2025. The enterprise consisted of “illicit massage businesses” disguised as “legitimate spas,” with employees providing “commercial sex services,” according to the court document. The establishment included Central Spa, Body and Skin Spa, Zen Body Works, Sisters Body Works, Relaxation Spa, and Physical Wellness Spa. “Mr. Xia did not merely run an illegal business, he built a multimillion-dollar enterprise on the commodification of women, treating them as instruments for financial gain while laundering the proceeds to enrich himself through cash …

New Mandelson files lay bare what went wrong in Downing Street – POLITICO

New Mandelson files lay bare what went wrong in Downing Street – POLITICO

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The files show Mandelson asked for a £547,201 severance payment after his sacking (he got £75,000), and told the FCDO’s Chief People Officer Mark Power in September that his “chief concern” was arriving back with “maximum dignity and minimum media intrusion.” “[Labour MPs] are more preoccupied with the £500,000,” said a third Labour MP loyal to Starmer. “What kind of person asks for that?” But this is only one step on the road for Starmer’s No. 10, and for possible questions about the prime minister’s judgement. The government has yet to publish extensive WhatsApp and email communications between Mandelson and Starmer’s ministers and aides, not just about his appointment and dismissal but about broader politics, relationships and strategy. Downing Street also announced on Wednesday that it will review the separate national security vetting system. | Paul Ellis/AFP via Getty Images Wednesday’s files show the concern that the breadth of this planned publication — forced in a vote by the opposition Conservative Party — sparked in No. 10. As Starmer prepared to agree to the transparency …

Is It Time To Reopen The Franklin Child Prostitution Case After Epstein Revelations?

Is It Time To Reopen The Franklin Child Prostitution Case After Epstein Revelations?

Published by Jenni Sidey

Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us The seriousness of a conspiracy can often be quantified by the amount of energy the establishment expends trying to bury it. Consider for a moment the fact that Jeffery Epstein’s monstrous club of elites faced near zero mainstream exposure for over 20 years, despite his arrest for human trafficking in 2006. Think about the level of political and media interference, the highly organized propaganda, the targeted attacks against conspiracy researchers – Think about the amount of money and time that was expended just to shut us up and convince the public the Epstein situation was “overblown”. The revelations of the “Lolita Express” and the flights to Little Saint James Island are nothing compared to what we now find in the millions of documents released in the past month. Hints of rape, torture, possible murder, and even cannibalism are present in the coded (and not so coded) language of Epstein’s emails. And, if the revelations of “Pizzagate” and the John Podesta emails are correct, then many of the horrors committed …

Rio Mayor Hands City’s Key to King Momo as Carnival Kicks Off

Rio Mayor Hands City’s Key to King Momo as Carnival Kicks Off

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RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The mayor of Rio de Janeiro gave King Momo the key to the Brazilian city on Friday, ushering in the symbolic Carnival monarch’s five-day reign over the festivities. Until Wednesday, Momo is charged with presiding over the revelry, participating in the parades and promoting the joy of partygoers. His ruling over the metropolis in the South American country symbolizes society being turned upside down during Carnival. This year’s Momo is 30-year-old Danilo Vieira, a Rio native who will be taking charge of the celebrations. “The rules still apply, of course,” Vieira told The Associated Press before his symbolic coronation. “We have to follow the rules of our city, our country, but Carnival is run by me.” In 2024, Rio de Janeiro Mayor Eduardo Paes issued a decree making the key ceremony an annual official event, obliging his successors to participate. Rio City Hall expects about 6 million revelers to participate in the raucous street parties, where groups made up of musicians, percussionists and stilt artists draw thousands of partygoers, many …

Sex Workers at Nevada Brothel Fight for the First-Ever Unionization

Sex Workers at Nevada Brothel Fight for the First-Ever Unionization

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PAHRUMP, Nev. (AP) — Nevada is the only state where people can legally purchase sex, and now sex workers at one of the state’s oldest brothels are fighting to become the nation’s first to be unionized. “We want the same things that any other worker wants. We want a safe and respectful workplace,” said a worker at Sheri’s Ranch in Pahrump, Nevada, who goes by the stage name Jupiter Jetson and asked that her legal name not be used for fear of harassment. Prostitution is legal at licensed brothels in 10 of Nevada’s rural counties. That doesn’t include Clark County, home to Las Vegas, though Sheri’s Ranch is about an hour’s drive away. The majority of the brothel’s 74 sex workers submitted a petition to unionize with the National Labor Relations Board last week under the name United Brothel Workers, represented by the Communications Workers of America. Jetson said the drive was spurred by a new independent contractor agreement issued in December that would give the brothel power to use the women’s likeness without permission, …

Nigel Farage says Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor should testify on Epstein links – POLITICO

Nigel Farage says Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor should testify on Epstein links – POLITICO

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“If he doesn’t go, he’d probably never be able to show his face in public again,” the Reform leader added, warning it is “probably the only chance he’s got, to some degree … at least I think, to clear his name.” In 2019, Mountbatten-Windsor was accused in a civil lawsuit of sexually assaulting Virginia Giuffre, one of Epstein’s accusers, but he strongly denied all allegations. He paid a financial settlement to Giuffre, but accepted no liability. The royal has faced a backlash over his friendship with Epstein, but has not been charged with a crime in either the U.K. or the U.S. He missed a November deadline to sit for a transcribed interview that was set by the U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Farage’s intervention comes after Keir Starmer suggested that Mountbatten-Windsor should appear before U.S. lawmakers. The British prime minister told reporters last week that anyone with information “should be prepared to share that information in whatever form they are asked to,” adding: “You can’t be victim-centered if you’re …