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Speaker 1: Novel. Hey listeners, this is Ellie Flynn. Before we get started,

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Speaker 1: I just want to let you know that this episode

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Speaker 1: contains swearing, explicit sexual language, and claims of sexual abuse.

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Speaker 1: It's also a story of female empowerment and camaraderie thanks

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Speaker 1: to the women who have shared their stories with us.

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Speaker 1: We contacted the photographer mentioned in this podcast multiple times

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Speaker 1: for comment, but we never heard back. He has not

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Speaker 1: been charged with any crimes and is presumed innocent under

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Speaker 1: the law. We also contacted Playboy USA. They state that

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Speaker 1: they have asked their licensees to blacklist the photographer mentioned

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Speaker 1: in this series and that they prohibit pay to play,

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Speaker 1: which you'll hear more about later in the series. Our

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Speaker 1: research into his association to Playboy and their statement will

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Speaker 1: be detailed in episode four of this series. Oh and

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Speaker 1: one more thing. Some of the voice notes you'll hear

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Speaker 1: in this episode are voiced by actors. It's September twenty twenty,

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Speaker 1: just days since the WhatsApp group was created, and Emily's

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Speaker 1: phone is already blowing up.

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Speaker 2: Girls.

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Speaker 3: I'm just having my hair done and I've just come

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Speaker 3: to this group and there's like two hundred and sixty

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Speaker 3: nine messages.

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Speaker 4: Help girls, I'm loving this group.

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Speaker 5: You're cracking me up here.

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Speaker 3: I'll make light of this situation because I'm traumatized.

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Speaker 2: So ow.

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Speaker 5: My dog's just dropped a bone on my leg, so.

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Speaker 4: You know, I'm exactly the same, Emily. I laugh in

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Speaker 4: the most darkest situations.

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Speaker 1: The group was established as a space for the models

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Speaker 1: to share their claims of abuse and harassment by photographer

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Speaker 1: Luis Gomez. In just days, the group had about a

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Speaker 1: dozen members, all models who'd shot with Luise on his

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Speaker 1: brief UK tour. Messages, voice notes and screenshots were piling

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Speaker 1: up and they were all full of support.

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Speaker 2: Em Glad you said that.

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Speaker 6: You wouldn't have known what to do because I went.

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Speaker 1: Alone and he was saying ex the same things to.

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Speaker 5: Me as he was you.

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Speaker 2: Oh, that's really shit.

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Speaker 5: That's fucking terrible, fucking hell.

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Speaker 2: It makes you wonders, isn't it.

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Speaker 4: If your friends weren't there, what would you have actually done.

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Speaker 1: The women found their stories were really similar. Nobody's would

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Speaker 1: tell you that shooting with him could mean amazing things

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Speaker 4: You feel like you've made it in the modeling world.

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Speaker 4: Especially like Playboy.

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Speaker 3: Maybe I'll go to America and I'll be really big

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Speaker 1: But then the shoot itself wouldn't be as glamorous as

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Speaker 1: Louis had made out. It would take place in a

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Speaker 5: People smoking, weeding them on next door.

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Speaker 7: It was horrible, horrible, and I'm thinking, why are we

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Speaker 1: And during the shoot he'd start to pressure you.

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Speaker 4: I was like, that's enough, and he said no.

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Speaker 1: I just thought I've got to keep this guy happy.

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Speaker 2: I thought I was going.

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Speaker 1: To get a full on rate and there was nobody there.

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Speaker 2: It was awful.

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Speaker 1: The women all shared the same feelings of despair afterwards.

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Speaker 3: The whole experience was just disheartening, degrading.

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, it was Honestly, it's traumatic. I quit

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Speaker 1: The women fell into two categories. Either they were just

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Speaker 1: But all of them had their careers on the line,

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Speaker 1: and it seemed like Luis knew that and exploited it.

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Speaker 8: I felt like everything was riding on that poot issue.

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Speaker 8: He kind of gets you sucked in with how amazing

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Speaker 8: to do that, and then it's nothing like that.

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Speaker 1: But at least the women now knew they weren't alone,

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Speaker 1: and they wanted to make sure Luis Gomez could never

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Speaker 1: These were women without the influence or money that Luise

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Speaker 1: But they were ready to shout.

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Speaker 5: We've all got each other to, you know, support each other.

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Speaker 1: Our case is going to be solid. We've got so

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Speaker 9: So listening to people have their lives debrailed by him.

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Speaker 1: I'm Ellie Flynn and from the team at Novel. This

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Speaker 1: is the Bunny Trap, Episode two. The receipts.

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Speaker 2: H M, Hi.

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Speaker 10: Alive, how are you?

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Speaker 1: I've driven to the English countryside on a rainy Friday

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Speaker 1: to meet another member of the WhatsApp group. She's a

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Speaker 1: former model who goes by the name of Herah.

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Speaker 2: Thank You.

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Speaker 1: She's warm and friendly and immediately welcomes me into her

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Speaker 1: home with a cup of tea. Harrah's living room is

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Speaker 1: It's very different from the CD hotel room where she

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Speaker 1: met Louise Gomez in August twenty twenty. Back then, Hera

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Speaker 1: was just beginning her modeling career. She was out of

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Speaker 1: she turned her OnlyFans to help make ends meet. So

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Speaker 1: when Louis Gomez wanted to shoot with her, she saw

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Speaker 1: an opportunity for a better life. After all, he had

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Speaker 1: shot for Playboy. It would come at a cost, though

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Speaker 1: Louise wanted six hundred pounds for the shoot. It was

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Speaker 1: a lot of money for an out of work single mum,

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Speaker 1: but Hera wanted to get noticed by Playboy. That's how

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Speaker 1: she justified the cost of the shoot and the cost

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Speaker 5: Oh gosh.

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Speaker 4: She included the boathowk's lips and then obviously there's the clothes,

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Speaker 4: about six to seven hundred pounds.

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Speaker 1: Harra says she told Louise that she wanted to do

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Speaker 1: the shoot, she says, Louise pushed her levels.

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Speaker 4: It escalated really really quickly. Within about ten minutes. I

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Speaker 4: had everything off with my legs open, which is not

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Speaker 1: And how did that happen? What kind of things was

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Speaker 4: Basically telling me that I was too shy and that

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Speaker 4: everyone else does it, so why aren't you doing it?

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Speaker 4: You know, if you want to be in Playboy, this

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Speaker 1: That was bad enough, but her nightmare with Luise continued.

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Speaker 1: After the shoot. Louisa sent Harra some edited photos from

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Speaker 1: their shoot that he plans on submitting some magazines like Playboy,

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Speaker 1: and that hera camposed on social media, but she can't

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Speaker 2: Hello, I can't access the images.

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Speaker 6: Okay, you're gonna make me work twice.

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Speaker 1: It seems like Louise spots an opportunity.

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Speaker 6: I want you in the top so let's just start maybe.

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Speaker 1: This starts a text message exchange between HERA and Luise.

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Speaker 1: Just to warn you, it goes into some pretty explicit territory.

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Speaker 1: Both their messages are read by actors.

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Speaker 6: I want you select your coller.

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Speaker 1: Louise tells Harrah she can choose her cover shots, but

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Speaker 2: I've not received any pictures.

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Speaker 6: And then send me some super naughty I'm hard already. Hello.

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Speaker 4: I just remember being sat there, like up at the

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Speaker 1: To get her photos. Louise wants hera to send him

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Speaker 1: sexually explicit content. Her heart is sinking. She's already paid

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Speaker 1: and she could lose her photos altogether, waste all that money.

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Speaker 1: There are so many other models whose photos Louise could

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Speaker 4: I'm still kind of having to in a way keep

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Speaker 4: But at the same time, I've got something hanging in

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Speaker 4: the balance here, the very thought of actually speaking to

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Speaker 4: him or messaging him make me feel physically sick. At

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Speaker 4: This is kind of how I felt. I felt like

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Speaker 1: Harrah pauses for a second, unsure what to do. She

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Speaker 1: makes it seem like she's going to send Louise what

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Speaker 1: he wants, so she types out a reply, I have a.

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Speaker 2: Very naughty video for you. Have you resent the images?

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Speaker 1: His reply is immediate, I'm doing now. While hera waits,

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Speaker 1: his demands continue. I'm never coming more explicit.

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Speaker 6: I want came looking at you. I want to see

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Speaker 1: Harrah's phone is buzzing in her hand, inches away from

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Speaker 6: You're extremely shy.

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Speaker 1: Shy. It's the same word Luis used to describe her

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Speaker 4: Yeah, like I wasn't good enough and that I was

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Speaker 4: I had to prove that to him, that I'm not shy.

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Speaker 2: Sure me, I've not received any pictures.

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Speaker 1: With her chest tight. Hearrah gives in. She sends Luis

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Speaker 1: a sexy video of her in the shower. Now stay

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Speaker 1: with me, because I understand some of you might lose

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Speaker 1: sympathy for her at this point. If she's willing to

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Speaker 1: traumatic photo shoot with, you might think she's the one

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Speaker 1: choice did hera really have.

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Speaker 4: I was sending him things because he had these images

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Speaker 4: If I just do it, it will speed things up.

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Speaker 4: Just get me my pictures and that will be the

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Speaker 4: end of it.

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Speaker 1: Finally he sends her the pictures.

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Speaker 4: I was like, you look really good, and this is

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Speaker 4: what's going to go in the magazine.

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Speaker 1: We have to hurry up, like right now, she opens

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Speaker 1: the file transfer.

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Speaker 6: I was like, oh my.

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Speaker 4: Gosh, because I hated them, absolutely hated them. My stomach

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Speaker 4: was a really huge thing for me. I felt quite

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Speaker 4: self conscious, and that's something that I wanted a bit

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Speaker 4: of control over.

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Speaker 1: This is her big shot, and Louise wants to submit

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Speaker 1: photos that she hates. She quickly messages him suggesting other options,

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Speaker 1: but less than a minute passes before the next demand.

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Speaker 6: Send me baby, I can't wait any longer, lolle take

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Speaker 6: some from me. Take one photo for me. I'm gonna

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Speaker 6: take care of your cover.

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Speaker 1: Louise continued to send her a graphically sexual messages. There's

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Speaker 1: too many for us to include them all.

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Speaker 6: Yes, super cool. Maybe, by the way, can you send

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Speaker 7: You have enough explicit images of me from the shoe.

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Speaker 4: Oh creep, absolute creep paver, and then we were like,

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Speaker 1: to hear Akiki's recollections of that day. Her testimony is

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Speaker 1: On the day of her appointment with Luis, Kiki made

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Speaker 10: We've drove down from Newcastle for the shoote Lewis was

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Speaker 1: After a while Keiki says Luis's behavior started to change

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Speaker 10: He was like being more inappropriate or baby, I really

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Speaker 10: I just want to touch it. And I was like right,

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Speaker 10: I was traumatized or was shocked and say, what you doing, Louis?

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Speaker 10: Since I'm spoiling you, I'm going to help you get

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Speaker 10: This is never, never the deal, Nothing was ever a

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Speaker 10: He was still trying to kiss us, touching us, trying

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Speaker 10: He went, do you you're really not going to please me, baby,

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Speaker 1: Keiki says she was immensely distressed after the sheet. She

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Speaker 10: Emily messaged about it, and she asked me about it

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Speaker 10: Really not and I'm so sorry.

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Speaker 2: It's happened here.

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Speaker 4: She says, there's plenty of the girls I've been speaking

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Speaker 5: And we'll want to do something about it.

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Speaker 10: I want it to go to the police, and the

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Speaker 5: You'll be the one that's frowned upon. You'll be the

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Speaker 10: You're going to ruin your image, so I'm supposed to

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Speaker 1: Basically, you'll be the one that's frowned upon, so it's

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Speaker 4: I remember a model saying to me, it's all part

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Speaker 4: don't it. If you're going to go to the police

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Speaker 4: That is how people see it.

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Speaker 1: In the FBI, it's mad they hype each other up.

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Speaker 4: I'm here to support all of you girls. Obviously, the

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Speaker 1: But the group is running out of time. Luis is

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Speaker 3: He's asked me to shoot again in November and I've

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Speaker 1: That means more shoots, more vulnerable women. They need to

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Speaker 5: That's why we want to get this done sooner.

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Speaker 4: Imagine those poor girls up there that he's maybe assaulted.

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Speaker 5: Shall we do At.

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Speaker 7: Seven o'clock announcement when everyone's finished work.

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Speaker 1: The models tease the reveal on their accounts. Something big

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Speaker 3: And then we tag each other's profiles all of our stories. Look,

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Speaker 1: At seven pm on the twenty fifth of October twenty twenty,

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Speaker 7: Harah writes, as this guy insists on being credited for

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Speaker 2: However, I'm more.

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Speaker 7: Than happy to put my dignity on the line if

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Speaker 1: She's picked late so that you can't see her intimate areas.

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Speaker 2: A topless only shoot.

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Speaker 4: We posted everything, and it just blew up from there.

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Speaker 5: And more than welcome to share whatever is posted from me.

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Speaker 3: When you like a match and you drop it on

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Speaker 3: something flammable, you don't realize how quickly that is gonna

448
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Speaker 3: catch and just spiral.

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Speaker 5: It got spread around like wildfire.

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Speaker 3: Girls that we had messaged before and they'd said, oh,

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Speaker 3: I don't want to talk about it or I don't

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Speaker 3: want to get involved. They changed their tune a little

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Speaker 3: bit because they saw how many girls were coming forward

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Speaker 3: and they thought, well, do you know what, I'm not

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Speaker 3: the only one.

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Speaker 5: She feels like she's probably wants to come forward.

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Speaker 3: She sent me private messages like a paragraphs upon paragraphs

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Speaker 3: like really bad.

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Speaker 4: Even if they don't want to tell me anything, I

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Speaker 4: just want them to know that if they ever.

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Speaker 2: Did that, we're there for them.

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Speaker 4: There were just so many people like messaging and their

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Speaker 4: experiences were horrific, really bad.

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Speaker 2: I've been aware of what's gone on for a long time.

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Speaker 4: I've worked with a photographer and there are so many

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Speaker 4: girls and the worst thing is about it.

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Speaker 2: He's going to still keep getting away with it unless

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Speaker 2: people report them.

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Speaker 3: I don't think we anticipated how quickly it was going

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Speaker 3: to take off.

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Speaker 5: We were tagging Louise. It was boom tag. You're there.

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Speaker 5: You can't hide. Everybody knows what you're at is. Louise

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Speaker 5: went absolutely mental.

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Speaker 1: Louise texted Emily this is a bit of their text exchange.

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Speaker 6: Wow, thanks a lot. I don't know why you are

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Speaker 6: doing these after all the HILP I gave the help.

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Speaker 5: You're a fucking predator.

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Speaker 6: It is not fair what you're doing and you're not.

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Speaker 7: Are you mad?

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Speaker 3: Honestly, just go away. He didn't apologize for what he'd done.

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Speaker 3: He didn't seem to think that he'd done anything wrong.

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Speaker 3: We're not going to just do this to destroy somebody's career.

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Speaker 3: You've been caught red handed.

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Speaker 1: Only hours after their big Instagram call out, the models

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Speaker 1: realized something big has happened.

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Speaker 5: He's not blocked girls, he's deleted his account.

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Speaker 1: The women had finally got what they wanted. Luise was gone.

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Speaker 1: When the models went public, it felt like a real moment.

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Speaker 1: But then, bubbling up beside the support, they started getting

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Speaker 1: very different messages.

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Speaker 5: You would have men commenting, sending DMS saying you do

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Speaker 5: only fans.

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Speaker 6: You deserve to be treated like this.

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Speaker 4: You bring this on yourself. You sold pictures of yourself

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Speaker 4: for a living, So what do you expect.

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Speaker 6: You've learned your lesson the hard way, so from now on,

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Speaker 6: don't do it.

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Speaker 3: People were saying, you're just doing it for social media

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Speaker 3: clout and for attention, and I feel like we were

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Speaker 3: being blamed. We only had each other and we knew

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Speaker 3: that we were telling the truth. I broke down in

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Speaker 3: tears because it was so hard. When sexual abuse happened.

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Speaker 3: People don't want.

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Speaker 5: To hear it.

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Speaker 3: They're not interested because it's so real. A lot of

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00:28:16,119 --> 00:28:18,680
Speaker 3: people victim blame, and that's a very common thing that happens.

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Speaker 3: I went off the rails for a bit. The easiest

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Speaker 3: thing for me at that time was to use substances

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Speaker 3: just to forget everything.

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Speaker 1: Haro was suffering too.

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Speaker 4: In the evenings, I was drinking gin until I'd fallen asleep.

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Speaker 4: There was a lot of self destructive behaviors that were going.

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Speaker 1: On, and without its leaders, the group fell apart.

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Speaker 3: We all started just dropping the ball on communication and

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Speaker 3: it would end up being like three or four days

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Speaker 3: we wouldn't speak, and then it was a week and

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Speaker 3: then I would write in their or herold write in there.

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Speaker 4: Sorry girls, I've been a little bit absent because and

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00:29:00,440 --> 00:29:02,240
Speaker 4: that great lately, Sorry.

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Speaker 5: Girls, I've literally just read this.

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Speaker 3: You'd get one reply or two replies, or no replies,

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Speaker 3: and it's like I just kind of leave this.

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Speaker 5: Then everybody just sort of went back to doing their

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Speaker 5: own thing.

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Speaker 1: The models had caused a social media storm, but like

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Speaker 1: all storms, it passed, and when the world moved on,

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00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:24,880
Speaker 1: Luis crawled back out of the webwork.

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Speaker 4: I think he just changed the domain name of his website,

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Speaker 4: he started a new Instagram. He just kept popping up everywhere.

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Speaker 1: What the fuck? No, that ainn't even funny, is it.

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Speaker 10: The saddest thing is it's like everybody knows meant Although

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00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:44,720
Speaker 10: because there was so much evidence.

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00:29:45,840 --> 00:29:51,400
Speaker 1: So much evidence, the women were at rock bottom. They'd

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00:29:51,440 --> 00:29:53,440
Speaker 1: put their necks on the line to expose the man

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00:29:53,560 --> 00:29:57,280
Speaker 1: they said was a predator, and nothing had changed. But

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Speaker 1: there was one more option to whom it may concern.

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Speaker 1: I'm sending this email on behalf of myself and quite

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Speaker 1: a few other models about the horrific dealings we've all

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Speaker 1: had with a playboy photographer, Luis gai Mez. This is

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Speaker 1: the email I told you about, the one the models

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Speaker 1: sent to me and twelve international newspapers. As far as

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Speaker 1: I'm aware, I'm the only journalist who responded. By twenty twenty,

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Speaker 1: thanks to the Me Too movement, it felt like the

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Speaker 1: world was finally paying attention to allegations of sexual abuse

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Speaker 1: and harassment. But for these women, their claims were falling

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Speaker 1: on deaf ears. It seemed as though an invisible line

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Speaker 1: had been drawn excluding women in the sex industry. I

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Speaker 1: wanted to help change that.

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Speaker 4: Guys, I've just heard back from Ellie on sitting my parents.

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Speaker 5: This is insane news.

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Speaker 2: I'm absolutely buzzing.

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Speaker 5: No, that's unbelievable news.

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Speaker 2: I'm so buzzed.

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Speaker 5: I cannot wait for this.

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Speaker 1: That was years ago. Louise has never been held accountable,

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00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:11,000
Speaker 1: but that's about to change. I'm going to try and

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00:31:11,040 --> 00:31:13,400
Speaker 1: finish the job. Emily, Herra and the rest of the

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00:31:13,480 --> 00:31:21,720
Speaker 1: model started coming up on the Bunny Trap. We tried

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00:31:21,760 --> 00:31:26,000
Speaker 1: to figure out who and what we're up against. His

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00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:31,000
Speaker 1: associations are vital to his reach, and I just remember thinking,

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Speaker 1: I got to watch this one.

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Speaker 10: This is our opportunity to for the first time speak

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Speaker 10: to someone close with Louise.

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Speaker 8: Why do I start with Lewis?

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, it's way darker and white, deeper than

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Speaker 2: I could they ever imagine.

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Speaker 1: Thanks to the women who shared their stories with us.

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Speaker 1: We contacted Luis Gomez multiple times for comment, but we

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Speaker 1: never heard back. He has not been charged with any

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Speaker 1: crimes and is presumed innocent under the law. We also

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Speaker 1: sought comment from Playboy USA. They declined our request for

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Speaker 1: an interview, but you can hear their statement later in

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Speaker 1: the series. The Bonnie Trap is produced by Novel. For

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Speaker 1: more from Novel, visit novel dot Audio. The show is

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Speaker 1: hosted by me Ellie Flynn. You can find me on

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Speaker 1: social media by searching my name that's eb l i

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Speaker 1: E Fly double n. This season is produced by Eleanor

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Speaker 1: Biggs and written by me Ellie Flynn and Eleana Biggs.

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Speaker 1: Our assistant producer is Amalia Sortland, with additional production from

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Speaker 1: Lee Meyer and Saskia Collette. Additional research by Valeria Rocker.

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Speaker 1: The editors are Georgia Moody and Austin Mitchell, our executive

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Speaker 1: producers and Max O'Brien and Craig Strachan. Our fact checker

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Speaker 1: is Fendall Fulton. Production management from Scherie Houston and Charlotte

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Speaker 1: Sound Design, mixing and scoring by Nicholas Alexander and Daniel Kempson.

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Speaker 1: Music supervision by Nicholas Alexander, Elena Biggs and Max O'Brien,

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Speaker 1: Original music composed and performed by Jake Law, and additional

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Speaker 1: production by Nicholas Alexander, Louisa Gersty and Daniel Kempson. The

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Speaker 1: series artwork was designed by Christina Lienkole Willard Foxton its

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Speaker 1: creative director of Development, Harris. Texts were voiced by Anna Brindle.

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Speaker 1: Various other women were voiced by Boo Miller. Luisco Mers

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Speaker 1: was played by Juan Solari.

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Speaker 5: Novel