A Guy Did A Real-Life Version Of Casting Couch Porn And, Spoiler Alert, It Gets Much More Prison-y In Real Life
Daily Beast – Before the world’s worst wedding photographer allegedly entrapped women in a sex-for-money scam, feds say he Googled “rape by deception,” “rape by deception kansas,” and “illegal to trick girls into sleeping with you.”
Mario Antoine, 33, was Kansas City’s most-loathed wedding photographer. He’d been jailed on nine counts of ruining weddings by accepting advance payments for his photography services, then failing to show up to the ceremony. But his worst alleged crimes occurred in front of the camera.
A new 21-count indictment accuses Antoine of luring young women into fake pornography shoots, having sex with them under false pretenses, then sending the women’s explicit photos to their family and employers when they started asking questions.
The woman agreed to perform sexual acts with Antoine on camera as an “audition” for future gigs. She would be paid for the work, he reassured her, allegedly using the alias “Chris Campbell” to send a modeling contract that promised a “base compensation” of $2,000 and an additional $12,000 once the future photo shoot was completed. “Campbell” also sent the woman a “Confidentiality Agreement” between her and “Playboy Asia.”
“Playboy Asia” does not exist. Neither did the money.
There are more details at The Daily Beast’s breakdown of the situation but overall it’s definitely not surprising to learn that the approach popularized by so many of my favorite porn sites doesn’t work quite as well in real life. I hate to break the fourth wall like this but at least now we know there’s more keeping us from running a fruitful casting couch operation than a pleather couch and a good eye for women with low self-esteem and bills to pay.
Now I’m no pornography law expert but really this guy’s big problem is he was lying to the chicks AND not paying them. If he had given them the money they were promised, he probably could have done this forever and not gotten on anyone’s radar. I sincerely doubt most of these broke Kansas chicks were dying to get into porn for real, just make some quick cash. If they got the cash, it doesn’t matter if they’re “Playboy Asia porn stars,” they’re probably content enough that he lived up to his half of the deal and he’s an average Joe paying women for sex instead of a sexual assaulting, wire-frauding extorter. Only write checks both your dick AND bank account can cash. Now we know that.