The oldest profession in the world-prostitution seems to one of the well-paid jobs in the world too—-depending on who your clients are…At the prestigious annual Cannes film festival, it is being reported that certain prostitutes who high profile clients who work on million-dollar yachts earn 40 thousands of dollars a night.
According to Lebanese businessman, Elie Nahas, who was arrested in 2007 for running a Cannes prostitution ring that supplied more than 50 women ‘of various nationalities’ to rich Middle Eastern men during the festival, the money call girls make is bigger than most people realize.
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From full-time escorts to models, actresses and beauty queens, the call girls servicing wealthy men in Cannes’ luxury hotels, and on million-dollar yachts can earn thousands of dollars a night.
According to Lebanese businessman, Elie Nahas, who was arrested in 2007 for running a Cannes prostitution ring that supplied more than 50 women ‘of various nationalities’ to rich Middle Eastern men during the festival, the money call girls make is bigger than most people realize.
Mr Nahas, 48, who unable to leave Lebanon while his eight-year prison sentence is being appealed, told The Hollywood Reporter: ‘They can make up to $40,000 a night.
‘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,’ he explained. ‘They don’t even like to count it. They’ll just hand it to the girls without thinking.’
Mr Nahas, who owns a Beirut-based modeling agency and used to work as a right-hand man for Moatessem Gadhafi, the son of Muammar Gadhafi, who were both killed in Libya in 2011, denies he was running a prostitution ring.
However, he explained: ‘I know the system.’
The more experienced escorts, he said, target Cannes’ high-end hotels ‘where all the Arabs stay,’ and where, after 10pm, call girls perch in the lobby waiting for prospective clients to check them out.
‘It’s all done with hand signals,’ he explained. ‘The guys signal their room numbers with their hands and the girls follow them.’
But the luxury yachts, which house some of the world’s wealthiest men – many single, some married – is where the serious money is, Mr Nahas said.
‘Every year during the festival there are 30 or 40 luxury yachts in the bay at Cannes, and every boat belongs to a very rich person.
‘Every boat has about 10 girls on it; they are usually models, and they are usually unclad or half unclad. . . The girls are all waiting for their envelopes at the end of the night. It’s been going on there for 60 years.’
But it’s not all luxury yachts and high-end hotels. Local prostitutes, who charge up to $75 an hour work alongside high-priced call girls, which the French call putes de luxes, who charge an average of $4,000 a night.
But no matter what a prostitutes’ status, the Cannes Film Festival is ‘the biggest payday of the year,’ according to one Parisian escort.‘We all look forward to it,’ said Daisey, a local prostitute in Cannes who has her own website. ‘There’s a lot of competition because there are so many girls, but the local ones have an advantage. We know the hotel concierges.’
It is routine to drop cash off with concierges at the town’s top hotels, she said, and in return, concierges will steer clients their way.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, up to 200 escorts are coming and going from big hotels every day during the festival.
Roger Ebert, the American film critic who died last month, famously tweeted in 2010: ‘Hookers stand out in Cannes. They’re the ones who are well-dressed and not smoking.’
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