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In this revealing and serious conversation, Sam Phillips shares her personal experience of exploitation while working with a fashion modeling agency. She speaks about the warning signs she encountered, how manipulation and coercion can occur, and the emotional impact of realizing she had been taken advantage of.

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00:00met one of the owners uh was asked to go pick up a bag of did that and then all of a sudden like i
00:05was let in there all the time dancing like dude it's so crazy then i met the owners of an italian
00:11modeling agency who um uh wanted to make me a model and i never thought i was attractive i was
00:20an ugly duckling you know my mother always said that she didn't want me like i had such a negative
00:25self-image of myself that these people wanted to make me a model i'm like really i was underage
00:30so my mother signed me away to the italians so okay so you were back in contact with your mother
00:36yes well because i was doing well you know i had a job i had somewhere to stay and oh i even remember
00:45that um so with carter stevens and his wife there was a club called oh my god famous in new york
00:54help help help it's the most famous club in new york help i do not know i should google it but
01:06if anybody knows definitely tell us at some point ernie can you google it oh yeah most famous club
01:13in new york like in the 80s back in the 80s so i ended up going there with them and my mother
01:20yes dude so i was off in a room i think probably smoking a joint and drinking and there was like a
01:28like uh what's that thing called a petri dish of semen uh a uh
01:34petri dish of semen yeah it was like a jacuzzi thing like but
01:38it was massive it was massive just people doing who knows what in it i literally thought it was
01:45like a bowl of cum i was like okay no it was a fucking it was like a pool of cum it was just
01:50crazy did you find it yes oh my god plato's retreat yes yes i actually went to play ernie you win a
02:00surprise with my mother that is creepy as fuck okay yeah so um so at some point she signed me away
02:08to the italians they sent me to a farm in maryland how old are you now i don't know 15 okay still yeah
02:15okay 14 15 this was like in those a lot happened to me in those fucking two years yeah um went to
02:22maryland they had a model farm where they would find undiscovered undiscovered new models um and
02:29then they would send you to this farm in maryland which was like going home since i was born in
02:35maryland and they would have i think they had like four photographers four makeup artists and four
02:41models and so everybody would switch every day you would do this makeup artist this photographer and
02:46they would build your portfolio with the aim that they then send you to milan to their agency which
02:51is a very famous agency the biggest agency in milan at the time for modeling um and then they
02:58send you there and you sign a contract and basically they oh my god what was it i think that they were
03:04supposed to get like 40 of everything i made for the rest of my life it was like some kind yeah it was
03:09some kind of crazy ass thing and my mother signed me away because i was under age and i had to leave
03:14the country and go to milan so um it was basically for me it was a scam uh other women i don't know if
03:24they were really sent to model but i was sent to be sex trafficked and i was uh i got to milan um i was
03:33put in like whenever you're a model and you travel to europe your agency usually covers your apartment
03:39and you pay it back through your work and you know they set you up and because you're in a foreign
03:44country you don't know what the you're doing and then they you know bill you back through your jobs
03:48so they had a pension ready for me i had like one or two other models in it whatever um when i got
03:55there there were two playboys sitting at my dining room table hello we're here to welcome you yeah no
04:00they had keys to the fucking apartment dude and it was basically you know and one of the girls was
04:08fucking one and you know i i don't know so you were expected to have sex with these guys no nobody
04:14tried to have sex with me with those guys we were taken to parties and stuff like that and
04:20specifically um i don't really remember much it's so fucking long ago but i do remember waking up
04:28tied to a bed with the editor of a massive magazine's cock in my mouth
04:33and he and and and i fucking flipped out he let me go i don't i think he drove me back to my
04:42pensione i flipped out was like were you had you been drinking did he roofie okay all right of course
04:49okay yeah okay yeah um yeah it's not like i passed out and woke up in his bed i he was gonna he was
04:56driving me home from some party that everybody was at and we had to stop by his house first
05:00right and then he was like hey do you want to try and then all of a sudden i just woke up and i was
05:06like tied up so he let me go he took me back i literally like frantically went into this modeling
05:13agency office screaming i was raped blah blah blah blah blah blah by the time i got in there that guy
05:21was in the office with the owner they were chatting and then later that night i was literally taken from
05:27my bed put on a plane back to new york city wow mm-hmm then i was stuck you know i don't i was put into
05:37a hotel that other models lived in including models that were with their agency and it's called the
05:43tudor hotel and the guy that owned it was in cahoots with those other milan guys so i lived there for a
05:51couple of months um nothing weird happened uh i just were you still doing like modeling gigs no i had
05:59no modeling gigs like i never did a modeling gig dude but i had this portfolio so one day and
06:06wilhelmina models was literally down the street from this hotel and one day i just walked myself
06:10into wilhelmina models for an open call with my portfolio and literally they scooped me up
06:17they sent me right back to europe um and then this agency the italian agency got word that i was in
06:25paris oh and i was slaying it i had covers i had magazines i was on billboards i was doing this
06:30and they reared their heads and they contacted wilhelmina and they're like yeah you know she's under a
06:35contract a lifelong contract with us and you guys actually owe us 40 percent of her back money
06:40and she and they're like really well you um sex trafficked her underage to milan and had her raped
06:48and then sent her back so let's go for it like you want to come after us they protected you oh yeah
06:54they're like you want to come after her we'll go after you and they disappeared i never heard from
06:58those motherfuckers again part of my modeling thing was i would never step foot in milan
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