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Sex Trafficking

Crime

I Called Everyone in Jeffrey Epstein’s Little Black Book

What I learned about rich people, conspiracy, “genius,” Ghislaine, stand-up comedy, and evil from 2,000 phone calls.

Leland Nally Mother Jones Oct 2020 40min Permalink

Best Article Crime

Tinder, Sailor, Hooker, Pimp

A prostitution and sex trafficking ring operated on the outskirts of a U.S. Navy base in Bahrain and may have involved 15% of the sailors stationed there.

Geoff Ziezulewicz Military Times Jun 2020 30min Permalink

Crime

Stolen and Erased

A Navajo girl was exploited and sex trafficked in urban and rural New Mexico. Why did so many fail to help her?

Nick Pachelli Searchlight New Mexico Dec 2019 20min Permalink

Crime Sports

"You Won't Believe What Happened"

The untold story of Patriots owner Robert Kraft’s two visits to the Orchids of Asia Day Spa.

May Jeong Vanity Fair Oct 2019 30min Permalink

Crime

Perversion of Justice

A decade before #MeToo, a multimillionaire sex offender from Florida got the ultimate break.

  1. A Sex Pyramid Scheme

  2. Undermining the Case

  3. Another Kind of Justice

Julie K. Brown Miami Herald Nov 2018 Permalink

World

The Desperate Journey of a Trafficked Girl

Every year, thousands of teenagers from one city in Nigeria risk death and endure forced labor and sex work on the long route to Europe.

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Ben Taub New Yorker Apr 2017 45min Permalink

Business Crime Media

Digital Pimps or Fearless Publishers?

Inside the fall of Village Voice Media’s backpage.com.

Kate Knibbs The Ringer Nov 2016 25min Permalink

Sex World

Out of Sight

A former prostitute turned arctivist and her taxi-driver husband go undercover in Iraq’s brothels.

Rania Abouzeid New Yorker Oct 2015 20min Permalink

Crime Sex

The Lost Girls

Inside the world of underground sex trafficking in Houston.

Mimi Swartz Texas Monthly Apr 2010 35min Permalink

Sex World

The Holy Saint (and Sinner) of Sex Trafficking

Somaly Mam’s harrowing story of her own flight from sexual servitude and the stories of hundreds of girls she rescued from Cambodian brothels brought her fame and helped raise millions for her non-profit. Does it matter if none or few of the stories are true?

Simon Marks Newsweek May 2014 Permalink

Crime Sex

The Girls Next Door

An investigation of the American sex trafficking industry.

Amy Fine Collins Vanity Fair May 2011 45min Permalink