Latest related: The Hollywood Heist of Massachusetts
Any surprise they are bringing the perverts out of the woodwork?
"Police warn women of scam; ‘Producer’ makes sexual advances" by Milton J. Valencia, Globe Staff | September 26, 2009
Police say a Massachusetts man has been posing as a movie producer and preying on aspiring actresses and models, offering high-paying roles in exchange for sex and hosting fake auditions for seductive scenes.
How do you know he's posing?
That's the way things are done in Hollywood all the time.
At least three women have told police since January that they had met a man they found on legitimate casting websites, who first introduced himself as a producer and then made sexual advances. Boston Police Lieutenant Detective Charles Wilson said investigators have identified a suspect. No charges have been filed. Wilson is asking that other women who were victimized come forward and speak with police.
“He’s very convincing, and of course it’s all a fraud,’’ Wilson said. “He has them read a script that’s explicit, and then he has them act it out.’’
Meanwhile, the cops are guarding the set of the new Tom Cruise film.
The Globe has learned that the suspect is from Massachusetts, with addresses in Wakefield and Lynnfield, who operates under the banner My 3 Sons Productions. The Globe is withholding the man’s identity because he has not been charged.
I'm sorry, but there is only one reason they would do that.
Well, maybe two.
But the man said in an interview last night that he has done nothing wrong, that he was working on a legitimate movie script, and that the women who complained are simply looking to create “a train wreck’’ of his life....
No assaults occurred, police said. The latest incident occurred within the last week. A woman responding to an Internet advertisement agreed to meet with the man, who was claiming to be a producer, at a hotel near Faneuil Hall for an audition. During the meeting, the man tried to persuade the woman to perform sexual acts on him in return for a guaranteed part in the film. The woman turned down the request.
In August, another woman told police she had an audition with a man posing as a producer at the same hotel. He again made sexual advances, the she said. And in January, a woman met a man she had encountered on the Internet while searching for an acting position at a downtown Boston restaurant. The man was able to persuade her to act out a seductive scene in an elevator.
Related: Love in a elevator
Industry websites describe the scam in more detail....
I don't want to hear it.
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