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the money stories behind famous people. big wins, bad calls and zero shame

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@punpunism bot said no to “one more pls” and that’s the whole edge

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@0x_Renjii $7M of his own money on an idea his whole team called the worst one ever, and the bet paid back like 20x. he’d lived the job, so he knew the story better than any studio did. owning the risk is the move, nobody else was going to fund it

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@adelltells you can’t spend paper, he cashed out before the crash

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@darkcrypto_off courtroom, easily. the stands were just a scrum, nobody had clean possession. the real loss was a lawyer billing $473k on a ball that sold for $450k, so popov’s half didn’t even cover the fees lol

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In 2022, Blake Blossom slept with 200 guys she met on Tinder, and then FaceTimed her mom right in the middle of filming her very first porn scene.

Tinder in college is just a numbers game. Swipe right, meet at In-N-Out, go back to the dorm.

Blake Blossom won the game.

“I was the ASU Tinder slut.”
“I was just a closeted Tinder hoe cuz I love Tinder.”

She didn’t hide it.

When she told her family she was doing porn, they didn’t even blink.
“Oh, we could have seen that coming.”

The cameras started rolling.

Her first scene was with Jake Adams.
He went hard. Really hard.
“He fucked the shit out of me.”

But she had a plan to make the scene pop off.
She called her mom on FaceTime right before the action started.
“Hey mom, we’re about to start.”

The camera was rolling. He was holding the Hitachi.

“Was her mom freaked out?”
“No.”

“Most girls would never do that.”
“I got lucky.”

She turned her first day into a viral moment just because she wanted her brand to stand out.

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Mia Khalifa became the most searched woman on Pornhub after just 3 months of work. She says she was paid around $12,000 for all of it and never saw another cent.

It started in Miami in October 2014. She was 21 and thought it would stay her little secret. The first video came out, and within a week everyone she knew had seen it.

She shot 11 videos in total. One of them had her wearing a hijab. She says she told the director it was going to get her killed, but at 21 she did not know she was allowed to say no.

That video made her famous across the whole world. By the end of December she was number one on Pornhub. ISIS sent her a photoshopped image of her own beheading, and her family publicly cut ties with her.

She quit in early 2015 and went to work as a paralegal and bookkeeper. She later said that just finding a normal job after porn was scary.

But the videos never stopped working. In 2018, three years after she left, she was still the second most searched name on the site. The money from those views went to the studio and the platforms, because she had no residuals.

That is about $1,090 per video, for a name that sites kept selling for years after she walked away.

In 2020 a petition to remove her videos and give back the website domains with her name got over 1 million signatures. She said she still could not go to the grocery store alone. The studio disputed parts of her story and said it never set out to exploit her background.

In the video below, the BBC host tells her those images can never be erased, and she answers that this is not only her story, because other performers write to her with the same thing.

Should one signature at 21 follow a person for the rest of her life?

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@lorneseth everything’s tied together, leaving costs too much

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@wandermist exception. she won by leaving the system

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@devb332 tbh this one’s about leverage, not the scene. she had no name and no backend, so the studio made $350M and she got $500k. the real power move was the SAG option, and she chose to let it stay

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Porn star Stormy Daniels was paid $130,000 to stay quiet about Donald Trump. That payment led to the first criminal conviction of a US president, and she still ended up owing Trump more than $600,000.

She says it started in 2006 at a celebrity golf tournament, where she met Trump and they had sex once. Trump has always denied it.

In 2011 she tried to sell the story to a magazine. She says that soon after, a stranger walked up to her in a Las Vegas parking lot, looked at her baby daughter and said it would be a shame if something happened to her mom.

In October 2016, weeks before the election, Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen paid her $130,000 to sign a non-disclosure agreement. Two years later Cohen pleaded guilty and said he did it at Trump's direction.

Then she found her own lawyer, Michael Avenatti. He became a TV star off her case, and in 2018 he sued Trump for defamation in her name. She later said he filed it without her permission.

The suit was thrown out. Trump called her "Horseface" on Twitter. And the court ordered her to pay his legal fees: nearly $300,000, then another $122,000. Trump's lawyers say the total is over $600,000. She said she would go to jail before paying a penny.

Meanwhile Avenatti was stealing from her. He took about $300,000 of the $800,000 advance for her book about Trump. A jury convicted him in 2022, and he is now serving 14 years in total for robbing clients and tax fraud.

In May 2024 a New York jury found Trump guilty on all 34 counts of falsifying business records to hide the $130,000. In January 2025 he was sentenced to no jail and no fine, ten days before returning to the White House. He still denies everything and is fighting to have the conviction thrown out.

So she got $130,000. Her lawyer stole $300,000. She was ordered to pay Trump $600,000.

In the video below, Stormy explains how the lawyer who made himself famous off her case was quietly taking her money, and what it was like to testify against him.

Who actually came out of this richer?

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Lana Rhoades was the most searched woman on Pornhub in the world, after only 8 months of filming. She walked away saying the industry used her and barely paid her, then sold her own fans $1.8 million worth of cartoon pictures of herself.

She shot her first scene in 2016 at 19. She later told Playboy that her first agent was aggressive and controlling. She filmed in two short stretches of about four months each.

That was enough. By 2019 her videos had 345 million views and she had pushed Mia Khalifa out of the number one spot on the site.

Then she quit. She said she had been left traumatised, that the money was nowhere near what people imagined, and later that porn should be made illegal. She moved to Instagram, where she had 16.8 million followers, and to OnlyFans, where she says she makes hundreds of thousands of dollars a month.

In November 2021 she announced CryptoSis, 6,069 NFT cartoon pictures of herself. She told fans it would be a lucrative investment and that her main focus was to raise its value.

In January 2022 it sold out for about $1.8 million. A few weeks later, 509 ETH, worth around $1.5 million, was moved out of the project wallet. Lana stepped away, saying the comments in the project chat had become too negative.

The pictures fans had bought for around $1,500 fell to about $15.

When the crypto investigator Coffeezilla exposed it, she called YouTubers sickos who will say anything for views, deleted her Twitter and said she wanted nothing to do with NFTs anymore. The money was never returned.

The woman who said an industry took advantage of her at 19 ended up on the other side of the same deal.

In the video below, Lana talks about how she got into the industry and how little control she really had once she was in.

Victim, villain, or just someone who learned the business too well?

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@frankonomicss the lawsuit says she changed the alarm codes and hired armed guards, her side says he had bad hygiene. who was actually in the house at that point, and which version did the court actually believe?

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@getmoat Paul told him “get into publishing” and Michael heard “get into Paul’s publishing.” the most expensive listening comprehension in music lol

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@kaivo_ai $1 and a verdict. she won the case and also showed how rare it is to be able to afford to

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@Stirkel she was making the money and getting $2,000 a month less than the man managing her. that’s the whole case in one line

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Lana Rhoades was the most searched woman on Pornhub in the world, after only 8 months of filming. She walked away saying the industry used her and barely paid her, then sold her own fans $1.8 million worth of cartoon pictures of herself.

She shot her first scene in 2016 at 19. She later told Playboy that her first agent was aggressive and controlling. She filmed in two short stretches of about four months each.

That was enough. By 2019 her videos had 345 million views and she had pushed Mia Khalifa out of the number one spot on the site.

Then she quit. She said she had been left traumatised, that the money was nowhere near what people imagined, and later that porn should be made illegal. She moved to Instagram, where she had 16.8 million followers, and to OnlyFans, where she says she makes hundreds of thousands of dollars a month.

In November 2021 she announced CryptoSis, 6,069 NFT cartoon pictures of herself. She told fans it would be a lucrative investment and that her main focus was to raise its value.

In January 2022 it sold out for about $1.8 million. A few weeks later, 509 ETH, worth around $1.5 million, was moved out of the project wallet. Lana stepped away, saying the comments in the project chat had become too negative.

The pictures fans had bought for around $1,500 fell to about $15.

When the crypto investigator Coffeezilla exposed it, she called YouTubers sickos who will say anything for views, deleted her Twitter and said she wanted nothing to do with NFTs anymore. The money was never returned.

The woman who said an industry took advantage of her at 19 ended up on the other side of the same deal.

In the video below, Lana talks about how she got into the industry and how little control she really had once she was in.

Victim, villain, or just someone who learned the business too well?

[mugen @mugenfm]

Mia Khalifa became the most searched woman on Pornhub after just 3 months of work. She says she was paid around $12,000 for all of it and never saw another cent.

It started in Miami in October 2014. She was 21 and thought it would stay her little secret. The first video came out, and within a week everyone she knew had seen it.

She shot 11 videos in total. One of them had her wearing a hijab. She says she told the director it was going to get her killed, but at 21 she did not know she was allowed to say no.

That video made her famous across the whole world. By the end of December she was number one on Pornhub. ISIS sent her a photoshopped image of her own beheading, and her family publicly cut ties with her.

She quit in early 2015 and went to work as a paralegal and bookkeeper. She later said that just finding a normal job after porn was scary.

But the videos never stopped working. In 2018, three years after she left, she was still the second most searched name on the site. The money from those views went to the studio and the platforms, because she had no residuals.

That is about $1,090 per video, for a name that sites kept selling for years after she walked away.

In 2020 a petition to remove her videos and give back the website domains with her name got over 1 million signatures. She said she still could not go to the grocery store alone. The studio disputed parts of her story and said it never set out to exploit her background.

In the video below, the BBC host tells her those images can never be erased, and she answers that this is not only her story, because other performers write to her with the same thing.

Should one signature at 21 follow a person for the rest of her life?

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@angel404l HYPE saying “but the hat” and RISK just saying “veto” again is the best exchange of the week. the group chat format makes the filtering readable, you can actually see why each coin died

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@money_harbor the contract was a negotiation, “difficult” was a sentence. only one of them lasted 27 years

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@0xPoPsik if access got cheap and wealth now buys status, what’s the next thing that gets cheap. my guess is expertise, because everyone with a laptop has a tutor now

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@zerodoubts0 29 years keeping the music alive, and the fight is over who signs the checks

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Mia Khalifa became the most searched woman on Pornhub after just 3 months of work. She says she was paid around $12,000 for all of it and never saw another cent.

It started in Miami in October 2014. She was 21 and thought it would stay her little secret. The first video came out, and within a week everyone she knew had seen it.

She shot 11 videos in total. One of them had her wearing a hijab. She says she told the director it was going to get her killed, but at 21 she did not know she was allowed to say no.

That video made her famous across the whole world. By the end of December she was number one on Pornhub. ISIS sent her a photoshopped image of her own beheading, and her family publicly cut ties with her.

She quit in early 2015 and went to work as a paralegal and bookkeeper. She later said that just finding a normal job after porn was scary.

But the videos never stopped working. In 2018, three years after she left, she was still the second most searched name on the site. The money from those views went to the studio and the platforms, because she had no residuals.

That is about $1,090 per video, for a name that sites kept selling for years after she walked away.

In 2020 a petition to remove her videos and give back the website domains with her name got over 1 million signatures. She said she still could not go to the grocery store alone. The studio disputed parts of her story and said it never set out to exploit her background.

In the video below, the BBC host tells her those images can never be erased, and she answers that this is not only her story, because other performers write to her with the same thing.

Should one signature at 21 follow a person for the rest of her life?

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@punpunism the bot does the work, you just tap. most disciplined trader in the lecture hall lol