IN the world of celebrities, demands know no bounds, but some employees will do truly anything to please their famous clients – even scouting beautiful women for them to sleep with.
Now, insiders have revealed how the shadowy world of A-list ‘sex fixers’ really works – ‘vetting’ desperate fans over social media, turfing them out of VIP sections over their weight and, in the darkest of cases, leaving them at the mercy of sickening predators.
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Since the ‘Golden Age‘ of Hollywood, LA has been filled with these ruthless operators, whose brief is not just to find glamorous girls for their clients, but to keep them quiet too.
But the modern-day fixer is a very different beast, often preying on impressionable women on trendy party apps, before cherry-picking their chosen few on sight.
Only the girls who have been personally vetted make it behind the velvet rope – where a world of free booze, VIP events and celebrity schmoozing awaits them.
Shockingly, for every innocent interaction, there are tales of abuse and exploitation – with an LA insider telling The Sun how young women are often quite literally kicked to the curb after being pressured to attend cocaine-fuelled parties in Beverly Hills.
One former fixer for famous musicians explains how he was under pressure to scout fans in the crowd for his employers to invite backstage, while high-profile celebrities have also spoken of being offered tens of thousands of pounds to accept indecent proposals.
Such experiences are par for the course in showbiz – from Hollywood to London, with even Love Island stars revealing how they have turned down propositions for up to £100,000 that amount to “high-end prostitution”.
Speaking exclusively to The Sun, our LA insider explains: “Young women in Los Angeles want to party for free, but it’s a very expensive place to go out.
“They may think it’s a great idea to go with promoters, but it can also be a seedy world where they are expected to flirt and maybe even pressured into more once they get access to VIP sections and are invited to after parties.”
In a world where social capital is everything, star-struck girls are primed for the taking – and we’re told these fixers are excellent in sourcing those who are willing bait.
This entails poring through Instagram and TikTok, or using the party planning app Partiful – which allows users to set up events and send out invitations – to find the most eager participants.
Those girls may then be so flattered by these exclusive invitations that they put themselves in compromising situations, and only realise too late.
Our source tells us: “Hollywood works on a secret system of promoters who find beautiful girls for clubs, mansion bashes, yacht parties, you name it.
“A lot of girls here are not from the city, so they can be naïve as to how it operates, and will not order or pour their own drinks.
“Promoters are constantly on Instagram looking for the best looking girls, and they will slide into their DMs on social media and invite them to clubs or parties.
“They also use Partiful to get them to RSVP and bring their attractive friends, some of those may be vetted either on the app or at the door.
“Once they are at the clubs, the most attractive girls will be brought on to VIP tables for rich and famous guests, and those people have spent thousands on bottle service.
“If a girl is over a UK size 10, they have been known to be removed from tables, or if guests don’t find them attractive enough. The women will be handed drinks poured by bottle girls or the guys, often watered-down vodka and juice.
“It’s never explicitly said, but they are then expected to entertain the guys and often end up at a mansion party after the club.”
Old-school tricks
Hollywood sex fixers are nothing new – in fact, they date back to the so-called Golden Age of Tinseltown from the late 1920s to the mid 1960s.
Wheeler-dealer Scotty Bowers revealed in his 2012 memoir, called Full Service: My Adventures In Hollywood And The Secret Sex Lives Of The Stars, how he’d acted as the “go-to guy” for the stars’ most illicit encounters.
According to him, he acted in the shadows, and often organised same-sex encounters for actors who were still in the closet. He finally decided to reveal his past at the age of 89, after most of his former clients had died.
I was setting up an average of 15-20 tricks a day
Hollywood sex fixer Scotty Bowers
Those allegedly included Cary Grant, Spencer Tracy, Charles Laughton, Cole Porter, George Cukor and Katherine Hepburn, who apparently employed Scotty’s services with over 100 women.
He explained in his book: “I was setting up an average of 15–20 tricks a day. This was a 24/7 operation, extending over a period of, say, 30 to 40 years.”
Before the #MeToo movement, Hollywood was still a Wild West for exploitation. Harvey Weinstein was notoriously the most prolific user of this specific type of fixer, long before he was arrested in 2018, and later convicted of sexual assault.
During his trial, it was claimed he’d employed a network of assistants, PR firms and even ex-Mossad agents both to procure and later silence his illicit encounters with women.
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According to his former assistant Zelda Perkins, who testified in court, she had to escort actresses to Weinstein’s hotel room, where he then often took advantage of his power and influence.
Others have said they scheduled meetings, booked hotel rooms and even set up fake auditions to help him commit his abuse.
The list goes on: P Diddy, who is awaiting sentencing for two counts of transporting individuals to engage in prostitution – used staff and handlers to arrange drug-fuelled sex parties termed “freak-offs”.
He allegedly used hotel staff, assistants and security both to procure women for the events, as well as cover them up.
Meanwhile, disgraced singer R Kelly is said to have used runners, assistants and managers to lure young girls to his studio and home. He was found guilty of sex trafficking and racketeering in 2021, and is currently serving a long-term sentence in prison.
‘On the clock’
As for the girls selected, many are young and impressionable, and don’t know what they’re getting themselves into. They might idolise the celebrity in question, or hope to gain followers or work opportunities if they rub shoulders with the right people.
One of those targeted girls – who later crossed the divide and became an A-lister herself – is actress Emily Ratajkowski.
In her 2021 memoir My Body, she wrote how – as a 19-year-old model living in LA – she often found herself the target of Hollywood fixers.
She was regularly invited to A-list restaurants by a club promoter, whose only job was to ensure he delivered attractive women to VIP events.
Once, she said, she was taken on an all-expenses paid trip to Coachella alongside 14 other young models.
She remembers: “A tall model with thick black hair and a nasally voice came and sat next to me. ‘So you know the big bald one is, like, a prince, right?…His mom is super-famous obviously. But yeah, I’ve heard him and his fiancee like to have threesomes. So they’re, like, always looking for those.’”
Another time, Emily writes, she was paid $25,000 at the start of her career to go to the SuperBowl with disgraced Malaysian financier Jho Low, who “just liked to have famous men and women around”.
Hollywood works on a system of promoters who find beautiful girls for clubs
LA insider
She later told The Sunday Times she’d been “on the clock” for the day, and wasn’t sure why she was there or who she had to ask for permission to leave.
Emily may have been paid highly for her presence, but some girls are often easier – and cheaper – to procure for the evening.
Our LA insider tells us that fixers capitalise on many would-be influencers’ desires to get into the VIP area or get back to a celebrity’s house, viewing it as a chance to forge fruitful connections for the future.
“Even if the men aren’t famous, the girls can be persuaded to go back to a house thinking someone famous will be there, and that they’ll get the chance to meet them,” we’re told.
“The women go along with it because it’s an opportunity for them to try and take photographs of a mansion which is attractive for influencers trying to promote themselves and get brand deals.
“But if they do make it to a more intimate mansion party, they will often have their phone taken for privacy or put in a locked bag so they can’t take photographs that will end up on TMZ.
“It’s not safe and they rarely know any of the people there, or who owns the house.
There are countless tales of girls being taken advantage of after going to after parties
LA insider
“There’s usually cocaine and other drugs at these bashes, and girls have to watch themselves and stick together.
“Many of the parties are in the Hollywood Hills, where it’s hard to get an Uber back down, and there can be little phone service.”
Our insider adds that it’s a gamble that doesn’t always pay off, explaining: “They may end up having the best time, taking photos for Instagram clout and not doing anything they don’t want to do.
“But there are countless tales of girls being taken advantage of after going to after parties – often via VIP sections at clubs.”
‘High-end prostitution’
With fixers working online across the world, it’s not just a problem for Hollywood either.
In the UK, former Love Island stars have revealed how they were approached by “scary” agents inviting them to glamorous locations like Dubai to party with rich men making “disgraceful” demands.
Tyne-Lexy Clarson, 28, from series three of the show, told the BBC: “It’s high-end prostitution – it’s just scary to think if they’ve messaged me, they’ve probably sent it to thousands of pretty girls on Instagram.”
The influencer said she was 19 when she was first propositioned online – with a man offering to pay her £20,000 for dinner and drinks.
After starring on Love Island in 2017, she received an email offering her £50,000 to stay in Dubai for five nights.
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In the email, there was a non-disclosure agreement for her to sign, which stated that the details of what she would be required to do while there would remain confidential.
She added that, while she declined the offer, other impressionable girls might not be able to, saying: “It’s a lot of money for some people, it’s life-changing amounts of money.”
Her agent Sue Sheridan added: “I personally have seen these disgraceful messages sent to my clients however not all reality stars have representation they can go to.”
Likewise, fellow Love Island contestant Rosie Williams previously said she’d been offered £100,000 a year, plus money for all her clothes and bags, to become a companion to a man in Dubai.
This came from a man online, telling her of an “important transaction”.
She said: “”You’re warned about trolling, you’re warned that your life will change dramatically, but you’re never warned that you could get bought by men.”
Scouting for girls
Meanwhile, according to one former roadie who toured with rock bands, it’s not just official fixers that are expected to do the dirty work – people working on tour are also enlisted.
He says that he and other crew members were often given all-access passes, and told to hand them out to women in the crowd.
“We had to choose girls we’d class as a nine or a ten,” he tells us. “But if we were struggling, we could sometimes give the passes out to an eight.”
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Over the years, many well-established artists have been accused of employing their staff to do this kind of dirty work.
Now, despite the progress made since Hollywood’s Golden Age was at the height of its power, it seems that the role of the celebrity “sex fixer” is still an integral part of many a celebrity’s entourage.
And though some men have been held to account, there’s still a long way to go.
