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A California movie producer was sentenced to five years in prison Thursday after admitting to running an international prostitution ring in a case in which several women accused him of being abusive and drugging them, according to court records and the Associated Press.Dillon Jordan, a 50-year-old Los Angeles native, originally faced decades in prison for a raft of prostitution, money laundering and conspiracy charges, but he reached a plea deal with federal prosecutors in New York last year.

A file image from 2013 provided by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement shows financier Jeffrey Epstein.AP The government of the U.S. Virgin Islands alleges in a lawsuit filed this week that JPMorgan Chase "turned a blind eye" to evidence that disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein used the bank to facilitate sex-trafficking activities on Little St. James, the private island he owned in the territory until his 2019 suicide.

Everyone knows the shortest alley in San Francisco is Balance Place, and of course Vermont Street is the crookedest.The steepest grade?Bradford Street.But what about that old tale you might've heard from a drunk companion late one night that some San Francisco streets were actually named after Barbary Coast-era prostitutes?

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Georgina Beyer, a trailblazing New Zealand politician who in 1999 became the world's first openly transgender member of Parliament, died Monday at the age of 65.Friends of Beyer said she died peacefully in hospice care.

Clients love to ask sex workers, What's your real name?It's a power move.I know you contain multitudes is what they mean, and I have the right to see.They paid, after all.The clients who asked this question of me were usually the type who had tricked themselves into believing that we had a personal relationship a romantic one, or a sexual one they wouldn't have to pay for had we met under different circumstances.

A Utah parent has challenged the Bible under a state law banning "pornographic or indecent" material in schools.The law has been used to remove books by mostly LGBTQ+ and Black authors from shelves.And it's making the Republican lawmaker who introduced the book ban bill "very sad."

Dickens purists, look away!At the start of FX and the BBC's new six-part Great Expectations, a young man walks to the center of a bridge on the River Thames, pauses to look out over the London vista, then swiftly attaches a rope to the railing and around his neck.For a vertiginous moment, he balances on the parapet, the dark waters swirling below.

Samson and Delilah by Peter Paul Rubens A Utah parent has filed a request to ban God's most popular blog, the Bible, from schools, citing and ridiculing a law passed last year that removed dozens of books from schools and libraries last year.Get this PORN out of our schools!they wrote in their request for the removal of the book.

People walk through Amsterdam's red-light district shortly after it reopened in 2020, during the pandemic.The neighborhood attracts millions of tourists each year.Dean Mouhtaropoulos/Getty Images The city of Amsterdam is banning the smoking of marijuana outdoors in its red-light district.The ban is part of a host of changes to appease those who live in the popular neighborhood, which attracts millions of tourists each year.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails The number of sexual offences committed in Scotland rose by 10% between 2018 and 2022, new figures show, but the total number of crimes fell.Statistics released by the Scottish Government on Tuesday show 287,678 crimes were recorded by police in the year to last December, a drop of 2% from the previous year and 4% from 2018.

MELBOURNE, Australia Georgina Beyer, a New Zealand politician who charted a daunting course as the person widely believed to be the world's first openly transgender member of Parliament, died on Monday in a hospice in Wellington, the New Zealand capital.She was 65.Her friends Scott Kennedy and Malcolm Vaughan confirmed her death in a statement but did not specify a cause.

A "highly dangerous and devious" rapist and pimp who targeted women through online employment websites has been jailed.But police have revealed their initial investigation into Nuruzzaman Shahin was dropped owing to insufficient evidence.They are now appealing for others who may have been exploited by him to come forward.

A Camden man who groomed women through an employment website before raping them has been jailed for 31 years.Nuruzzaman Shahin was previously found guilty of eight counts of rape, four counts of assault by penetration, three counts of sexual assault on a female and seven counts of controlling prostitution for gain.

Young people are being trafficked across the Channel to the UK and then into cannabis farms or into prostitution, Labour has suggested.Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said there is a pattern of young asylum-seekers being trafficked to the UK before criminals, likely to be from the same gangs that brought them to the UK, pick them up from outside Home Office hotels.

Jose Huizar (Getty) Former L.A. city councilman Jose Huizar has agreed to plead guilty in a widespread bribery case that rattled city government and embroiled a number of real estate developers.Huizar admitted to extorting at least $1.5 million in bribes in the form of cash, hotel stays, gambling chips and favorable loans from developers and evading taxes over the course of seven years, according to a plea agreement filed with the U.S. District Court on Thursday.

U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-New York) last week introduced a bill that would vacate and expunge non-violent criminal convictions for crimes committed by human trafficking survivors while they were in captivity.Gillibrand introduced the bill  dubbed the Trafficking Survivors Relief Act  along with her Republican colleague U.S. Senator Robert Portman (R-Ohio), according to a release shared first with amNewYork Metro.