Yahoo News Fake porn producer jailed after persuading 24 women to sleep with him in film 'auditions'
A man has been jailed for 10 years for impersonating a porn producer and duping 24 women into having sex with him.
Mario Ambrose Antoine told the women they were auditioning for roles in adult films.
His victims were financially vulnerable and he told them they could thousands appearing in porn. None of the women were ever paid.
The 34-year-old from Missouri, in the USA, was sentenced earlier this week.
A Missouri man impersonating a pornography producer has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for conning two dozen women into having sex with him by saying they were rehearsing for roles in adult films.
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A court heard that when the woman complained about not being paid, Antoine blackmailed them by threatening to send compromising photos of them in to their family, friends, boyfriends or even employers.
Antoine told the women that he for big industry names including Playboy.
He contacted the women on Facebook, posing as a woman called ‘Nikki”. He would compliment them and then offer huge sums of money if they went into adult modelling.
Antoine would then lure them to his house posing as a photographer.
‘He told me I had to audition… and do several different sex acts (with him), which I did,’ one victim told a radio station in the US.
The court heard that one victim was told that she would have to pay Antoine $9,000 – or sleep with him – so he would not distribute the porn audition which he had already filmed.
Another women said compromising photos were sent to her employer.
Antoine used to operate a wedding photography business for which he was found guilty of stealing by deceit.
He reportedly sold wedding packages to brides but then never showed up to take their photos.
