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[Music] in 1987 london-based the lawyer and the part-time DJ Phil green cemented a new
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career endeavor by founding his own modeling agency aptly titled supermodel agency
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by 2017 phil was entering his 30th year in the industry and super model agency was a major success representing a large
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catalog of glamour models promo girls and Instagram influences many were featured in erotic calendars and immense
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magazines like FHM Maxim loaded nuts and to zoo weekly with the elite appearing in the more illustrious Playboy several
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learned a level of popularity is page three girls a British tabloid tradition where female glamour models were
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featured topless on the aforementioned page of the Sun Daily Mirror and daily star newspapers Phil primarily ran his
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business online meeting with aspiring models at private residences to assess if they were suitable to join his books
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his email inbox was consistently filled with requests from clients from across the world who required models for a
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variety of purposes including photoshoots commercials corporate events and parties no request was off-limits as
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Phil sent his personnel to a range of jobs from fetish shoots and jelly wrestling competitions to trade shows
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and motor races models with a significant following on social media would occasionally be selected to
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audition for a role on television as a gameshow hostess or to compete in a reality series like a love island tour
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Celebrity Big Brother Phil Green took every opportunity to network with the rich and famous arranging parties at
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London's trendy nightclubs where he would spend the evening in the VIP area surrounded by a bevy of attractive women
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half his age if one of his models hooked up with a celebrity or sports star Phil
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would put them in touch with tabloid in newspaper journalists and earn a cut of the profit for the scoop
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he also pocketed 20% of the sales from photos depicting his models in compromising situations such as
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accidental flashes of public nudity most of which were staged on the morning of Wednesday July 12 2017 Phil sat down at
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his computer to check his work emails his inbox contained the usual array of offers from clients seeking models but
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there was one email that stood out from all the others it was sent from an organization titled the Black Death
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group and began we've got Chloe ailing [Music] [Music] chloë ailing never intended to be in the
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limelight her initial focus was on academia studying law business and psychology at a-level before moving into
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sports science regarded as a conventional beauty she began modeling at 18 years old complimented for her
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round feminine face that was framed by thick long wavy blond hair and a slender though shapely figure standing at just 5
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foot 3 inches tall she wasn't suitable for modeling high fashion which generally required a
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minimum height of 5 foot 8 instead chloe set her sights on glamour and commercial
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modeling the teenager established an online presence by featuring in strip football challenge videos on YouTube
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where she was tasked with kicking a soccer ball in high heels to her male teammates who would then take a shot at
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goal if they missed Chloe would have to remove the piece of clothing the game carrying on until she was standing in
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the open field as naked as YouTube's rules would allow she also took part in prank videos where she participated in
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staged practical jokes which involved her having to strip down to her underwear Chloe didn't earn much for
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taking part in these videos but they raised her profile and to led to better jobs in August 2016
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two months after turning 19 Chloe signed a contract with the super model agency and became one of Phil Greene's most
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prominent models amassing hundreds of thousands of followers on her Instagram page by posting a variety of scantily
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clad seductive photos she worked constantly eventually earning up to 500 pounds per magazine shoot into becoming
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a popular choice for The Daily Star the only newspaper that continued to feature
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page three girls that therefore came as no surprise to Phil green when in March 2017
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he received an email from an photographer named Andre hola tío personally requesting Chloe ailing for a
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glamour photo shoot in Paris his studio was titled to Percy Murphy and he wanted
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Chloe to model some leather apparel for a motorcycle magazine advert lazio was straightforward and professional as he
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detailed the shoot to fill explaining Chloe would be posing on a motorbike in front of a green screen so that
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background scenery could be digitally added or later the job included flights overnight accommodation at the 4 star
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hotel Madeline Plaza in central Paris a spa treatment and spending money as part
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of his role as a modeling agent Phil Green was expected to research any potential clients and verify that the
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jobs they were offering his models were genuine in his book confessions of a model aging Phil said I
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checked Andre Latios address and - this was perfectly legitimate even to the point of looking at Google Maps to find
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- the location I asked him to send me pictures of previous work he had done to which he Julie obliged he even sent me a
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picture of his studio and there above the studio door were the words beseemeth eek a little Italian temper in the heart
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of France exactly as he said satisfied he had confirmed the legitimacy of the job and client Phil agreed to send Chloe
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to France for the shoot Chloe was thrilled by the opportunity the prospect of travel glamour and adventure was
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exactly what it enticed her into the world of modeling in the first place and having never been to Paris she was
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itching to explore the famed city Phil told Chloe that despite having her measurements taken upon joining
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supermodel agency she had to come in for a second fitting as Lazio requested her
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exact sizing for the custom-made motorcycle leathers she would be wearing in the shoot Phil was known as the men
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with the tape measure and insisted on measuring all the models himself claiming to have been duped in the past
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by women who lied about their dimensions Chloe reluctantly agreed to ensure she had as much time as possible to
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experience the foreign city Chloe requested the earliest flight available to Paris and to the latest one to leave
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upon landing on the morning of Thursday April 20 her driver was awaiting her arrival at the gate holding a sign with
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her name in big black letters she was driven to her hotel where she checked in and deposited her luggage before heading
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out to see the Eiffel Tower as she walked the three and a half kilometers to the famous landmark Chloe video
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called Phil on her mobile phone so she could show him the sights she reached the tower and took a selfie underneath
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before moving off to have dinner on her own at a nearby restaurant Chloe arrived back to her hotel later
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that evening but her plans of a relaxing night were interrupted by the screech of
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emergency beetle sirens outside she received a text message from a friend alerting her to a headline that had
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appeared online which read Sara hits Paris as policeman shot on the Shawn Searle is a Chloe bunkered down in her
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room his news of the shooting began to filter through around at the time she had been eating dinner a gunman wielding
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an ak-47 rifle Rome to the seans Alizee shopping Boulevard one kilometer away one police officer was killed and two
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others as well as a German tourist were seriously injured the perpetrator was shot dead and found to be carrying a
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list of police station addresses he had planned to ambush along with the note praising jihadist militant group Isis as
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such the incident was declared a terror attack the next morning Chloe received a
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phone call from Andre Alejo the photographer overseeing the motorcycle photoshoot he informed Chloe that his
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studio had been ransacked during the chaos of the terror attack and - that all of his camera equipment and a
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lighting gear had been stolen light Co had no choice but to cancel the shoot and was sending a prepaid taxi to
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collect Chloe from the hotel and take her back to the airport frustrated but understanding Chloe
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finished her breakfast then checked out before jumping into a car that was waiting at the front of the hotel it
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wasn't until she arrived at the airport that Chloe realized she had gotten into the wrong car the driver demanded cash
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for the trip but she didn't have any and she had been expecting to receive her expenses or later that day
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Chloe scrolled through her mobile phone until she found at the email containing Andre Latios contact number and promptly
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called him passing the phone to the driver so the two of them could resolve the situation after a conversation in
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French the driver informed Chloe she was to wait in the car until light Co arrived with the payment
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eventually a lean Caucasian man with cropped dark hair wearing sporty sunglasses appeared at the window
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introducing himself as Andre Lott CEO for an experienced senior photographer Lazio appeared remarkably young to Chloe
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seemingly under 30 years old he paid the driver and apologized profusely to Chloe
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both for canceling the shoot and for the mix-up with the car he seemed agitated and keen to get going
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giving Chloe her promised the 90 pounds for expenses before leaving her to wait several hours for her scheduled flight
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home although she didn't get to complete the shoot the trip wasn't a complete write-off for Chloe back in London The
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Daily Star newspaper wrote an article about how one of their top page 3 models was caught up in Paris during the recent
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terror attack accompanying the story with the topless picture of Chloe a few months later
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Chloe was on assignment in Dubai which involved partying with the client attending nightclubs and frolicking on
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the beach when she received a call from Phil green with some good news Andre Lott Co had rescheduled the
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motorcycle magazine photoshoot finding Paris too dangerous he had since relocated his studio to his home country
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of Italy with the shoot taking place in the northern city of Milan on July 11 just a couple of weeks after Chloe's
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20th birthday Chloe had never been to Milan and was excited to visit the city deemed the fashion capital of the world
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again requesting the earliest arrival flight possible to make the most of the trip
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Lazio offered a 900-pound payment up front and sent images of his new Milan based studio which bought the same
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besime effects eye needs as his one in Paris Phil checked the studios address on Google Maps confirming the building
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existed and matched the details Leto had provided on Tuesday July 11 Chloe flew into Milan and checked into
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the best the Western plus hotel on the Piazza Lima where Lazio had arranged complimentary spa treatments and a
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breakfast for her she went shopping and purchased some bikinis for an upcoming trip to Ibiza where she planned to take
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some beachside photos for her Instagram account the next morning Chloe awoke early and dressed in a pink
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chenille bodysuit designer jeans sneakers a pink leather jacket and a cap she packed her suitcase and at 8:30 a.m.
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checked out of her hotel to begin the 20-minute taxi ride to the photography studio later that night as midnight
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approached in England Beata ailing was struck with worry her daughter Chloe was due to land at Gatwick Airport hours
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earlier at 9:30 p.m. but she had not arrived home and there had been no word from her this was unusual as Chloe would
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always ring her mother to keep her updated on her travels Beata found Phil green but he hadn't
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heard from Chloe either even though she would call him after a photo shoot to let him know how it had gone Phil
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checked the status of Chloe's flight from Milan and confirmed it had landed in Gatwick on schedule knowing she had
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plans to fly to Ibiza the next day Phil suggests that she may have decided to stay in Milan another day and fly
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directly to a better from there Beata had a hard time believing her daughter would make such a radical change without
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notifying her first and considered the possibility that Chloe had lost her phone
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Phil proposed they wait until the morning before making inquiries about Khloe's whereabouts expecting a logical
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explanation to arise in the meantime end Beata reluctantly agreed the following morning
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of Wednesday July 12 there had still been no contact from Chloe Phil called the airline and discovered there was no
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record of her checking in for her flight from Milan he turned on his computer to
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check whether Andre lot Co had emailed through when he revised plans for the photo shoot
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and as he scanned his inbox one email core desire at red hire Phil green I go by the name M D I am a mid high-level
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contract killer working for Black Death group Chloe has been taken and is currently under my wings and as long as
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I live nothing will happen to her I give my word who went on to explain that Chloe
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was set to be auctioned as a sex slave on the dark web the following Sunday unless Phil raised the ransom of three
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hundred thousand two euros he was instructed to get the money from three men Chloe had named two of whom Phil
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recognized the supermodel agency clients and to the other Rory who he did not know MD stated he was risking his life
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by writing to Phil and protecting Chloe but was unable to release her as quote the sentence for that would be death for
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both myself and Chloe as a part of a rule that no merchandise leaves black death unpaid Phil responded to the email
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with a single word received [Music] the black death group alleged to be an organized crime group from a stern
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Europe the doting weapons drugs bombings assassinations provision of mercenaries
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false identity creation human trafficking and dark web sales to remain incognito black death did not advertise
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their sex slave options to the masses and would change web addresses whenever their site received too much traffic
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those who managed to find black deaths website were greeted by a drawing of eleven ominous figures wearing long
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robes and masks associated with plague doctors in the 1300s the masks featured a 6-inch a long black beak that was
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traditionally filled with pleasant smelling plants and spices to conceal the stench of corpses the
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black death website featured an auction page which was only accessible to users who had been recommended by current
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members it advertised a range of women referred to as merchandise that were available to purchase with the youngest
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the most expensive each option profile included a starting bid photos and details of the woman's height weight and
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size according to the group a doctor was on staff to test the captives for sexually transmitted diseases and a
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virginity with those declared as pure commanding a higher price the auctions occurred in Europe but the
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victim could be delivered to the winning bidder anywhere in the world and customers with a specific woman in mind
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could also pay a significant cost to have the black death group kidnapped targets that fulfilled their individual
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requirements black deaths notoriety was well established but also dubious in july 2015 two years before the group
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claimed to have kidnapped Chloe ailing journalist Joseph Cox wrote an article for tech magazine motherboard detailing
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his encounter with black death upon gaining access to the site he came across an auction for a woman
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named Nicole with a starting bid of 150 thousand dollars the option advertisement was accompanied by an
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image of a blonde topless woman with her hands tied behind her back thrashing around as the shadow of a man
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loomed in the background Joseph Cox attempted to infiltrate the site by pretending to be a
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cryptocurrency rich customer but was unsuccessful in gaining entry to an auction it was later determined that the
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images of Nicole were screenshots taken from an unrelated pornography video raising doubts over the legitimacy of
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that particular option a year later in May 2016 UK authorities were alerted to a fully booked online auction taking
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place on the Black Death groups a website where a 15 year old girl named Laura was on sale for five hundred and
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seventy-five thousand pounds and a 17 year old girl identified as Gemma was on sale for ninety two thousand pounds
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investigators were unable to determine whether these options were real or if the sales ever went ahead
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a year passed before the next the black death auction was scheduled for Sunday July 16 2017 this time advertising the
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sale of 20 year-old Chloe ailing despite the email from the black death group warning him not to notify the police
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Phil green contacted of law enforcement in Milan to alert them of Chloe's abduction local police wanted him to
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make a missing-persons report in person but as this was not practical Phil reached out to the British Consulate
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office in Milan for help who expedited an investigation Milan police arrived - Andre Latios photography studio and upon
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gaining access to the building discovered that it was empty inside and - there was nothing to suggest that had
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ever been used for such a purpose temporary walls had been set up to create a makeshift corridor from the
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front door to the back of the building police found an abandoned suitcase by the door and further inside they came
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across a mobile phone jeans shoes and a pink leather jacket alongside the clothes a piece of paper featured a
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picture of eleven men wearing long gowns and debate masks knocked with the words
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black death group Chloe working in conjunction with the authorities in the UK Milan police initiated the search for
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Chloe and her abductors with little to go on a team of investigators started the
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arduous task of trawling through CCTV footage near Latios fake photography studio to see if they could piece
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together Chloe's final movements meanwhile specialists officers in the UK covertly took over Phil Greene's email
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account to begin negotiations with black death which continued throughout the five days leading up to the auction one
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email from the mysterious group read I think I haven't been clear enough my superiors tell me there is a high
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interest in Chloe for option time is running out option is on Sunday I might be a contract killer but real life isn't
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[ __ ] John wick I will be unable to protect her if you people do nothing about it another email contained an
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advertisement for the auction that was apparently being circulated on the dark web the ad featured photographs of a
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seemingly unconscious payal Chloe sprawled out on the floor wearing her pink chenille bodysuit and
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ankle socks with her long blonde hair messily tousled around her and arms awkwardly bent upwards
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her eyes were open but glazed and staring off into the distance and her pupils were noticeably dilated the piece
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of paper found at the fake photography studio with the image of the masked men in robes was laid on her stomach reading
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black death group Chloe believed to be a victim of human trafficking Chloe was subject to the highest alert
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in Europe as the date of the auction loomed her image was distributed to police stations all over the continent
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with international police organization Interpol now involved in the investigation they are darling and Phil
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Greene were in constant contact with the British Consulate to receive updates on
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any developments in the case which were limited investigators had yet to find evidence
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indicating Chloe's whereabouts and were so far unsuccessful in locating the invitation-only dark web site where her
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auction was to take place Phil had attempted to come up with the ransom but had only managed to extract an offer of
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twenty thousand pounds from one of the three men on the list of names Chloe had provided to the black death group
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as the date of the auction came and when the police and Chloe's loved ones waded
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in nervous helpless anticipation at 9:30 a.m. on Monday July 17 the day after the
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auction the British Consulate in Milan opened its doors and a man and a woman walked in together
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the young blond-haired woman was wearing a tracksuit that was too big for her petite frame and a pair of running shoes
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she approached to the front counter and told the receptionist that was an emergency and that she'd be seen to
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immediately the couple were rushed through a metal detector and past two armed soldiers
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into the office of the consulate a translator greeted them and to the young woman announced I was kidnapped on Chloe
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hailing Chloe was immediately led into a private room when the man she was with tried to follow a group of armed
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security guards gathered around him ordering him to stay put Chloe told the consulate staff the man was a friend and
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that she called him after being released by her kidnappers however when the police arrived they asked her to provide
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the phone number she had used to call this supposed friend and she was unable to port in her lie
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Chloe panicked telling the police that although she was now free she was still under the clutches of the black death
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group Chloe relayed her ordeal to police studying her story six days earlier on Tuesday July 11 the day of the photo
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shoot after departing her hotel she took a taxi to Andrey Latios studio a prominent number seven to the right of
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the front doors indicated that Chloe was in the right place that the buildings the lower floor windows were covered in
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bars and - there was no signage to suggest that there was a studio inside when she tried to open the doors they
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wouldn't budge a panel of buzzers sat to the left of the door but there was nothing to
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indicate which one she should press Chloe flicked through the emails on her mobile phone until she found the number
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she had used to contact Andre Lotterer months earlier when she was in Paris she called the number and demand answered
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who introduced himself as Daniel before directing Chloe to walk a little further
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down the road to a smaller building which looked like a disused shop front in a garage
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as she had been on many shoots in a wide variety of locations there was nothing about this location that set off any
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alarm bells for Chloe in the modeling world photographers often used empty shops and
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unrenovated warehouses as the large spaces gave them the versatility to light the shot from all angles
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Chloe pushed the front door open placing her suitcase to the side before heading down a makeshift corridor that
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led further in towards the back of the building she found a door marked with a black
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sign that said studio in white lettering unlike typical modeling shots which were
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a hive of activity with the bustle of the creative team and loud music playing this building was eerily silent as Chloe
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reached out to open the studio door a gloved hand slammed over her mouth from behind and another snaked around her
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neck unable to screw on the way she watched as a second figure appeared in front of her his face covered by a black
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ski mask he pushed up the sleeve of Chloe's the leather jacket and jabbed the needle
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point of a syringe into her right wrist before injecting its contents into her body the last thing she remembered was
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her muscles beginning to relax before everything went black when Chloe awoke some time later it was pitch dark her
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wrists were handcuffed together her feet were bound entered there was duct tape covering her mouth she was still wearing
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her body students socks but everything else was gone her heart was beating abnormally fast
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and she was only able to take short shallow breaths through her nose she could fill movement beneath her but was
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completely confined in a hot compact space that limited her to the fetal position she soon realized she was
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inside a bag Chloe was able to maneuver her hands to peel the tape of her mouth and began
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wiggling her finger against the zip of the bag eventually opening a small gap that
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allowed Cimmerian as her grogginess subsided she realized she was in the boot of a moving vehicle and screamed
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for the driver to stop she worked the zip open until she could get her cuffed hands out and began hitting them against
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the underside of the parcel shelf above which dislodged and came tumbling down on top of her the vehicle immediately
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swerved and came to a stop chloe heard its doors open before the lid of the boot launched upwards and she saw two
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men wearing black ski masks looking down at her without a word they replaced the
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tape over her mouth and deceived the bag up again they drove for what felt - Chloe like hours only stopping
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occasionally so her captors could give her sips of water and to replace the tape over her mouth which had a hard
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time sticking against her sweaty skin when the car stopped for a third time an unfamiliar unmasked man climbed into the
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boot and started spooning her Chloe considered whether he's the lack of disguise meant she was not expected to
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get out alive to identify him and took the opportunity to bombard him with questions about her predicament he spoke
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with an accent in broken English never raising his voice above a whisper telling her that she had been kidnapped
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by two Romanian men who had now passed her on to him and the driver of the car he answered her many questions with the
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same response I don't know helplessness washed over Chloe and she started to cry the man
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tried to calm her nerves by promising that would not harm her and she felt somewhat soothed by his soft voice and
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kind manner he gently pulled her bodysuit straight without any unnecessary touching to prevent her
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breasts from being exposed which reassured Chloe that he did not intend to sexually assault her the pair
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remained in the hot stuffy booth together for the remainder of the journey during which the men agreed to
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unlock Chloe's handcuffs to provide her momentary relief a replace to them as soon as the car reached its final
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destination [Music] Chloe was zipped back up into the oversized the duffel bag with her two
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captors threatening to inject her with the Sinnott Eve again if she didn't cooperate terrified at the thought of
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the syringe she complied remaining stool so they could carry her up what felt like a steep hill she heard the sound of
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a door unlocking and they gently placed her down and unzipped the bag once her eyes adjusted Chloe realized she was in
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a cramped and cluttered kitchen the man who had spent the final leg of the car ride in the boot with her remained
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unmasked while his cohort wore a balaclava Chloe asked to use the toilet and was directed up a flood of bare
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concrete stairs with a wall to the left and no banister the men followed her to the shabby bathroom and ordered her to
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leave the door open once she was finished the men led to Chloe through a beaded curtain to a small room that was
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painted a yellow green a chest the wooden drawers took up the length of one wall and a sleeping bag was positioned
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on the floor next to it a single bed sat on the other side with a multicolored crocheted blanket pulled neatly across
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it the masked man pointed at the sleeping bag indicating for Chloe to lie on it her hands and fate were then handcuffed
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to the legs of the chest of drawers satisfied that she wasn't going anywhere her captors went back downstairs where
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she could hear them speaking in a foreign language after some time the unmasked man returned still speaking in
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his quiet soothing voice he told Chloe that he's part of the job was complete and it was time for him to leave but
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something had gone wrong and his angry boss was now on the way to see her he assured her that once the boss arrived
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she would be told what was going on Chloe remained on the floor her ability to move limited by the awkward position
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she had been handcuffed in she heard a commotion downstairs with men yelling and a door slamming followed by a
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one-sided heated conversation which she assumed was conducted on the telephone before long another man entered the room
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and released the handcuffs around Chloe's wrist leaving her shackled by the ankle the man sat on the single bed
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and Chloe twisted around so that she could see him she didn't immediately recognize the skinny brown haired
00:36:58
clean-shaven men but didn't find him particularly daunting neither he calmly told her I don't know if you remember
00:37:08
but I briefly met you in Paris and then clicked to Chloe although he was wearing sunglasses
00:37:17
during their first meeting the man sitting before her was Andre Lott Co the head photographer for the motorcycle
00:37:25
photoshoot he revealed that his name was not Andre Lott Co nor was he a photographer reintroducing himself as MD
00:37:35
he claimed that the Romanians who had kidnapped Chloe and to the pair who had driven her to the remote house all
00:37:42
worked for the same organisation as he did the black death group according to MD
00:37:53
the black death group was the largest mafia style organization in the world with members positioned throughout a 20
00:38:00
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00:38:09
preferred method of murder the other men involved in Khloe's abduction were low-level foot soldiers who had drugged
00:38:17
her before strip searching her for tracking devices he explained the purpose of Khloe's abduction was to sell
00:38:25
her on the dark web with her auction scheduled to take place in five days time it was not the first time Black
00:38:33
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00:38:40
bars or nightclubs bringing them to their remote property where they were kept in a shed and chained to the
00:38:46
rafters once the girls were sold that were used this sex weighs and passed around to other men in the buyers family
00:38:55
before being fed to pet Tigers when the owners grew bored of her to prove his claims MD took out his laptop and showed
00:39:05
Khloe the advertisement for her sale they featured a photograph of her she didn't recall having taken where she was
00:39:13
sprawled out on the floor in her pink bodysuit along with a link to her Instagram profile and a description that
00:39:20
read Chloe born in UK abducted in Italy held in Germany 19 years old Caucasian 34 double D 25 35 beginner model
00:39:37
starting bid 300 thousand two euros option takes place 16 July 2017 MD revealed the very powerful men in the
00:39:52
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00:39:58
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00:40:06
options and pointed to one that read we do not sell girls that are terminally ill pregnant have STDs or a young
00:40:17
mother's the group had failed to realize that Khloe was the mother of a two-year-old son having fallen pregnant
00:40:26
at the age of 17 she had long since split with her son's father and to the estranged couple shared custody of the
00:40:34
young boy under the black death group's own rules Khloe ailing could not be sold MD only
00:40:44
found out Chloe had a son after seeing pictures of him on her Instagram page forcing him to cancel her abduction
00:40:50
which was originally intended to take place during her trip to Paris in April however the lesser ranking black death
00:41:00
members had misunderstood the change of plans and continued emailing Phil Green using the Andre Lotterer alias to
00:41:07
reschedule the fake photo shoot in Milan to carry out the crime there instead as
00:41:15
she had already been advertised for sale and to the black death group didn't want
00:41:19
to upset their wealthy clients MD stated that the only way to secure Khloe's freedom was for her to come up with her
00:41:26
own starting bid of 300,000 euros this wasn't particularly reassuring to Chloe as she didn't have access to such
00:41:35
funds but MD said he would do whatever he could to help her out he told her to come up with the names of three people
00:41:43
who would be willing and able to provide the money to secure her release Chloe gave him the names of three well-off
00:41:51
associates Rory an investment banker she had recently dated and two supermodel agency clients
00:41:58
one who managed public relations 466 magazine and one who owned men's lifestyle magazine loaded MD explained
00:42:09
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00:42:16
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00:42:27
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lying on the floor on top of the sleeping bag cuffed by her wrists and ankles to the chest of drawers and they
00:47:19
came in and out of the room throughout the night sitting on the single bed beside her and rambling on about black
00:47:26
death his important role within the organization and to the risks who was willing to take to help her he even
00:47:33
offered to pay part of the release money himself provided Chloe was able to raise
00:47:38
the bulk of it he told Chloe she was no longer in Italy and was being held elsewhere on a remote
00:47:44
property owned by AMD that was isolated enough that nobody would be able to hear
00:47:49
her scream he threatened that she would be hunted down and killed if she tried to escape
00:47:55
but maintained that she was safe in his presence as the penalty for any black death operative who messed with the
00:48:02
merchandise was death MD brought her food but as he had already informed her that he carried out assassinations by
00:48:11
poisoning his victims she refused to weed it as the second day wore on Chloe was informed that Phil Green had
00:48:20
responded to the ransom email with a single word and nothing else that afternoon and they offered that she
00:48:28
shared a double bed in the next room with him confident by the fact that M day would be killed if he did anything
00:48:34
to harm her Chloe opted to sleep in the bed under the two slept back-to-back under separate blankets from then on
00:48:43
Chloe was allowed to remain in the bed leaving only to go to the bathroom and they strictly warned that she was not
00:48:52
allowed to go downstairs or attempt to look through the shuttered windows and they left the house frequently telling
00:49:01
Chloe he was driving to get reception on his phone so that he could check on the
00:49:05
status of her ransom payment sher paid all his orders while he was gone fearful there were cameras in the
00:49:12
house or that other people nearby were keeping an eye on her MD would return frustrated with the lack
00:49:19
of progress obtaining the ransom money telling Chloe that if they didn't get the payment soon there was no choice but
00:49:26
to prepare for her auction this required more photographs to be taken for her bidders and a visit from a doctor to
00:49:34
check her for sexually transmitted diseases and pregnancy by the third day of Chloe's captivity MD began opening up
00:49:44
about his earlier life in the military and how he came to be an assassin when he boasted that he had earned fifteen
00:49:51
million dollars from his work in the Black Death group Chloe realized he was trying to impress her as she was no
00:49:59
stranger to men's affection and flirting was part of her job when attending events of working as a hostess
00:50:05
Chloe saw this as a chance at survival she responded with warmth and affection encouraging him to talk more and more
00:50:15
m-day confessed he wanted to break free of the black death group but doing so would require him to pay one and a half
00:50:22
million dollars and transfer all 20 of his properties to the organization when they weren't talking MD and Chloe played
00:50:32
hangman and to battleship to pass the time AMD's demeanor softened and he became the less formal with Chloe
00:50:40
sensing she was no longer just a business transaction to him famish tend to no longer fearful he was
00:50:47
trying to poison her she accepted a chocolate bar from him although furious inside she remained poised then tried to
00:50:57
humanize herself further by talking about how much she missed her mother and son the more the pair spoke the more it
00:51:05
felt like md believed the bond was forming between them and khloe used this to her advantage by friday morning four
00:51:15
days into Khloe's captivity and to two days before her scheduled auction and they asked if they could share a kiss
00:51:23
Chloe told him that would only be possible once she was free prompting MD to start brainstorming ideas about how
00:51:31
they could secure her safe release if they couldn't come up with the ransom money in time as the black death group
00:51:38
didn't have a strong presence in London he suggested she agreed to promote the group in the UK in exchange for her
00:51:45
freedom MD took his plan to the higher ranking members of the organisation later informing Chloe that they had
00:51:54
struck a deal he handed her a letter which read you were being released as a huge generosity from Black Death group
00:52:04
your release does however come with a warning and you should read this letter carefully Chloe was given strict
00:52:13
instructions that upon her return to London she was not allowed to pursue any investigation into her kidnapping she
00:52:20
was also required to pay fifty thousand two euros in cryptocurrency to the black
00:52:25
death group and promote them by quote sneaking a predetermined set of information into the media the letter
00:52:35
went on to say you and your family will in no way ever talk about us in bad language and without respect you have
00:52:44
been treated fairly with respect and we expect to hear exactly the same about us
00:52:49
in return any sort of disobedience with the above will result in your elimination
00:53:01
following her release from the black death group on Monday July 17 Chloe ailing was transported to the
00:53:08
Milan police station where she was formally questioned about every detail of her abduction into captivity
00:53:15
everything she said was recorded analyzed queried and clarified which was a time-consuming process requiring the
00:53:23
help of a translator she was also subjected to a thorough medical examination forensic testing
00:53:32
revealed there was no trace of drugs in her urine indicating she had not had any
00:53:37
within the previous couple of days but a hair sample came back positive for ketamine a horse tranquilizer
00:53:44
notoriously used as an incapacitating agent in date rape incidents a pinhole sized puncture mark on her
00:53:53
wrist was evidence of a syringe wound and two the bruises around her wrists and ankles were consistent with having
00:53:59
been handcuffed for an extended period as she was being questioned officers had been following up all of her claims and
00:54:08
had figured out the location where she had been held captive finding her DNA on the handcuffs floor and abed MD had
00:54:18
allied to Chloe about crossing the Italian border the rundown farmhouse she had been taken to was located in a tiny
00:54:25
hamlet of derelict houses near the small northern Italian village of Lamia 35 kilometers northwest of the city of
00:54:33
Turin MD did not own the property as he said but had rented it for a 20-day period over the time of her imprisonment
00:54:42
the closest place to buy food and supplies was a 15-minute drive away in vu her picturesque Alpine town with a
00:54:51
grocery store cafes and shops although vu was busy during the snow season it was quiet during the summer
00:54:59
and strangers in the town stood out local traders were shown photographs of Chloe and her male consulate companion
00:55:08
and several recognized them day right away he had visited the town to dine at the local pizza restaurant nearly every
00:55:18
day of Chloe's captivity with the owner of the mini-mart telling police that he had been into the store three or four
00:55:24
times to purchase groceries on the morning of Chloe's auction witnesses saw him at the mini-mart again but this time
00:55:33
he was in the company of a blonde haired woman the pair appeared to be a couple holding hands and wearing matching
00:55:41
outfits consisting of tracksuit pants and two white t-shirts the woman who was positively identified as Chloe ailing
00:55:50
had been left standing outside the store while m.d went in to buy fruit the pair
00:55:56
were also seen shopping in a shoe store where MD purchased Chloe a pair of running shoes that cost the round of
00:56:03
euros CCTV footage collected from the streets of vu confirmed to these sightings capturing Chloe and her
00:56:13
alleged kidnapper leisurely strolling hand in hand in broad daylight this evidence provided a stark contrast to
00:56:21
the allegations made by Chloe who told police she was not permitted to leave the farmhouse where she was being held
00:56:29
after 15 hours of interrogation police confronted Chloe with this discrepancy causing her to break down in tears
00:56:41
Chloe revealed that upon securing her release MD made plans to drop her off a 20-minute walk away from the British
00:56:49
Consulate in Milan but as her jacket jeans and sneakers had been left in the abandoned building following her
00:56:56
abduction she had no clothing or shoes to facilitate the journey she borrowed a tracksuit from MD and on the morning of
00:57:04
Sunday July 16 he decided to take her shopping for shoes for the first time since her captivity
00:57:12
Chloe was allowed downstairs and out of the farmhouse MD drove her to VU asserting that black death operatives
00:57:22
were everywhere rendering Chloe too afraid to scream or ask anyone for help as she couldn't speak Italian she was
00:57:30
also nervous that she wouldn't be understood even if she did manage to get someone's attention firmly believing
00:57:37
that earning md's trust was her only chance of escaping she maintained her romantic facade holding his hand as they
00:57:46
strolled through the village together the visit to the shoe shop was brief Chloe never spoke to the staff members
00:57:53
simply pointing to the first pair of trainers she saw and buying them in a slightly bigger size as they didn't have
00:58:00
her own on the way back to the car MD bought some fruit from the mini mart and today went back to the farmhouse for
00:58:09
the final night before she was due to be released the next morning the plan to drop Chloe
00:58:16
near the consulate was abandoned when they arrived to Milan two hours before the building was due to open instead
00:58:24
they headed to a cafe for breakfast where m-day advised the new plan was for Chloe to tell the consulate staff that
00:58:31
she had escaped borrowed a phone from a stranger and called him to accompany her
00:58:39
investigators were skeptical of Chloe's changing story and she was forced to remain in a safe house in Italy while
00:58:45
the investigations continued after being informed that she would not be allowed to return home until she had provided
00:58:54
police with all the evidence they needed she agreed to participate in video interviews over the following days in
00:59:01
which she has courted investigators on a tour of the locations of her kidnapping
00:59:07
she was remarkably calm as she pulled on blue latex gloves and took the police to
00:59:13
Andrey Latios phony photography studio the ramshackle two-story farmhouse and the shops in nearby vu where they had
00:59:21
purchased their shoes at the farmhouse she broke down upon discovering the property was not as remote as she was
00:59:29
led to believe with occupied houses neighboring both sides close enough that they would have likely been able to hear
00:59:37
Chloe if she had screamed composing herself she took the investigators on a tour of the house where everything down
00:59:46
to the colors of the bedspreads and the walls we're exactly as she had described
00:59:50
- during questioning Italian police hold a press conference to provide the details of Chloe's kidnapping for ransom
00:59:58
and - the story was quickly picked up by the British press who ran the story alongside the raunchiest of her social
01:00:05
media photographs given Chloe's high profile identity as a glamour model it didn't take long before the public
01:00:13
started raising serious they arts about the veracity of her story the press climate for an interview with the young
01:00:21
model who she continued to be held by the Italian police and des had been detained for
01:00:29
questioning with police identifying him as a 30 year old Polish national his real name was will cash her ba will cash
01:00:38
possessed the false ID issued in the name he had used to rent the false photography studio for the fabricated
01:00:44
Andre lot Co he also carried a business card that listed his business name as permanent solution featuring a logo of
01:00:53
the grim reaper on one side and a complicated dark web email address for M D on the other will cash initially stuck
01:01:02
to the story that he was a friend of Chloe's the police remained unconvinced he eventually confessed to participating
01:01:11
in the plot to kidnap her declaring the abduction had been orchestrated by a group of Romanians who lived near his
01:01:18
flat they forced him under duress and paid him five hundred thousand pounds for his role which was limited to
01:01:25
renting the fake studio and two farmhouse he made no mention of the black death group justifying that he had
01:01:34
only agreed to participate in the crime because he was undergoing treatment for leukemia and he needed money for the
01:01:40
medical care however he was unable to provide any proof that he had been diagnosed with the life-threatening
01:01:47
cancer or was undergoing any treatment and was subsequently placed under arrest for his participation in the kidnapping
01:01:54
of Chloe ailing during his time in police custody walker server was badly beaten by other inmates after they heard
01:02:06
he was involved in a violent crime against a woman news of the attack reached Chloe ailing who felt a mix of
01:02:14
sympathy and fear wondering who would protect her from the black death group now that will cash was in prison the
01:02:21
answer came later that week when police advised Chloe that the black death group
01:02:27
did not exist in fact they suspected there were only two people involved in her abduction will cash and his older
01:02:36
brother 36 year old however evidence indicated the Herber brothers had been solely responsible for
01:02:46
the crime Mukesh was the silent masked man who later revealed himself as MD entire
01:02:54
samples found in the boot of the vehicle Chloe had been transported in confirmed
01:02:58
there was me how who climbed in the car boot with her following her abduction Mukesh had told Chloe that he had never
01:03:06
been to England when in reality he lived a tear in a council owned flat in the western Midland city of Oldbury he had
01:03:15
become obsessed with Chloe over the past two years admiring her from afar through
01:03:20
social media police believed that Walker had a kidnapped Chloe in the hopes of obtaining a ransom payout and that by
01:03:29
posing as her Savior she would enter into a relationship with him there was no evidence to indicate the option was
01:03:36
anything but a fictional tale woven by will cash to fool both Chloe and her agent Phil Green the Herber brothers
01:03:46
involvement came as a shock to those who knew them in their native home of Poland
01:03:51
where they were known as polite bright kind and hard-working their neighbors in the UK had other opinions regarding wool
01:04:00
cash in particular or as a strange Ilona who walked around with a pet rat on his
01:04:05
shoulder and was obsessed with computer games one of wool Cash's former girlfriends described him as a Walter
01:04:13
Mitty type character who lived in a fantasy world and too lived to impress others she said he was selfish and
01:04:21
narcissistic presenting himself as too good to be true he'd drive around in a luxury Mercedes whilst wearing a
01:04:29
pinstripe suit fabricating lies that he owned to land overseas was involved in the gold trade was a crack shot with a
01:04:36
sniper rifle and ran a successful international firm making synthetic chicken feed he also raised concerns by
01:04:46
joking to his former girlfriend about spiking her drink with drugs she told the Daily Mail newspaper he
01:04:55
seemed different to other guys like he had class but that is just the image he was trying to create but was very
01:05:03
impressed by him he told me he had finished three types of Business Studies had a big imagination and big plans for
01:05:11
his business he told me he was going to Los Angeles for six weeks to find two new contractors in reality loCash was in
01:05:21
Milan busy executing his plot to kidnap a chloë ailing during the pre-trial court proceedings a curtain separated
01:05:33
Chloe from the gaze of her abductor as she provided her testimony against him when the court was satisfied she was
01:05:42
finally allowed to fly home to the UK when the paparazzi were camped outside her house after preparing a statement a
01:05:50
smiling Chloe greeted the press scratching her pet dog ZZZ and posing for the cameras her brief statement read
01:05:59
I've been through a terrifying experience I feared for my life second by second minute by minute hour by hour
01:06:08
I am incredibly grateful to the Italian and UK authorities for all they have done to secure my safe release I have
01:06:18
just the right home after four weeks of being in Italy and haven't had time to gather my thoughts I'm not at liberty to
01:06:26
say anything further until I have been debriefed by the UK police Phil Greene's phone was ringing off the
01:06:36
hook with clients offering to pay ten times Chloe eiling's usual rate to book the infamous model he found Chloe over
01:06:44
and over again but the only time her phone was answered a man on the other end introduced himself as her new agent
01:06:51
and unceremoniously taught Phil he had been fired hurt and angry Phil took his frustration to the interview circuit
01:07:00
claiming to have been left out of pocket for expenses related to the kidnapping he told television presenter Jeremy Kyle
01:07:09
on hacked off because Chloe has had the most amazing year with the agency in his
01:07:17
book confessions of a model agent Phil claimed he had done everything in his power to assist Chloe and to that he was
01:07:24
her lifeline while she was being held by the authorities in Italy she had begged
01:07:29
him to call her two to three times each day with each call lasting a minimum of one hour
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Chloe's recollection differed entirely in her own memoir titled kidnapped the untold story of my abduction Chloe said
01:07:45
Phil was extremely unhelpful during her abduction and even told her mother to stop calling him when the search was on
01:07:52
to find her Chloe blamed Phil for her predicament believing he had not done his due
01:07:59
diligence before sending her overseas to meet Andre Lotterer one telephone call was all that would
01:08:06
have taken to confirm that the photographer studio and agency never existed Chloe's story was covered by
01:08:16
every news outlet in the UK with the public backlash Swift and vicious people were quick to note that her jovial
01:08:24
demeanor did not correspond with someone who had just been through a traumatic experience with many voicing their
01:08:31
opinion that Chloe was lapping up the attention and not acting the way a real victim should
01:08:37
every headline about the case had the words kidnap and a victim in inverted commas suggesting they were not accurate
01:08:44
descriptors screenshots taken from CCTV footage showing Chloe and Mukesh walking
01:08:52
hand in hand were used to imply her involvement in the plot as was the previous meeting they had in Paris which
01:09:00
ran with the headline Chloe knew her kidnapper things got even more out of hand in the press when it was discovered
01:09:08
that Chloe had accepted a facebook friend request from Lukasz server two years prior to the kidnapping
01:09:16
chloë justified there was nothing suspicious about the connection explaining she accepted any and every
01:09:23
friend request to network and raise her profile Chloe's new agent negotiated increasingly higher fees for an
01:09:32
interview with her and she appeared on many high-profile interview shows including 60 minutes where she outright
01:09:39
blamed Phil Greene's failure to perform adequate research into Andre Lotterer for her kidnapping in an interview with
01:09:48
dr. Phil the celebrity psychologist raised the doubts about Chloe's story telling her if this was a publicity
01:09:56
stunt gone wrong the time to say so and stop this runaway train is now he was one of many interviewers who treated her
01:10:06
story with skepticism but stopped short of calling her and outright liar Chloe was offered a five thousand pounds
01:10:16
to appear in an interview with UK breakfast program good morning Britain in which the host Piers Morgan accused
01:10:23
her of lying about her ordeal as in all her other interviews Chloe came across as unemotional and aloof appearing to
01:10:33
have the glimmer of a smirk on her face her lack of emotion coupled with her willingness to promote the situation for
01:10:40
publicity and profit did not sit well with a majority of the public who labelled her an attention seeker in
01:10:54
February 2018 will cash her waar face to trial in Milan appearing happy and relaxed as he entered the courtroom his
01:11:03
defense team argued that will cash had become infatuated with Chloe and that the whole ordeal had been set up by her
01:11:12
they pointed to the fact that they had been Facebook friends since March 2015 and presented the CCTV footage of the
01:11:20
two holding hands in vu a neighbor of the farmhouse where Chloe was held testified that he had seen Chloe with
01:11:28
Lukasz at least twice and to that from a distance it looked like they were a couple loCash told the
01:11:36
court that Chloe had been complicit in the plan from the start saying she wanted to be a model and she wanted to
01:11:44
go on reality TV she said she wanted to raise her profile and that it would be useful to her career to create a scandal
01:11:53
she needed help and so I decided to help her she had a site where if he paid money you could see spicy photographs
01:12:02
she has no money so I said I would help her I hoped that at the end she would remember me and we could be together I
01:12:12
loved her I never hurt the girl I was not violent with her if she felt forced to verbally in any way I am very sorry
01:12:22
but it certainly was not as Chloe has described I was in love and I was hoping that once her fame took off that she
01:12:31
would repay me with feelings and we would share the money in his testimony we'll cash claimed he had told Chloe
01:12:41
about the plan when she was in Paris but she was unhappy with the location he proposed that she be kept in so he
01:12:48
changed the plan to Milan he admitted to creating the fake option website claiming Chloe helped him write
01:12:57
the extortion emails to Phil Greene his story changed continually and he contradicted himself often without
01:13:05
noticing he flat-out denied ever telling the Italian police he had a leukemia and
01:13:12
his delusions became so strong and obvious that his lawyer requested a mental health assessment partway through
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the trial Chloe did not have to appear at the trial with the court relying on the
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testimony she had given in the proceedings shortly after her release the prosecution believed he intended to
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carry out the kidnapping during the original trip to Paris but backed out after being spooked by the terrorists
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they described the wool cache as a fantasy with narcissistic tendencies and used evidence gained from his phone and
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a computer to argue that he had spent months planning the kidnapping shortly before Khloe's abduction he had
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ordered ski masks and gloves over the internet and had repeatedly used his personal computer to Google the terms
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Cloe ailing black death sex trafficking and ketamine during his time in police custody will cash found his mother and
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asked her to dump his car and delete his emails unaware that all calls made within the prison were recorded first he
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gave his mother the password to his computer investigators had no trouble accessing his files
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they found the correspondence between Lukasz and his brother meow with one message instructing by a big trip back
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very big you know for what purpose it serves so you know how big it should be in another
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me.how advised the bull cache to be kind to Chloe as she would be more willing to
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cooperate investigators didn't find a single record of any message email or telephone call between the Herber
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brothers and Chloe On June 11 2018 will cash her ba was convicted of kidnapping Chloe ailing and sentenced to 16 years
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into nine months in prison the court found no evidence to suggest Chloe had been complicit in her own abduction
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this should have been total vindication for Chloe however the press continued with the
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narrative that she had masterminded the whole scheme and continued to shut down with headlines like British model Chloe
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ailing helped write her own ransom note it was only when reading the full article that had became clear this was
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not a fact but a claim made by will cash her BA Chloe's story never wavered police investigators and the court
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authorities in Italy and England had checked every detail and ultimately supported her story but many members of
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the British press and public simply refused to believe that someone who looked and acted like Chloe was the
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victim of a violent crime regardless Chloe defiantly continued to capitalize on her
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new notoriety competing on reality TV show Celebrity Big Brother for a rumored fee of 75 thousand pounds she was
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embroiled in a scandal with a married contestant and was the second person voted out of the competition the father
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of Chloe's son gave interviews saying Chloe had not been to visit her child since she had returned home from Italy
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preferring to travel the world following her sudden heightened Fame she also ran
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into trouble with the lawyer who had assisted her in Italy with a disagreement arising between the pair
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over whether his services had been performed pro bono a court subsequently ruled Chloe had to pay the lawyer nine
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thousand two pounds in unpaid legal fees in May 2000 nineteen she started a new job with an adult website Studio 66 TV
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charging visitors two pounds per minute to watch her strip and engage in what was advertised as sexy chat in some
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instances wearing a pink chenille bodysuit akin to the one she wore during her abduction
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denying any involvement in the kidnapping plot me how herba fought to avoid extradition from the UK to Italy
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to face trial in December 2017 he was granted permission to appeal the decision at Westminster magistrates
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court with the solicitors releasing a statement arguing the entire case was a sham enter there was no evidence of Mia
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being involved in any of the alleged conduct they believed he would not receive a fair trial in Italy given his
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brothers had already commenced the appeal was rejected and Mia was eventually extradited to Italy in
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October 2018 despite Chloe initially being told she would not be required to provide
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evidence in court Miha won an appeal requiring her to be questioned over her alleged involvement
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as she expressed feeling vulnerable about returning to the city where she had been abducted two years earlier she
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was permitted to appear from the Westminster magistrates court via videolink she continued to stick by every word of
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her original story and denied the defence counsels claims that she orchestrated her kidnapping as a
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publicity stunt to boost her public profile Chloe said the whole incident had completely ruined her reputation and
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it had never been her choice to go public with the details as of June 2019 me.how Herbie's trial is
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still under way Chloe has since had time to reflect on her ordeal and the public's perception of her in a 2018
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interview with The Guardian News site she said I don't think people believed me because
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I wasn't in tears but I was happy as you would be seeing your family after a month when you thought you weren't going
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to again also because cameras are an everyday part of my life I probably reacted differently from how most people
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would if they had been through the same thing I think if you're going to be a glamour model you're bound to be
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portrayed in that way it's just the stereotype I guess that we want Fame and publicity in her book kidnapped the
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untold story of my abduction Chloe wrote every single word printed in this book is the truth if you still think this is
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a fictitious story that I have made up because I'm an attention-seeker I suggest you read something else I don't
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have time for you or your skepticism going through what I have gone through has taught me one thing you never know
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what is going to happen you never know what is round the corner you have to live every moment
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