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She's not accusing him of sex trafficking, she didn't meet him until she was already in the USA: she is described as a “victim of human trafficking since she w
by Johnny555 11y ago
She's not accusing him of sex trafficking, she didn't meet him until she was already in the USA:
she is described as a “victim of human trafficking since she was 15.” It says that she was “brought to America in 2001,” “sold as a dancer to a strip club,” and that shortly after her arrival, she met Goguen at a Texas strip club and was soon submitting to his “constant sexual abuse” and “relying on his promise that he would help her break free of the human traffickers who held her in perpetual debt.”
- CydeWeys 11y agoHe was aware of and took advantage of human sex trafficking. I never said that he brought her into the country himself. But he acted to perpetuate the system, which isn't much better.
- Asparagirl 11y agoNot only that, but the age of consent in Texas is 17. It sounds like she met him "shortly after" being trafficked at age 15.
- slantaclaus 11y agoNope. The woman born in 1980. She was 21 when they met.
- evunveot 11y agoThe lawsuit alleges he did these things. They shouldn't be stated as facts at this point.
- revelation 11y agoIt also seems to "allege" that he already paid $10M. That would be an odd thing to falsely claim, no?
- nedwin 11y agoHe is claiming he was being extorted.
- mrgordon 11y agoInnocent people usually don't pay millions in extortion money though
- cheez 11y agoThis is false. Someone might pay millions of dollars to avoid making a spectacle that refocuses their efforts on something they are not interested in dealing with. "You wouldn't want your wife and business partners to find out that you have a girlfriend, would you?"
- mrgordon 11y agoI don't know how it could be false when I said "usually" (and thus I don't particularly appreciate the downvote). I'd like to see a list of known cases where someone paid $40 million to hide an affair and had nothing illegal to hide. I suspect it is quite short. If she was under the age of consent, then he either didn't sleep with her and thus had no reason to pay any money or he did and he broke the law. Right? At that point, he wouldn't have only been paying to hide it from his wife and Sequoia but also the government and hence wouldn't be innocent.
- cheez 11y agoI don't know how to respond to such a comment, why say anything if you can just weasel out of it? You're saying he did something illegal. OK. As someone who frequents HN, you are no doubt aware that people "settle" without going to trial many times. Perhaps he did the math and figured it wasn't worth his time. See this for what it is: a divorce, without a legal marriage. She's pissed, he's just trying to move on.