Film festivals are the best for meeting women. Courtesans should be a permanent part of them . This is the high dollar/posh set but all film fests are great for meeting women
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The Cannes 'luxury prostitutes' earning $40,000 PER NIGHT on million-dollar yachts during the annual film festival
"From full-time escorts to models, actresses and beauty queens, the call girls servicing wealthy men in Cannes' luxury hotels, and on million-dollar yachts can earn thousands of dollars a night.
According to Lebanese businessman, Elie Nahas, who was arrested in 2007 for running a Cannes prostitution ring that supplied more than 50 women 'of various nationalities' to rich Middle Eastern men during the festival, the money call girls make is bigger than most people realize.
Mr Nahas, 48, who unable to leave Lebanon while his eight-year prison sentence is being appealed, told The Hollywood Reporter: 'They can make up to $40,000 a night.
'Arabs are the most generous people in the world. If they like you, they will give you a lot of money.
'At Cannes, they carry money around in wads of 10,000 euros. To them, it's just like paper,' he explained. 'They don't even like to count it. They'll just hand it to the girls without thinking.'
Mr Nahas, who owns a Beirut-based modeling agency and used to work as a right-hand man for Moatessem Gadhafi, the son of Muammar Gadhafi, who were both killed in Libya in 2011, denies he was running a prostitution ring.
However, he explained: 'I know the system.'
The more experienced escorts, he said, target Cannes' high-end hotels 'where all the Arabs stay,' and where, after 10pm, call girls perch in the lobby waiting for prospective clients to check them out.
'It's all done with hand signals,' he explained. 'The guys signal their room numbers with their hands and the girls follow them.'
But the luxury yachts, which house some of the world's wealthiest men - many single, some married - is where the serious money is, Mr Nahas said.
'Every year during the festival there are 30 or 40 luxury yachts in the bay at Cannes, and every boat belongs to a very rich person.
'Every boat has about 10 girls on it; they are usually models, and they are usually nude or half nude. . . The girls are all waiting for their envelopes at the end of the night. It's been going on there for 60 years.'
But it's not all luxury yachts and high-end hotels. Local prostitutes, who charge up to $75 an hour work alongside high-priced call girls, which the French call putes de luxes, who charge an average of $4,000 a night.
'Every boat has about 10 girls on it; they are usually models, and they are usually nude or half nude'
But no matter what a prostitutes' status, the Cannes Film Festival is 'the biggest payday of the year,' according to one Parisian escort.
'We all look forward to it,' said Daisey, a local prostitute in Cannes who has her own website. 'There's a lot of competition because there are so many girls, but the local ones have an advantage. We know the hotel concierges.'
It is routine to drop cash off with concierges at the town's top hotels, she said, and in return, concierges will steer clients their way.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, up to 200 escorts are coming and going from big hotels every day during the festival.
Roger Ebert, the American film critic who died last month, famously tweeted in 2010: 'Hookers stand out in Cannes. They're the ones who are well-dressed and not smoking.'
And while some of the 'luxury prostitutes' fly into Cannes from Paris, London, Venezuela, Brazil, Morocco and Russia to take advantage of the big event, some escorts come as part of an organized ring.
Prostitution ring: Lebanese businessman Elie Nahas was arrested in 2007 for supplying more than 50 women 'of various nationalities' to rich Middle Eastern men in Cannes
Philippe Camps, a lawyer for a Paris-based anti-prostitution organization that was a civil plaintiff in Mr Nahas' trial, said that that some of the women were brought to Cannes under false pretenses and pressured into prostitution.
Mr Nahas, who after his arrest, was jailed for 11 months in France before being released for lack of proof, maintains that he unfairly singled out because of his connections with Gadhafi.
But he admits he arranged for women to come to Cannes during the festival, where he would pick them from Nice International Airport, bring them to the younger Gadhafi's yacht, the Che Guevara, and other luxury vessels.
'I was not party to anything else,' he insisted. 'I don't know what took place between any of them. I had no part of it. They may have just been there to talk and have fun.'
These women, some professional escorts, models, or struggling Hollywood actresses, who are brought onto the yachts in Cannes during the film festival are called 'yacht girls,' said Mr Nahas.
Carole Raphaelle Davis, a French-American film and television actress revealed that it is common for some prominent society women to work as high-priced prostitutes during the festival.
She says several women she knew 'traveled the world like jet-setters,' as high-end call girls.
'This woman didn't even enjoy sex, she told me,' explained Ms Davis. 'But she didn't mind it, either. She didn't mind sleeping with men who were repulsive. She said it never lasted more than five minutes, so it wasn't that bad.'
One anonymous industry veteran admitted: 'You'd definitely recognize more than a few names from Hollywood.
'These are actresses who made bad career choices and fell off the radar. They tell themselves what they're doing at Cannes is OK, that they're just on dates with rich men, when the reality is they're doing what prostitutes do. But they like the money."
