By Daily Mail Reporter. 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 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. Cannes' call girls: From full-time escorts to models, actresses and beauty queens, during the film festival, prostitutes can earn thousands servicing wealthy men actress pictured is not associated with this story.
If they like you, they will give you a lot of money. To them, it's just like paper,' he explained. 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 , 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. 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. Targeting luxury yachts: Some of the 'luxury prostitutes' fly into Cannes from Paris, London, Venezuela, Brazil, Morocco and Russia to take advantage of the film festival boats pictured are not associated with this story.
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. But no matter what a prostitutes' status, the Cannes Film Festival is 'the biggest payday of the year,' according to one Parisian escort.
