Today's Blind Items - The Producer

Except for the names and identifying information and the initials and blanks added, because of its length and breadth, I left the tip pretty much verbatim from the tipster.

I work in the industry and a few months ago I received an audio facetime call from a British phone number. the person identified themselves as _____________ (AB). He said that a colleague of his recommended me for my services. The caller went on to say that the purpose of his phone call was to connect me with _________________ (A list female producer AC). He asked if I knew who that was. I said of course, pass my info along and she can call me anytime. An hour later I got a call from the same number. AB said he was with AC and asked if I could talk. I said sure let’s do it.

AC went on to tell me that she had some big news coming out soon and was feeling unsafe in the world and wanted to work with somebody with my set of skills. She offered me an insane rate of 1500 a day. She said she’d talk to her lawyers and they’d do a background check on me and we’d get an NDA signed before flying me out to Los Angeles. She was out of the country at the time working on _______________ (Will be monster hit). We agreed to talk again the next day. She said she’s give me some hypothetical situations and ask me for my input. Pretty standard job interview from my past experience. We said goodbye and that was it. The next morning at 4am my phone rings and it’s AC. My roommate was in the other room and heard it all. AC started off asking me about myself and how I got into the business. She asked me my age and weight and height. She seemed pleased with the answers I gave her. She asked me what goals I have outside of work and I told her that I have made a handful of short films and love attending Cannes and Sundance.

She was impressed. AC went on to say that she is going to be on the cover of ___________ (World famous magazine) in the coming months and that ___________ (the movie studio releasing the box office hit) is going to announce a joint contract with her new company. AC said she wants to have somebody by her side during that time and said that she likes me and our conversations and that she feels like I’m the guy for her. I was pleased. She asked me about Cannes again and said that she has a beautiful home there and asked if I would like to see it. I said of course, I’d move there tomorrow if I could. She laughed and said, oh you would? Do you like to be spoiled?

I was taken aback by the comment. I said I don’t know I’ve never really been spoiled. She laughed and said oh I can’t wait to spoil you. She then said give me a kiss and made a kissing noise over the phone. She kept doing it until I did the same thing. She asked me if I’ve been with an older woman and I said I recently broke up with my gf who was older and had kids. She seemed thrilled to know that. She started moaning and making kissing noises. It was quite embarrassing and I didn’t know how to react so I laughed. She got mad at me and said oh I’m so sorry I’m so embarrassed you’ve embarrassed me let’s forget the whole thing don’t tell anybody blah blah blah I’ll write you a check if you just forget the whole thing ever happened. I came back and calmed her down assuring her I was okay with the situation. She said okay we’ll talk again soon and her lawyers will send me paperwork the next day. She hung up and I got a text message from the same number asking for my email. The next day I received no email. I was very nervous about the whole thing. I told my parents and my roommate. A week passes and nothing happened. I texted the number again and she called me back immediately. She excused herself from whatever meeting she was attending and went into AB’s office or so she said. She immediately started to get aggressively sexual again and asked me if I liked to be demanding. I said sure I guess. She said okay demand something from me. What do you want, cars? money? I said I demand you write me a check for 10,000 and she started moaning heavily. I had my phone on speaker this time and my roommate heard it all. I honestly believe she was masturbating to our call. She said give mommy a kiss and I made the kissing peck noise for about a minute straight while she moaned and begged me for more. It was so embarrassing. I laughed again and she said oh i’ve done it again haven’t I and I assured her I was laughing at my dog.

She said I need to know if you’re going to be able to handle an older woman like me. I said I'll do whatever you need me to. At the time I felt like I had no option but to go through with it. 1500 a day would change my life forever. I have many debts from school and life and she could get rid of all of that within a months time. Now here’s the most alarming part. She said “I’m like this with all my actors and all my...” then she cut herself off and said you know what never mind. She said I’ll be in LA tomorrow. my lawyers will email you today and we’ll have you on a plane for next week. thanks see you soon and she hung up.

I never got an email. a few days pass and she calls me again but this time at 1am my time. She said that her schedule changed and she needed me to find her somebody that could take care of her children. She asked me to find a security person in LA that could meet with her people tomorrow. I forget what day this was. I made phone calls and found somebody I thought would be a good match. I texted AB their number and they had a phone interview. My friend, the security guy, said it went extremely well until he mentioned that he was an actor and that he heard me say there were the big box office film reshoots. AC freaked out and hung up with him and called me immediately to say it was very unprofessional and that she didn’t trust my friend and that she just wanted to deal with me. I was getting so tired of these erratic phone calls at all hours of the day but she promised me I’d be going to LA the next few days and be moving into what she called “the _____ compound”. After that last phone call I never heard from them again. I reached out to AB via text but no return message was sent. The only reason I’m telling anybody this is because she was very aggressively sexual to a complete stranger over the phone. AB knows of her behavior because he had to of been around while she did it a few times. she claims to do this with everybody. she also said that her relationship with her husband is all for show and that they live in separate wings of their home. I don’t know what else to say but i thought the world should know. I wish I had recorded those conversations. I don’t think I could have sued her for something so minimal and non-evasive but it’s genuinely broken my brain a bit to be nervous any time my phone rings with an LA number. if she called again and genuinely offered me the position and sent paperwork I’d do it. for the money. it’d change my life. but at what cost? Being raped by a woman twice my age?