Archive for January 13, 2012

Manhattan Adult Entertainment: Woman rescued via Facebook post helps police identify 2nd alleged forced …

HACKENSACK, N.J. — A northern New Jersey man already facing human trafficking and prostitution charges is accused of luring another woman into the sex trade.
Hackensack police arrested Terrance McCarroll Thursday evening, hours after he was bailed out on the original charges.
McCarroll was arrested last month after a woman sent a message to her brother in Florida via Facebook saying she’d been forced into prostitution by a stranger who bailed her out of jail.
He’s now accused of forcing a second woman into prostitution and physically assaulting her, including burning her with a hair straightener. The 23-year-old woman was identified based on information provided by the first victim.
The Record of Woodland Park http://bit.ly/ziLdmN reports McCarroll is being held on $350,000 cash bail.

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Manhattan Adult Entertainment: Shame (18); Margin Call (15)

Have you had your five-a-day? Brandon Sullivan, the high-flyer played by Michael Fassbender in Shame, always makes sure he gets his – though in his case we’re talking about orgasms rather than aubergines. Barely has he opened his laptop than his antiseptic Manhattan apartment is filled with more disembodied moans than a haunted house. Prostitutes troop in and out of his bedroom with a frequency that demands the introduction of a loyalty card. At the office, he masturbates in the toilet stall or floods his hard drive with more porn. Yet he still finds time to impress his boss, who crows that Brandon “nailed it today” – neglecting only to specify exactly what, or whom, got nailed. With Brandon around, it’s anyone’s guess.

Disco numbers on the soundtrack (”Genius of Love”, “I Want Your Love”) rib him about what he can’t have, or isn’t capable of getting. All he hears in his head, even during energetic sex with two prostitutes, is Glenn Gould playing Bach. The music is used to sanctify him and to legitimise an analysis of masculinity every bit as frothy as the one found in Truffaut’s The Man Who Loved Women.

See the full article from “New Statesman”

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Manhattan Adult Entertainment: Hackensack police arrest man in second human trafficking case

HACKENSACK — Police arrested a man already facing prostitution and human trafficking charges on similar charges that accuse him of forcing another woman into the sex trade, authorities said.

Police arrested Terrance McCarroll, 29, Thursday evening — hours after he bailed out of jail on his first set of charges — on human trafficking, promoting prostitution, aggravated assault and weapons charges. He was being held on $350,000 bail, which has to be paid in cash, Salcedo said.
In the newest case, McCarroll is accused of forcing a 23-year-old woman into prostitution by threatening to turn her in to police on warrants out for her arrest. He also is accused of beating her, burning her with a hair straightener and slashing off a large section of her hair, which forced her to shave her head into a crew cut hairstyle, Salcedo said.

See the full article from “NorthJersey.com”

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Manhattan Adult Entertainment: Shame (18) **

Shame (18) **
Jan 15 2012 by Roz Laws, Sunday Mercury
SHAME (18)
HHIII
CAST: Michael Fassbender, Carey Mulligan
PLOT: Brandon (Fassbender) lives in New York where he somehow manages to hold down an unspecified, high-powered job, while looking at hardcore porn on his computer all day and then disappearing off to the toilets. His evenings are spent on the internet, picking up women in bars or visiting prostitutes, but his soulless life is empty.
His obsession with sex is disrupted when his sister, clingy nightclub singer Sissy (Mulligan), comes to stay. She’s the only constant woman in his life but seems just as damaged as him.
GOOD POINTS: British director Steve McQueen, who produced Hunger, creates some interesting images, such as Brandon running through Manhattan at night. It’s well acted – Mulligan is mesmerising in one scene when she sings a spinetingling version of New York, New York. It’s already been nominated for four Golden Globes and Oscar nominations could well be on the way too. Fans of Fassbender’s impressive body may enjoy the shots of him walking round naked.

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Manhattan Adult Entertainment: Paul Bergrin’s next trial likely to be pushed back several months

Still, the hearing did expose a crucial subtext to the debate over Bergrin’s fate: An ongoing and deepening rift between the judge presiding and an edgy team from the U.S. Attorney’s Office who, for better or worse, is not afraid to take Martini on.
“The whole implication in your brief is to suggest that there was this predisposed judge in the case and there wasn’t,” an increasingly vehement Martini said Thursday. Later, he noted, “I’ve been on that bench for nine years … I’ve never been appealed to this extent with these type of allegations.”
Bergrin, the son of a Brooklyn cop and a former prosecutor in the Newark U.S. Attorney’s Office in the 1980s, has been in jail for nearly three years. He faces counts including racketeering, witness tampering, murder-for-hire, fraud, cocaine trafficking and running a high-end prostitution ring.

See the full article from “The Star-Ledger – NJ.com”

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Manhattan Adult Entertainment: It’s Nicki Minaj’s world, and she wants more – The News & Observer

She hired new management, including Bryant, who advised her to branch out. “You have a relationship with MAC, you have to build that relationship,”‘ Bryant said he told Minaj. She met with Demsey again, and this time he agreed to name her the Viva Glam spokeswoman for 2012, replacing Lady Gaga.
Getting attention
Minaj also hired 42 West, a public relations company. “She needed a person to concentrate on Nicki Minaj in the press,” Bryant said. One of the first things 42 West did was to contact W, he said, which agreed to put Minaj on the cover of its November art and fashion issue. In the photo, taken by the artist Francesco Vezzoli, Minaj is dressed as the 18th-century French courtesan Comtesse du Barry, in an embroidered Dior couture gown.

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Manhattan Adult Entertainment: Kidnapping charges, steep bail following Facebook distress call

Authorities have brought kidnapping, aggravated assault and weapons charges against a Hackensack ex-con arrested after a woman told police he forced her into prostitution in return for bailing her out of jail. A judge, in turn, boosted his bail to $350,000.

Officers Nicholas Ortiz, Pedro Dominguez, along with Sgt. Darren DeWitt and Officer Dana Herrmann, went to the address the woman gave for McCarroll, he said.Inside, Barrios said, they found a woman and some pot. So they took her in.Narcotics Detective Jason Klosk then called McCarroll, who willingly came to police headquarters, claiming the drugs were his and not his girlfriend’s, and that she shouldn’t be charged, a source with direct knowledge of the incident told CLIFFVIEW PILOT.So Klosk charged him with drug possession.McCarroll “thought that’s why he was coming in,” the source said. But police were hardly through with him.Based in part on the Facebook woman’s statements, Detective Ryan Weber charged McCarroll with criminal restraint and promoting prostitution.

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Manhattan Strip Clubs: Bail reduction denied in killing of off-duty Newark detective

Bail reduction denied in killing of off-duty Newark detective
Thursday January 12, 2012, 7:37 PM
Passaic County’s top judge denied a request Thursday to reduce the $1.5 million bail currently set for Nashali Gadson, who, along with her boyfriend, is being held in the killing of an off-duty Newark detective outside a Paterson strip club last year.
An attorney representing Gadson had asked Superior Court Assignment Judge Donald J. Volkert, Jr. that the bail be reduced to somewhere in the $750,000 range, in keeping with state guidelines. Gadson, 19, of Newark, is charged as an accomplice in the killing remained in the Passaic Count Jail on Thursday on $1.5 million bail as originally set by Volkert at Gadson’s arraignment Nov. 17.
Gadson and Jerome Wright, 24, of Newark, are charged in the murder of Michael Morgan Jr. Wright, the alleged shooter, is being held on $2.5 million bail.

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