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She got f*cked by 101 men in 14 hours, sat on the floor covered in c*m, and sobbed into a camera lens. That five-minute crying clip made her $1,000,000 in 30 days. She later rented a warehouse, hired a pit crew of "fluffers" to suck off the waiting line, and took 1,113 d*cks in 12 hours. She is 24 years old. Her name is Lily Phillips. She grew up in a wealthy family in Derbyshire, England, and studied at the University of Sheffield before dropping out to sell porn online. In late 2024, YouTuber Josh Pieters filmed a documentary inside the London Airbnb where she took on 101 men back-to-back. Red used condoms were littered across the carpet while men in hoodies stood on the staircase checking their phones, waiting for their five-minute turn. Lily said she dissociated after guy #30 and that the faces blurred together. After #101 left, she cried to the camera crew and said she felt like a hollow piece of meat. The crying clip brought attention to her OnlyFans. Weeks later, her rival Bonnie Blue broke her record with 1,057 men. Lily came back with a bigger event. For her 1,113-man marathon, she rented an industrial studio, set up clipboard coordinators with stopwatches, and hired female fluffers to keep hundreds of naked men in the holding pen hard. There were no tears this time. She spent 12 hours taking on the men. Months later, she sat across from TV host Holly Willoughby and announced she had returned to church, got baptized as a Christian, and goes home every night to a boyfriend who kisses her on the mouth after work.

She spent the first 60 seconds of the video laughing at the baby boy names he picked. At 1:15, he said a name that revealed why their seven-year marriage was ending. In a viral video, a husband tells his wife they're doing a social media trend where he picks baby boy names and she rates them from 1 to 10. He starts with Jake. She laughs, calls it "very basic" and gives it a 2 out of 10. He suggests Tyler next. She complains that he only picks basic names and gives it a 3. Then he suggests a third name: Cooper. Her smile disappears. She looks away from the camera and mutters that she doesn't like that name either. Without raising his voice, he asks why. He says she liked Cooper enough to message him late at night and secretly meet up with him the previous week. His wife asks who is going to see the video. She accuses him of setting her up and playing games. The husband looks straight into the camera and announces the end of their seven-year marriage. He says they have two children and that she is currently pregnant. He tells her everyone will see the video, adding that he doesn't think Cooper would play these games either.

Charlie Sheen paid Bree Olson $5,000 a day to live with him and have sex without a condom. Four years later, she found out from a TV broadcast that he had HIV the entire time. Nobody from his team even called to warn her before he went live on the Today Show. In the interview below, she talks about the paranoia of those weeks. The host asks what it was actually like living inside Sheen's mansion as one of his live-in "Goddesses" during his famous meltdown. "It was a cult of three." It was Charlie, Bree, and a former nanny named Natalie sharing one giant bed. She thought she was escaping the adult industry for Hollywood royalty. Instead, she walked into a house where Charlie was smoking crack pipes and waving antique machetes on the roof. Then she explains their bedroom rules. Charlie insisted he was completely clean. Sometimes he used lambskin condoms, which she didn't know at the time only prevent pregnancy, not viruses. Most of the time they used nothing. Years after she moved out, her phone started blowing up. Charlie was on national television announcing he had been diagnosed with HIV four years earlier, right when Bree was living with him. "He played Russian roulette with my body every single night and never told me the gun was loaded." She had to drive to a clinic to get her blood drawn with paparazzi camped outside the doors, waiting to photograph her. The test came back negative. When she tried to leave California and get a regular job in Indiana, every employer Googled her name, saw the porn and the Charlie Sheen headlines, and threw her resume in the trash. She had survived the porn industry and her time with Charlie Sheen, but still couldn't get hired at a desk job. If someone knowingly hides a deadly virus from their partner, why aren't they in a prison cell?

Riley Reid paid off her family's debt with porn money. They cashed the checks, then banned her from Thanksgiving dinner. To make her marriage work, she walked away from millions and paid lawyers to erase her own past from the internet. In the interview below, she talks about it all calmly. It starts with her family. The host asks what happened when they found out how the bills were getting paid. Her grandparents stopped speaking to her completely. Her dad went silent. Her family was comfortable letting her work fund their peace of mind, but they didn't want the person who earned it sitting at their table. Call it the hypocrisy tax. You're good enough to sign the check. You're just not good enough to pass the mashed potatoes. She ran into the same thing while dating. For ten years, every guy wanted to sleep with Riley Reid in private. Almost nobody wanted to be seen holding her hand in a grocery store on a Tuesday morning. She admits the loneliness hit hard. She could have people worshiping her body on set, then go home alone. "Guys love the fantasy until their buddies send them a link to your work in the group chat." Then she met Pasha Petkuns, a professional freerunner from Latvia. To make the marriage work, she stopped shooting with men completely, walking away from the biggest paychecks of her career. "I retired from boy-girl. It wasn't worth losing the one person who actually looks at me like a human being." Before the wedding, she hired a team to scrub her early videos off the web. She spent thousands of dollars in legal fees trying to remove the work that made her rich. Over 800 scenes. 45 awards. She paid off her family's debt, then spent a fortune trying to remove her own work from the internet. Would you take the money from a family member if you were ashamed of how they earned it?

A 22-year-old college student flew to San Diego for a sportswear photoshoot. She was raped on camera for seven hours. When she came out of the bathroom at dawn, the men were eating burgers next to the blood-soaked bed. In 2016, she was a yoga instructor paying her own way through college when she answered a Craigslist ad for clothed fitness models. Before she ever got on the plane, she did her homework and FaceTimed with two women who claimed to be past models for the agency. They promised her the crew was polite, professional, and paid thousands in cash. What she didn't know was that those women were getting paid $100 a head to lure new models in. When she landed in San Diego, the crew drove her to a gated apartment, locked her purse and phone in a safe, and took her to a hotel room. A guard stood outside the door while they unplugged the room phone from the wall. They poured four shots of vodka down her throat, forced her to smoke marijuana, and stood over her until she signed a stack of contracts without letting her read a single page. They swore the footage would only be sold on private DVDs to wealthy collectors in Australia. At one point between 9 p.m. and 4 a.m., she tried to run out of the hotel room naked. The guard outside shoved her back in. When she refused to keep going, they told her they would take what they already had, put it on the internet with her full name, and send it straight to her parents. Every time she stopped smiling or looked like she wasn't enjoying it, they stopped the cameras and forced her to film the scene all over again. Two weeks after she made it home, a guy from her high school sent her a link to Pornhub. The company behind the shoot, GirlsDoPorn, was one of the top 10 channels on the site. Its owner, Michael Pratt, also secretly ran a side website designed specifically to leak the women's real names, college campuses, and their parents' home addresses to make the videos go viral in their hometowns. Her religious family was sent the video. She changed her phone number six times, moved houses, and found a dead cat left on her doorstep by stalkers. She attempted suicide multiple times, including a week before testifying in court. People in the comments called her a greedy porn star who regretted her decision. When the FBI took the company down, they found 573 victims and learned that 15 of the women had already died. In federal court, another survivor named Mariah screamed at the main actor, Andre Garcia, until he finally looked up at her while his mother cried in the back row. Garcia was sentenced to 20 years in prison. Michael Pratt went on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list before being caught in Spain and sentenced to 27 years. A judge gave the women the legal copyrights to their own videos, only the second time in US history that has ever happened. Yet because the videos were downloaded millions of times before being deleted, they still get re-uploaded to foreign porn sites every single week. She flew to California to model yoga clothes. Ten years later, she still has to search her own name on porn sites every month to get the videos taken down. If a federal court proves a video is a taped sexual assault, why is it still the victim's job to beg websites to take it down?

George was told to leave his own house for his stepdaughter’s wedding. Then his wife sued him for $150,000. In a courtroom TV episode, George’s wife Marisol says he broke a verbal agreement to pay for the wedding. George had helped raise her daughter since she was eight. But the bride wanted her biological father, not George, to walk her down the aisle. George says he was hurt by the decision and pushed back. After a family argument, his stepdaughter uninvited him from the wedding altogether. There was one problem: the wedding was supposed to take place at George’s own house. Marisol still wanted him to pay. When the judge asked where George was supposed to go during the wedding, she replied: “I don’t know, Your Honor.” George called it the ultimate betrayal. Marisol took him to court over the money, but the judge dismissed her case. “Suing your husband into compassion is insane,” the judge told her.

She slept with his best friend two weeks before the wedding. Now she’s taking him to court for $15,000. Kesha and Jordan bring their 10-year relationship to the courtroom. Jordan comes from a wealthy family, covered their lifestyle, and paid for every vacation. As a gesture of gratitude, Kesha insisted on paying for the wedding herself. Two weeks before the wedding, Jordan vanished, leaving a note on the fridge: "Goodbye forever." He had just discovered Kesha slept with his best friend, Tay. In court, Kesha demands $15,000 for wedding expenses and "emotional distress." Under pressure, she first denies it, then blames the liquor. Then Tay walks in as a surprise witness and testifies under oath that they slept together. The judge throws the case out immediately and kicks her out of the courtroom. She leaves with zero.

Won $1,000,000. His 'lost' daughter suddenly remembered him and sued. 23-year-old Emily Palmer says she found her biological father, Mark Taylor, through a DNA test. She grew up without him, and her mother died when she was 18. Emily tells the judge she worked multiple jobs to help her family. Now that Mark knows she exists, she believes he should compensate her for the years he wasn't there. Mark says he had no idea he had a daughter until nine months earlier. He claims Emily took the DNA test over two years ago but only contacted him after he won the lottery. Emily denies that. She says she needed time and didn't learn about the winnings until after she reached out. Mark says he's open to a relationship and even offers to help with her education. Emily says she needs the money to know he's serious. The judge dismisses the case, saying Mark didn't know he had a daughter and had never been ordered to pay support. Emily's response: “I would like to communicate in the form of a check.”

She divorced her husband at 9 AM. At 12:30 PM, he bought a lottery ticket that won $40,000,000. In a staged Southern Justice courtroom episode, Diana Taylor sues her ex-husband Mark for half the prize. She tells the judge the ticket was bought with money from their shared account. She also says she gave up her career and spent seven years following Mark as he chased his dreams. Mark brings a receipt showing he bought the ticket after the divorce. Diana says the winning numbers match dates from their relationship. She points to their wedding, their first date and even their dog's birthday. Mark says he didn't choose the numbers. The machine did. He also files a counterclaim for $2,500, which the judge throws out. The judge rules that the winnings belong to Mark because he bought the ticket after the divorce. Diana gets none of the $20 million she requested.

$1,000 to star in a movie that pulled in nearly $200 million. For Jon Heder, that $1,000 was the most money he had ever seen. Back in 2004, Napoleon Dynamite was a low-budget student project shot for roughly $400,000. The director was his BYU classmate Jared Hess, and Heder took the lead basically as a favor to a friend. He had no agent, no SAG card and no backend points. Just a single grand in cash. Then Napoleon Dynamite became a hit at Sundance. Fox Searchlight bought the film for $4.75 million. It made $46 million in theaters and another $139 million in home video sales. Suddenly, half the country was walking around in "Vote For Pedro" tees. While the movie made millions, Heder was surviving on occasional "gift checks" from Fox for showing up to promote it. In 2011, the producers sued Fox for over $10 million in unpaid royalties. They ended up with a $125,000 settlement. Heder stayed far away from that courtroom. Did Hollywood take advantage of a naive kid, or did that $1,000 buy him a career he never could have touched otherwise?

Pablo Escobar burned $2,000,000 in cash to keep his daughter warm for a single night. In late 1993, the Medellín boss was on the run from a joint military task force and rival hit squads. He moved his family between safe houses in the mountains around Medellín every forty-eight hours. During an unusually cold night in a rundown mountainside safe house, his young daughter Manuela became dangerously ill with hypothermia. The house had no electricity or blankets, and the fire in the hearth was dying out. With soldiers patrolling the valley, Escobar couldn't risk sending guards to chop wood or search for fuel. He went to the bags packed with millions in emergency cash, broke open the bundles of hundred-dollar bills, piled them in the hearth, and struck a match. Over the course of the night, he fed approximately $2,000,000 into the flames. He also used the fire to cook a basic meal for his family. In the video, his son Sebastián Marroquín recalls hiding with his father during his final days. They had $5,000,000 in cash but were starving. To the rest of the world, cash represented power and status. To a desperate father trapped on a freezing hillside, it was kindling.

Lana Rhoades says she kept her son's father a secret without an NDA or a payout. She says he's an NBA player who has only met their child once. During her pregnancy, she barely heard from him. When he did call, she says he was concerned about whether his identity would stay private. "He was expecting me to protect him." According to Rhoades, she hadn't signed an NDA and hadn't received a payout to keep his name to herself. She says she was in love with him, and that was why she kept quiet publicly about who he was. The expectation of secrecy was there even though, in her account, he was barely checking in on her during the pregnancy. Then she made a joke about having "NBA DNA in me for 10 months." The joke didn't include his name, but it referred to the father through the league he played in. She says her phone rang again after she made jokes about him. "He did not like those jokes."

In 2011, a Bloomberg reporter told Elon Musk that BYD was ramping up electric car production, and that Warren Buffett owned 10%. Musk laughed before he answered. "Have you seen their car?" The reporter had seen BYD's cars at the Berkshire Hathaway meeting. He brought up the lower price. Musk wasn't impressed. "I don't think they have a great product." Not particularly attractive. The technology was not very strong. Their focus, he said, should be "making sure they don't die in China." In 2025, BYD sold 2,256,714 battery electric cars. Tesla delivered 1,636,129.

Matt Damon turned down a $250,000,000 offer from James Cameron for the lead role in Avatar. In 2006, Cameron called Damon about starring in a sci-fi film called Avatar. Cameron wanted a proven A-lister for the lead role. He offered Damon 10% of the film’s entire box office gross. But Damon was finishing The Bourne Ultimatum. Taking the role in Avatar meant leaving post-production and walking out on director Paul Greengrass and his crew. Damon said no. Cameron told him: "This movie doesn't need a star. If you pass, I'll discover some unknown guy." The role went to Sam Worthington for scale. Avatar went on to gross nearly $2.9B worldwide. Damon’s 10% cut would have earned him roughly $250 million. Damon still jokes: "You will never meet an actor who turned down more money."

Jamie Dimon called Bitcoin buyers stupid when it was trading at around $4,000. Bitcoin went on to rise over 1,500% after that speech. In 2017, JPMorgan's CEO compared it to the 17th-century tulip bubble. He said he would fire any of his traders who bought it: "I would fire them in a second. For two reasons: it's against our rules, and they are stupid." Listen to how certain he sounds. The head of one of the world's biggest banks saw the asset as a fraud and its buyers as fools. JPMorgan later became an authorized participant for BlackRock's Bitcoin ETF. Dimon's own bank now builds blockchain systems for institutional clients. First they mock you, then they take a 1% management fee on your asset. Did Wall Street finally lose to Bitcoin, or just take control of it?

Ryan Reynolds paid Deadpool's writers from his own salary so they could stay on set. He had spent nearly a decade trying to get the first film made. When Fox finally approved it, he still couldn't get the studio to pay for Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick to be there during filming. The two writers had worked on the script with him for at least six years. Reynolds wanted to keep that team together while they shot it. "I took the little salary I had left and paid them to be on set with me so we could form a de facto writers room," he told The New York Times. Reese and Wernick confirmed it back in 2016: Fox wouldn't pay for them to be on set. Reynolds paid out of his own pocket. He later said he hadn't been expecting a hit when the film was approved. In the interview below, he talks about what the small budget forced them to do. Tim Miller, he says, "squeezed $10 out of every dollar they gave us."