Luxury home in Montreal owned by Pornhub exec burned down in apparent arson

A luxury home under construction and owned by an executive of the online pornography site Pornhub was burned down after a fire deemed to be arson tore through the structure late Sunday.

The property, worth an estimated $19.5 million, will be visited by Montreal police arson investigators Monday morning after the flames spread so quickly overnight that three alarms were sounded summoning 80 Montreal firefighters to the scene.

Police said they became aware of the incident after receiving a 911 call at 11:30 p.m. reporting that two individuals had broken into the building on Jean-Bourdon St. near Gouin Blvd.

While the main source of the fire was brought under control by 2:30 a.m., several other fires inside the eight-bedroom, seven-bathroom residence needed to be put out and firefighters were still at the scene early Monday.

Three neighbouring residences were evacuated as a precaution, however all residents had returned to their homes by Monday morning.

https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/luxury-home-in-montreal-owned-by-pornhub-exec-burned-down-in-apparent-arson

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The house that porn built: Pornhub founder Feras Antoon is using his fortune to build massive mansion on Montreal nature reserve for his wife and two sons as the adult site comes under fire for exploiting children and violent sex

Syrian-born Pornhub founder Feras Antoon, 45,has spent a fortune building a castle for his wife and two sons

He bought two lots of land next in a Montreal nature reserve for CAN$2.3 million (US$1.8 million)

He paid cash four years ago and has spent millions more building the home of his dreams

DailyMail.com can reveal that the luxury mansion is near completion and the home backs on to Montreal's 'Mafia Row where many crime figures live

Pornhub has been hit with claims it was hosting videos of underage sex

The company temporarily halted unverified users from uploading videos

In a complaint filed Tuesday in California, alleged victims say the company 'knew it was partnering with and profiting from a sex trafficking venture for years'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9065503/Pornhub-founder-Feras-Antoon-building-massive-mansion-Montreal-nature-reserve.html

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'Ndrangheta: Hunting members of the mafia that's bigger than La Cosa Nostra

It may not look like "The Godfather" or "Goodfellas," but Southern Italy is in the grips of a crime syndicate much bigger than the Cosa Nostra, the inspiration for those movies. It's called the 'Ndrangheta and its members keep a much lower profile while controlling an estimated 50% to 80% of Europe's cocaine trade.

That more modest lifestyle was on display when 60 Minutes+ went with law enforcement into the forest in Calabria, a region the 'Ndrangheta has in a stranglehold. Members of an elite hybrid military-police force called the Cacciatori - which in Italian translates to, "the hunters"- showed Seth Doane a small hideout covered in earth that blended into the side of a mountain. An 'Ndrangheta member on the run had been captured there while making his morning coffee.

"This is another characteristic of the 'Ndrangheta," said Antonio Nicaso, who grew up in Calabria and is an expert on the group. He told Doane, "If you go in Calabria, you don't see places that show the wealth of a mobster. Once I asked to a former mobster, 'How can you live that kind of life, underground?' And the answer was, 'Yes, I was living like a mouse, like a rat. But I was capable to appoint the persons of power in an important position.' Money comes and goes – but power – it's the ultimate goal."

That power was cemented in the 1980s with a major investment in drug trafficking. Now, the 'Ndrangheta - which means "men of valor" - earns an estimated annual revenue of more than $50 billion, more than half of which comes from cocaine.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ndrangheta-mafia-la-cosa-nostra-60-minutes-2021-04-20/