For what it's worth…blind item from today's CDAN:
Today's Blind Items - Distinguished Visitors
The disgraced producer has a card up his sleeve. Yes, I know, those are huge sleeves. He has some information he wants to trade. He hasn't played it yet, but it is a story he has told before, but didn't name names. When he has told it before he says he went with some people and met some people and although a little more specific, it wasn't much more than that.
Now though, that his future is a little more precarious, more details are coming out about the story he wants to share. He says that he was a frequent visitor to this Southeast Asian country and he had several movie he either backed or distributed that were made there. Back when he first started going there he ran into a guy who he thought was a government worker, but was a lot of fun and always had great coke and great women. A couple of years go by and they meet up again for a week of debauchery and our producer discovers that the guy is no ordinary government worker but has the power to do whatever he wants in the country and no one will question him. The producer sees the advantage to this with all kinds of costs and benefits and other more sordid things too. Our government worker is willing to trade whatever but wants to sleep with several Hollywood actresses he has always crushed on.
Our disgraced producer provided some low level B and C listers but our government worker wanted someone special. He actually wanted two different people and our producer came through. One is a former A+ list mostly movie actress who had her own reasons for wanting the man on her good side. The other was a foreign born A list mostly movie actress who is an Oscar winner/nominee and after she did the deed got herself a passport from the country and a 400% increase in salary for her next movie.
Our disgraced producer got tax credits and favors. What kind of favors. Well, apparently a lot of those pesky trafficking laws didn't apply to this government worker and there were all kinds of sex parties. There sure were a lot more government officials deciding to have conferences in the country after word got around they would be safe. There were more movies being filmed and travel specials. The producer kept track through his government friend who did what and with whom they did it. He has names and all of the dirt and if he needs to, he will collect. That government worker is even more in a place to help now.