it's a good question actually uh all right bob smithy's
uh do the billionaire men use expensive prostitutes and where do they get them from
um okay first of all uh they're not called prostitutes when the high class they are
called escorts okay so um where do they get do they use escorts and where do they get them from
yes they do uh obviously not all of them some of them are married the ones who are not married
they some some use escort agencies um i know um of one owner who met his wife through an agency uh
one of these agencies so he he used the agency they sent out this woman who was a model and
he obviously liked her and used a number of occasions and eventually he started to have
a proper relationship with it and they got married so if you look at some of the videos
i've done in the past about luna for instance and that divorce settlement you might understand
a little bit more why they do this but some yacht owners actually have have relationships
with women and they have a contract drawn up so the woman basically gets a salary
and so they have a relationship but she's paid a salary every month so let's say she gets paid
20 000 euros a month and it's written into a contract and in that contract she has to uh
the agreement is that she has to be available whenever he needs whenever he wants to get
together she needs to perform um professionally um whenever he wants or so many times
per week or per day or depending on what the contract says but basically the woman has this
contract written up she gets very well looked after in the sense of remoneration should i say
and um yeah they have a they have a contract and this is to avoid uh you know getting into
a relationship where he has to have uh lawyers involved and trying to do divorce settlements or
comment because because in european countries you have a common-law wife system where
if you live together with someone for two years then that woman can actually get a
divorce settlement just like they were married so they so to to avoid these kind of things
the owners have these contracts written up and the people sign it and then and the contracts
are generally a one year or two year contracts and at the end of those contracts sometimes the owners
they um they uh move along move on and they get a new a new woman in with a different contract
or with a new contract and the other woman is um you know dispatched and uh and they um they
get a new woman in and they start all over so this is the way they work to protect their money
how do the crew deal with this what when the owner has these women on board because
you know sometimes the owner will bring on other other women um when the woman that's in
the contract is not on board and um it creates a bit of um you know a bit of a problem for the crew
how do they refer to the people especially when they're talking on the radio you know like if
if the woman goes ashore shopping for instance and and uh the crew need to go and pick her up
then they need to refer to them on the radio um so they they generally have ways to get around that
um for instance um some some vessels use a code for it um some boats they use the initials of the
people so bw needs to go somewhere or something like that so owner's girlfriend is on board
she's going shopping she's getting picked up or she's getting dropped off the the crew are
on the radio maybe he's a new crew member doesn't know the name only had one name being used calls
out the wrong name now the owner's girlfriend is like who's this person that you're talking about
so only initials will be used or the code will be used so the crew don't get anyone
into trouble or get themselves into trouble um there was a there have been situations where the
the the girlfriend um has um been on her way out obviously she doesn't know that
and she wants to stay of course because she's you know she's dating this guy who's a billionaire
she's been getting 10 20 30 000 euros a month for the last two years plus a credit card so you can
go shopping and buy whatever she wants um you know so unsurprisingly she wants to keep those
things going so she becomes very concentrated on trying to convince the owner to maybe give her
a new contract but he's already moving on so he's already got other people coming on board etc so um
yeah so it can get a little bit tricky for the crew and they have to be discreet and uh they
have to be professional about it and just get on with it it's a job to them at the end of the
day but yeah it can happen where where things can get a little bit ugly on board and that's
part of the that's part of the yachting part of what we have to deal with in the i think industry