MSNBC Investigates: Hollywood Vice (2000)

Cable television special about prostitutes in Hollywood, California.

[@crystalsummers1975]

I wish MSNBC would bring the documentary series back! These and the Lockup episodes!

[@skinnyfurby6543]

What's sad is Hollywood is still exactly like this. It attracts really desperate and broken people

[@Havaseet2]

Maybe, and having something happen to you as a child is horrible, however Brandy the escort seems to use her one time trauma as an excuse to continue being a prostitute. She's completely convinced she can't do anything else with her life along with a ridiculous has a sense of entitlement like the world owes her something. See her display it here--> 40:58 "She has bills to pay!! By god! and I DESERVE IT!!" Attitude. She's a disgusting individual in every sense of the word..

[@crystalsummers1975]

Brandy claims to have had a wonderful childhood, but was running away at the age of 11 and getting into a car with a stranger? I imagine her trauma began way before she ran away.

[@metallicatt316]

Thank you so much for posting this. MSNBC used to make the best documentaries and this was one of my favorites.

[@robertwisdom1494]

Those two vice cops with the porno mustaches got my Spidey sense tingling??? Like they were a little too into it & I'm forced to wonder how many unfortunate woman were victimized by those two officers?

[@micheledaly5823]

It is scary how many sick heartless people are in this world.To rape a child at gunpoint.He ruined her life and the sad thing is he probably didn't lose a night of sleep or be punished for it.

[@nicestar2198]

i feel so bad for brandi i wish she could've tooken a better path

[@metallicatt316]

I have always wondered what happened to her. I have tried to "google" updates on this doc but never found anything.

[@ivantheterriblepart3]

Connie Bennett I wanna know also. Trying to find her also

[@hamsarosenberg4325]

Good documentary

[@maria199736]

"the new technology of the internet" oh my days...😂

[@beth-bi9yv]

This seems so much older then 2000....

[@WithoutRemorse12]

valerie butt It was probably filmed in 1999 and released in 2000.

[@nicestar2198]

it does

[@peanutforever2191]

That's what I was thinking, too. I was in my early 20s in 2000, and I really thought we were much cooler than what we actually were. :)

[@ivantheterriblepart3]

I thought the same thing

[@Nina.92]

I hope Brandy is doing ok🥺

[@lisaallen918]

Dec first 2017 I stop working the streets

[@williammuir1765]

What the officers do is illegal to do in the U.K.

[@dummysexy7856]

Cops in the US have immense power and a lot of them abuse that power with no responsibility. If a fucker is spending more time moral policing people and not solving hunger problems, kick that son of a bitch out of power ASAP else he/she will destroy the society.

[@ivantheterriblepart3]

My heart broke for brandy. Does anyone know an update on her?

[@johnwebsterwallace4884]

The undercover police...They're just creeps. Entrapment, should be a criminal offence.

[@rickuyeda4818]

I use to file cases for the LA County Sheriff's Vice Squad. Very few arrests are actually filed because they are either Entrapment or no crime has occurred. What's required for a prostitution arrest? The suspect has to agree to an exchange of money for a sex act. An example of a bad arrest? The "John" made a deal to exchange money for a sex act. The problem? He said he would have to run to the ATM. Vice arrested him before he had any money. You would need the money to show furtherance of the crime.

[@karenwilson9528]

Why would police be 'battling' prostitution at all?

[@tristanbulluss9386]

Whys it against the law to pay for sex? I dont get it.

[@crystalsummers1975]

Because the government can’t control it.

[@WithoutRemorse12]

Cleaning up the streets for business owners but neglecting real social problems at the center that make women vulnerable to sex trafficking. Such as Poverty.

[@Eileo50]

Why don’t they challenge the demand!!

[@charneljoseph4531]

how millages that you got in this pussycat

[@peanutforever2191]

These days, MSNBC would make a documentary about how the cop said he wasn't sure what transgender was.

[@KahlessTheUnforgettable]

Can you elaborate? It’s clear you are transgender, so your info would be appreciated!

[@samsngdevice5103]

Did he say prosting is a new game in la?

[@samsngdevice5103]

She did not make $300 an hour oh, she is lying through her Brown teeth. She's no better, smarter, or sophisticated than anyone else, she is just a common Criminal who does not pay taxes like you and I. Put her in jail and make her advertise on website indeed.com and do a good deed for Society

[@elleash3040]

Ok incel

[@DNCT]

Someone is jealous lol 😂. get over yourself.

[@KahlessTheUnforgettable]

@@DNCT Yeah, nothing more envy-inducing then herpes 🦠

[@DNCT]

@@KahlessTheUnforgettable Sex workers are more safe than normal women because unlike “normal people” who like to have drunk hookups where you don’t check for STD’s or use condoms half the time, and unlike people who raw dog because “I only do it with my boyfriend” as if that keeps you safe, workers use condoms, get tested and check for STD’s. This man I criticized wasn’t even concerned about STD’s😂. He was just saying no way she makes the money she does. Except $300 is about the basic going rate in a big city. Lastly, lots of non sex workers have herpes. Herpes is sadly very common. In fact because less of you are as safe as sex workers, you spread it so much.

[@KahlessTheUnforgettable]

@@DNCT Sounds like I struck close to home! She doesn’t make that much money; the one thing true across all street folk is that they lie like rugs. Yeah, someone hooking for money to feed a habit is crazy hygienic! $300 is the basic going rate in a major city? 😂 Honey, you need to actually visit a major city, like the one I live in; where tricks are turned for as little as $10 for oral sex. I’ve been a paramedic too long to listen to your happy horseshit about the “clean” ho with the heart of gold. Not to mention, this doc is over 20 years old and the streets in major cities are awash in the MUCH cheaper and MUCH more addictive Fentanyl which has completely changed the landscape of street life. Sweetheart, I get tested monthly for all of these “social diseases” you think are so noble and common as part of my job & I know I’m clean due to good training and clean living; but don’t let me disabuse you of your fantasies of honest whores and chivalrous pimps 🫡