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Sex trafficking advocate, Jaco Bouillons, joins us now. Jaco, your sister was trafficked in the music industry. What does this story tell you now?

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Jessie, thank you for having me on. Yes, my sister Ilanka, her story of trafficking started in the music industry. She was trafficked over a six-year period by a record label executive. The industry is rife. With this, there's a lot of cover up because people are, as you so eloquently state, Sarah They are sceptitiously filmed. They are blackmailed. Remember, human trafficking's definition is the exploitation of persons through the mechanism of force, fraud, and coercion, all of them present in this case.

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The CEO of Universal Records. Universal Records is the biggest record place in the whole world, almost. They have so much talent that they've signed, and he's named as a defendant. We're not accusing him of anything. We're reading from the complaint, but he is accused of participating in acts, in sponsoring acts, in paying for acts. How high does this go?

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It does go all the way to the top, Jesse, and unfortunately, also all the way to the bottom. Remember, this is a crime that's fueled by demand, and the demand for sex trafficking in this country is out of control. But you talk about Universal. Remember, Universal has multiple labels underneath Universal. Something that's very interesting that's going to unravel here is when you start looking at the management companies that manage clusters of these artists. They work in groups. They ring fence themselves. They protect themselves. As Kat Williams so eloquently says, they have blackmail power on everybody. If you show up, whether you had good intentions or not, and you're at the party and there's miners in sexual activity, you're filmed, you get a knock on the door in the morning, and they to hush-hush, particularly politicians and executives.

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Yeah, politicians, executives, athletes, a lot of up and coming musical talent. Do you see any similarities between the Epstein situation and this because Epstein was mentioned in this complaint.

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A lot of similarities. The difference here is we're going to a place now where we never went with Harvey Weinstein. In the Weinstein case, you did not have as many people exposed and implicated. Epstein did a great job in protecting his world, and those in his world, albeit celebrity, they were not necessarily entertainers. They were people of stature in the financial services industry, politicians, people of power. Here you've got people in the entertainment business who normally have loose lips. Once they start talking, now it's going to get interesting to see which other artists come out. Some of the artists you've already mentioned tonight, how they're going to talk, their handlers, their managers, their personal assistants, because people always see Jesse. We've known this about Diddy for decades. People see they just haven't been talking, and now they're talking. Yeah.

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A lot of money going to law enforcement to pay them off, according to the complaint, which I just don't get when you hear about underage women being sex trafficked. It's just, it's just halacious. Jaco, thanks so much. Click here to subscribe to the Fox News YouTube page to catch our hottest interviews and most compelling analysis. Won't get it anywhere else.