(Air Force Amy) – My take on the upcoming A& E series – “Secrets of the Bunny Ranch” – is that it’s a sensationalized bunch of garbage to profit off the backs of those women.
I was a hostile participant – and that pissed them off to no end.
Robin Bicknell, a producer, acted like I was on a witness stand the way she grilled me and stated her own bias during the entire interview.
I told her that a TV show was not the proper venue for these accusations. Where were they for the 25 -30 years Dennis was alive and running the Bunny Ranch?
Dennis loved the media. There was media on that property every week of the year. Where was all their “exposé” reporting then?
A&E and Robin Bicknell and Jon Sufrin, another producer, just got a big payday off the backs of prostitutes who already gave up more than their fair share. In my book they are even worse than the lowest pimp.
The stories are all those women had left of their truth and the producers had to extract and exploit that for their own gain. I am sickened with disgust at the levels they went to in order to sensationalize happenings that can’t even be proven.
Give them a voice? We all have a voice. I told them there was no way I was going to give them any dirt or juicy details or even support any claims so as to dilute my own story.
Why would I give them my true story and watch them get paid but not me or anyone else that participated? Who are they to profit off my life or anyone’s life for no pay to the subject?
HBO all over again.
These “documentaries” are the cheapest and fastest to produce.
Non-scripted documentaries are the rage because of their ease and small price to produce.
The producers can make around $200-500k on the front end – and then royalties on the back end to the tune of several millions. And the people who participate only get a hotel room.
This is the same way HBO produced the reality series “Cathouse” – which was produced at the Bunny Ranch. They paid the extras – gave them free drinks and free sex too – but did not pay the working girls.
They never paid me a dime except for the musical – because I enlisted a lawyer to speak on my behalf.
Documentaries don’t abide by SAG rules for the participants, only the crew. And the levels that producers stoop to get a riveting word or action out of a participant is abhorring too.
The way in which I was grilled and raked over the coals by Robin Bicknell was the most abused I felt in a very long time. I felt so assaulted and emotionally raped that I literally could not be touched by another human being for three days afterwards.
They made me look old and haggard by way of angles, lighting and make up. On set, I literally could not understand why my make-up was so off.
It wasn’t until I took their false lashes off that I realized their make-up person had put an extra half lash strip on my eyes to make them look small and beady.
Their dirty and underhanded tricks are matched by none. I’ve dealt with many a dirty, sleazy producer, but these guys take the cake.
They took words out of context and sensationalized them. For example, “murder” in the trailer? AND an image of a gun?
They made it look like I was talking about a murder at the Bunny Ranch – which did not happen. And that was less than one minute of what was aired.
The network and the producers are shameless self-serving opportunists. What they do and how they do it has to be criminal in some way. I hope they all rot in the worst of hells.
I have a story – a very interesting and entertaining story with lots of twists and turns. I am devoting a great deal of time this year to writing, producing and advocacy.
Do I believe what the women have to say in this fake docu-series?
I believe the women have their own truths. I cannot believe in good faith that their truths were reported or portrayed correctly or in any semblance of truth just because of the way A&E slanted and biased all filming and editing.
These losers didn’t even have an original idea. All they did was find disgruntled employees to sensationalize what VICE had already aired a few months prior.
The whole thing just reeks of cheap, underhanded, filthy, sleazy sensationalizing for a pay day. Profiting off other’s miseries.
Disgusting. Utterly disgusting.
So all the while the these fake self-righteous bottom feeding networks and producers have a field day and many a pay day off the backs of the already marginalized and oppressed while enjoying the beaten-to-death rule of “sex sells.”
They point their fingers at the innocent women and an industry that operates in the shadows and never enact any type of change or help in the women’s favor in any way.
HBO filmed on property for nearly a decade and never reported anything on the hand that fed them.
So there you go. That is how their industry operates and it is way more appalling than any pimp I ever worked for.
P.S. Here is a link to the statement that Chuck Muth – director of the Nevada Brothel Association and Dennis Hof’s campaign manager – put out ahead of the airing of this A&E smear piece.
Air Force Amy is famous as a Legal Courtesan, HBO Cathouse Star, Model, CoverGirl, Centerfold. Author, Screenwriter, Consultant. The opinions expressed by contributors are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of Nevada News & Views.
