Luxury Escort. Why?

In Italy, there has just been an investigation that found a kind of high-end escort network circulating through Milan’s nightlife, employed mainly by sportsmen, footballers, and other millionaires passing through.

Naturally, the first question that comes to mind is another one: why, in the final analysis, not revisit the Merlin Law? That is Italy’s 1958 abolitionist law on prostitution. It shut down state-regulated brothels and made it a crime to exploit or facilitate someone else’s prostitution, while not criminalising prostitution itself between consenting adults. The social, cultural, and economic conditions that once justified it have long since disappeared. In one sense or another, that law is obsolete and ought to be rewritten.

But that is not, in fact, the real point.

The clients in question were not lonely pensioners, nor people who, under normal circumstances, would struggle to find companionship. Here we are talking about genuine athletes, often very well-built, generally millionaires, and therefore with every resource needed to offer a girl or a woman a pleasant evening, perhaps even a quality one, before ending up in bed. And let us be clear: we are talking about the movida district, meaning the nightlife zone, the stretch of bars, clubs, and late-night venues where people go to drink, socialize, flirt, and look for company. In a place like that, if your aim is to go to bed with men of that sort, the queue is certainly not lacking.

So the real question is this: why does someone find himself in the middle of a place full of beautiful girls and, instead of making a move on his own, call an escort agency?

This is where the usual "theorem of the fifty shades of gray" comes in:

the difference between a serial criminal who kidnaps and tortures poor girls and the protagonist of a supermarket BDSM novel is that the latter has ten zeroes in the bank.

And that already says enough about the level of industrial hypocrisy in circulation.

The point is that we are not talking about four ordinary desperate losers here, but about young, handsome, athletic, rich, and famous men. People who, in theory, could have any woman they want. In practice, however, they know perfectly well that the wrong woman can turn into a complaint, a blackmail attempt, a career flushed down the toilet, and months of trials, newspaper headlines, and media lynching.

That is why many of them are not looking for sex: they are looking for safety and peace of mind. They want a service with no friction, no surprises, no risk that the evening ends up in court instead of in the bedroom. And that is exactly why they go where sex is bought, negotiated, and consumed like a service: because there at least they know what they are paying for.

The truth is brutal: if you are rich and famous, the “normal” girl is no longer just a girl. She is a risk. She is a possible complaint, a possible trap, a possible first-page disaster. And the ones too stupid to understand that end up on the newspapers sooner or later, with a fool’s face and a career hanging by a complaint.

To say it without anesthesia: for a man with money, visibility, and reputation, free sex is often the fastest way to ruin his life. Forget spontaneity, forget romance, forget moral bullshit.

It is a vicious market, and those who have a lot to lose buy prudence, not illusions.

The price paid to the escort, then, is not the price of a service, but an insurance cost. And this is where the argument will immediately start about the fact that false rape accusations are, according to some, “rare.”

But that is because people take random samples of the population and do the counting. If, instead, one took only the sample of rich and famous men, and looked at how many have faced a rape or harassment accusation that was later dropped, the numbers would be very different.

The received wisdom at this point says that the mere fact of being acquitted would not prove, but only in the case of rape, that the accusation was false. So, you are acquitted, therefore you are innocent, but you still cannot say that the accuser lied knowingly. According to this kind of hairsplitting, you are innocent of the rape charge, but the accusation that you committed rape is not false.

A perfect recipe for a public lynching, but the legal hair-splitters find it logical.

Too bad that, once the trial has closed without a finding of guilt against you, if the woman keeps insisting that you raped her, you can sue her for slander. And that shows that ideologies can distort the law, but only up to a point.

The funny, and rather suspicious, thing is that nobody has ever done statistical or numerical studies on how often rich and famous men are accused of rape by poor, unknown women, and that is then used to claim that the thesis must be false.

But at that point I can use the very same principle applied to false rape accusations and answer that the absence of data does not mean my accusation is false.

And that brings us back to the market as evidence.

What we see when we look into the world of organized prostitution, especially in cases like the escort trade for footballers and famous athletes, is this: men and boys who would not need to pay women for sex go into the movida, where there is an abundance of women willing to have sex with them; and yet they still pay luxury escorts, at 5,000 or 10,000 euros a night, to have sex with women.

And at this point we can ask the next question: if a form of insurance against false rape accusations costs 5,000 or 10,000 euros a time, how large is the market for false rape accusations, and what sums are changing hands?

The figures, then, are at the extreme upper end of the scale — 5,000 to 10,000 euros a shot — but they do exist. Standard or premium escorts in Milan or Rome: 150 to 500 euros an hour.

High-end escorts — models, former beauty queens, polyglots, companions for events : 700 to 2,000 euros for two hours or an overnight stay.

Top-tier or “all-inclusive” packages for footballers and VIPs — club plus hotel plus escort —: thousands of euros per night, as shown by a very recent Milan prosecutor’s investigation in April 2026, in which a company from Cinisello Balsamo was allegedly organising packages costing “thousands of euros” for Serie A footballers and entrepreneurs, with 1.2 million euros in profits seized.

Extra-exclusive weekends or nights can really reach 5,000 to 10,000 euros and beyond, as confirmed by luxury agency ads and forums.

So yes, the market exists, and wealthy men use it.

That brings us to the next question: with prices like these, how much does the risk of false rape accusations “cost”? Is there a way to calculate it? Yes — and it is called revealed preference.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revealed_preference

Sure, instead of revealed preferences I could use utility theory, and the numbers would not improve at all; they would get worse, to the detriment of my detractors. In the end, in logical terms, the two theories are equivalent.

Economic calculation of the perceived risk of a false rape accusation through revealed preference

Variables

I = cost of the “insurance” (one night with a luxury escort)
Typical range: 5,000 euros (low) – 10,000 euros (high)

C = total expected cost of a false accusation for a rich/famous man
Realistic range: 1,000,000 euros (low) – 10,000,000 euros (high)
(legal fees + reputational damage + loss of contracts/sponsors)

p = perceived probability of facing a false accusation in a single “free” encounter

Expected value formula

p ≈ I / C

Perceived probability per encounter

Annual cumulative risk for a single individual

If n “free” encounters take place per year, the perceived cumulative risk is:

n × p × C = n × I

Example with 20 encounters per year:

• at I = 5,000 euros → 100,000 euros per year of implicit “insurance premium”
• at I = 10,000 euros → 200,000 euros per year of implicit “insurance premium”

Estimated overall implicit market (Italian VIP segment)

Conservative assumptions:

• 150–250 individuals (top-level footballers/businessmen)
• 10–20 paid nights per year each
• 20–50% of spending motivated by false-accusation risk

Annual value = N × encounters × I × risk share

Medium example:

200 VIPs × 15 nights × 7,000 euros × 30% = about 6.3 million euros per year

With a 50% risk share: over 10 million euros per year.

This value represents both the “premium” paid in the market and the total expected value of the perceived risk (p × C × number of encounters).

As you can see from the revealed-preference calculation, threatening to excommunicate every academic who dares investigate the phenomenon of false rape cases, or withholding the data, is useless.

All you need is the price of escorts, plus a few plausible assumptions — mine are extremely cautious, especially as regards perceived risk — and the laws of the market will do the rest. And then we can say one thing:

if footballers, athletes, and other celebrities prefer escorts to the queue of “normal” women who would gladly go to bed with them at the current price, that means there is a market for false rape accusations that may be worth 6 to 10 million euros a year.

If there are data saying otherwise, then those data are simply false. Or falsified.

This market, these sums I am pointing to, are the amount of money that rich and famous men pay, every year, to “silence” rape accusations. Six to ten million euros a year.

It is an estimate, not a direct measurement, and that is precisely why it is methodologically sound: I state the assumptions, keep them conservative, and derive an order of magnitude from observable numbers and a clear economic link. In that sense, the model is more robust than many economic theories that claim precision without having equally explicit foundations.

The problem exists, but it is not investigated. But never mind — the market takes care of it.

What happens is this: with figures like these, escort prices become perfectly reasonable. Otherwise they could simply sleep with their admirers and fans. For free.

And that explains that escort business at those prices.

It is simple.