BangBros Launches A PR Campaign Against Mia Khalifa
Mia Khalifa became one of the most famous porn stars in the industry in the previous decade despite only a few months of experience. While her time in porn undoubtedly brought her fame and notoriety, she has been vocal about regretting her time there, at one point noting she's received only $12,000 from her time in the industry, hardly the amount of money one would expect a performer of her pedigree. She also has said she only worked in porn for "three months."
After months of Khalifa's outspokenness about her time in the industry, BangBros, a website she was contracted by in 2014, has set up a website dedicated to countering Khalifa's claims.
"Although Mia makes many false statements, innuendos, and accusations, we have tried to stay silent and allow Mia to have her publicity stunt without responding," the website says. "Mia has taken our silence as an 'all clear' to not only continue but ramp up her false statements. We, therefore have no choice but to respond to the most glaring, objectively false statements. The following are facts over Mia’s fiction."
BangBros alleges that Khalifa is lying about the $12,000 number, saying she has made $178,000 solely from her work with BangBros, adding that she may have made more money from her work from other companies. They also allege Khalifa is lying about having only spent "3 months" in the industry, saying she worked from 2014-2017.
The website attempts to debunk several other claims Khalifa has made, but they provide no sources backing up their counter-allegations. The site also produced a video going into their counter-allegations, posting it to their Instagram (shown below).
With no proof from either side about the allegations, the situation currently appears to be a "he said, she said" type of affair, and people have come out supporting both parties. Khalifa's outspoken allegations regarding her time in the porn industry have led her supporters to set up a Change.org petition demanding she be given rights to her performer name and that her videos be removed from BangBros and Pornhub. At the time of writing, it has over 1.8 million signatures.
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Arkayen
"I ONLY MADE $12,000!!!!"
Net worth of 4 million.
Arkayen
You know, it doesn't help your false narrative when you link to the site telling the truth about her, and claim that they have nothing to back it up, when there are multiple refutations that have links showing them to be right.
Arkayen
I absolutely do not believe Mia Khalifa's version of this story. Not a single word of it.
ThisIsMyThrowaway
I understand she is trying to distance herself from porn, cool, Mia, you do that. But she has to accept that porn is the reason why she has become famous and why a lot of her sponsorships and brand deals are being given to her. Plenty of people have done porn but established their career elsewhere where that was just a smudge on their work experience.
Throwing temper tantrums and basking in the fame without building an actual identity ain't going to make people forget that your personality is largely attributed to porn.
Tectus
I think y'all need to actually have a look at her history and the BS she's spouting before starting the usual "porn industry is Hitler" circlejerk.
TL;DR: Her family moved from Lebanon to the US when she was 10. She got into porn at the age of 21 and did a scene for BangBros where she fucked some dudes while wearing a hijab. The muslim world went fucking nuts and eventually her ultra-conservative Catholic family found out and disowned her.
Now she's bitter about not getting even more money out of her stint as a porn actor and is suddenly playing the victim, perhaps in hopes of re-establishing contact with her family, extorting money out of her ex-employers, or just changing her public image from a porn actress who knew what she was doing to one who was seriously mistreated by the industry.
If anything, BangBros are the good guys.. Put yourself into their shoes. An ex-employee/contractor begins to slander your company, alleging you're one of those companies, the ones who mistreat their performers in the most horrific ways. What the fuck are you supposed to do? Just take it and say nothing?
derekcadro
i agree 100%, people seem to think it's this david vs goliath situation, she was attacking them constantly and spouting off bullshit. The only chink in their armor is they didnt supply pay stubs and tax reports? what company is going to come out and do that? Hell if you visit the miakhalifa website and the bangbros website you can already see she shot way more than 12 scenes. Nothing she says adds up ever.
ThisIsMyThrowaway
I remember she was a commentator on a Roosterteeth podcast. Remembered she said a lot of things that can easily make someone not like her. Which it did, the podcast was canceled after like a dozen episodes with people being really annoyed at Mia's personality.
Arkayen
She claims she only did 12 scenes? Pull the other one Mia. There are more than 12 scenes just by putting her name into any search engine, and going to "videos".
Noside
Oh yeah, she's been "vocal" alright, espcially with "sausages". :v
RemChi
Mia Kalifa : Women get treated like dirt in the adult film industry, and it taints our careers forever even if we try to move on. Theres little to protect them from terrible contracts, or leverage for proper pay. You either get dicked and get dicked or never get in at all.
Porn Industry : Validates everything she says
Arkayen
Validates everything she says by pointing out that she spouts off nothing but lies?
Sai
Nice. Porn drama.
JungleEvil
Being that she is a “Pr0n Star”, is this an example of actual &/or metaphorical * ahem * Butt Hurt?
Arkayen
She actually couldn't handle anal. There's a video of it (not a Bangbros video… Huh) where she just can't handle it.