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Watch Wesley Snipes Explain Hollywood's Pimp-and-Ho-Based Talent Agency System
By Mark Lisanti atThis is fascinating: Back in 2008, vampire-hunting tax crusader Wesley Snipes was locked in a legal battle with his talent agency over some unpaid commissions. (We don't want to make assumptions about the specifics of the case, but perhaps the dispute had something to do with the actor's well-documented philosophical aversion to sharing any percentage of his hard-earned income with strong-arming outside entities.) Today, the Hollywood Reporter unearths some video of Snipes's mind-blowing deposition, during which he very calmly explains how the agencies are essentially Armani-clad Don Magic Juans shaking down their stables of movie-star hos. You'd be criminally insane not to watch the video first, but here's the kicker:












