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CRIME REPORT A STAR ON THE FIELD AAP; PICTURE MEDIA; AUSTRAL GAMEBUT OFF IT, HE WAS PLAYING A As football fans were transfixed by the 2010 World Cup, one of Brazil’sSINISTER star players was allegedly preoccupied with a plot to kill his ex-lover – just to save a few dollars on child support. By Carmen Michael and Chiara Rimoldi

CRIME REPORT THE WIFE Dayanne Rodrigues do Carmo Souza. THE HIT MAN Ex-policeman Marcos “Bola” Aparecido dos Santos under arrest in Minas Gerais. THE ACCOMPLICES Left: ex-model Eliza THE MISTRESS their eyebrows when the devoted Above left: after receiving Samudio displays the Macarrão tattooed the words “Bruno and information from Luiz “Macarrão” Henrique Romão first signs of her pregnancy Fernanda Gomes Castro Maka … the friendship nor the force Fernandes’s teenage and Sérgio Rosa Sales Camelo (right). in Rio last year. Above: leaving prison in August. of time will destroy true love” across cousin, police search the former Flamengo captain his shoulder blades, Fernandes was an house of former policeman and goalkeeper Bruno his contract and Detective Moreira says habitual and seemingly insatiable ladies’ Bola for the remains of Fernandes leaves court fans who once thought of Fernandes as man. At the time he says he had group Samudio. Left: the shamed in Belo Horizonte in July. an “idol” can now consider him “a mon- sex with Samudio, he also had a wife goalkeeper in his prime. ster for what he did to this young lady”. (the mother of his two young children), T he beachside streets on the orders of Fernandes – a sporting even penetrated the presidential election AAP; GETTY IMAGES; ALEX DE JESUS/O TEMPO NEWSPAPER; CORBIS a fiancée, a mistress and a lover. “Bruno she was beaten about the in Rio de Janeiro’s hero to millions and a serious contender campaign. “This is a barbaric crime,” said When Eliza Samudio was like a sultan,” his lawyer, Ercio head with a pistol, forced affluent Barra de to represent Brazil at the 2014 World presidential candidate Dilma Rousseff. smiled at Bruno Quaresma, told marie claire in an exclu- to take a substance to bring Tijuca district throb- Cup in Rio de Janerio. His alleged “The whole of Brazil is disgusted by such Fernandes in May sive interview. “He had a lot of women, on an abortion and threat- bed with excitement motive? The libidinous, hot-headed a barbaric and perverse crime.” 2009 (she claimed like a king of Persia.” ened with death if she spoke as football-mad multimillionaire was allegedly furious it was at a barb- to the police. Brazilians readied that Samudio – with whom he’d had While the investigation peeled back ecue; he says it was at an orgy), she was Whether the 2009 “orgy” lasted 20 themselves for the impending 2010 a one-off encounter in 2009 – refused layers of wealth and privilege to expose just another woman at his disposal. She minutes or not, Samudio fell pregnant to The attempted abortion World Cup in South Africa. But high to have an abortion and was incensed by Fernandes’s sex-crazed private life, it was a maria-chuteira, a Brazilian version Fernandes. For the pretty young girl failed and Samudio promptly above in a $300-a-night suite at the her demands for money. was the alleged savagery of Samudio’s of a football groupie, whose computer from a tourist town near Iguazu Falls in lodged a formal charge with the up-market Hotel Transamérica, former murder that deeply disturbed Brazilians. logs revealed she’d had several other southern Brazil, the pregnancy repre- Department for the Assistance model Eliza Samudio was embroiled in “He killed her,” says lead homicide Police allege the 25 year old was beaten footballer lovers. The alleged orgy sented an escape from a troubled past. of Women. When told her case didn’t an off-field football drama of her own. detective Edson Moreira, “because and terrorised for days before being included “[Samudio] and another four of Abandoned at the age of three by her qualify as domestic violence because her he didn’t want to pay child support.” In strangled, dismembered and fed to a pack her friends and my friends”, Fernandes mother and raised by a father who was pregnancy was a result of a one-night Cradling her infant son, Bruninho, a country where footballers are wor- of dogs. Fernandes, 25, was arrested on explained to police in a leaked video. recently accused of raping a 10-year-old stand rather than marriage and that they the svelte brunette texted her lawyer, shipped as gods and violence is a way July 7 after anonymous tip offs and “It was only a thing of 20 minutes.” girl, Samudio’s path was a familiar one. would refer her to the police instead, Anne Faraco, on June 4 and explained of life, Fernandes turned homicidal confessions from two family members she went to the media. On October 15, that the baby’s father – Brazil’s most “because he thought he would get away – Sérgio Rosa Sales Camelo, 22, and a Such liaisons were nothing new to a bruised and fragile Samudio appeared idolised goalkeeper, Bruno Fernandes with it”, says Barbara Soares, a Rio-based teenager who can’t be named. Both claim Fernandes who led a decadent life of on national television to describe what das Dores de Souza – had finally accepted sociologist and domestic violence expert. they saw Samudio handed over to sex parties, prostitutes and luxury cars. paternity of the child. After months of “Because he is famous and rich.” a known hitman and heard Fernandes Isolated by fame and money, he created Police allege 25-year-old [Samudio] was beaten denying that he had ever met her and bit- confess to organising the murder. a cosseted world for himself and and terrorised for days before being strangled, ter refusals to pay child support, the tall, If the police are right, Fernandes is appointed loyal childhood friends, Luiz dismembered and fed to a pack of dogs dark, rich and handsome sportsman also cunning, calculating and ruthless. Police are now holding the football “Macarrão” Henrique Romão and Flávio had agreed to give Samudio a monthly Investigators say Samudio’s murder was star and another eight people – including Caetano de Araújo, as managers of “Team Moving between Rio and São Paulo, had happened to her. Ominously, she allowance, pay her health insurance and cynically orchestrated to take place while his wife, his lover, his two cousins, his Bruno”, allowing them to live with him at she did some modelling work, fell into provide her with a new apartment. the Brazilian media was distracted by the best friend and a notoriously violent his luxurious home in the seaside suburb pornography and ended up frequenting added: “If anything happens to me, World Cup. But even in crime-weary ex-cop turned hit man who is said to have of Recreio. While some observers raised the parties of professional footballers. No-one has heard from Samudio Brazil, the case caught the nation’s full committed the final, gruesome act. For you will know who did it.” since, and although at press time her attention. At the height of the World Cup, Fernandes – the captain of Rio’s popular However, when the pregnancy scan- remains had not been found, police local TV channels streamed virtually Flamengo club – the fall from grace has dal broke in the press in August 2009, An outraged Fernandes told report- believe she was kidnapped and butchered uninterrupted coverage of the case, which been spectacular. Flamengo has torn up Fernandes denied any involvement with Samudio. What looked to be a straight- ers he’d never met Samudio, but when forward case of denied infidelity took a sinister turn the following month a judge ordered paternity testing, he when Samudio was allegedly kidnapped by Fernandes and Macarrão. During revised his story to a brief fling at an the 12-hour abduction, Samudio claimed orgy. In May 2010, Flamengo football club’s lawyers made Samudio an offer of $2200 per month, which her lawyer swiftly rejected on account of it being meagre relative to Fernandes’s estimated lifetime earnings of $20 million. 42 www.marieclaire.com.au 43

CRIME REPORT Clockwise from above: Samudio with (Police confirmed they found blood from to which he allegedly responded: “You the formal charge she filed after she Samudio and the youth in the car.) won’t have to take it anymore because was allegedly kidnapped by Fernandes you are going to die.” Then the former in August 2009; police search for Instead of being taken to their new policeman told the others to leave, so he evidence at Bola’s home; Samudio was home, mother and child were delivered could “finish his work”. allegedly kept in a toilet and tortured for to Fernandes’s ranch in the neighbour- three days at Fernandes’s plush ranch. ing state of Minas Gerais. There, According to Fernandes’s cousins, Fernandes’s blonde mistress, Fernanda once in the clutches of Bola, Samudio is This time, however, the footballer Gomes Castro, allegedly took the baby said to have been strangled, hacked intomaintained a public silence. Instead, from Samudio, who was then locked in a pieces and fed to the dogs. Later, heras records indicate, he placed the first bathroom. When Fernandes’s cousin bones were allegedly set in concrete. Saysof a series of phone calls to Marcos Sérgio went to use the toilet, Macarrão Detective Moreira, Bola is “a man who“Bola” Aparecido dos Santos – a former allegedly told him to use another. “That knew how to kill and how to get rid of apolice officer with the notorious GRE one,” he said, “is occupied by a whore.”Special Response Group – with a fear-some reputation for violence. Having According to Detective Moreira,been expelled from the force for indisci- between June 7 and June 10, a flurrypline in 1992, Bola is thought to have of phone calls took place between Bolastarted a career as a hitman and stands and Macarrão. Meanwhile, Fernandesaccused of murdering two men in 2008 and his friends allegedly beat Samudio in(the case is not yet resolved). According the bathroom between football matchesto Detective Moreira, it was during these and at least one barbecue. Whencalls that Fernandes negotiated a fee of$2000 to have Samudio killed. After the sun set on June 10, Samudio was allegedly bundled into a car and taken to a crumbling brick In early June, police say, Fernandes house in Vespasiano – now dubbed “the abattoir”invited Samudio to Rio and put her up inthe Hotel Transamérica on the pretence Fernandes’s wife, Dayanne, arrived at body”. Back at the ranch, baby Bruninhoof settling their dispute. A newly hopeful the ranch on June 9, she fell into an argu-Samudio contacted friends and her law- ment with the footballer, who allegedly was handed to Dayanne, who placed himyer Anne Faraco, telling them Fernandes took her by the arm to the bathroomhad finally agreed to financially support where the battered and bruised Samudio in the custody of friends. GETTY IMAGES; ALEX DE JESUS/O TEMPO NEWSPAPERher and take her to a new apartment. was held and said: “Is this what youDesperate for money and likely under wanted to see?” It was one of the last Investigators say the cold-bloodedthe illusion that her exposé to the media times anyone saw Samudio alive.would protect her, Samudio agreed to plot tallies with Fernandes’s classicmeet with him once more. After the sun set on June 10, Samudio was allegedly bundled into a car with narcissist tendencies. He demonstrated On June 4, hotel staff reported that Macarrão, Sérgio and the teenage cousina black Range Rover, driven by and taken to a crumbling brick house in a failure to take responsibility for hisFernandes’s friend Macarrão, arrived Vespasiano – now dubbed “the abattoir”to collect Samudio and her baby, by the local press – where Bola was wait- actions and was quick to enrage whenBruninho. According to a confession ing. Eight Rottweilers paced the frontfrom Fernandes’s teenage cousin, they’d yard as Samudio allegedly begged Bola: things didn’t go his way. “I will be smilingbarely pulled away from the kerb when “Please, I can’t take anymore beatings,”the adolescent leapt from his hiding when I put all this behind me,” a cheerfulplace in the car’s rear compartmentand pistol-whipped the young mother. Fernandes boasted after a Flamengo training session on July 1. He was arrested six days later in Rio. In a secret video filmed by police during his transfer from the prison in Rio to Belo Horizonte, the capital of Minas Gerais, the footballer blamed his best friend Macarrão. 44 www.marieclaire.com.au

CRIME REPORT From left: Samudio’s his girlfriend at a baile distraught mother, Sônia funk – a party organ- Fátima Moura, with her young ised by drug dealers. grandson, Bruninho; graffiti declaring “Bruno murderer” near Fernandes’s house shows public opinion; a disgraced Fernandes in detention. Fernandes belliger- Police found baby Bruninho living ently asked journalists covering the with associates of Fernandes’s wife, story: “Which one of you never lifted a Dayanne. They were calling him “Ryan hand to their woman?” Yuri” to obscure his true identity. He’s The Samudio murder is just the now in the custody of his grandmother,R aised by his grandmother latest stain on Brazilian football, once but his future is far from assured. in a favela (a slum), known described by anthropologist Roberto as “the hole” on the out- DaMatta as “a kind of malice and According to Fernandes’s lawyer, Ercio skirts of the city of Belo swindling … the art of dodging”. It’s Horizonte, after being the seventh criminal case against a foot- Quaresma, his client is penniless. “Bruno baller in Brazil in 2010. Former Flamengo is a genius on the football field, but out of that environment he is a retard,” says Quaresma, who claims he hasn’t evenabandoned by both parents at the age of players Vágner Love and Adriano have been paid by Fernandes. “After five yearsthree months, football represented been linked to drug trafficking, and of playing for Flamengo, he is broke. HisFernandes’s only chance in life. After rumours persist that Samudio was apartment in Barra is rented, the cars areturning pro at 16, the fiery-tempered blackmailing Fernandes for something leased and the bank account is empty.”goalie rose quickly within the ranks of more than child support. Even before For Samudio’s family, justice andBrazilian football, demonstrating his the latest scandal broke, the head of punishment are now their only hope.financial worth when he was traded in Rio’s civil police, Allan Turnowski, said If convicted on charges of murder,2006 for $3.5 million. In 2007, he footballers who had grown up among the kidnap, organisation of a criminal gangcemented his place as a sporting icon by country’s drug dealers should exercise and corruption of a minor (relating topulling off three spectacular saves to caution. “It is hard to explain to our kids, a teenage family member), prosecutors“It’s hard to explain to our kids [their idols] are hanging are seeking 42 years jail for Fernandesaround with armed people, bad people, people whokill and traffic drugs” Allan Turnowski, head of Rio’s civil police and 33 years for Bola. At an August 26 hearing in Rio, over the October 2009 kidnap and assault of Samudio, Fernandes was ledsecure the Rio de Janeiro State who see [these players] as idols, that into court amid jeers of “assassin”.Championship for Flamengo. [their idols] are hanging around with armed people, bad people, people who The judge refused his request to have the Before long, however, the rage that kill and traffic drugs,” Turnowski told thedrove him to such success on the field UK’s The Guardian newspaper. case moved to Minas Gerais, wherebegan to spill into his personal life. Instatements given to marie claire by It doesn’t help that Brazilian clubs Fernandes will face charges relating toDetective Moreira, prostitute Luana lag behind Europe and Australia in theirGonçalves petitioned damages from codes of conduct. According to the presi- the model’s murder later this year.Fernandes in 2008 after she was alleg- dent of Flamengo football club, Patríciaedly abused during an orgy at his Minas Amorim, the club has only recently Meanwhile, the fallen hero ofGerais ranch. “He was famous among introduced player conduct clauses inhookers for his violence,” says Moreira. their contracts. “We can’t have players Brazilian football languishes in jail. that compromise the brand,” said As Fernandes’s popularity continued Amorim. “The [Fernandes] episode has When asked about his client’s emotionalto rise, so did his boldness. In 2009, he been hugely damaging to the club.”rose to the defence of a teammate, former Accordingly, she sacked the goalkeeper. state, Quaresma becomes strangely tear-Flamengo striker Adriano, who’d bashed ful. “Bruno is a bit down,” he says. “He treats my wife and I like the parents he AAP; PICTURE MEDIA never had … you have no idea of the stress I am under. I vomit three times a day, I cry for no reason. It is so much pressure. Before I am a lawyer, I am first a human being.” As was Eliza Samudio. •46 www.marieclaire.com.au

R E L AT I O N S H I P S FATTHE FIGHTThe issue of weight is possibly the most treacherous ground for a mother and daughter to navigate. Robin Marantz Henig and daughter Jess Zimmerman weigh inTo say I found THE MOTHER’S STORY I was 26 at the time with body issues for the food, she was hungry. I shouldJess’s body of my own. Growing up, I was always have trusted her to know her own body.beautiful would Watching my daughter belly dance in aware of being chunkier than other girls,have been a lie 2008 brought tears to my eyes. Jess was and the misery that came with that had I should point out that despite my 28 at the time, and she was splendid. She never quite left me. I didn’t want my body loathing, I’m not fat. My BMI is atROBIN, MOTHER wore a blue costume and a gold hip scarf little girl to grow up with that kind of the low end of the healthy range, I’m with jiggling coins. Her midriff – also unhappiness. Maybe there was some- a size 12 and, as I’m flat-chested, I give off By 13, I’d read ALESSANDRA PETLIN/AUGUST/RAVEN & SNOW; GETTY IMAGES jiggling – was bare. She was graceful in thing I could do to spare her that pain. a slim vibe. But, when I look in the mirror, stories about her shimmies, graceful with her arms, what I see is not a small waist, but massive anorexia for ideas graceful when she flicked her naked feet. By the age of four, Jessie weighed thighs. When I was 21, I wrote a list called on how to control I loved watching her. 4.5kg more than the growth charts said “what I need to be happy”. Years later my food intake she should. Not fat, just chubby – and I I found it. At the top of the list – ahead All the years of sitting through Jess’s knew I shouldn’t overreact. “I’m trying of a rewarding career, a loving family and JESS, DAUGHTER childhood plays came back to me, plays hard to ignore it,” I wrote in my journal, a house – is the single thing I thought in which she spoke her lines in a sweet, “so I don’t make her self-conscious and would make the rest of my life fall into clear voice, but could never get over the create a problem where there is none.” place: thin thighs. I wrote that a long time awkwardness of being herself. I’d thought ago. I’m now 56, I still don’t have thin the heart of her discomfort, on stage and Of course, that’s exactly what I did. thighs and, dammit, I still want them. off, was that she felt bad about being fat. I was on the heavy end of my own life- Yet everything I did to spare her insecu- long weight seesaw then; our second Things were tough for us when Jessie rity about her weight turned out to be daughter, Samantha, had just been born, was in her early teens – tougher than a source of pain for her – and a thorn at and my post-pregnancy weight was stub- they were for typical mothers and the heart of our relationship that we’re bornly hanging on. In the grip of this teenage daughters. When I took her to still trying to delicately extract. self-disgust, I turned to my beautiful a dermatologist to be treated for her Jessie and decided I had to “fix” her. acne, she had a tantrum in the waiting As a baby, Jessie was spectacular: room. I was mystified. I didn’t see that huge, blue-grey eyes and golden curls. My Meals soon became a battleground. this doctor’s visit was, to Jessie, yet husband, Jeff, and I were delighted with I packed abstemious school lunches another indication that my love was con- her. To us, she was perfect. Which is why – half a sandwich, fruit, no junk – and ditional. She thought I loved her only I was so surprised by a comment made used smaller plates at dinner to limit her when she was clear-skinned and slim. one night at a local restaurant. A woman portion size. And when she asked for was fussing over Jessie, who was nine seconds, I’d say, “Are you really hungry?” When she was 16, Jess – she had by months old. “Ooh,” she said. “I love fat I thought that sounded supportive. then put a stop to “Jessie” – sat me down babies.” Fat babies? What baby was she I see now how harsh it was. If she asked and told me she’d been bulimic for  talking about? My baby? I had a fat baby? www.marieclaire.com.au 93

R E L AT I O N S H I P S Repairing the her against an unjust world and some- of new narratives I hadn’t considered. hurt: Robin and one who thinks she’s damaged. “What,” I discovered books and articles offering Jess are working I wondered, “is so deeply wrong with me strange new ideas; that fat people could that my mum, who only wants to love be happy and healthy and even loved, through their me, can’t bring herself to love me how that we weren’t necessarily damaged, body-image I am? And why can’t I fix it?” that beauty ideals controlled women by making them waste energy on hating issues. I kept waiting for the day when I’d themselves. The old narrative – in which reach the happy, skinny ending and get I would remain trapped in a loathsomethe harm my to start on the sequel. Then I’d be viva- body until I earned love and happinessmother unwittingly cious, graceful and sought after, and my through slimness – started to fade.did me; it’s about the harm the life could begin. As I ate less and got fat-weight-loss fantasy does to everyone. ter, these scenarios became more drastic; In my second year at uni, Mum wrote an article tut-tutting about how Mum didn’t allow me to eat fast they now involved wasting away the people on campus who told me tofood or dessert. At a sleepover in Year from a serious illness, which “honour my hunger” were only ruiningFive, I was served sweetened cereal and I suspected was the only my diet. I ran a campus-wide campaignwas both repulsed and fascinated – it for Love Your Body Day and asked her totasted awful, but looked like dessert for way I’d become as gaunt as quit writing about me. And eventually,breakfast. Food took on mystical, but I wanted. When I started getting I started to write. The literature on cam-terrifying appeal, safe only when nobody brutal stomach pains in high school, pus had planted the suspicion that therewas looking, and I resorted to sneaking my heart leapt – maybe this was it! was a less painful way to live, and whenand hoarding it. On average, I didn’t eat It wasn’t. The stomach pains hap- I rediscovered these ideas in the blogo-more than other kids, but I didn’t have pened because when the life-threatening sphere, I found myself repeating andto. If you think you don’t deserve food, disease failed to materialise, I’d turned reformulating them. In communicatingeverything looks like a binge. to another twisted weight-loss strategy: with others, I started convincing myself. disordered eating. Around the age of 13, And there was no question in my I’d started to read stories about anorexia Along the way, I retooled my vocabu-mind that I didn’t deserve food. I was for ideas on how to control my food lary. “Fat”, the word I’d scrawled in textaoversized, clumsy, monstrous – like a dif- intake. I hid behind fussiness – suddenly on my offending thighs in high school,ferent species. My body was an albatross I didn’t like anything with more than was just a neutral way of describingthat marked me as slovenly, ugly, unwor- three ingredients, or red meat, or fish, or a body; if there’s nothing inherentlythy of love. I fantasised about sloughing cheese, or anything strongly spiced. I shameful in fatness, there’s no reason toit off, like the boy in the Narnia book who didn’t binge, but I would throw up hide behind euphemisms. And the wordturns into a dragon and doesn’t become because I’d had a full meal, or because “health” needed redefining, too. There’shuman again until he sheds his skin. I’d scoffed a bowl of ice-cream, or just nothing healthy about fearing food and because it was the end of the day. using exercise as a whip. A better goal is My mother never intended this – she The eating disorder stories harped to exercise for fun and eat well. By myonly wanted a happy ending for me. But on that girls who couldn’t control their mid 20s, I was not only eating more nor-the ending she envisioned was the same eating couldn’t control anything in mally, I’d also added new kinds of exerciseone played out in every kid’s book with their lives, and as I got older I started to to my routine for the fun of it: belly dance,a fat character; where the troubled chub- believe everything about me was wrong.ster solves her inner turmoil and ends upsvelte. Mum never saw an ending where I discovered fat people could be happy, healthy ALESSANDRA PETLIN/AUGUST/RAVEN & SNOW; GETTY IMAGESthe fat kid learns there was nothing and even loved, that we weren’t necessarily damagedwrong with her in the first place. Whywould she? Nobody ever wrote that story. Though I often exuded a toughness that yoga, hula hooping. My weight stayed was mistaken for confidence, I doubted the same, but I started to really live in It’s difficult for a child to discern not only my attractiveness and right to the body I was now feeding and takingbetween someone who wants to protect exist in the world as a fat person, but also out to play. I realised I wasn’t trapped in my intelligence and general worth. Once the old cycle of failure, denial and shame. I began dating, I sought out men who shared my low opinion of myself. These days I can write about my body and even let my mother write about When I went away to uni, I was on a it – because I’ve jettisoned the old semipermanent diet punctuated by fur- narratives and started to scratch out tive eating, still pretending to be picky to a new one. It’s a complicated story with hide my food restriction, still looking for an unpredictable plot – good days, bad people to tell me how lousy I was. In my days, a pervasive sense of shame that’s mind I was still the gross, lazy, unfixable hard to shake. But I’m finding the main kid. But in the tiny empowerment bubble character is much more healthy, stable of a women’s college, there were a host and worthwhile than I’d ever known. 96 www.marieclaire.com.au

AUSTRALIAN REPORTEACH YEAR, AUSTRALHUNDREDS OF WOMEN ARE TRAFFICKED TO AUSTRALIA ANDSFOERCXED STOLWAOVRKEASS THIS ONE FOUGHT BACK When a young Chinese woman in Melbourne received compensation as a victim of sex slavery, her case was hailed a victory – yet it was just the second of its kind. Dan MacDonald asks: why?28 www.marieclaire.com.au

AUSTRALIAN REPORT F or Qi*, every day was the same. From left: trafficked women are forced One reads: “Women in prostitution aren’t Clockwise from above: Nina Vallins of Project a supermarket that she met a girl who for you, but you owe Sitting hunched on a bed in a to work in appalling conditions in brothels; necessarily who you think they are.” Respect; Minister for Home Affairs Brendan had recently returned from the US. The us money,” he barked. dark, dingy brothel, she’d wait Jetsadophorn Chaladone was trafficked O’Connor says trafficked people have girl told Qi of the rivers of gold she “We want it back for the creak of the old wooden into Sydney’s sex industry at the age of Roughly 12 million people a year are “suffered greatly”; Victoria’s Deputy Premier encountered. She earned $200 a day quickly so you’ll have stairs that heralded the arrival of 13. She was the first sex slave to receive trafficked worldwide. There’s no reliable Rob Hulls is a critic of state-by-state working at a restaurant! “I thought, ‘I’m to work at a brothel.” another client. The springs of the victims’ compensation in Australia. data on how many of those make it to compensation schemes; Melbourne brothel getting older [she was in her late 20s] thin mattress dug into her legs, Australia, but non-government organ- owner Wei Tang was jailed for 10 years for and I don’t have a boyfriend at that At first, Qi wasn’t but she felt nothing; they’d been scratch- would “pay” if she didn’t cough up. “I isations estimate they number in the keeping five Thai women in “debt bondage”. moment; it might be a good opportunity scared. She had been ing up and down her back for what seemed don’t believe they ever intended to find thousands. Either way, human trafficking for a girl like me,’” recalls Qi. deceived – and she was furious. She like a lifetime. Exhausted from lack of me a job in a restaurant,” says Qi now, is a real problem in Australia, though the and raped her and told her she needed to screamed at the man, refusing to do what sleep and nauseous from the musty stench marvelling at her naivety. “I trust[ed] nation is only now beginning to compre- service around 650 clients in a Surry Hills “Lots of girls in China, like me, want he was demanding, but knew in her heart of damp carpet and the prospect of the lots of people. I just thought that there hend the magnitude of it. brothel to repay a debt of $35,000. A client to work overseas to make money. Not just she had no choice. He had hit her with the hours that stretched ahead, she’d barely were more good people than bad people.” reported her situation to authorities and, for their families, but also for themselves. news when she was alone to intimidate flinch when the telltale creak finally Although most victims are sourced 10 days later, having been forced to serv- If I make a little less than that, that’s still her because he suspected she would came. Forced to submit to a long line of But that trust has finally been from Thailand and Malaysia, an increas- ice around 100 men, she was discovered good money. Working in China I would protest. He was right. She had left her men no matter how drunk, drugged, rewarded. In a landmark case at the ing number of Chinese and South Korean during a police raid on the brothel. make $30 a day, without tips. I could make family and friends for this golden oppor- putrid-smelling or violent, and forbidden Victims of Crime Assistance Tribunal nationals are trafficked to Australia each some money, give some to my parents, but tunity and needed to deliver. She was to refuse a client, her only freedom was in October 2010, Qi, who escaped the year hoping for a better life. The 2009 If so many are trafficked here for sex I could keep most of it and, maybe, I might embarrassed she couldn’t send money that she could insist they wear a condom. brothel after three months and being US Department of State Human Rights slavery each year, why have just two vic- be able to have a better life ... I could marry home, but more importantly, was terri- forced to service hundreds of men, Reports on Australia also maintains that tims been awarded compensation? the person who I liked, or support myself.” fied her traffickers would hurt her family. Trapped by a “debt bond”, her family was awarded around $25,000 compensa- this country is a destination for people under threat if she tried to escape, one tion. Her successful claim – lodged by “from several Pacific islands, India ... and Organisations that work with victims “I trust[ed] lots of people,” recalls trafficking victim Qi*. “I just extraordinary element separated Qi’s Melbourne’s Fitzroy Legal Service the Philippines”, who are subjected to say lodging a compensation claim is not thought that there were more good people than bad people” story from that of most sex slaves: it was with the support of Project Respect, an conditions of forced labour. always a priority in the support process. taking place in Melbourne. organisation that lobbies on behalf PHOTOGRAPHS BY AUSTRAL; FAIRFAX PHOTOS; Victims are often so traumatised and So Qi gave the “travel agent” her pass- What followed were three horrific of sex workers – was the first in Victoria Human trafficking is a Common- NEWSPIX. *NAME HAS BEEN CHANGED afraid because of the threats made against port and visa papers, and began planning months. Every day, as trams rattled along Three years ago, hopeful of finding and just the second in Australia. wealth offence, yet, without a national them and their families, many are reluc- her future. Soon she would be patting the boulevards of Melbourne, past cafes work as a waitress – and a new future – in system of crimes compensation, each tant to speak out. An increasing number friendly kangaroos, and she could almost where office workers gossiped over lattes, Australia, Qi put her trust in a travel agent “I needed to get some help and to state and territory decides whether or not are, however, working with law firms to taste Australia’s exotic blood oranges Qi was driven to the brothel. She worked in a city near her village in China. She let people know that things like this are victims are eligible for compensation seek retribution. Several victim support – two images of her new home that played 18-hour shifts, seven days a week, to serv- arrived here only to have him claim she happening in Australia,” asserts Qi, talk- under their various schemes. groups believe Australia’s state-by-state on a loop in Qi’s mind until she landed in ice up to 10 men a day. She was able to owed him at least $30,000 in expenses ing in a Project Respect office the day model of compensation schemes creates Melbourne. They were the only sights keep a third of the money she made from and threaten that she and her family after her win. She looks tiny as she sits at Thai woman Jetsadophorn “Ning” nonsensical inconsistencies. The most a she knew to expect – she had watched a each customer, but with that had to buy the head of a long table. Behind her are Chaladone, trafficked into Sydney’s sex victim of crime could be awarded in documentary on Australia once. food, pay rent and repay the massive debt. shelves groaning with children’s books industry as a 13 year old in 1995, was Tasmania, for instance, is $30,000, while “They never told me how long I still had and buckets of toys, teddy bears and the first victim of sex slavery in Australia in Victoria the cap is $60,000. Victims Qi arrived in Melbourne in the spring to go,” says Qi of the debt. “I worked so dolls. Surrounding her, however, are to receive compensation, successfully “should be eligible for compensation, of 2007. The clear, azure sky felt like the hard, but I made so little money. I couldn’t harsh reminders of the adult world: applying to the New South Wales Victims regardless of the state in which the offence perfect start to her Australian adventure. see when I could pay them back.” posters promoting gender equality and Compensation Tribunal in 2007. Ning’s occurred”, Victoria’s Deputy Premier Rob The warm weather and tree-lined streets support for women in the sex industry. traffickers confiscated her passport, beat filled her with excitement about the days As she and her coworkers lined up QHulls commented to marie claire. ahead. But shortly afterwards, she stood each day to be selected, she knew that as   motionless in the middle of a cramped, the only “trafficked” worker on the six- i left school when she was 16. Her mattress-strewn Melbourne apartment women roster, she would get the scraps parents were too poor to pay for she was forced to share with six others, – the men the others refused. She had further education, so she found as her “travel agent” delivered the dev- encountered it all before, at a restaurant work in a clothing and shoe astating news: “I can’t find any work she had worked at in China. Many of  factory. After three years, the chemicals used in the factory began to make her sick, so she went to a nearby city to try her hand at waitressing. For fear of potential harm to her family, Qi won’t name where she lived in China. But it was while working there at30 www.marieclaire.com.au 31

INTERVIEWDA N LEE BROOMFIELD/CORBIS OUTLINE In the UK, she’s a superstar, while here she’s T here are three cars parked in still labelled “the other Minogue”. But with her the street outside the man- sion in the affluent suburb own fashion company, a huge TV following of Hawthorn East in a best-selling book, and a blissful family life, Melbourne. Each one has the engine running and is Dannii’s X factor is undeniable. By Bridget Freer slightly askew at take-off angle. Bored, one of the drivers calls out to another and says, “You see any signs of life, mate?” “Nah,” responds the other. “But they haven’t taken the baby out yet and they’re going to have to come out with him soon.” They’re members of the British paparazzi and they’ve been staked out here for a night and a day. You’d think they were waiting for a shot of a European prince. And in a sense they are. Because the tiny head they’re so keen to get an image of is that of Ethan Edward Smith, baby son of Dannii Minogue and her model boyfriend, Kris Smith. While Dannii Minogue’s name may not have necessarily commanded that sort of attention here, it is a totally different story in the UK. In 2010 alone, The X Factor judge was crowned Best TV Star at the Elle Style Awards and named TV Personality Of The Year by Glamour magazine. She also has a much-lauded fashion company and an autobiography out. Add in her sister, Kylie, plus her fairytale romance with Smith, and she’s never far from the front pages of the newspapers. So no wonder Ethan’s birth last July was one of the most hotly anticipated of the past decade. Looking at Minogue’s press cuttings over the years, though, you could be for- given for not having predicted this. In fact, it could almost make you feel seasick, it is such a choppy, seesaw sort of experi- ence. They love her! They hate her! She’s a star! She’s a wannabe pale imitation of her sister! For most of her 20 years living in the UK, Minogue felt she was portrayed as “the fat ugly sister”. Whenever she gave a press interview, she remarks, “I’d be asked, ‘How is your sister? How’s it going for Kylie?’ And I’d have to say, ‘You’ll have to ask her. I’m not here to give an inter- view for her. I can only tell you stuff about me. I am very private about my sister.’” But she was never quite able to get that point across. “It’s just unreal … One thing is your relationship [with Kylie] and what it is; another thing is what people think it is; and a third thing is what has always worked as a headline. And the papers have always loved to say I was  www.marieclaire.com.au 83

DADBSPHUEOTOTMPITELLOLEELMSSESMEEGHAUEY’YS AMANDA TÉTRAULT FIRST PERSON For years, photographer Amanda Tétrault was ashamed that her schizophrenic father lived on the streets. It wasn’t until Phil Tétrault, as she began looking at him through her own lens that she saw photographed by his him in a new – and loving – light. As told to Abigail Haworth daughter, Amanda, among the birds he considers companions in the streets and parks he calls home.

FIRST PERSON 1968 1970 1973 1974 1975 1976 1976 1981 1998 2000 1983 1990 1998 2000 2002 Amanda found her love of photography gave her the means to rebuild her relationship with her father. From far left: Phil with Amanda’s mother, Natalie; photo booth images chart his life over the years. I was three years old when my father, my mother, Natalie, was 19. He was ended up on welfare with in an unrenovated building in Montreal’s staring at the ceiling now!” I hated the with my girlfriends. My heart started Phil, tried to end his own life by a poet, hailed by fellow Montreal native a young child. Mum went Westmount, one of the city’s wealthiest madness, hated the unpredictability, beating out of my chest. I turned around walking naked into the snow. He Leonard Cohen as an exciting new talent. back to college, taking me with her, to neighbourhoods. After weeks of not and hated that we were so alone. And and walked away in an ice-cold panic. threw himself onto a rock, cut his Mum was studying psychology. Phil was do a teaching degree to support us. That seeing Phil, he would reappear at our I longed desperately for my daddy. head and passed out on the icy handsome and hugely charismatic, and was when Phil’s sanity broke down door, dishevelled and often drunk. My friends had no clue why I behaved ground. His feet froze solid. He she was a slim, fragile beauty. They fell completely and he tried to commit Sometimes he was lucid, but mostly his When he disappeared outside, we like that. I attended one of Montreal’s best survived, but he had to have all his in love and became inseparable. Within suicide in the snow. The doctors said he arrival was like this huge explosion. Mum didn’t know if we’d ever see him again. schools, where all the students came from toes amputated. This is one of my first 18 months, they were pregnant with me. would never walk properly again after would always let him in. She’d feed him Being homeless in Montreal is brutal “respectable” homes. It was rare for a stu- real memories of him, hobbling beside I was born in June 1977. he lost his frostbitten toes. But he did fig- and make him up a bed on the couch for – it hits minus 20°C in winter. Almost dent to come from a single-parent family, me with his bandaged feet and a cane. ure out how to walk, and even to run again a few nights. She wanted to help. no-one is on the streets by choice here. It’s so I already felt different. How could I was upset because he and my mother Phil was stable in those bohemian – a mark of the resilience that has helped the severely mentally ill who end up there I reveal that my father was a mentally ill used to hold my hands and swing me in early days with my mother. He’d suffered him to survive all the gruelling years since. I dreaded him showing up – this wild, because they slip through the cracks; they street person who sometimes wore his the air between them in the park. He his first big psychological breakdown at I can’t remember exactly when Phil scary-eyed alien version of my father. are too far gone to consent to treatment. underwear on his head, and kept getting couldn’t do that anymore, and I cried. the age of 20, just before they met, and had started living on the streets, but it wasn’t I had nightmares about it. He sat in our He’d usually been drinking – alcoholism is thrown in jail? I told my best friends been diagnosed with schizophrenia. Two long after he tried to kill himself. He old blue armchair in his dirt-stained like a co-disease of schizophrenia, as it simply that my dad wasn’t around, and Pretty much ever since then, my refused psychiatric help or medication clothes and shouted at his imaginary helps to dull the senses and quiet the they were too well-mannered to probe. father has lived on and off the streets of because he was too delusional to compre- voices, spewing nonsense to nobody. He voices. Often, we’d hear that Phil was still our home city of Montreal, Canada. He hend that he needed it. I call him Phil made crazy faces, he smelled of bodily alive because he’d been arrested for being I had no counselling or therapy to has a severe case of schizophrenia that filth and tobacco, he knocked things over. disorderly, or for being half-naked. He help deal with my awful secret. Talking means he can’t – and won’t – live inside “How could I reveal that my father was a mentally ill street There was always drama and screaming. was constantly in and out of jail or secure cures weren’t so common then. Once, I a family home. He has lived in govern- person who sometimes wore his underwear on his head?” One of his recurring delusions was that he psychiatric wards. Inside they’d forcibly did visit the school guidance counsellor at ment housing at times, but he ended was Jackie Onassis’s son – he even went medicate him, and things would improve my mum’s suggestion. But I was so used to up homeless again only eight months of his cousins had the same illness, so it now, but he was still Daddy to me then. AMANDA TÉTRAULT to Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts hiding the truth that as soon as I stuttered ago. His illness, these days paired with was in the family. But he was doing fine I remember sitting on his lap before he once to find her, and had to be escorted Abriefly after he was released, but then out the words, “My father has schizophre- alcoholism, goes in and out of extreme when he got together with Mum, and he was sick and laughing wildly at his silly back over the border by police. He also nia”, I started heaving with gigantic sobs, phases. At its worst, he can’t remember stayed fine for a little over two years. With jokes – he’s always been very funny – and believed that cars were evil. He slashed the whole ugly cycle would start again. and couldn’t say another thing. Incredibly, to bathe or eat. He never forgets that hindsight this was lucky, because the loving that he was so big and strong. all four tyres on my mum’s car to “protect” s I grew up, my fear of Phil became the counsellor didn’t follow up and try I’m his daughter, but he does forget pregnancy caused ructions with both I never stopped loving him, throughout us so many times that she started mingled with intense shame. One to see me again. I never went back. that anyone apart from himself matters. their well-heeled, traditional families. My everything. But, as a child, the love parking it kilometres away. She couldn’t day, when I was about nine, I saw That’s when he returns to sleep in the struggling student parents – Mum was became mixed with another powerful afford to keep replacing them. him waiting for me outside my Mum tried to make life as normal as park he’s haunted for the past 30 years, breastfeeding me during her final exams feeling towards him: terror. school. He was filthy and mum- possible for me; we had our little routines since I was a toddler. – had to cope with my arrival alone. There was nowhere to escape in our like watching TV together in the evenings, I never had a sit-down talk with any- tiny flat. I reacted at these times by bling to himself, trying to spot me in a sea and she took me camping every year for My parents met at McGill University But the calm didn’t last. They moved one about his illness. It was just part of withdrawing, by becoming almost mute. of kids. I went white with shock. He was our summer holiday. Still, being in in Montreal in 1975. Phil was 21 and to the country north of Montreal after our lives. I overheard people using words Even when he was calm and I could play still only in his early 30s, but he looked a one-parent family meant I was often college. Phil’s illness began to creep like “loony” or “nutcase” to describe him. with my toys in the living room, I was decrepit. I ran past him as hard as I could, alone. I bottled up my feelings so tightly back. He started hearing voices, and his Even my mum. She was so young then, always on guard for any hint of a new screaming at my friend that a monster there were times when I feared I was behaviour grew volatile and aggressive. and she was trying to cope. Mum and episode. I’d observe him out of the corner was following us. I didn’t stop running for going mad, too. Schizophrenia is genetic, He couldn’t hold down a job, so they I moved into a one-bedroom apartment of my eye and give regular reports to 20 minutes. Another time, when I was in after all, and there’s no way of testing my mother in the kitchen: “Mum! He’s high school, I spotted him frantically for it before it manifests. I monitored rummaging through a garbage bin in the my thoughts constantly, banishing  city centre. I was on my way to a movie50 www.marieclaire.com.au 51

FIRST PERSON Clockwise from left: one of the 1998 bleaker moments of Phil’s life; he and Natalie share a laugh on a good day; loving snaps of father and daughter.anything that seemed weird. I shelved art photographs of my times spent with Phil. writing his poems, which he’s never given PHOTOGRAPHED BY AMANDA TÉTRAULT. PHIL AND ME BY AMANDA TÉTRAULTprojects that seemed too wild. I thought My maternal grandfather had given me up and still sells on the streets (he hates (TROLLEY BOOKS, $US45), AVAILABLE FROM WWW.TROLLEYBOOKS.COMI seemed “normal”, but there was always my first camera a few years earlier, and begging). I photographed him playing histhat grain of worry. In men, schizophrenia I had become hooked on photography. pan pipes, which he also plays to earnis usually diagnosed around the ages of Seeing Phil from behind a lens, in stark money. I photographed him talking to the19 to 21, but in women it’s later, about black and white, was extraordinary. There birds and trees he loves, and also later as it was: the truth about my father, the he was passed out in an alcoholic hazeW26 to 27. It took me until my 29th birthday truth about us. Suddenly, I began to make among them. And, most importantly, I sense of this vast, murky soup of emotions photographed all of us – Phil, my mumbefore I felt I was truly in the clear. I’d had for so long. I started to untangle and me – because this was our family. hen Mum and I moved house the deep morass of shame I felt. Shame in my teens, I pleaded with about him, and even deeper shame (and I continued taking photos of my her not to give Phil our new guilt) at myself for feeling ashamed. father over the years, and occasionally address. She agreed. We Anger bubbled up inside me about why I’d still do. I’m 33 years old now, and I’m decided to meet him only at always felt so dirty and tainted, why a professional photographer. In my 20s, I’d had to deny his existence. The camera I spent time living in New York and India,a cafe if he was well enough, or in the park made me face everything. I started but I have been based in Montreal forif not. To this day, Phil doesn’t know where making peace with Phil, and with myself. more than two years. I recently broke upeither of us lives. He has our phone num- with my boyfriend, but I’d love to havebers, but that’s it. It was the right decisionbecause not having him randomly burst “I’d given up hope of any fatherly nurturing, but little thingsinto our lives with his cluster-bomb crazi- meant a lot – like when he read me a new poem he’d written”ness meant I could savour the nicermoments. I’d long ago given up hope of I also told my closest friends about him, a family of my own one day. I see Philany fatherly nurturing, but little things and gradually stopped trying to hide the almost every week, sometimes with mymeant a lot – like when he read me a new truth from everyone else. mum and sometimes alone.poem he’d written, or gave me earrings formy birthday that he’d scrimped and saved My whole life I’d heard people say that Now that he’s in his 50s, Phil’s illnessto buy. He’d give me five bucks whenever street people were disgusting, that they has levelled off. There are fewer highs andhe could too, even though he needed it. should get a job, that they stank. I’d lows. He still abuses alcohol, but he takesMum said I should always accept it. seen the callous way Phil was treated his medication more regularly, which, he by police, the constant discrimination. says, makes his imaginary voices seem Then something unexpected hap- When I was having a coffee or a stroll with a manageable “two rooms away”. I’d likepened. When I was 19, I started to take him, strangers would often ask if he was to say that everything is wonderful, but “bothering” me, or if I needed help. that wouldn’t be true. Phil still loses the I wanted the photos to show that there’s plot and I still have difficult times with more to someone like Phil than people him, and that’s probably never going to realise. Not to deny the hardship and change. But the good thing is I can now mess of his life, but to reveal the worth accept all that. I love Phil, and I’m happy and beauty in it, too. I took pictures of him to tell the whole world he’s my father. 52 www.marieclaire.com.au

AUSTRAL LIFE STORIES tcounrytis HE LIKED IT HOT The tough Jewish kid from New York City dreamt of fame, and although his lust for the limelight was quenched, he became as well known for being a hellraiser as he did for being an actor. By Helen Gent

LIFE STORIES Clockwise from far left: power Clockwise from left: Curtis (right) in drag with in a test after misspelling his name), couple Tony Curtis and Janet co-star Jack Lemmon in 1959 smash hit Some Bernard enrolled at the Dramatic Leigh at home in 1956; with their Like It Hot; his character feigns frigidity in Workshop of the New School for daughters Kelly (left) and Jamie a memorable scene with Marilyn Monroe; turning Social Research in Manhattan in 1947. Lee; Curtis poses with friend on the magic in 1953’s Houdini; a poster for A year later, he was talent-spotted Frank Sinatra in 1960; in films the film in which he starred with his first wife. while playing a boxer in an off-Broad- Trapeze (1956), The Defiant Ones way production of Golden Boy and (1958) and Spartacus (1960). whisked to Hollywood for a screen test. T he coquettish young Curtis lost his way, he found himself on a orphanage. Three years “I got into movies so easy it was blonde’s eyes wid- “degrading” odyssey that took the drug- later, the family briefly scary,” said the actor, who signed ened as she gazed addled recluse from Hollywood crack moved to the Bronx, a seven-year contract with Universal around the beautiful houses to the Betty Ford Center. where nine-year-old Julius was killed in on the eve of his 23rd birthday. His film white yacht while a traffic accident. Moving back to debut was 1949’s Criss Cross. In the the handsome While he cleaned up in time to save his Manhattan, the Schwartzes lived close to non-speaking, uncredited role, he had just millionaire poured life, Curtis was unable to fully resuscitate the Germantown area, the scene of regular two minutes’ screen time. But the sight of his career. Although he limped on as an pro-Nazi marches and a neighbourhood the new Adonis on the block wiggling his champagne into glasses by her side. rave reviews, and co-star Jack Lemmon than 1000 women. “I used showgirls like actor, he failed to recapture his screen-god where the young Jewish Bernard was rou- hips to a rumba caused a deluge of fan days. Instead, he enjoyed a second coming tinely victimised. It toughened him into a mail, a $50 salary hike (to $125 a week) “You know, I’ve never been com- who scored the Oscar nomination. some guys use vitamin pills – two a day.” as a successful painter whose Matisse- “real delinquent kid”, who skipped school and his first Tinseltown conquest, cour- style canvasses sell for tens of thousands, to run with gangs. The one refuge from his tesy of sultry co-star Yvonne De Carlo. pletely alone with a man before in the The star of more than 100 movies over He married six times (although there and at 77 he was still kicking up his heels turbulent life was the local cinema, where Pretty-boy looks were a double-edged in the stage musical Some Like It Hot. “My the starstruck youngster would sneak in to sword for the newly renamed Tony Curtis middle of the night in the middle of a 60-year career, Curtis was a versatile is some dispute as to an eight-year feet hurt. I don’t pee on time. My eyes are watch his idol, Cary Grant, and dream that (the more “bankable” moniker was an going. My hearing’s going,” he admitted one day he, too, might be rich and famous. Anglicised version of a Hungarian rela- the ocean,” she breathed, excitedly. actor whose comic turns were as watcha- marriage to Andrea Savio), the first time on his 80th birthday, after posing naked tive’s name). Rumours abounded that the for Vanity Fair. “Dying, I just don’t feel In his mid teens, Bernard acted in new young stud was gay – put about, “Oh, it’s perfectly safe,” he assured ble as his more serious roles in films like to Psycho star Janet Leigh; they promptly like it.” Indeed, he kept going for years. plays at the local YMCA, and at 16 he he suspected, by jealous rivals – and dropped out of school to join the Navy. after being cast as a deaf and dumb drug her. “I’ve got this thing about girls. They 1960’s Spartacus. At the peak of his career became Hollywood’s golden couple. “No The oldest of three children to Too young for active duty, he studied to be addict in 1949’s Johnny Stool Pigeon, Hungarian parents, Helen and her tailor a signalman at the University of Illinois, Curtis begged studio bosses for meatier just sort of leave me cold. When I’m with he received his only Oscar nomination other husband-and-wife team came close husband, Emanuel, Bernard Herschel where he acted on campus, and after roles. “They said, ‘No, just comb your hair Schwartz was born in Manhattan, New watching Grant in Destination Tokyo, he and open your shirt.’” His hairstyle was a girl it does absolutely nothing to me.” for his portrayal of a prison escapee in the to us until Richard Burton and Elizabeth York, on June 3, 1925. He endured a rough, trained as a submarine commander. In soon copied by a legion of teenage boys. tough upbringing with his violent, schizo- 1945, he briefly served at Pearl Harbor In Hollywood bedrooms, however, She kissed him longingly. groundbreaking interracial drama The Taylor,” boasted Curtis. He ran with a phrenic mother (brother Bobby was also just ahead of the Japanese surrender and, Curtis received an appreciative welcome later diagnosed with the illness), and the at 20, returned to New York. After going from a succession of young starlets, “Was there anything?” Defiant Ones. His devastating good looks celebrity crowd that included Frank family were so poor during the Depression back to high school (his formal education including a voluptuous wannabe named  that nine-year-old Bernard and brother was so lacking he once got “minus zero” He shook his head. “Thanks, just I used showgirls Sinatra and Dean Martin – showbiz Julius were temporarily placed in an the same.” giants who made him an honorary like some guys use vitamin member of Hollywood’s “Rat Pack”. “Could I take another crack at it?” “Alright, if you insist.” pills – two a day Yet, for all his cockiness, Curtis “Anything this time?” was chronically insecure; he spent “I’m afraid not. Terribly sorry.” thousands on thrice-weekly therapy She kissed him passionately again, sessions and suffered such bad hypo- this time pressing her voluptuous body (“Everybody liked the way I looked, chondria he insisted water used as rain in against him. “Well?” including myself,” Curtis once quipped) movie scenes be heated so he didn’t catch “I’m not quite sure. Do try it again.” made him a regular on the silver screen, a cold. He also had a thing about his At the height of his fame, Tony Curtis but his acting and strong New York accent height; at 175cm, he reputedly put decks of LEGENDARY LOTHARIO A ladies’ man until the end, Tony Curtis had six wives and six children starred in one of cinema’s best-loved were often ridiculed, and after his playing cards in his shoes at auditions, and comedies, 1959’s Some Like It Hot, playing heydays passed, he floundered with a suc- he was blighted by periods of depression a jazz musician who impersonates an cession of Z-list films – “Movies,” Curtis – the bitter fruits of a traumatic childhood. uptight woman as well as a colourful remarked, “where you watch them and While his love of women was millionaire. His man-in-drag character say, ‘What is Tony Curtis doing in this?’” something of a trademark, it was also his AUSTRAL; HEADPRESS; AAP was a hoot, and he also stole most of the Still, he was the Rudolph Valentino of downfall. Hit with child support pay- scenes as the bespectacled millionaire the ’50s. Girls went wild for the blue-eyed ments (his six children include Halloween faking frigidness in a ploy to be seduced boy with the kiss-curl hairdo, which Curtis star Jamie Lee), Curtis turned to well- by bombshell Sugar Kane, played by sex said “was more famous than I was”. His paid but embarrassing roles, such as Jill Vandenberg 1998–2010 siren and former lover Marilyn Monroe. sex drive was legendary, too. “I had an 1978’s cringe-worthy Sextette playing Janet Leigh Christine Kaufmann Leslie Allen Andrea Savio Lisa Deutsch (until his death) 1951–1962 1984–1992 1993–1994 The film was a box-office smash yet it erection everywhere I went,” said the a Russian toy boy opposite a decrepit 1963–1967 1968–1982 www.marieclaire.com.au 201 was Monroe, not Curtis, who received the actor, who claimed to have bedded more Mae West. As his star lost its lustre and200

LIFE STORIES to become a reclusive junkie. “I had started out so gloriously and then all of a sudden I found myself in the muck and the mire,” noted Curtis, who amid the Left: Curtis and madness married, and divorced, actress daughter Jamie Lee Andrea Savio. “I was very, very unhappy,” celebrate his 80th he told the UK Times in 2006. “I could birthday in 2005. The have killed myself. I think I was aiming in two mended a strained that direction. In one of my foggy moments relationship late in I thought maybe I’d just keep going.” his life. Right: the artist at work in 1990. Curtis checked into the Betty Ford Center several times. When he left thereMarilyn Monroe. “At these parties thrown irreparable estrangement from his daugh- in 1985, he embarked on a second careerby the studio, there’d always be a brand- ters. Curtis admitted that his “failure as as an artist. “Rather than becomingnew sweetie for me,” he reminisced. a father” was one of his few regrets. In his disgruntled and bitter over parts I no“And I didn’t leave a skirt unmoved.”  second autobiography, 2008’s American longer get, I’ve made my life function inOn June 4, 1951, a day after his 26th Prince (Ebury Press, $34.95), he wrote of another manner,” he said of his decisionbirthday, Curtis married Hollywood roy- Jamie Lee: “I still struggle to get past her to pursue his boyhood hobby. In 2005,alty Janet Leigh, in what he later admitted coolness towards me.” The fallout for his New York’s Museum of Modern Artwas a calculated move to boost his career. career was also instant, as Hollywood bought one of his canvasses for $25,000.“Janet had entree to everybody in the closed ranks against the “upstart” who In February 1993, Curtis married, formovies, so to me it was very valuable,” had sullied Leigh, their “shiksa goddess”. 18 months, Lisa Deutsch, a lawyer 37confessed Curtis, who was repeatedly So began the decade that Curtis’s years his junior. They’d been wed a yearunfaithful during their 11-year marriage, career forgot, with silly sex comedies like when he had a heart attack and underwentwhich produced daughters Kelly and Not With My Wife, You Don’t! prevailing. bypass surgery. In July that year, the frag-Jamie Lee. “I could see the two of us Even his dramatic work as a psychopathic ile star was left devastated by the suddencould get more attention together.” killer in 1968’s The Boston Strangler failed drugdeathofhis23-year-oldson,Nicholas.By 1954, he was pronounced to salvage his disappearing celebrity. Also In 1998, aged 73, Curtis married sixthHollywood’s third most popular actor, ontheskidswashismarriagetoKaufmann wife Jill Vandenberg, a leggy blondeafter Rock Hudson and Marlon Brando. (with whom he had daughters Alexandra model 45 years his junior. They moved toThe next year, he was mobbed during a and Allegra), and it finally ended in 1967. a 16-hectare property in Nevada with anpublicity tour for Six Bridges To Cross. I was very, very assortment of dogs and a cat called“Girls went ape over him,” recalled unhappy. I could have Marilyn. There, he regularly socialisedchildhood friend Gene Singer. “They at restaurants and shows, but by thenwere ripping his clothes off, tearing off the more portly Curtis had dispensedbuttons … thousands of girls screaming killed myself with his unflattering toupees forand ripping off their brassieres!” It was a trademark stetson. Never one tothe start of a run of successful movies. say die, he tap danced his way throughIn 1956, he co-starred with Burt Lancaster Considering the US a lost cause, in the touring musical Some Like It Hotin Trapeze, and followed up the next year 1970 Curtis moved to London with his new in 2002, but in 2006 a life-threateningwith Sweet Smell Of Success. In 1958 came wife, Leslie “Penny” Allen, a 23-year-old bout of pneumonia left him wheelchair-The Defiant Ones with Sidney Poitier. At model, where he filmed The Persuaders!, bound. Still, he remained defiant: “I’mCurtis’s insistence, Poitier became the a popular TV series that aired in Australia 84 years old and still kicking sand,” hefirst black actor to receive equal top bill- in the early ’70s. Back in LA in 1974, the told the Los Angeles Times in 2009. Heing, but, although both were nominated only role Curtis seemed to be playing was had just a year to live.for an Oscar, neither won. “It was a token a washed-up actor with a back catalogue “Tony Curtis loved life and life lovednomination – a Jew and a black guy,” said of forgettable films. After his 1982 divorce him,” asserted Sidney Poitier in one of thea disgruntled Curtis, who believed he was from Allen, with whom he had sons many touching tributes after the 85 yearcontinually passed over for critical acco- Nicholas and Benjamin, Curtis admitted old’s death from a heart attack onlades. He topped off the decade with Some he “just had to grind out the movies” to September 29, 2010. “I think he left a markLike It Hot, later putting his infamous line keep up child support payments. as a presence and a person.” Throughoutthat kissing Monroe “was liking kissing Curtis went further and further off his life, Curtis told many interviewersHitler” down to off-the-cuff sarcasm. the rails, drinking heavily and taking about his boyhood dream to be somebody.In 1961, his marriage to Leigh ended “uppers, downers, dope, heroin and “I was born Bernard Schwartz, but AUSTRAL; AAPand in February 1963, five months after cocaine”. His behaviour became frighten- I never wanted to be Bernard Schwartz,”his divorce, he wed his pregnant German ingly erratic (he once gave an interview he remarked time and again. “When I wasgirlfriend, 18-year-old actress Christine wearing socks, underpants and an Army a kid I wanted to be my own creationKaufmann. It sparked a long and almost beret) and then he withdrew completely – and that was Tony Curtis.” 202 www.marieclaire.com.au

US REPORTHOW ONE WOMAN GOT RUNSGUNS FORA GANG TO SWAP THEIRFrom left: Danny Casteneda, EVAN HURD IN LA’S POOREST DISTRICT, A GROUP OF ONE-TIME GANGSTERS HAVE FOUND SALVATIONTed Hayes, Sergeo Pinales, Ricardo IN THE SPORT OF GENTLEMEN, AND SUPPORT IN ONE TOUGH LADY. BY LUCY BROADBENTCazarez, Katy Haber, Rick Miller(on ground) and Isaac Hayes.

US REPORT It’s Sunday in South Central Los Clockwise from left: Ted Hayes (right) and Angeles, the drive-by shooting cricket have brought the Homies together capital of the world. In a run-down and given them a chance of a better life; single-storey house, Sergeo Pinales Isaac joined the team as a way to stay out pulls a white vest over his well- of trouble; Katy Haber, apart from being built frame, leaving bare bulging, the club’s manager, driver and motivator, heavily tattooed arms. Throwing is also roped in to keep score. a baseball hat over his shaved head, Sergeo grabs the lead attached to his my passion. To play there, I mean, shit, carries themselves in cricket. For a per- scorekeeper, motivator and mum since In many ways, Katy and Ted were too pit bull called Puma, and slams his front especially against the Aboriginal team son like me who’d never seen people 1996 when she began touring Compton successful. When a film company bought door behind him. Climbing into his who beat us in Hambledon [Hampshire, behave that way, it was special. I try to schools, recruiting kids to a game none the rights to their story, the money was father’s Pontiac, the formidable Latino UK] during our 2001 tour.” imitate it. I try to act in a sociable way.” of them had ever heard of. shared among the squad, and suddenly contemplates what lies ahead on what is, their team of homeless men were officially, the most dangerous day of the Originally known as the LA Krickets, Across the street from Sergeo’s house, The petite, 60-something brunette homeless no more. So the pair morphed week in Compton – it involves 10 fellow the team was formed in 1995 to give a couple of Latino boys hang around idly. barks into her mobile phone. One of her the side into one made up of the gang homies, two bats, and the need to run homeless and impoverished youth a In Compton, where gang rivalry reduces players, not long out of jail, hasn’t turned youth of Compton – and that has stood very, very fast. “I guess you could say focus beyond gang life and violence. The young men to corpses almost daily, it’s up and she’s cross. “I often have to ring the test of time. Their vision remains I switched my gun for a bat,” says Sergeo, brainchild of LA homeless activist Ted not the aesthetics of the neighbourhood round for subs. It’s not always easy get- that the gunfire in Compton is replaced 30, breaking into a smile that transforms Hayes and Hollywood movie producer that mark it out, it’s the aimlessness of ting a full team together,” she explains, with the sound of leather on willow. him instantly from thug to teddy bear. “I Katy Haber, early games were played in youth. With its rows of suburban bunga- settling in with a scorecard for today’s mean, shit, what would I be doing with a concrete car park in downtown LA lows, it could be a downbeat version of game against Indian and Bangladeshi “If the British never did anything my time if I wasn’t playing cricket?” using a rubbish bin as a wicket. any number of middle-class districts in expats whose crisp, neat whites set them right, they did right when they invented the city. But Compton is almost devoid apart from the scruffy Homies. cricket,” says Ted, 59, a flamboyant For the past 13 years, Sergeo has been “My friends laughed at me when of commercial life. Local businesses character with greying dreadlocks. His padding up for one of the world’s most I started playing cricket,” recalls Sergeo, have long since fled to safer communi- Katy’s involvement in the CCC has exploits on behalf of the poor have made unlikely sporting teams. The Compton who followed his late brother into the ties. Compton’s inhabitants look not so become part of Hollywood history him a local celebrity, but here he’s known Cricket Club (CCC), known locally as team (Steve was killed in a motorcycle much angry as bored. For people with – there’s even talk of a movie. In 1995, as for his fast bowling. “When I played that The Homies & the Popz, is a team of accident in 2004, aged 16). “Cricket little to do and nothing to lose in an eco- secretary for the cricket team of BAFTA first game, I saw the difference between former gangsters who happen to play doesn’t come up in their vocabulary. nomic wasteland, violence has become a in LA, she got a call from the captain of soccer, basketball, baseball, tennis, which cricket in a country that’s barely heard of They know baseball. But when they saw way of life. “I probably woulda ended up the Beverly Hills Cricket Club, looking all have sportsmanship rules, but they the sport. They’ve toured England, met me go to England they were like, ‘What?’” for an 11th man. Unable to find anyone, don’t have an etiquette like cricket. In Prince Edward at Windsor Castle, and cricket, you don’t argue with the umpire,Clockwise from below: a phone even crossed paths with Australian Sergeo, who works as a mechanic, “In cricket, you don’t argue with the umpire, you don’t you don’t show dissent, you don’tscreensaver paying homage to the cricket cricket legend Shane Warne at Lord’s. credits cricket for his new life on the ridicule your opponents. It teaches you discipline” Ted Hayes ridicule your opponents if they lose, orclub’s home city; a shrine to former player straight and narrow. “I was an angry your teammates if they make a mistake.Steve Pinales, who died in a motorcycle This month, an Australian tour is young man. All of us were gang affiliated in jail if I didn’t play cricket,” remarks she asked her friend Ted Hayes, a social Cricket teaches you to play in a respect-accident; Isaac Hayes’s tattoos; Sergeo scheduled with a series of games in one way or another. It’s hard to find any- Sergeo. “Or in some kinda bad situation. campaigner and homeless activist. ful manner. It teaches you discipline.”Pinales reflects on brother Steve’s life; Melbourne and Sydney, and an appear- one who is not gang affiliated growing upSergeo and his beloved pit bull, Puma. ance at the Imparja Cup – an annual in Compton because that’s the way it is. SCricket turned things around for me.” “Ted said to me, ‘What’s cricket?’” Ted, whose sons Isaac and Theo are Indigenous tournament in Alice Did I carry a gun? Of course I carried ergeo pulls his car up to a park in she remembers. “I told him it’s the same on the team, believes the cricket ethic  Springs. The prospect of travelling to a gun,” he affirms, with a deep belly EVAN HURD the San Fernando Valley, 30km as baseball, except instead of running a country where cricket is a religion is laugh. “Everybody has a gun in Compton. from Compton. One by one his around in circles you run up and down. the holy grail. “Man, I’m looking forward Shit, I used to beat people up all the time. teammates arrive, all swagger and The first ball they bowled to him, he to going to Australia so bad,” says Sergeo, We’d say, ‘Let’s go break some windows, strut and dressed in a ragtag assortment hit, but dropped his bat and ran, just like in the Latino Californian inflection steal some cars.’ We’d always be acting of whites. There’s Theo Hayes in his in baseball. But he fell in love with the common in the area. “I mean, cricket is the fool, shit like that. But cricket helped do-rag hair cap; his brother, Isaac, with game. He loved that it was so ethical, so me become more of a gentleman, made knotted dreadlocks; and Emidio and honest, so well behaved and civilised. He me grow up the right way. It’s hard to Ricardo Cazarez, whose younger brother said, ‘Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we explain, but I love the way everyone was killed in a drive-by shooting in 2009. could start a cricket team among the And unfolding a picnic chair in the shade homeless?’” So together they did just is British film producer Katy Haber, who that, recruiting expat cricketers to help has been the team’s manager, van driver, train a team. www.marieclaire.com.au 91

US REPORTClockwise from above: Isaac’s tattoos with it, man. Trust me.’ And he got it. He you think about it. Anddisplay his colourful past; captain Theo thought cricket was fun. What makes me it helps to use those rulesHayes (right) displays the sportsmanship mad is he was just calming down from in real life because in realthat influences all aspects of the players’ being a knucklehead when he was killed.” life you can’t go arguingrelationships, on and off the field; Emidio and fighting about every(far right) still feels the loss of his younger Jesse was standing in front of his bad decision. You gottabrother, Jesse, in a drive-by shooting. neighbour’s house “and these guys drive learn to live with it.” by”, says Emidio, a plumber who lives ininfluences players’ personal relation- Compton. “I don’t know how many Isaac Hayes nods.ships. “When someone mad-dogs them bullets they shot. But they weren’t Raised by his mother[incites trouble], or has an attitude meant for him. They were meant for my among the gangs of LAtowards them, instead of mad-dogging neighbours. I still don’t believe it.” after she separated fromback, which ends in violence and death, Ted, Isaac, 27, was sent tothey have the discipline in their soul to join the team when hesay, ‘Nah, I’m walking.’” became too much of a handful. “I was into things I shouldn’t have been doing,” Whether the game is truly trans- he admits. “Let’s just say at 17, theformative or simply a distraction doesn’t police knew my first, middle and lastreally matter. The players – now grown names. I was on a path to nowhere.men – credit the game with their salva- And then my father took me on. Hetion. And having proved the theory taught me cricket, took me to England,works, Katy and Ted want to raise funds showed me something different, andto go back to recruiting teenagers. They I’ve been playing ever since. The gamehope their trip to Australia will increase is like chess. It makes you think. Itawareness, promote cricket as a sport makes you focus,” says Isaac.for more American kids, and ultimately In a bid to involve inner-city kids in the sport, Isaac and his brother, Theo,Wfund a cricket field in Compton. 38, the team’s captain, are writing rap ith its scrappy grass and tree- songs about cricket, one of which has lined perimeter, today’s battle- already been played on Australian TV. ground is hardly Lord’s, but it “It’s about putting down the gat [Gatling somehow captures the style of gun] and picking up the bat,” explainsplay – a blend of antique gentleman’s Theo, who, when he’s not playing cricketcricket punctuated by polite clapping or songwriting, works in buildingand high fives. Sergeo sends down a maintenance. “We’re all choosing not toflurry of off-cutters and takes five wick- be gangsters. But for a lot of kids, they’reets before lunch, and Katy hands outsandwiches she bought from Subway. “We are all choosing not to be gangsters. We’re trying to show kids there’s other things they can do” Theo Hayes Over the years, team members havecome and gone. Two died in car acci- Emidio pauses in painful silence. just born into it; it’s the only way they EVAN HURDdents, others dropped out, one did time Several years ago, he was dodging bullets see. We’re trying to show kids with ourin jail. Twenty-year-old Jesse Cazarez himself and he credits cricket for his songs and cricket there’s other thingswas showing promise as a batsman when turnaround. As a youth, he was in and they can do in life.”he was killed in a drive-by shooting in out of “juvie” for fighting and cautiously2009. His brother, Emidio, 28, had admits that when he first started playing As today’s game draws to a closebrought Jesse to practice because he saw cricket, he used his bat to beat someone – the CCC loses by 30 runs – the menhow it had turned his own life around. up. But he soon got the hang of its real shake hands, gentlemen to the core.“At first, Jesse hadn’t wanted to get purpose. “It took me a while to calm Though their knowledge of the interna-involved,” he says. “I told him, ‘Just stay down. A lot of things came into play, like tional game is minimal – most struggle seeing my family worry about me all the to name a famous player – the impact time. Cricket played a big part in it for me. this has had on their lives cannot be measured. “Cricket has taken me lots of “At first, I wasn’t sure about it. With places I never would have been,” points my attitude back then, I remember out Sergeo, cooling off in the shade. thinking it sucks you’ve got to give all “I mean, damn, it’s a one-in-a-million authority to the umpire. What if he chance to have a person from the ghetto messes up? I was like, ‘You think I’m goin’ to England and meeting royalty. It gonna bow down to him and do whatever was a life-changing experience. I came he says? Yeah, right.’ But after a while back and thought, ‘Shit, I’m special.’” 92 www.marieclaire.com.au

CONFESSIONSSEXLET’S TALK ABOUT3 GENERATIONS, 1 STEAMY TOPICMany memories are passed down from mother to daughter, butsex is rarely the subject. We found three brave families preparedto open up about their bedroom histories. By Vanessa MurrayFAMILY ONE like a rag doll. It’s called date rape now. my age. I had a good figure, and I was But afterwards, I felt really grown up. a sexy dresser. I was a redhead; I was aGRANDMOTHER, 72 blonde; I was a brunette. I’ve been it all. Back then, if you had sex with a guy,I was brought up a Catholic – sex before you married him. I thought that was love. I didn’t sleep around with every Tom,marriage was a mortal sin. We knew I had four female flatmates. No-one used Dick and Harry, but boy, I used to havenothing about vaginas and penises; I condoms and we all ended up pregnant. amazing sex. Once, I had seven orgasmsdidn’t even know about periods. But I was We never worried about diseases. I had in one night, one after the other. I triedrubbing myself on a blanket and having two backyard abortions; I was devas- anal sex once, but I was never a kinkyorgasms when I was 10. I didn’t know the tated. I thought Colin would marry me, person. I’ve never had a threesome. I likeword, I just knew that it felt good. but he didn’t; not for another two years. oral sex, although receiving it’s better than giving it, of course! I think things My father was extremely strict. My father was a good-looking man, are getting better for women. We need toHe put the fear of God into me; I was but a terrible husband. He was having talk about sex; we need to understand it.terrified of getting pregnant. I came to affairs all over the place. When I was inSydney when I was 20. The big smoke! my 40s, I found out my mother lost her MOTHER, 46I was out there partying and having virginity in the same way I did. She gota great time. Elvis Presley was my idol. pregnant and gave the baby to her cousin, I’ve never been married, but I’ve beenI was a crazy dancer; I was into jive. who couldn’t have children. In those lucky, I’ve had some really good lovers in days, everything got swept under carpet. my life – maybe a couple of dozen all up. I was 21 when I first had sex. Myhusband-to-be, Colin, was a bit of a man Colin and I were married for almost I don’t have fond memories of myabout town. I was mad about him. One 18 years. When we divorced, I felt like I’d teenage years. I went to a strict all girls’night, he got me pie-eyed and he took been let loose. I had many, many guys Catholic school, and my parents wentme. He got my shorts and panties off, after that. My second husband was 25 through a messy divorce when I turnedand before I knew it, he was at it. I was years younger than me. But I didn’t look 13. I had an older sister who filled me  www.marieclaire.com.au 79

TALKING POINT ARE YOU AN APPROVAL ADDICT? You may have a fulfilling career, a great relationship and an active life, but do you still need someone else to tell you that you’re doing OK? Kathy Knight wonders why praise has become the new Prozac PATRIC SHAW/TRUNKARCHIVE.COM/SNAPPER MEDIA I’ve got a friend who I like enor- sort of person who’s always nice to the addiction – a phenomenon that’s on the mously, but who, on occasion, can waitress – partly, I hope, because I’ve got rise in today’s fast-driven, competitive, behave rather badly. She cancels good manners, but also because it’s enor- modern world. In fact, the chances are meetings at a moment’s notice, mously important to me that they think that if you’re educated, intelligent, pro- goes AWOL for days, and has I’m a lovely customer, even if I’m never fessional or a parent – in short, if you live a habit of dishing out home truths going to see them again. It’s the same way in this world – then you’re probably when I least need to hear them. of thinking that has me chatting to taxi- susceptible to some degree. Indeed, Joyce I’d quite like to tell her what I think drivers for hours when I could be making Meyer, author of Approval Addiction: sometimes, but I always keep my mouth a personal phone call. In fact, when Overcoming Your Need To Please Everyone shut and smile even when I’m inwardly I think about it, I’m pretty hung up on (Hodder, $24.95), believes our desire to be seething with irritation. Why? Because what people think about me on every level. complimented and liked as a way of main- the thought of upsetting her, of rocking taining happiness is as potent a drug the boat, terrifies me. I need her to think To be honest, I thought this all boiled as alcohol and gambling. “Many people well of me, even if it means that I’m down to me being a bit needy, a bit of today live a life of desperation – desperate often left feeling slightly hard done by. a people pleaser – and there’s certainly an to fit in, desperate to be accepted,’’ she This is far from the only area in which element of that – but recently I have come says. “But instead of running to drugs, I pay excessive attention to what people to realise that it might be something more alcohol, gambling, eating or sex to heal think of me. When I eat out, I’m the nuanced and complex. I may actually be the hurt, they seek people’s approval.”  suffering from something called approval www.marieclaire.com.au 101

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I N V E S T I G AT I O N AAP Sathya Sai Baba (seated) has variously described himself asOHROLHYOMAXA?N the second coming of Jesus For his 50 million followers, Sai Baba is a profound spiritual and the reincarnation of the leader and guru. But for hundreds of defectors he’s at best Hindu gods Shiva and Shakti. a cheat and a liar, and at worst a sexual deviant who preys on the young men who worship him. By Gethin Chamberlain

I N V E S T I G AT I O N The Duchess of York, Sarah Ferguson – one of Sai Baba’s many high-profile visitors – signs an autograph in Calcutta in 2000. Left: the guru holds court from his golden chariot. Below: Sai Baba was just 14 when he declared himself a deity. Like many of the gurus that populate Clockwise from above left: the founder of the strode among the devo- India, Sai Baba comes from humble Hard Rock Cafe chain, Isaac Tigrett (inset), has tees sprinkling them with origins. Born in 1926 in Puttaparthi, donated millions to the Sai Baba organisation vibhuti (holy ash), which a small village in southern India, to a and emblazons his 149 outlets with his guru’s the faithful believed he “humble and pious couple”, Sai Baba is doctrine; despite claims of sexual abuse, Sai conjures from thin air, now said to have displayed signs of wisdom Baba drew a large crowd in New Delhi last he is driven past in a silver from the start. He was composing songs year; actress Goldie Hawn is an admirer; sedan, his wheelchair – with from a young age, showing an aptitude for Conny Larsson says he was molested by him. its white leather and gold- magic, and surviving deathly acts, like effect trim – strapped into the front pas- T he vast, high-ceilinged hall is most controversial. He counts presi- sleeping in the same bed as a cobra. PHOTOGRAPHED BY GETTY IMAGES; PICTURE MEDIA; and a sports centre. There are halls that senger side. Afterwards, he sits listlessly overflowing with people, dents, prime ministers and kings (and CORBIS. A SPECIAL THANKS TO SECRET SWAMI/BBC hold 10,000 people (lit by more than 150 on the stage, dabbing at his mouth and thousands upon thousands of celebrities like Goldie Hawn and Sarah At age 14, he announced that he was chandeliers), and a library stocked full of nose with a handkerchief, fiddling with them, craning their necks, Ferguson) among his 50 million follow- Sathya Sai Baba, the reincarnation of the guru’s teachings. Every day, the hall- his hands. He looks lost, confused. eager, attentive, oblivious to ers. He sits on a multi-billion-dollar India’s most beloved and storied guru, ways fill with chanting that begins at the heat of the Indian after- fortune, his picture hangs on the walls of and declared himself a deity. Within 10 dawn and continues incessantly through- One day soon, the car will come no noon, oblivious to everything hundreds of institutions that bear his years of this declaration, his devotees had out the day. Many among the crowd are more. Sai Baba is getting old. Though the but the knowledge they are name, he claims he can materialise holy built his first ashram, driven by faith in a Indians in traditional dress, but there Baba’s most vocal and generous support- strict vegetarian, teetotal non-smoker about to get a glimpse of God. Barry healing ash and diamond rings out of man who they were convinced could per- are also devotees from dozens of coun- ers, Tigrett has donated millions of insists he will not die until 2019, his frag- Pittard sits cross-legged on the floor thin air, and perform miracle cures. He form miracles. Today, Sai Baba’s influence tries who travel vast distances to catch a dollars to the organisation, and helped ile physical state suggests his time may of the ashram. The heady fragrance of claims he is omnipotent and omnipres- stretches to every corner of the globe. He glimpse of the magical man in orange. to fund Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher come sooner. The guru has already prom- incense, marigolds and jasmine fills the ent. He has variously described himself has more than 1200 centres of worship in Some are desperately poor, saving for Medical Sciences, a 500-room hospital ised followers he will be reincarnated air, mingling with the chanting and rhyth- as the second coming of Jesus and the more than 120 countries (there are 44 in a lifetime to make just one visit. Others where all patients are treated for free. after eight years, but his death is certain mic handclapping, overwhelming his reincarnation of the Hindu gods Shiva NSW alone). The organisation records are among the richest people on earth (He has also helped to fund many of Sai to trigger a power struggle for control of senses. He recalls everything about that and Shakti. He is Sai Baba, and his follow- assets of $1.3 billion, but estimates sug- – royalty, politicians, and titans of indus- Baba’s clean water projects, which are an organisation with more influence and first glimpse of the tiny man with the ers believe he is God in human form. gest it may be worth 10 times that figure. financial clout than many international orange robe and huge mop of afro hair: [ [try,whodonatestaggeringsumsofmoney said to have transformed the lives of corporations. His departure, however, how the man’s deep, dark eyes bored into But behind the pageantry lies a sinis- The once-quiet village of Puttaparthi Behind all the pageantry lies a sinister underbelly. may prove a blessing for the Sai Baba his own, how the man stopped, stepped ter underbelly. Former devotees say Sai is now a thriving city, bursting with tens Former devotees say Baba has used cheap trickery to organisation, because while the guru is off the stage and cut through the crowd Baba has used cheap trickery to fool the of thousands of visitors making pilgrim- fool the gullible and molested hundreds of young men their biggest draw, the rampant reports towards him. How the man placed his feet gullible, and molested hundreds of young age to their guru every day. Virtually to the organisation. (Among the many Indians all over the country.) If there’s of his sexual abuse have also proven against his legs and stood there for a long men who trusted him. He is, they say, a every surface in the town bears the image outbuildings in Puttaparthi is an airport, any doubt how deep Tigrett’s devotion to a stumbling block to greater riches. time. And how Barry knew, with absolute man for whom murder has been done, in of the holy one – a 157cm wisp of a man in built to serve these high-rolling devo- his guru runs, one only has to look at the certainty, that he had finally found his whose name millions have been misspent, bright orange robes with a shock of black tees.) All believe Sai Baba to be their motto that runs across the signs of each Sai Baba’s alleged fondness for guru. “I’d found my home,” says Pittard. whose dubious miracle cures have cost hair that stands straight on end, as if elec- one and only God, a man for whom they of his 149 Hard Rock Cafes. It’s the same male devotees is something with which “I felt I’d finally come to the place that I’d lives. This is no deity, they say: this is a trified. The nerve centre of the village is would do – or give – anything. that wallpapers the surfaces of all of Sai Conny Larsson is familiar. When the been looking for all of my life.” confidence trickster with a God complex. the ashram, a vast labyrinth of buildings Baba’s ashrams: Love All, Serve All. Swede, 62, first arrived in Puttaparthi as that include a hospital, a supermarket, a One such believer is Hard Rock Cafe a young man, he felt like he had found Sathya Sai Baba, God, guru, magician, bakery, an ice-cream shop, a planetarium, founder Isaac Tigrett. A long-time devo- But the man Tigrett first came to his spiritual home. But it was not long, is arguably one of the most influential tee of the guru, Tigrett credits Sai Baba worship is now 85, and a little worse for he says, before Sai Baba started to call men on earth – and certainly one of the with saving his life, saying that the guru wear. The afro that used to elongate his him for private interviews. “He came came to him when he drove his Porsche meek frame has been replaced by a thin up to me and said I was chosen.  off a cliff while drunk. 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I N V E S T I G AT I O N HELP THE GURU’S TEACHINGS EVER HURT Sai Baba may seem an unlikely NEVER god, but in a country where thousands of godly incarnations,Above: Sai Baba, seated in his wheelchair, or avatars, are worshipped, his is asurrounds himself with young male well-trodden path to the divine. If thefollowers whom, it’s said, he grants regular millions who follow Sai Baba have oneprivate audiences. Above right: the guru’s shared characteristic, it is a desire tomeeting hall where he would perform believe in someone who they think will(also right) in front of 10,000 followers. help them find happiness. That it turns out to be a relatively simple path onlyHe was all knowing and all mighty, and have often faced slander in their lives,” it enhances the appeal. Sai Baba’s doctrine amounts to little more thanthen he produced the holy ash and said. “Such pitiful efforts neither dimin- urging people to be nice. There is no liturgy other than singing happy songs.I thought it was a miracle,” says Larsson. ish their glory nor slow down their resolve Sai Baba claims he is not part of any official or organised religion. He says,And because he thought Sai Baba holy, to achieve their mission. May God give “I have come to light the lamp of Love in your hearts ... I have not come onLarsson accepted his assurances there good sense to all who create these scur- behalf of any exclusive religion ... I have come to tell you of this unitarywas nothing sexual about what happened rilous stories and wisdom to all others faith, this spiritual principle, this path of Love, this virtue of Love, this dutynext. “He took the thread of my pants and not to pay any heed to them.” of Love, this obligation of Love.”they fell down and he started to oil my For staunch believers, their relation- trust on him and he in turn has grossly and repeatedly abused that trust.”genitals. Who was I to question God?” ship with the guru is too intoxicating to When questioned about the abuse, heYears later, Larsson wrote him an open give up. Barry Pittard, a Queenslander denounced the allegations as the “cawing of crows”. But complaints against Sailetter. “You were supposed to be pure love who spentyearsworkingatalocalashram, Baba have now piled so high even some of his most ardent supporters accept thereand have no personal desire or lust other understands. “I loved Sai Baba so much,” is truth in them. In 2004, Isaac Tigrett told a BBC reporter that even though hethan giving joy to mankind.” Instead, he says Pittard, “that I gave up everything for “absolutely believes there is truth to the rumours”, it doesn’t change his feelingswrote, Sai Baba had “spiritually and phys- him. I thought I had found a wise and about his guru. “He could go out and mur- der someone tomorrow,” admits Tigrett,ically molested” him for years. great spiritual master, and that my life “and it’s not going to change the good things that have come out of my relation-Since the ’70s, countless men have was finally going to be filled with happi- ship [with Sai Baba].” Devotee Ram Das Awle agrees, but adds that any contact Saicome forward with accounts of abuse, all ness and purpose.” But in 1982, when a Baba had with young men would have been for their own good: “It seems veryfamiliar: Sai Baba calls them into a pri- woman visiting the ashram confided in likely any sexual contact Sai Baba has had with devotees, of whatever kind, has actu-vate meeting, places his hands on their him that Sai Baba was sexually involved ally been only a potent blessing, given to A SPECIAL THANKS TO SECRET SWAMI/BBBCgenitals, then tells them it is not a sexual with young men, Pittard was aghast. He awaken the spiritual power within those souls. Who can call that ‘wrong’?” “Millions have projected their faith and trust on him and he in turn has grossly and repeatedly The United Nations, for one. Shortly before Sai Baba’s 75th birthday, UNESCO[ [abused that trust” Barry Pittard, former Sai Baba devotee [United Nations Educational, Scientific act. Sometimes he performs oral sex on brought the allegation to authorities, andthem, sometimes they on him. Always the was promptly cast out. “It was numbing,”explanation is the same: this is an act of he says. But he refused to let it dent hisGod. Many choose to ignore the allega- faith. “I translated it in my mind into thetions, and Sai Baba’s army of powerful notion of the guru testing you.” It was notsupporters help to quash the rumours. until 1999 when abuse stories started toLast November, more than a million peo- mount, Pittard began asking questions.ple attended Sai Baba’s 85th birthday, the The answers he received convinced himprime minister and president of India the rumours were true. “It takes a whilewere among them. Former Indian prime to get out of the denial,” he says. “But nowminister Atal Bihari Vajpayee has signed I can see that he has aggrandised himself,a letter defending the guru: “Great men millions have projected their faith and42 www.marieclaire.com.au

I N V E S T I G AT I O N LOVE ALL SERVE ALLand Cultural Organization] withdrew Above: a sea of people gather to see others very well,” he says. If that is theits sponsorship of a conference at the holy man in 2000. Above right: case, the self-deception has been a spec-Puttaparthi, announcing that it was former Indian prime minister Atal Bihari tacular success, because Sai Baba appears“deeply concerned about widely reported Vajpayee, an ally of Sai Baba, seeksallegations of sexual abuse”. And the US blessings from the guru six days beforeDepartment of State has warned travel- elections in 2004, in which he lost office.lers to India of the allegations. to harbour no doubts about his divinity: For many, Sai Baba isn’t just a sexualdeviant, but also a cheat and a liar. For his fist before opening it to reveal the “My power is immeasurable; my truth isyears, Sai Baba has displayed his holinessby making something from nothing: pro- “jewel” (the stone turned out to be a fake inexplicable, unfathomable,” he has toldducing gold from his mouth and makingash magically appear in the palm of his emerald). “At the time you believe he is his followers. “I am Truth; and Truth hashand. These demonstrations of divinity,says Narendra Nayak, president of the a divine personage and his attention is a no need to hesitate, or fear, or bend.”Federation of Indian RationalistAssociations, are the tricks of a “third divine blessing. It’s easy to be charmed While the death of Sai Baba will poserate prestidigitator and manipulator”. by him,” he admits. Priddy now believes a challenge, it’s unlikely to hinder the According to Nayak, Sai Baba foolspeople with visual trickery. “He produces the holy ash is a powder compressed organisation. The love for gurus in Indiaobjects concealed somewhere, either inhis sleeve or in between his fingers, into pills, made in a machine in Sai lives long after their passing. (A fulland makes it seems as though they havematerialised from nowhere,” he says. “His Baba’s inner interview room, which he 93 years after Shirdi Sai Baba’s death,devotees believe that they are miraclesbecause they are conditioned to believe so crumbles between his fingers. the man whom Sai Baba says he is thefrom a very, very young age.” Sleights ofhand are one thing, adds Nayak, but mira- YouTube has a selection of videos reincarnation of, his devotees raisedcle cures are far more dangerous. “Weknow people who had cancer and they [ [that show the trick in slow motion. Like $1 million in four days.) It stands to rea-went to him and they thought that hismiracle is going to cure it, and then it goes many former believers, he’s embarrassed son the passing of Sai Baba will trigger ainto the later stages where it is incurable.” “He produces objects concealed somewhere and makes it Robert Priddy, the Baba organisa- seem as though they have materialised from nowhere. Histion’s former leader in Norway, knows devotees believe they are miracles” Narendra Nayak, rationalistwhat it’s like to fall for these tricks. He about his gullibility: “You want to believe. bigger outpouring of support. And eightwas delighted when he first saw the guru You can see how all of those people who years after his death, the search will start GETTY IMAGES; AAPconjure a green diamond ring out of have access to these facts are still believ- for the reincarnation and the juggernautthe air for him, blowing three times on ers. There are people who have left him will roll on. All Larsson and his fellow because of the sexual abuse and have recanters can do is hope others will even- returned because their life became so tually see Sai Baba the way they do. empty. It is like a honeymoon in the beginning. People think, ‘All my past life “Seeing this old wreck sitting in his has gone, all the bad things have been wheelchair now, it is just confirmation left behind, now I’m on the right track’ that he was not the god he was claiming and they want to continue like that.” to be, and it is such a relief to see he is just a human being who has fooled the Pittard doesn’t think the devotees are world,” states Larsson. “He has used the only delusional ones. “I think Sai Baba the flower-power language of love, truth, has deceived himself psychologically and and righteousness, and he has abused that’s given him the ability to deceive the goodness people have in them.” 44 www.marieclaire.com.au



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