A Swiss Miss turned actress described having to fight against predatory Hollywood producers.
Nadine Vinzens, 41, has revealed the horrible experiences she had with powerful and well-known film producers while trying to make it in Hollywood.
After winning the Miss Switzerland title in 2002 and working as a model in Germany for two years, Vinzens moved to Los Angeles in 2004 to follow her acting dreams.
For 15 years, he met various celebrities while attending high-profile parties, but he also saw the horrors that lurked in the shadows of glamorous Hollywood.
During one particularly terrifying encounter, the Swiss actress was forced to lock herself in a bathroom to escape a producer after he allegedly began groping her, telling her she would have to “sleep there with him.”
She even once said another producer who could have helped launch her career told her, “If you don’t spread your legs for me, I won’t help you.”
Nadine Vinzens (pictured), 41, has revealed the horrific experiences she had with powerful and well-known film producers while trying to make it in Hollywood.
For 15 years, he met various celebrities while attending high-profile parties, but he also saw the horrors that lurk in the shadows of glamorous Hollywood.
After winning the Miss Switzerland title in 2002 (pictured above after being crowned in September 2002) and working as a model in Germany for two years, Vinzens moved to Los Angeles in 2004 to follow her acting dreams.
Vinzens claims that a film producer flew her to New York in 2009 and reportedly wanted to take her to a film gala and introduce her to important people in the industry.
He reportedly suggested they meet in the hotel lobby. But when the producer picked her up, Vinzens claims he told her “they had to go up to her room quickly.”
“He closed the door behind him and told me to make myself comfortable, that the hotel was full and that I would sleep there with him,” she told the Swiss tabloid. click.
“Then he started groping me.”
She fought back and pushed him before running to the bathroom and locking herself in, she told the newspaper.
Panicking, he called his family and friends in Switzerland for advice.
While on the phone with a friend, she came out of the bathroom and told the producer that she had to leave immediately.
She said he then opened the door “in a bad mood.”
When he went to reception to ask for a free room, they told him that there were indeed some rooms available, contrary to what the producer had stated.
He booked himself into a room, where he locked himself before taking the next flight back to Los Angeles. Vinzens said he never heard from the producer again.
But this wasn’t the only time predatory men used Vinzens’ introduction to “important people” as a smokescreen for unwanted sexual advances.
The incident in New York was not the only time predatory men used Vinzens’ introduction to “important people” as a smokescreen for sexual advances.
In another of her horror stories from her time with Hollywood’s rich and famous, a producer told her he would take her to an event, but then urged her to go to his hotel room with him, which Vinzens did, saying that I trusted him.
Miss Switzerland 2002 Nadine Vinzens attends the opening ceremony and premiere of ‘Green Book’ during the 14th Zurich Film Festival at Kino Corso on September 27, 2018 in Zurich, Switzerland
In another of her horror stories from her time with Hollywood’s rich and famous, a producer told her he would take her to an event, but then urged her to go to his hotel room with him, which Vinzens did, saying that I trusted him.
He allegedly told her to get into his bed. Even though she said no, he touched her and pushed her.
She said: “I was beside myself with shock and fear but I managed to free myself and ran away.” I suspect he wanted to rape me. I would never have suspected such behavior from him.’
Vinzens did not report the producer, as he said it would be a ‘he said she said’ situation and he had no proof.
Five years ago, the model said she was invited to audition for a role at Warner Bros. studios.
‘The producer was delighted, he called me shortly after and told me I had done very well. “He wanted to meet me at his house,” he told Blick.
But when she told him she would bring her boyfriend to accompany her, the producer allegedly shouted insults at her, saying he didn’t want to ‘push women who have partners’ before hanging up the phone.
‘They lure you in with professional upgrades, but all they want is sex. Nothing more,” said Vinzens, who also works as a DJ.
A producer allegedly told Vinzens to get into his bed. Even though she said no, he touched her and pushed her.
Vinzens said it was the “sick Hollywood system” that kept these practices secret.
He said that these men knew that many stars are willing to do this, but he refused to say who these women are – for their own safety – but indicated that the men he was talking about were “behind the camera” and “have not yet appeared.” “. the radar’.
Vinzens said it was the “sick Hollywood system” that kept these practices secret.
“I know that this system of sex for career opportunities is still the order of the day and will continue to exist,” he told Blick.
“That makes me even more grateful to every woman who rebels against the perversion of men in power and ridicules them.”
