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Hot Money is back. In this series, Financial Times reporter Miles Johnson investigates a mysterious murder in a small town that leads to a web of drugs, money laundering and state-sponsored assassinations stretching from Dublin to Dubai. At the centre is a cocaine super cartel that is revolutionising the global drugs market. This eight-part investigative podcast, published twice-weekly, probes the links between criminals and legitimate businesses, and between governments and gangsters.


Hot Money: The New Narcos

To those who believe his story, Paul is the crown prince of Romania, a direct descendant of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and Tsar Alexander II of Russia. To those who don’t, he’s Paul Lambrino: a fantasist claiming heirship to a non-existent throne. This is the story of Paul’s fight to win a $1bn inheritance. It features private spy agencies, missing Caravaggios, and a billionaire with an eye for a deal.
 
This piece, written by the FT’s Miles Johnson, is the first in our series, ‘The Great Escape’, featuring our most carefully crafted and deeply engrossing tales. It was originally printed in FT Weekend.
 
To read more stories like this and to save 40% on a standard digital subscription to the Financial Times, go to: ft.com/princeoffer.
 
Contributors: Miles Johnson, Mischa Frankl-Duval, Breen Turner, Laura Clarke, Cheryl Brumley, Matt Vella

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FT long read: The Fugitive Prince

When Financial Times reporter Patricia Nilsson started digging into the porn industry, she made a shocking discovery: Nobody knew who controlled the biggest porn company in the world. Now, Nilsson and her editor, Alex Barker, have figured out who the guy was, and much more. Their reporting reveals a shadowy power structure that includes billionaires, tech geniuses and the most powerful finance companies in the world. Coming June 7th. 

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Hot Money: Who Rules Porn?

Stoya is a porn star who saw first-hand how a firehose of free porn online transformed the adult industry.
 
She sends hosts Alex Barker and Patricia Nilsson a quest: Find out who is in charge, and get to the bottom of how the business of porn really works.
 
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Episode 1: Porn Meets the Internet

A decade ago, a computer programmer named Fabian Thylmann began to build one of the biggest porn empires in the world.
 
How did Fabian do it? He was good with money in a business that was starved of finance. He convinced Wall Street to bankroll his vision to take control of the industry.
 
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Episode 2: The Darth Vader of Porn

When Fabian Thylmann ran into trouble with the law, a former Goldman Sachs banker swooped in to buy his porn sites. But nobody knew who he was. He managed to keep his identity a secret for years --- until Patricia rumbled his game. 
 
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Episode 3: Mr. Goldman, Mr. Sex

How is it legal for porn sites to host millions of videos uploaded by users? The answer is in the story of an Ohio family in the early 1990s.
 
In this episode: a family IT business, an FBI raid and a court case that set the precedent for porn – and for tech giants like Facebook and Twitter. 
 
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Episode 4: Playboy vs. Rusty and Edie

A billionaire hedge fund manager reads a scathing column about a popular porn site. He sends an angry text to the CEO of MasterCard. Almost overnight, the biggest porn company in the world changes dramatically.
 
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Episode 5: The Billionaire Who Took Down Porn

One of the biggest porn companies in the world was forced to radically change its practices. But another porn giant changed almost nothing.
 
Patricia travels to the company's Prague headquarters to understand why. 
 
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Episode 6: Knocking on the Door of a Porn Empire

Alex and Patricia track down the family behind OnlyFans, the site that has transformed online porn by shifting power back to performers. But there is a whole other side to the OnlyFans story. 
 
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Episode 7: Porn Meets OnlyFans

In the season finale, Alex and Patricia discover how Visa and MasterCard became the reluctant rulers of porn. And they figure out what being ruled by credit card companies means for the porn industry today.
 
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Episode 8: Inside Porn's Star Chamber

An undercover operation in New York reveals a connection with Tehran.
 
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Episode 6 - Ties with Tehran

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