The Wolf of Los Angeles.

Chapter 167 Another Videotape

The living room of the villa was quiet for a while.

Hawke and Erica, a young man and woman, have a certain political sense because of their respective growth experiences. They can look to the future and have a full understanding of the cruel and dark side of this social competition.

Erica said: "As a small police officer, I have no way of investigating these cases."

Hawke suggested: "Let the stubborn ones go up and bump into it first."

"Since I lead a team, I have to be responsible for the safety of my subordinates." Erica never thought of pitting her subordinates: "It's okay if they can't find out anything. If they really find out something, their personal safety will be in jeopardy."

Hawke shook his head slightly: "No, that's not what I meant."

He simply said, "I plan to have someone secretly mail the information of Kristen Johnson, Jessica and others from other places to Fox TV."

Erica asked, "Your friend Megan Taylor?"

"Her mortal enemy, Gretchen." Hawke considered and said, "The media under News Corporation has always been very courageous. Gretchen has been with Fox for many years. Even if she doesn't dare to investigate, she may submit the information to the next higher level after receiving it. It depends on whether Fox, the deep red, has the courage to clash with the deep blue."

Erica understood: "Borrow Fox's knife to test?"

"Right now the red and blue parties are fighting over the governor, and this may be a breakthrough," Hawke said.

Erica thought seriously for a moment: "Do you need me to tell grandpa?"

Hawke shook his head: "Not for now. We need someone to take the lead and step on the mines. Fox is a good choice."

"That's right." Erica agreed with Hawke's point of view: "Fox TV and News Corporation are big companies. It's no big deal for them to bear this little pressure."

Hawke got her up and said, "I'm hungry. Let's go make dinner together. There's still a lot to do after dinner."

He asked Erica, "Do you still have the uniform and the belt?"

Erica said generously: "Knowing that you like it, I specially made a batch of uniforms."

The two went to the kitchen together. Hawke was cooking dinner, and Erica came over wearing a cook's uniform.

This dinner couldn't be eaten normally.

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Las Vegas lights flicker at night.

Campos, wearing makeup and gloves, went to the edge of the city, found a mailbox with no surveillance nearby, and put the mail in it.

The email was sent directly to Gretchen from Fox TV.

Campos left quickly, and after a few turns, he got into a temporarily rented Volkswagen sedan and drove to the city center.

When he arrived near the MGM Grand Hotel, he called someone.

Rick Solomon's acting career is more like a game. After his father left Warner, he never played a role again, but he is somewhat famous among professional poker players.

As long as you are willing to spend money, it is not difficult to get detailed information about people like him.

Campos was not in a hurry. He found a place to stay and waited for a night. Someone faxed more detailed information about Rick Solomon to his hotel room.

People like Rick Solomon are called professional poker players in a nice way, but in fact they are professional gamblers.

This profession has its winners and losers.

Campos discovered that Rick Solomon was a bad guy. Paris Hilton broke up with him because she was older and not as easy to deceive as she was at 18.

On the other hand, he secretly used Paris Hilton's money to gamble.

Although the media has given Paris Hilton the title of a brainless rich girl, she is not completely brainless.

Paris is young, rich, fun-loving, and particularly enjoys the aura of a star.

Rick Solomon has not been very lucky in the past two years and has been having some difficulties financially.

Campos also got a call from Rick Solomon.

Through an intermediary, he contacted Rick Solomon and said there was a big deal to be done, which might involve hundreds of thousands of dollars.

The two sides agreed to meet at the cafe in the MGM Grand Hotel.

At 10:30 in the morning, Campos arrived at the MGM Grand Hotel, entered the cafe, and quickly found Rick Solomon, who was wearing a hat.

The latter saw the Mexican with a big beard and asked, "Are you the Vidal who made an appointment with me?"

"It's me." Campos took out a fake press card and showed it to Rick Solomon. "I'm Vidal from World News Weekly. I came all the way from New York to see you."

Solomon was surprised: "Reporter? You want to interview me? I can accept it."

Campos said softly, "It's not an interview. We want to find you for some important news."

"What news?" Solomon was not very prominent among professional poker players, and gamblers only cared about money: "If you want me to provide you with news, you need to pay me."

Campos's words were all made up: "When I was in New York, I heard from a woman in the Upper East Side socialite circle that Paris Hilton once got drunk and revealed to her and a few close people that she had taken a lot of videos when she was dating you, and she has been worried that the tapes would be leaked."

Solomon had almost forgotten about this incident, but now he remembered that he and Paris had taken a lot of photos when they traveled to Paris.

Campos glanced across his face and said, "It looks like there is."

Solomon nodded: "Yes, it was all her own will... No, she asked for the filming, it has nothing to do with me."

He was worried that the other party was sent by the Hilton family: "Man, how can we men refuse when women ask to be filmed, right?" Campos nodded: "Give me the exclusive copyright of the video."

In a sense, Solomon is the yellow-haired man of this era, and he always has a special attraction for little girls.

But in the eyes of this kind of people, they don't care about women at all, and they just ask directly: "How much can you pay?"

Campos said, "One hundred thousand dollars."

Solomon grinned and said, "You are kidding. The male lead is me and the female lead is Paris Hilton."

Campos said: "I haven't seen the video yet, so I don't know how serious it is. If it's just kissing and hugging, it's not worth $5000."

"The scale is the same as in the Sacred Valley film, I promise." Solomon thought about it and confirmed that he was right: "There are scenes of me fucking her directly, and scenes of her eating me..."

Campos said, "You name your price."

Solomon thought for a moment and said, "One million dollars."

The two began to argue and finally reached an agreement on $80.

But Campos requested that all images of Solomon would not be blurred when exposed in the media.

Solomon said that there was no problem at all, that he could show up directly when the video was exposed, and that he would be the envy of many men in America if he could get Paris Hilton.

Maybe I can restart my acting career.

This is also a source of bragging rights for men.

Campos would not pay immediately, insisting instead on waiting until he saw the video.

Solomon took him to his residence, found the original camera from the corner of the cabinet, and connected it to the computer to play the video.

Campos was very satisfied and asked a law firm to draft a relevant agreement. He obtained the exclusive authorization on the same day and paid $80 in fees.

He got the authorization and made several copies immediately, carrying the original back to Los Angeles with him.

A copy was mailed to Butterfly Company.

Another copy was mailed directly to Twitter.

After finishing all this, Campos called Hawke and told him about what was going on.

In Los Angeles, Hawke heard what Campos said and replied, "The day after tomorrow morning, you send someone over to sell the video recording to Twitter. The process is the same as before."

Campos said, "No problem, I can get back tomorrow."

Hawke hung up the phone and went to the operations department, where he found Caroline.

He asked, "How is Will Smith's traffic being digested?"

Caroline forced a smile on her small face. "It's basically settled in less than two weeks. In a place like Hollywood, scandals and gossip are updated too quickly."

She glanced at the data table: "The number of registered users per day has dropped to less than 10 in the past two days, and the number of daily active users is less than million."

Hawke nodded. "Network traffic is always like this. It rises quickly and disappears quickly."

Caroline then said, "Tomorrow, there will be a press conference at the Parker Center. Will you go?"

"You can go, I've already made the arrangements over there." Hawke established a collaboration between Twitter and LAPD through the relationship between Mary Ferguson and Susie.

Connections are part of your resources, and you should use them when the opportunity is right.

Caroline asked, "I'm representing the company at the press conference?"

Hawke threw out another pile of grass: "Soon you will be the company's operations director."

This is not empty talk.

Caroline also knew this. With a smile on her palm-sized face, she looked more expressive than a goat before entering a slaughterhouse: "I will definitely do it well."

She thought for a moment and asked, "Boss, is there any new hot news?"

"It will be there soon." Hawke would not release it immediately: "Once the heat of signing with Parker Center dies down, there will be new hot news here."

Caroline saw a future with a million-dollar annual salary: "Great, we can do something big again!"

One day later, downtown Los Angeles.

On behalf of Twitter, Caroline signed an exclusive online cooperation agreement with Susie, head of the LAPD Media and Public Relations Office, in the presence of many media outlets.

LAPD will open an official Twitter account and will choose this platform when issuing announcements over the Internet.

On the same afternoon, the Los Angeles Dodgers announced at their regular pre-season press conference that the team would fully cooperate with Twitter and open the Dodgers' official Twitter account.

The famous saint Steve Nutter attended the press conference and announced his official Twitter account, announcing that he would post his daily life with his black son on Twitter.

This attracted many fans and media to register accounts on Twitter.

What's more, some media outlets have contacted Twitter and requested official certification for their accounts.

It was at this time that Caroline personally negotiated the new videotape license.

(End of this chapter)