Former sex trafficking victim pardoned by President Trump reveals disturbing secrets of legal brothel

Rebekah "Bekah" Charleston had an eerie feeling erstwhile she walked wrong the Moonlite Bunny Ranch, a ineligible brothel successful occidental Nevada.

"While the TV amusement ‘Cathouse’ might’ve made it look glamorous connected the broadside erstwhile you thrust out, it’s a double-wide trailer successful the mediate of nowhere. It’s a literal compound you’re entering into," the erstwhile enactment trafficking unfortunate told Fox News Digital.

"It was strange. No 1 was allowed to person a car there," she said. "Nobody ever near their workplace. We were forced to slumber successful the aforesaid rooms wherever we were serving customers each time long. We’d get to alteration the sheets, but past we would slumber successful those aforesaid rooms. That’s not a occupation similar immoderate other."

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Bekah Charleston is speaking retired successful "Secrets of the Bunny Ranch." (A&E)

The North Texas pistillate is present speaking retired connected A&E’s docuseries, "Secrets of the Bunny Ranch."

The six-part peculiar explores the emergence of "America’s No. 1 enactment destination" and its charismatic owner, Dennis Hof, a self-proclaimed pimp who died successful 2018 astatine property 72. It features never-before-seen footage, idiosyncratic photos and never-before-heard interviews with ex-employees.

Fox News Digital reached retired to Moonlite Bunny Ranch for comment.

Dennis Hof, proprietor of the Moonlite Bunny Ranch, died successful 2018. He was 72. (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

"Speaking retired successful a docuseries similar this is benignant of terrifying and overwhelming," Charleston admitted. "But … I deliberation it’s important that we’re holding radical accountable now."

Growing up, Charleston was a troubled teen who ran distant from location astatine property 16. Living connected the streets, she was forced into prostitution by a boyfriend. By property 17, she became progressive with a trafficker. Charleston said she was successful her aboriginal 20s erstwhile she was sent to the Bunny Ranch arsenic "a signifier of punishment."

"I was successful Las Vegas moving for [my trafficker] astatine each the casinos and escort services," she recalled. "I started getting arrested excessively much. The constabulary started recognizing maine arsenic they often bash successful Las Vegas. So, helium made maine spell to the brothels."

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Bekah Charleston was a troubled teen who ran distant from location earlier she became progressive with a enactment trafficker.  (A&E)

There was 1 regularisation Charleston’s trafficker ordered her to follow: Stay distant from Hof.

"My trafficker warned maine that … each [Hof] would effort to bash is get girls precocious and drunk and past person services with him for free," she claimed. "And my trafficker wasn’t astir to fto maine bash that."

According to the docuseries, the women were required to work "The Bunny Bible," which besides guided them connected lawsuit negotiations.

Dennis Hof purchased the Bunny Ranch successful 1992. According to the website, "The Bunny Ranch is present a household sanction and a apical Nevada abrogation spot for enactment tourists and funny travelers alike." (Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

"We would enactment up similar cattle each Thursday to get a pap smear," said Charleston. "We conscionable spell 1 close aft the different successful a country successful the back. A doc would beryllium connected the premises doing a pap smear. I besides had to get my humor tested erstwhile a period to marque definite that I didn’t person HIV oregon AIDS."

The Bunny Ranch was the mounting for HBO’s world TV series, "Cathouse," which premiered successful 2005. While the bid depicted the workers arsenic earning loads of cash, it was acold from the truth, Charleston said. That sentiment was echoed by respective ex-workers successful the docuseries.

Sex idiosyncratic Brooke Taylor reads a publication astatine the Moonlite Bunny Ranch successful Nevada. (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

"I started astatine the Love Ranch," Charleston said of Hof’s different ineligible brothel successful Nevada. "You had to gain your spot due to the fact that the Bunny Ranch was [Hof’s] prized brothel. I coiled up earning a batch of money, capable wealth to beryllium moved implicit to the Bunny Ranch."

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Bekah Charleston said she had to enactment astatine the Love Ranch earlier she could beryllium moved to the Moonlite Bunny Ranch. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

"The location takes 50% of your wealth disconnected the top, nary substance what," she added. "The harsh world is that you’re automatically getting fractional of immoderate it is that you’re charging customers and having to bash each the intersexual services for. And past you’re charged with country and board, nutrient and supplies.

"Everybody has their hands connected your 50%. ... I cognize immoderate radical who person worked determination who person bragged astir making a cardinal dollars successful a year. Well, that’s automatically $500,000. And past retired of that, determination are 12 months of country and board, 12 months of supplies and different things. It winds up being a batch little than advertised."

The Moonlite Bunny Ranch was antecedently the taxable of an HBO world TV bid "Cathouse." (Stephan Gladieu/Getty Images)

While immoderate of the ex-employees alleged successful the docuseries that they'd experienced unit astatine the hands of customers, Charleston said she didn’t look akin encounters.

Dennis Hof was ne'er charged with immoderate transgression of unit against women. (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

"I’ve heard a batch of different stories – radical that person died there, radical that person astir died there," she said. "There are a batch much details coming retired astir that successful the series. But, thankfully, I didn’t look unit astatine the hands of enactment buyers."

Charleston said she was yet pulled retired of the Bunny Ranch erstwhile her trafficker realized she wasn’t earning capable for him. She besides described struggling to deposit capable wealth successful the bank.

Leaving felt "liberating," she said.

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A prostitute is seen present taking a nap successful the parlor. (Stephan Gladieu/Getty Images)

"It’s specified a acheronian and dingy place," she reflected. "Girls conscionable sat astir and got precocious each day. … The world is, you’re sitting astir each time waiting for the doorbell to ring. You person nary thought who’s going to travel done the doorway oregon if they’re going to prime you. … You tin ideate idiosyncratic moving astatine the brothel who possibly hasn’t had a day each week, but they inactive person to wage for their country and committee each azygous day.

"They inactive person to wage for their food. You upwind up being indebted to the brothel. You extremity up taking a telephone oregon ‘a date’ arsenic we would telephone it, that you don’t adjacent privation to do. But you person to due to the fact that present you’re successful the red, and you person to wage for your fees."

Work permits are astatine the Moonlite Bunny Ranch.  (Stephan Gladieu/Getty Images)

"It’s specified an unusual world erstwhile you are surviving successful an constitution that does thing but conscionable sells enactment each the time," she said. "It was depressing, it was gross and I was truly blessed erstwhile I yet got to leave."

(Clockwise from left) Bekah Charleston, CEO of Bekah Speaks Out; Samantha Summers-Rivas, manager of empowerment and outreach for All Things Possible Ministries; Annie Lobert, CEO of Hookers for Jesus; and Jessica Kay, laminitis of I Am Jessica Kay, airs for a representation astatine their edifice country successful Las Vegas. (Rachel Aston/Las Vegas Review-Journal/Getty Images)

But Charleston’s troubles didn’t extremity there. In 2006, she was arrested for taxation evasion and served 13 months successful national prison. She was pardoned successful 2020 by President Donald Trump.

"I had been prepared for that from time one," she said. "My trafficker had drilled successful and beaten into america that the lone connection we were allowed to accidental was ‘lawyer.’ Unfortunately, I kept my rima shut, and I took the complaint … for my trafficker, adjacent though it was ne'er my income. That was nary of my money. But myself and the different victims, we took the complaint due to the fact that we were terrified of our trafficker."

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"In immoderate ways, [being successful prison] was a small spot of a vacation," she said. "It was the archetypal clip I didn’t person radical touching my body. … I got to devour 3 meals a day. I would sometimes get to slumber 8 hours a night. … In immoderate ways, it was a reprieve from the manner that I had been lured and manipulated into."

Bekah Charleston told Fox News Digital she was relieved to permission Nevada's cathouses.  (A&E)

When Charleston was released, she was determined to crook her beingness around. In 2013, she launched Bekah Speaks Out, which provides grooming and consulting services to instrumentality enforcement and assemblage leaders. She earned degrees successful transgression justness and criminology and filed a national suit against the authorities of Nevada implicit the legalized prostitution industry. 

An aerial presumption of the Moonlite Bunny Ranch, a ineligible brothel located successful Northern Nevada erstwhile owned by Dennis Hof. (Getty Images)

Charleston besides worked with senators to advocator for the Trafficking Survivors Relief Act, which "aims to supply victims the accidental to vacate oregon expunge national convictions resulting from their victimization."

The White House took notice. Officials said Charleston is simply a unfortunate of enactment trafficking who was forced into prostitution, and she present volunteers to assistance victims. Her pardon by President Trump was besides supported by a instrumentality enforcement cause who arrested her.

Britney Angel, a prostitute, is getting acceptable for a "date" astatine the Moonlite Bunny Ranch. (Stephan Gladieu/Getty Images)

"I was shocked to get the pardon," said Charleston. "I consciousness truly blessed. … [But] those things inactive amusement up connected my record. I inactive person to explicate to people, ‘Hey, I bash person a portion of insubstantial that President Trump signed and says helium forgives me.’

"I’m inactive warring for afloat relief, which is the Trafficking Survivors Relief Act," she said. "It’s up successful Congress close now. … We’ve been trying to get this measure passed since 2016. If it were to spell through, they would spell backmost and redact the records, and it would beryllium arsenic if it ne'er happened. That, to me, would beryllium existent justice. I [wouldn’t] person to explicate myself immoderate longer."

Charleston hopes speaking retired encourages others to travel forward.

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Bekah Charleston astatine the 2023 Nevada Sex Trafficking and Prostitution Summit. She present advocates for victims of enactment trafficking. (IMAGN)

"It makes maine bittersweet to cognize however galore girls, galore young women, were sucked in, thinking, ‘I’m going to unrecorded this glamorous lifestyle. I’m going to person amusive and person enactment each time and marque money,’" she said. "You’re a captive stuck connected the property, it’s not ever going to beryllium amusive and you don’t truly marque that overmuch money.. … I’m excited astir what I get to bash contiguous and assistance different people."

"Secrets of the Bunny Ranch" premieres June 12 astatine 9 p.m. The Associated Press contributed to this report.