An actress who became Miss Switzerland has described having to fight predatory Hollywood producers.
Nadine Vinzens, 41, has revealed the horrific experiences she had with powerful and famous film producers while trying to make it in Hollywood.
After winning the title of Miss Switzerland 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 fifteen years, she met various celebrities while attending high-profile parties, but also saw the horrors that lurked in the shadows of glamorous Hollywood.
In one particularly terrifying encounter, the Swiss actress was forced to lock herself in a bathroom to escape a producer after he allegedly started groping her and telling her she would have to “sleep there with him.”
She said another producer once told her she could have boosted her career: “If you don’t open your legs to 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 fifteen years she met various celebrities while attending high-profile parties, but also saw the horrors that lurked 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 in 2009 she was flown to New York by a film producer, who allegedly 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 to his room quickly.”
“He closed the door behind him and told me to make myself comfortable, that the hotel was fully booked and that I would sleep there with him,” she told the Swiss tabloid Look.
“Then he started groping me.”
She fought back and pushed him away before running into the bathroom and locking herself in, she told the newspaper.
In a panic, she called her family and friends in Switzerland to ask for advice.
While on the phone with a friend, she left the bathroom and told the producer she had to leave immediately.
She said he then opened the door ‘grumpily’.
When she went to the reception to ask for a free room, they told her that there were indeed a few rooms available – contrary to what the producer had claimed.
She booked herself a room, where she locked herself before catching the next flight back to LA. Vinzens said she 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 New York incident wasn’t the only time predatory men used Vinzens’ introduction to “important people” as a smokescreen for sexual advances
In another horror story from her time with the rich and famous in Hollywood, 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 she would let him trusted.
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 horror story from her time with the rich and famous in Hollywood, 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 she would let him trusted.
He allegedly told her to lie in 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 outside. I suspect he wanted to rape me. I would never have suspected such behavior from him.’
Vinzens did not report the producer because she said it would be a “he said she said” situation and she had no proof.
Five years ago, the model said she was invited to audition for a role at Warner Bros. Studios.
‘The producer was enthusiastic, called me shortly afterwards and said I had done a great job. He wanted to meet me at his house,” she told Blick.
But when she told him she was bringing her boyfriend, the producer allegedly shouted insults at her and said he didn’t want to put pressure on “women who have partners” before hanging up the phone.
‘They lure you with career boosts, but all they want is sex. Nothing else,” says Vinzens, who also works as a DJ.
One producer allegedly told Vinzens to crawl into bed. Even though she said no, he touched her and pushed her
Vinzens said it was the “sick Hollywood system” that hid these practices
She said these men knew that many stars are willing to do this, but declined to say who these women are – for her own safety – but indicated that the men she was talking about were “behind the camera” and “not yet on the radar’.
Vinzens said it was the “sick Hollywood system” that hid these practices.
“I know that this system, sex for career advancement, is still the order of the day today and will continue to exist,” she told Blick.
‘That makes me all the more grateful to every woman who stands up against the perversion of men in power and exposes them to the pillory.’