Despite having just a few months of experience, Mi@ Khalifa became one of the most recognized stars in the industry in the past decade. While her experience in the p0-n business surely garnered her recognition and fame, she has been vocal about regretting her time there, claiming that she only made $12,000 from it, far less than one would expect from a performer of her stature. She has also stated that she only worked in the industry for “three months.”
In reaction to Khalifa’s claims, company B@ng Br0s, with whom Khalifa had a contract in 2014, has launched a website dedicated to debunking the former performer’s claims about her time in the business.
“Although Mia makes many false statements, innuendos, and accusations, we have tried to stay silent and allow Mia to have her publicity stunt without responding,” the site states. “Mia has taken our silence as an ‘all clear’ to not only continue but ramp up her false statements. We therefore have no choice but to respond to the most glaring, objectively false statements. The following are facts over Mia’s fiction.”
The site published a list of Khalifa’s claims and the company’s counterclaims, including the unsupported claim that Khalifa “received in excess of $178,000.00 from B@ng Br0s and its affiliated entities alone,” which called into question Khalifa’s claim that she was underpaid during her time in the industry. To support some of its counterclaims, the site includes video clips of Khalifa appearing to make statements that contradict her current stance, and according to B@ng Br0s, the clips were taken from “a live cam session tip show, where Mia was interacting with fans on N-ked .com,” implying that Khalifa was still in the industry at the time they were recorded.
On the video-sharing app TikTok, a TikToker challenged Khalifa about it, and she answered.
Khalifa posted a video of herself embracing her puppy on Wednesday. She said in the caption, “You think you can hurt my feelings? I’ve had grown men, countries, billion dollar corps, and compete strangers tearing me down to protect their abuse every day of my life for 6 years.”
In the comments, a TikToker challenged her, “Yo didn’t u lie abt the money u made from those videos?”
Khalifa didn’t ignore the comment and responded.
“Didn’t they forget to disclose that I was contracted as social media manager for 5 accounts over 2 years,” she replied.
With no proof on either side of the charges, the issue looks to be a “he said, she said” sort of situation, with people siding with both sides. Khalifa’s vocal complaints about her experience in the p0-n industry have sparked a Change.org petition requesting that she be given performer rights and that her movies be deleted from B@ng Br0s and P-rn hub. It has almost 1.8 million signatures as of this writing.
Such film studios have been chastised by Khalifa for exploiting young females, including herself. She also made a series of remarks on Twitter at the end of June, detailing how she was duped by B@ng Br0s into performing a photoshoot with a photographer who claimed to work for the prestigious fashion magazine Vogue. However, it was later discovered that the photoshoot was for an 18 and over video website. Khalifa said she wasn’t compensated for her work. B@ng Br0s responded by sending her a cease and desist notice.
B@ng Br0s claimed to have served Khalifa with a cease-and-desist order. “Today we sent @MiaKhalifa a legal C&D demand which lists some of her defamatory, false statements about B@ng Br0s over the years and a list stating the actual facts,” the company tweeted, along with the hashtag “#FactsBeatFiction.”
B@ng Br0s told Vice that the website was created “because it was not possible to publish the facts on Twitter or Instagram in an easy to read and understand format,” adding that external links on the site were kept to a minimum “since this is not intended as a marketing strategy—just an honest report of what’s been left out or previously misreported.”
