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What exactly makes a plus-size girl attractive to me is

the ultimate million-dollar question, because I don't know.

Open your eyes,

look at what you see,

and if it tingles, it's right.

Back in '99, my parents took my brother and I

for a five-week round trip across the US,

including Disney World in Florida.

And all of a sudden, in the aquarium section,

there was this super-sized girl just walking around.

I was obviously way too shy to talk to her,

I had my parents in tow, so I would never.

But there was a wake-up moment.

It was like, "OK, this is what I want."

Pearadise on three. One, two, three.

Pearadise!

How do you wanna do it?

- Take your dress off. - Take it off!

Look at the people that are at the house right now.

It doesn't get any more beautiful than these girls.

Yeah, struck, struck, struck!

This right here is the message of Pearadise.

You're afraid of the judgment.

You feel like, "I'm fat, I'm gonna die alone."

But it's never the truth.

I'm fat, but I'm not ugly.

Five years ago, there's no way

I would have been able to do that.

My whole intention with Pearadise was always

just to bring positivity.

I can confidently say the effect that it has had

on so many people

is priceless.

Pearadise is not a safe and positive place.

Kimmi, aka, Piggy Stardust, is a complete stranger.

Somebody who never met me, never talked to me,

never interacted with me, never been to the house.

Quick recap.

I made a TikTok that led to many women coming out

with SA allegations against Pearadise.

Her sole intent...

He needs to be stopped and removed--

...make Pearadise disappear,

at any cost.

You don't guilt-trip--

The things that they've done to me,

the things that they've done to people around me,

it has ruined everything.

I need to finally tell my story

because I need this

to end.

Before I...

grew into the person that I am now,

I would just do whatever he wanted.

No questions asked.

But you get to the point where it's like,

"Why am I still protecting this man?"

I know my truth.

There's nothing that's gon' stop me.

I've lived in fear of this man for too long.

When we met, I was, I wanna say, 21, 22.

He was in his mid-40s.

Since the very beginning, the day we met,

we were friends with benefits.

And he was actually really funny.

He's a total nerd, which I actually liked at the time.

June 17th, 2020,

I was working six days a week

and was so crazy tired.

I'm in the hot tub. Eventually, Stefan joins me.

I was like, "Ugh, I really hope he doesn't wanna have sex."

And I made that be known.

But if he wants to have sex,

you're going to have sex with him,

whether you want to or not.

His favorite line is like, "You? You wanna say no?

You're gonna say no? You never say no."

So I'm in my swimsuit. He's trying to take it off.

And I was like, "Fine."

I help him take it off,

'cause I'm at this point just fed up.

"Stop touching me. Just stop touching me."

By the time he's done,

I'm disgusted.

I don't wanna look at him. I don't wanna talk to him.

I didn't even realize what had happened

until I was telling my boss about it,

and she's like, "You were sexually assaulted."

It made me angry. I was angry.

When I conferred to him about it,

I told him, "Once a woman says 'No', it's a no.

"But that's not good enough for you.

You don't stop till you get what you want."

And he's like, "Oh, no, I don't feel that way."

It went so far that he was showing what happened to me

to all the women he had in the house

from the recording, from his security cams.

OK, ready?

The security cameras are incredibly dangerous.

Take your time--

There are multiple viewpoints

in the living room,

multiple viewpoints in his office,

multiple viewpoints of the pool,

and all of them are audio-enabled cameras.

He constantly would use his camera footage

in a way that is so toxic and manipulative.

The whole situation with Cece, honestly, in Stefan's eyes,

he had to show them the proof that he had,

that he was innocent.

Come on in.

I have full control over the entire house from here.

We have the cameras in all the public areas and outside.

Um, there's no cameras in any of the bedrooms

or in any of the bathrooms, of course.

Yeah, that's a temporary one

that we sometimes use for making private content.

All I can say is, like, me and Cece, whatever happened,

happened.

There was a time when her and I really talked it out

like adults.

And we agreed that like, you know, everything was good

and we hugged it out and actually cried a little bit.

I felt bad.

Who wants to be accused of rape?

A month, month and a half after that,

I actually found out I was pregnant

and I found out I was having twins.

I was already expecting when I was sexually assaulted

by Stefan in his hot tub.

My biggest fear was being a single mother.

I wanted my kids to have a father that's present.

Every decision I've made

was for them.

So after they were born,

I was at the house every weekend.

Hey.

Hey.

There was Heather, Kass, there to help me with the boys.

There was...

no arguing, there were no fights.

And the boys had everything they needed.

But I knew the truth.

Hey.

When it comes to fun,

you're basically his property.

He thinks he's entitled to our bodies.

Hi, everybody. My name is Savy.

I want everyone to know this is the truth.

This is nothing but the truth.

Me and my friend Ally visited in April of 2021.

Her and I had the same experience.

Stefan was playing with our stomachs,

touching my butt.

I was supposed to stay for two weeks,

but I could not stomach being there

and I left four days early.

'Cause we can all agree that that's--

We get in contact with Kimmi.

We say, "Here's our story,"

and she's like, "Y'all are 100% valid.

This is insane."

And then I was like, "Well, now,

now I have to talk."

I made videos breaking down everything that happened

at the house.

If the same thing happened to you in a workplace,

what would it be called? Crickets.

Sexual Assault.

I had no idea that it was gonna blow up in my face.

The girls had gone public, and then Kimmi,

aka, Piggy Stardust,

became the megaphone for them.

And it was going viral.

You touch me without permission?

You touch anyone without permission?

That is assault.

I got a call from Stefan saying,

"You need to get here now."

What the [bleep] do I do now? What the [bleep] do I do?

This could, I'm not gonna say wreck your life,

but it could [bleep] your life for a while.

It can.

He had Ivy there. He had me there.

He had basically rallied the troops behind him.

You need to go after this girl.

Loyalty is key.

My job was to...

protect Stefan at all cost.

In that moment, I didn't truly feel

that I was doing anything wrong.

Plus-size girls are raised to be as small as possible.

There was a lot of times I didn't get to speak out.

And as an adult, there's more times where I'm like,

"I have to speak out."

I knew when I made the decision to come out against Stefan

that it was going to be war.

How are you doing, Stefan?

How's that heat you're feeling right now?

It was the beginning of

probably the most chaotic six months of my life.

You're gonna need a lot more toilet paper

for the shitstorm that's about to hit you.

Kimmi's videos really were a problem for Stefan,

so I reached out to her.

I mean, what do I have to lose, right?

Maybe I can persuade her to take the videos down.

We should be loud and speak up for those victims.

She didn't take the videos down.

Over 300 videos were made.

Three, four, five videos a day sometimes.

And it just kept going.

He's not a good guy.

I was pissed.

And it kept getting worse, and it kept getting worse.

My name is Keneta Allen.

I lived with Stefan for about nine months.

I hate you so much! Ugh!

I was literally right there when the whole thing happened

with Ally and Savy.

We were very affectionate with each other,

very touchy-feely. All of us had been.

And she said that was sexual assault.

Face value, it's sexual assault.

Kass and I are both pissed because we had both been

sexually assaulted before.

Like, we'd both been raped.

She didn't believe that what happened with Ally and Savy

was sexual assault in comparison to what had happened to her.

These girls are making a mockery out of something

that is so triggering.

I had already been in Pearadise for a couple weeks

when Piggy started posting these videos.

And that was the first time I saw Kass, like, sob.

She had friends texting her saying that if she was

gonna keep being with Stefan, then they didn't wanna be

her friend anymore.

The only reason I'm sitting here next to Stefan

speaking up for him and against these ridiculous allegations

is because I was here.

It wasn't...

it wasn't an assault.

She cared for him deeply,

and it definitely took its toll on her.

Kass doesn't care about body positivity.

She cares about herself, her money, and her fame.

Kass was attacked and harassed by Piggy.

Kass and I were just trying to navigate the rough waters

of this relentless, never-ending shitstorm.

Piggy Stardust is basically

like comparing me to Epstein or to Adolf Hitler.

Like, you know, what the [bleep] is wrong with her?

I've never really been able to present all the evidence

that I have that basically shows that most of the allegations

are completely fabricated.

All these messages, Savy sending me nudity.

There was three months of hardcore flirting

and naked video chats and all sorts of stuff

leading up to this.

Because of the conversations and the excessive flirting

that they had had, Stefan took that as consent.

At the time, I could see Stefan's position.

He said, yes, he did touch her.

He didn't realize it was a problem.

So these are literally just like, you know, recordings

that I had saved from the time that these people were here.

Like, look, people are piled on top of each other,

touching each other.

The girls were all like, "Hey," slap the butt and say,

"Oh, nice booty." Like this one here.

Right there.

Savy just decides out of the blue to just slap Kass.

Why wasn't that a problem?

It really brought up the question of consent.

Kass was like, "Oh, well,

"then does that mean that they assaulted me

when they smacked my ass in the kitchen?"

Nice booty!

Why are you singling me out? Because I'm the only guy?

I ended up on a FaceTime call with the two girls

that were affected. I apologize.

Both girls at the end said,

"OK," you know, "We're good."

Maybe I should have not touched these girls or whatever.

At the end of the day,

I would not consider that sexual assault.

I honestly, like, I didn't even quite know

because my-- my mind was so blown.

The apologies had happened.

I thought everything was kind of squared away.

It was Piggy who kept putting fuel in the fire.

And I am done being nice.

Done.

Be afraid.

She built a whole hate army that kept coming after me.

I wanna [bleep] torture him.

Like, "Come here, Stefan. Hit me up."

These, like, brainless zombies come on my channel

and post my full address.

Stefan was getting death threats

and getting harassed daily.

It was terrifying because

it wasn't just like my safety, it was also the safety

of all my friends at Pearadise, too.

There was a point that Stefan climbed on my lap

and wrapped his arms around me and said,

"If I have ever done anything to make you feel uncomfortable,

I am so sorry," and started sobbing.

How can you not wanna protect that?

There was this sad tension in the house for a long time.

And in my head, I had overstayed my welcome

to that point.

So I had to go.

The drive home felt a little just kind of

solemn and strange.

I was just living for like six weeks in a house

with only plus-size women.

And now I have to go back into the real world.

But because of how online the house is, there was

a part of me that felt like I was still there.

And I turn on TikTok and the first thing

that shows up is the Pearadise Live.

I wanna be left alone.

I want to have fun with my friends.

I honestly had no idea what to do.

The friends around me all came to me and said,

"Your only way out is legal.

Get a lawyer."

OK, let's file a suit for slander and defamation.

It was the 5th of July. I open my bedroom door

and I see a big packet.

I pick it up and it says, I've been served.

I'm a broke college student.

I got no money, and I'm being sued by a millionaire.

So I got officially served. I did pick up the papers.

So he sued myself, Savy, Ally, and I was like,

"Let's fight this. Let's go."

I call a lawyer.

He's like, "I can file an anti-SLAPP.

"There's two criteria that you have to meet.

"You have to believe that what you're saying is true,

and you have to be trying to protect the public."

I never thought I was gonna be sued for this.

You're doubting yourself.

Still to this day, I find myself like,

Was it really sexual assault?

Was I right to even call it that?

Because a lot of people were telling me that I wasn't.

[bleep] no. I would not take it back.

The only thing we can do is to continue to spread the word

so that every person we reach knows what exactly

they might be getting into if they go to his community.

There were a lot of women coming out in my comments

regarding the red flags they had seen.

There is so much more that people don't realize

that this man has been able to do.

To me, this is a cult.

He puts himself in a position of power,

creating a situation where these people will do

anything for the leader.

You have to prove yourself to him.

This is a case of, "I consented and now I regret it,"

so I'm gonna call assault because I regret it."

She literally says--

Ivy was one of those ones who was

battling me at the beginning.

Anyone who goes against Pearadise

would become the enemy.

Makes me [bleep] laugh.

We, as his inner friend group, were pressured and asked

to make videos defending him.

It absolutely felt like he wore us as a shield.

Listen, man, these aren't thunder thighs.

These are thunderstorm thighs.

Anytime I was in the house,

he would ask if I wanted to have sex.

There was one instance where

he very sneakily put something inside me.

I didn't know what it was,

but I was like, "OK, it's probably just

lube or something."

He would say, "Oh, it's just a kitty treat,

it's OK."

Kitty, it's Stefan's creepy, weird way of talking

about a woman's vagina.

But I got itchy, and I went to urgent care,

and they were like, "Yeah, you're just having an allergic reaction."

Ivy came to me and said

she had a reaction to something.

I knew what it was.

A Kitty Treat is basically a tampon applicator

with spermicide inside of it.

I had no idea that he was using it on people

and they had no idea what it actually was.

It's really gross. Like...

I deserve so much more than that.

And to have somebody do something to me

that I don't know about without even asking

is deplorable.

To my best knowledge, I educated everybody on these

and I would never, I would have never just like put something

in somebody without even like, you know, how?

I mean, that would have been a problem.

Sorry about-- sorry for laughing about that.

That would have been a problem.

Ivy didn't really wanna come to the house anymore.

That was the final straw for her.

When Ivy came forward regarding her story,

this was the first time really that someone was like,

"I was against you, but now I'm with you."

We're looking close to 20 different women

who have come actively forward.

You have people who talk about the mental abuse.

There's women who say that they were non-consensually

touched or pressured to sleep with Stefan

or who have been so drunk that they couldn't give consent.

This is a man who is a predator.

I don't know how to start. I never know how to start.

How do you, um,

how do you publicly

become a victim?

My name is Alex, and I go by Porkchop.

I'm 32 years old, and I was at Pearadise for eight weeks.

Porkchop looking good in her mermaid getup.

- Who said that? - Meow, meow.

In my life there are many times that I just feel very desperate.

Desperate for a good friend,

somebody who's like truly there.

I suffer bad from depression and crippling ADHD.

Being a part of his community online, Stefan, he was like

shouting from the rooftops,

"Come into the safe space."

Oh, we would love to have you here, Porkchop.

When I went to Pearadise, walking into his house was just

like I was walking through the screen of the computer.

I gave him a big hug, a big squeeze,

and then immediately after we hugged, it got handsy,

it got touchy, it got uncomfortable.

Look the lit-- back there, the little meat right here!

Little belly meat.

I think it was on

the third night that I was there.

I was drinking that night

and said,

"All right, time to get into that tub."

I was, at this point, drunk.

One of the women there, she was like, "I don't know.

"I think you're too drunk to get into the hot tub.

Are you sure you wanna get into the hot tub?"

And I was like, "Uh, yeah, I'm sure."

I just didn't know that getting into the hot tub meant

to have sex.

Then Stefan comes and joins.

All three of us got into the hot tub.

And they actually both physically take my bathing suit

off at the same time.

I just kind of felt like I was just being, like, ripped apart.

Then she just leaves, and Stefan proceeded

to have sex with me.

I didn't stop him,

say anything, or do anything.

When I woke up the next day, I didn't know how to feel.

I was taken advantage of, but I didn't wake up

thinking I was assaulted.

And then my mental health slowly declined

over the next couple weeks.

I remember saying, like, "Why am I here?"

It came to a point where I experienced

a full-blown panic attack,

where I was just sobbing.

And then eventually, Stefan, he grabbed my hand

and pulled it close to him.

He led me to the pool to where then he undressed me

and everything and had sex with me in the pool.

I was not thinking. I couldn't think.

I didn't have room to think.

For some reason,

I just felt paralyzed.

I walked away from that, feeling attacked.

When I came home,

I felt defeated.

I wanted to never see him again, never have

to deal with him again.

And then when he was trying to sue the girls,

I did see an opportunity to prove that

what they are saying is true.

Over the week, we filed a new response

to our anti-SLAPP motion.

In that document

is a new witness statement.

When she explained what had happened,

I was enraged.

I was...

just sick to my stomach.

So this is Alex's statement.

"I was crying with tears streaming down my face.

Then Wilhelmy approached me and said,

'You know what would make you feel better, Porky?

If we [bleep] in the hot tub.'"

Porky was sitting outside with me and saying, like,

"Why are you not interested in me?

"Why don't you wanna [bleep] with me?

"Why don't you wanna hook up with me?

Am I not good enough?"

She was [bleep] begging for it.

And now she's going on record in a court document

saying I assaulted her. That's like...

Hello?

So, Porkchop, I feel like

I didn't do anything wrong.

She gave consent. She gave explicit consent.

She confirmed multiple times that she's not drunk.

At what point do you take that person's word to say,

like, she's an adult, she is verbally agreeing to this?

Like, it couldn't have been more verbally, explicitly,

violently consensual than that.

And then

I have a text message from mutual friend that was here.

And she says, "When you two hooked up,

"she told me about it the next day

"and was all giddy about it.

Funny how the story changed."

When she says that I seemed giddy that morning,

I was trying to feel normal.

I wanted to fix it.

Four years later, I am deathly afraid of speaking against him.

But I want the truth to be out there.

Consensual sex takes two people.

And this man watched me frozen, not responding,

while he was getting what he wanted in silence.

He thought that was a good time.

You go into that environment, you're coming out hurt.

As more allegations came out, he was so hyper focused

that he couldn't do anything except for talk about it.

Every person that came in the house,

he started from the beginning and had to tell them

the entire story.

I gently, like, tap her booty in a , like, in a nice,

caring way, and then I walk away.

The more that Stefan talked about it,

the harder it became for Kass,

rehashing her own trauma over and over.

Stefan's relationship with Kass was incredibly toxic.

And I think that he encouraged her and enabled her,

especially during all the allegations,

to do a lot of things that were not healthy for her.

I did not know until I stayed at the house.

But I found out that Kass was on a lot of dating

and fetish apps

that were bringing in viewership to Pearadise.

She was filming herself having sex with people.

Some of it was Stefan.

Sometimes it was her having sex with other people.

People would fly in to come meet her, to lay on them.

It's literally just like the feeling of weight on them.

A squashing session is where somebody will lay down

and you're laying completely on top of them to make them feel

like they're being suffocated by somebody who's fat.

Stefan used to take a cut from payments for people

who did squashing sessions

while they're staying with him at Pearadise.

Kass was also making her own content

on these fetish websites, dating websites.

A big one of these is Feabie.

Kass, among some of the other women,

they would post videos of themselves eating.

Say if a man sent you $50

and said, "Hey, spend this money at the Chinese restaurant

"down the street and send me a video of you eating it,

and then I'll send you $50 more."

You don't notice the weight gain,

until it's too late.

For Stefan, even if you're 500 pounds,

you're still not big enough for him.

And he'll tell you that.

The amount of times he's told me, like,

"You're so tiny, you should eat more."

And you think it's so normal

because everybody else around you is that big.

For some of the individuals that are into feeding

and feederism, it really is about that power play

and that control of an other and control of their body.

On Feabie, there's levels of extremism.

Feeders can write out,

like, their own little role plays and desires.

Being fed to the last breath, getting to 1,000 pounds.

For some, it is a desire to get them in that bed

so they never get out.

Death feederism is the concept of feeding someone

to the point that they die.

Back at home in New Orleans,

I could see what was happening.

Kass went from that really bubbly girl

to someone who was just really taken into a dark space.

Kass had gained a lot of weight.

She was doing more content of eating or weighing herself.

I don't think Kass would have engaged on feederism

at the level she did unless it was for Stefan.

All I know is that when Kass walked into my life,

she was a confident big girl that was like ready

to show herself to the world.

She did it at Pearadise.

She never intentionally gained any weight at the house.

They want to make me look like an abuser when in reality,

I'm just a fat admirer.

So he says his body type is a woman over 500 pounds,

so like six feet, like that's his preference,

but active,

which means that when they stop being active,

he kind of loses interest.

Over 500 pounds, there's not many people that are

extremely active, except for younger women.

She said, like, "I can't be in public anymore.

I can't make any more videos."

That's really kind of when their relationship

started to change.

Was Kass replaceable?

Unfortunately, yes.

I think that ultimately everybody was

replaceable to him.

When Kass had her 27th birthday,

he did tell her that she was getting old for him.

I was in New York, and Kass was calling me all the time,

having almost panic attacks and everything.

She was getting more and more depressed.

I feel like I'm sure there's a lot of people out there

that are in the same

place right now as I am.

I told him, "I need you to please be, you know,

"more gentle with her and, like, have patience

because I can see her mental health declining."

So I was home, and I receive a text from Kass

saying, "I love you and I'm sorry."

And as soon as I read it, I knew what it was.

I knew that it was, um, you know, a goodbye, basically.

I texted Stefan right away.

And I called K Bug and I told her,

"Go immediately to Kass's room. Please, check on her."

Stefan goes running upstairs all of a sudden,

tells me to come up.

And when I saw her, she was on the bed

completely unresponsive.

K Bug and I were both in the bedroom with her,

laying on my bed, and we were like, "Kass, wake up."

She had taken a bunch of Benadryl

and a bunch of Valium.

Stefan was just panicking. He didn't know what to do.

I was on the phone with them.

I was like, "You're gonna need a lot of people.

She's big. She's over 500."

OK.

K Bug had called me. She tells me that

Kass is in the hospital 'cause she tried to take her own life.

And I just break down.

People were gawking left and right.

She deserved better.

It was a complete joke.

She was back in the house the next day.

And I knew because Stefan sent a selfie

of him in the couch with Kass sleeping.

I told him, like, "I told you this was gonna happen."

Everything in that moment was so emotionally charged,

whether it was a video against Stefan,

whether it was a video against Kass.

Kass can pretend all she wants,

that she's a positive person for the plus-size community--

The whole situation basically put her

in fight-or-flight constantly.

Kass and I split,

and she moved out.

She actually just said, like, "I can't-- I don't wanna be

"on your lives anymore. I don't wanna be in content.

"I don't wanna be...

I need to be away from this."

I just wanted to come on here and tell you all, like,

I am no longer affiliated with Pearadise

or anything like that. We're all moving on.

Um, thanks.

She stayed with me for a couple months,

but she kind of had a hard time, like,

doing her own thing.

You're such a fatty.

Yes.

The whole time she was in my house, like,

Stefan and her didn't stop talking.

It was very frustrating, and we kind of

broke off the friendship.

I gotta be careful, because I'm naked.

Uh-oh.

Not TikTok appropriate.

Kass was never free.

She never got out.

I'm gonna be in Vegas at the end of January,

hopefully.

She made plans to come visit.

She showed up at my doorstep,

like, January of 2024 or something.

- Say hi, Kass. - Hey, y'all.

But, like, she was 100 pounds heavier

than she was when she left my house.

What exactly happened in between, I did not have

any control over, and I don't know what happened.

She was a lot bigger.

A lot, lot bigger.

She had a lot harder time walking around.

The fact that she had to start using scooters,

that's not the Kass I knew.

She had like a little bit like some respiratory issues.

My last text exchange with her was

the last night, the night before.

She had asked me if she can send clothes to my house

and I had told her on June 26th, "Yeah, that's fine.

Use my address. Send your clothes to my house."

And I woke up June 27th

to a text message.

"Kass passed away."

I asked, "Is it real?"

Like, "Is she really gone?"

She, like, went through so much in the house together.

I wholeheartedly believe,

had it not been for Stefan,

had it not been for Pearadise,

Kass would be alive today.