A few weeks ago, content creator Brittany Venti tweeted at Eliza Bleu, an alleged victim of sex trafficking, after discovering Bleu in a WorldStarHipHop music video, that was posted years ago.
In the music video, Bleu was dressed in lingerie and dancing in a desert, leaving Venti confused as to why a victim of human trafficking would participate in such a thing. But rather than Bleu answering Venti, both Bleu and her followers flagged those tweets, which led to Venti getting banned on Twitter. Bleu claimed it was because the screenshots Venti posted of her from that video were taken without her consent, but WorldStarHipHop has since responded to this claim:
Venti has since stated her original question was never intended to create harm, but that she was simply trying to gain more clarity on the incident. Following the controversy, the video has been removed from youtube.
Censorship and Elon Musk
Brittany Venti wasn’t the only one to face censorship for questioning Bleu. TheQuartering, who re-tweeted Venti’s tweets about Bleu, was also banned on Twitter, along with @YellowFlashGuy.
(As of January 30th, 2023, all three users have had their accounts restored).
The censorship here becomes even more problematic when you discover Bleu’s ties to Elon Musk. Since Musk acquired Twitter, Bleu has worked with him to change the site’s ‘Terms of Service’ (ToS), with the intention of removing child sexual abuse and exploitation material off of Twitter. Yet with the temporary de-platforming that Venti, TheQuartering and YellowFlashGuy faced on Twitter, it’s questionable if she is taking advantage of her proximity to Musk and other Twitter employees, such as Ella Irwin, the VP of Trust and Safety at Twitter, as a way to silence voices who challenge her validity, despite those voices not violating any terms of services.
Who is Eliza Bleu?
You may have seen Bleu as a guest on a right-leaning media show. She has done a lot of them. According to her Twitter bio, Eliza Bleu calls herself a “Human Trafficking Survivor Advocate”. Bleu has been known by several different last names, including: Cuts, Siep and Knows but her real name seems to be Eliza Morland. Born in 1981, she is the daughter of an Illinois politician named Richard Morland.
On the podcast ‘Tough Love’, Bleu claimed she met a photographer at the age of 17 who flew her to LA so she could begin a modeling career. But “within 48 hours, the man who promised to make her a star sold her to another man in Hollywood for $500. This was only the beginning of an ordeal that was to last for over 15 years.” (Listen to the podcast here).
Months later she was interviewed by Michael Malice about her trafficking, claiming she was trafficked through someone impersonating her on twitter. These traffickers would make a profile using her identity to then lure people to different sites.
“In my particular case, there’re impersonation profiles…they would lure someone in with [my] profile, direct the business back to a dating profile or click-this-for-my-news or whatever,”.
This begs the questions: was this trafficking or just a case of stolen identity?
Her Questionable Past
The deplatforming of content creators questioning Bleu’s past ended up backfiring. The information that has been found thus far contradicts Bleu’s alleged age and her trafficking past.
Some of what has been uncovered so far:
Being a cam girl/model for “ChatStar”
During the time Bleu claimed she was trafficked, she was an active user on Myspace, and had videos posted hanging out with Jeffree Star and My Chemical Romance regularly. She is also rumored to have dated the lead singer of My Chemical Romance at this time.
Was on the Reality Show: Blind Date, claiming to be 21 years old in 2006. Meanwhile she claimed to have been trafficked at the age of 17 in 2007.
Despite stating that she was in a music video without her consent, other music videos with her dancing in them have emerged since.
Runs a non-profit charity with Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre. The charity is set in Florida, despite neither Giuffre nor Bleu currently residing there. It’s also questionable whether or not the charity has helped any victims, as it’s website encourages victims to reach out to the National Human Trafficking Hotline, instead of the charity itself.
The inquiry into Bleu’s past isn’t to bash her character. It’s that she’s allegedly resorted to deplatforming others when asked about it that has upset others. Her story has loopholes and parts of it which do not make sense. But rather than providing an explanation, creators are getting censored for simply asking a question instead.
Thanks for this in-depth story. Everywhere is all you get is bits and pieces.