The Pimp: On the Organized Crime That Pulls the Strings of Prostitution

Mabel Lozano tells for the first time the true story behind prostitution, with the help of a key witness, Miguel, nicknamed “The Musician.”

Mabel Lozano tells for the first time the true story behind prostitution, with the help of a key witness, Miguel, nicknamed “The Musician,” a pimp who confessed in detail how the prostitution trade in Spain and around the world has developed, from the early 1990s to the present day, profiting from the trafficking and kidnapping of indebted women, for whom prostitution was the only way out of their predicament.

The Musician went from working as a doorman in a nightclub at the age of seventeen, where he met his future partners—a bartender and a pimp—to becoming a powerful mafia boss and the owner of twelve of the most important brothels in Spain. He was nothing less than the head of a ruthless, organized network with a single objective: to chronically exploit women from around the world—more than 1,700 women, including minors—forcing them into prostitution and reaping enormous profits.

Sex, corruption, murder, human trafficking, money laundering, kidnapping, and extortion. The true story, proven by final verdicts, of our country’s most notorious pimp. A captivating and unique account, never before told, of the organized crime that pulls the strings of prostitution.