Rotten Mango
Influencer Lures Followers To Move In, Then Sex Traffics Them To Fund Her Witchcraft
Mon, 17 Feb 2025
In Brazil, this specific prison is known as the “real dungeons.” Because once you get in - you feel like you’re trapped in hell until they let you out. That is - if you can even get out alive. BBC reporters are there to interview one of the most high profile prisoners. Every single prisoner in there has been deemed a dangerous criminal - this one even more so. She walks out. Thin frame. Short blonde hair. She used to be a model in NYC and was reported to have dated Leonardo DiCaprio. What is she doing in here? “Why are you in here?” - they ask her. “They say I can control people minds. Change their brains.” - she responds. “Can you?” “What do you think? Can I? I hope so… when I get out you will see the power that I have and if it is real or not.” “Is that a threat” Did the prisoner just threaten the BBC reporters? This is the case of Kat Torres - the Brazilian Instagram “influencer” with over 1 million followers that has been charged with human trafficking and slavery charges. Full show notes at rottenmangopodcast.com
Chapter 1: What is the story of Kat Torres and her crimes?
The rest of the days, they're left to sit on this sticky, rat infested, cockroach upside down, sticking to the cement floors of the prison It would take sometimes weeks for prisoners to even get a fresh hit of air to their nostrils. Fresh air. BBC investigators go to interview someone from that very prison. They're outside waiting in the permitted area where they've set up all these cameras.
And there she comes. She's coming out. Out walks this thin, tall, blonde woman. She used to be a model in New York. She was rumored to have been dating Leonardo DiCaprio at one point. Her ex-husband is a crypto millionaire. What the hell is she doing in this prison in Brazil? The reporters ask her, what are you doing here? And she scoffs.
They're saying that she is a danger to society because she can change people's minds with her words. She can turn their brains around. Well, can you? Can I? You tell me. Can I? I hope I can. She claims that she has been unjustly placed into this prison with real criminals. She does not belong here. This is an injustice.
But when she gets up at the end of the interview, she looks at the two interviewers from the BBC and says, later you will find out whether I have power or not. I'm sorry, what? Is that a threat? She smiles. I don't like this one. and walks off.
Wait, what do you mean?
She tells one of the interviewers, you're going to find out if I have real powers or not. And they're like, did you just threaten us? Like we have this on camera. Are you threatening us right now? She says, I don't like this one. And she points at one of the interviewers, the one that was asking the harder questions. And she walks off. Did she seriously just threaten BBC reporters?
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Thank you guys for your continued support As always, full show notes are available at ratminglepodcast.com. Today's case has mentions of SA trafficking. The perpetrator of today's case also has various mental health diagnosis, but to be very clear, in an effort to de-stigmatize such diagnoses does not make someone inherently violent.
nor is today's case a reliable representation of mental health or hallucinogens. We're going to get there. We had two books translated for the source material for this case. One was written by the perpetrator before she committed the crimes, and one was written by one of the victims.
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Chapter 2: How did Kat Torres manipulate her followers?
You vomit, diarrhea, cry, laugh for 12 hours straight. They say that you're crying and vomiting out all the negativity in your life. The stress, anxiety, fears, regrets, self-loathing. It's physically coming out of your body. You're purging it. He also states that he saw himself floating in his mother's womb.
just suspended in flesh and fluids, and this was his way of seeing how his own mother's pain and confusion of raising a child for the first time must have been so difficult. He writes, then the scene shifts and I'm floating in what I assume is kind of a primordial soup. I think I'm a vibrating particle now and string theory suddenly makes sense in a way that I could never explain.
People say that a single ayahuasca trip is like a decade of therapy packed into one singular night and that's probably an overstatement, but it's not wrong. For nights, I feel like I got a lifetime worth of anger and bitterness out of me. He continues, Ayahuasca is the best and worst thing I've ever done.
I spent a week staring down all my bullshit and all my insecurities and it was totally liberating. But it was also terrifying, not something I want or need to see ever again. A question worth asking yourself is, if you looked into the world's most honest mirror, what would you see? And do you even really want to see it?
Kat and the group are seemingly not doing it for religious purposes in a mansion in the Hollywood Hills. They're just doing it for the vibes. Their sessions would typically take place Saturday night, go all the way up until Sunday midday or even Sunday night. They would sit there in the mansion in the Hollywood Hills singing songs. And that's where Colburn and Kat start their relationship.
Colburn Bell, if you look him up, he's mainly known for being one of the early crypto traders in the U.S., They met at ayahuasca ceremony in the Hollywood Hills. And during this time, Kat is going through a life cleanse. She's not having intimate relations with anyone. She's on a sexual cleanse. She just wants to reset her life.
But when Colburn comes into her life, she jumps at the chance and she asks him out to dinner. And Colburn says, you know, at first I was really hesitant because I wasn't ready to settle down into a serious relationship. I had concerns that I couldn't be at the level of commitment that Kat needed. But he also felt really bad because Kat would tell him about how she was essayed as a kid.
Her parents would leave her starving at home, fending for herself. She never knew when her next meal was going to be. Then modeling was rough and she just tells Colburn that she wants to settle down. She just wants stability in her life. Modeling was so traumatic. These modeling agencies, she says, are just all fronts for sex work.
Selling beautiful women to ultra wealthy clients and she doesn't want this life anymore. And it's kind of tugging at him because maybe he can settle down too. The two get married within six months of meeting. And when they initially get married, Colburn says, I was not wealthy when we initially got married. So this is before he acquires a lot of his crypto assets.
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