Jake Paul might want to think twice about the company he’s keeping, because his Team 10 member Arman Izadi sounds like the actual worst kind of human being.
The 28-year-old seems like a regular annoying member of the Team 10 entourage at first glance: he presents a DJ Khaled energy that perfectly fits in the background of Jake’s videos, where he’s been seen smashing through drywall dressed as a football player.
But the self-proclaimed “mood director” for Las Vegas events was also violent pimp on the Las Vegas Strip who allegedly lured women into his prostitution ring and would viciously beat them if they tried to leave.
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In 2013, Izadi was arrested on 20 counts related to robbery, kidnapping, pimping, and battery after one of his former prostitutes told police she had been tortured after she tried to leave him.
Two additional women who said they worked as prostitutes for Izadi later claimed to a grand jury he recruited them at nightlife events. Izadi then began setting up appointments for them with well-paying clients around Sin City, according to grand jury transcripts, with Izadi taking a cut of the proceeds.
The women also made more serious allegations, accusing Izadi of grabbing them violently when they displeased him. One of the women claimed she tried to quit working for Izadi, and was punished by being waterboarded in a shower by him.
When she started to black out, he would allegedly slap her awake; then he allegedly dragged her to his penthouse balcony and forced her onto the ledge at knife-point.
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The woman claimed Izadi threatened to throw her off the balcony before dragging her back inside and spanking her with a wooden paddle. He then allegedly dragged a knife across her body, causing a five-inch cut on her thigh.
The woman recalled Izadi telling her at one point:
“I’m going to torture you all night long before you die.”
The woman claimed Izadi calmed down after she offered to get a tattoo of his name on her neck. After getting the tattoo, they returned to the penthouse, and the woman fled later that night when Izadi left to get food.
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Nearly all of the charges were dropped amid allegations that the top Las Vegas police detective on Izadi’s case was sleeping with prostitutes involved in other investigations and accepting money from another pimp. Despite pleading guilty to the pandering (the legal term for pimping) charge, Izadi has continued to maintain his innocence in the case, insisting he was set up by corrupt Las Vegas police.
It’s unclear if he’s still pimping; however, Izadi continues to be problematic in other ways since joining Paul’s Team 10. Over the weekend, beauty vlogger Cole Carrigan revealed he was kicked out of Team 10 after he got into a big blowout with Izadi during a trip to celebrate Tana Mongeau’s 21st birthday last month.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3h2dPOQNna0
In an emotional 23-minute video (above), Carrigan claimed Izadi got aggressive with him and threatened to call the police if Carrigan didn’t leave Izadi’s Las Vegas pad, all because Izadi felt that Carrigan was being disrespectful.
Izadi also hurled a slew of homophobic insults at the 20-year-old, allegedly calling him “a f****t… a piece of shit… trash, dirt, lazy, unproductive, selfish, egotistical.” The blogger recalled:
“I’m talking every name in the book to the point where I’m bawling my eyes out. I’m taking every dig he’s saying to me and crying as I’m wheeling my f**king suitcase out.”
Apparently, Paul sided with the convicted pimp and eventually kicked Carrigan out of the Team 10 house.
Wow. Not only does this dude sound like a special kind of homophobic a**hat, he actually seems terrifying.
Let’s hope Jake stays on his good side… for his own sake.
[Image via YouTube/Las Vegas Justice Court]
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