Tonight, Kevin Lee, remains detained in Los Angeles pending deportation to Belize. He was arrested on Sunday after fleeing Belize two weeks ago when law enforcement received a computer hard drive with 200 files showing his clients getting undressed and receiving massages.
At his office on Barrack Road Lee made the videos without the consent or knowledge of his patrons. He did so using a number of hidden cameras which were situated at different spots in his establishment, including the dressing room and around the massage table.
Taiwanese media outlets have reported that he was blackmailed by a computer technician. According to best information we have been unable to unearth, this is not so. He was blackmailed by someone who - through theft - had gotten hands on a few files and put them on DVD and sent them to Lee with a blackmail letter. Best information says that person is not a computer technician. But they did approach him and try to blackmail him, which is when the other files - hundreds more - came to light.
Those were handed to police by a third party which was trying to help in the blackmail case. Figuring that he had been caught, Lee absconded. The files remain in the custody of police, while the blackmailers presumably also have a few files themselves.
The matter is highly sensitive because as we had alluded to last night it captures Lee's clients, including diplomats and a few prominent figures - males and females - in semi-nude states. Additionally, there are compromising videos in which massages conducted by Lee and others conducted by a female, veer into sensual territory - known in Asian massage parlour-parlance as a "happy ending." Again, all these were taped without the client's knowledge and weren't consensual - meaning that there may have been an invasion of privacy but, likely, not sexual assault or as it's called in Belize, indecent assault. And with Belize's out-dated privacy laws, some argue that it's doubtful that any charge could be brought against him.
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