Vice moguls talk sex & orgies
GIVEN the current wave of sexual-harassment scandals, Vice mogul Shane Smith may regret a 2003 interview in which he brags about having sex and orgies with models he hired for shoots for his magazine. Smith and Vice Media co-founder Gavin
McInnes effusively describe their eventful sexual escapades in the book “The Vice Guide to Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll,” published in 2003.
Smith — whose Vice empire was recently valued at $5.7 billion and has investments from the Walt Disney Co. and 21st Century Fox — reveals that he had sex with ad executives to seduce them into buying space in his magazine.
In a chapter titled “Vice — The Whole Story,” McInnes, who left Vice in 2008 under a dark cloud and now heads right-wing group Proud Boys, says: “We’ve always used the magazine as a way to get laid, especially Vice Girls [a ‘girl of the month’ feature].” Smith adds, “We even got some orgies out of it.”
McInnes also writes that they were both attracted to the same woman, whom they cavalierly called a “slut from Malta.” He says, “We just kept repeating, ‘Must . . . have . . . her.’ We set up this Vice Girl shoot . . . Shane and I took to f - - king her regularly in a porn booth and at the office.”
McInnes adds in one creepy chapter that he and Smith tried to have sex with the woman at the same time, saying, “Shane’s stroking her hair going, ‘It’s OK, it’s OK.’ ” (Women all around the world respond: “Actually, it probably isn’t OK.”)
Trying to justify the tawdry tome, McInnes told us that all sexual acts were consensual and says the incidents described took place some 25 years ago. A spokesperson for Vice told us, “The early history of Vice, which we documented and selfpublished for everyone to see, was all about shocking and challenging our readers with either brutal honesty or embellished stories of our dirtpoor existence as fringe magazine writers, which in hindsight now shows us to have acted like ignorant, disrespectful and juvenile boors. We’re not going to revise history — that’s where we came from, but over the past two decades Vice has evolved into a very different company today.”