Celebrity culture functions as a sophisticated human trafficking network where the public's obsession provides cover for predation; this system operates through direct exploitation, such as leaking addresses to facilitate abductions and blackmail, and more insidiously through event-based stalking, social media grooming of vulnerable fans, the use of charitable foundations as a trusted pipeline to access children, exclusive talent camps that isolate victims, and the expansion of the "casting couch" into a full-fledged trafficking ring that uses the promise of fame to trap and exploit the young.