BBC News: 'Sugar daddy' dating site fined for promoting prostitution
"The Norwegian businessman behind a "millionaire dating" site has been handed a six-month suspended sentence for promoting prostitution.
A court in Belgium handed the sentence to Sigurd Vedal, the investor behind RichMeetBeautiful, which connects wealthy older men to young women.
Mr Vedal was personally fined €24,000 and his company €240,000 (£207,000).
The site caused a scandal in 2017 after advertising "sugar daddies" to Belgian university students.
Mobile billboards from the company toured areas near the Free University of Brussels campus encouraging students to register for the service for financial gain.
Alongside sexualised imagery, the ads invited students to "improve your lifestyle" or have a "zero euro student loan" by dating a "sugar daddy" - a term for older wealthy men interested in meeting younger women.
Similar adverts caused uproar in France where they advertised "romance, passion and no student loan". Mr Vedal is also accused of "aggravated pimping" in that country."
Not being picky, but the photograph at the top of the article clearly shows that the billboard - of the "student loan" variation - clearly states both "SUGAR DADDY" and "SUGAR MOMA." Now, I'm sure the former greatly outnumbered the latter, but it's bizarre for the article to pretend that it's only about wealthy men and younger women, yet illustrate it with a photograph that plainly shows otherwise.
"The Norwegian businessman behind a "millionaire dating" site has been handed a six-month suspended sentence for promoting prostitution.
A court in Belgium handed the sentence to Sigurd Vedal, the investor behind RichMeetBeautiful, which connects wealthy older men to young women.
Mr Vedal was personally fined €24,000 and his company €240,000 (£207,000).
The site caused a scandal in 2017 after advertising "sugar daddies" to Belgian university students.
Mobile billboards from the company toured areas near the Free University of Brussels campus encouraging students to register for the service for financial gain.
Alongside sexualised imagery, the ads invited students to "improve your lifestyle" or have a "zero euro student loan" by dating a "sugar daddy" - a term for older wealthy men interested in meeting younger women.
Similar adverts caused uproar in France where they advertised "romance, passion and no student loan". Mr Vedal is also accused of "aggravated pimping" in that country."
Not being picky, but the photograph at the top of the article clearly shows that the billboard - of the "student loan" variation - clearly states both "SUGAR DADDY" and "SUGAR MOMA." Now, I'm sure the former greatly outnumbered the latter, but it's bizarre for the article to pretend that it's only about wealthy men and younger women, yet illustrate it with a photograph that plainly shows otherwise.
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