{"id":124228,"date":"2021-05-07T20:19:15","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T20:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=124228"},"modified":"2021-05-07T20:19:15","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T20:19:15","slug":"butt-squad-playboy-calls-freedom-from-dubai-jail-best-moment-of-my-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/butt-squad-playboy-calls-freedom-from-dubai-jail-best-moment-of-my-life\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Butt Squad&#8217; playboy calls freedom from Dubai jail &#8216;best moment of my life&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The American playboy arrested for organising the notorious &quot;Butt Squad&quot; picture of stunning naked models taken on a balcony in Dubai has finally been freed from custody.<\/p>\n<p>Vitaliy Grechin, 41, flew out of the United Arab Emirates on Friday, May 7, following his release.<\/p>\n<p>It came after he spent 22 days in jail and 15 days in Covid-19 isolation after he allegedly tested positive while in detention.<\/p>\n<p>Grechin was pictured with his passport in hand as he boarded a plane leaving Dubai.<\/p>\n<p>He had invited 20 models &#8211; mostly Ukrainian &#8211; to Dubai on the trip where most of them appeared naked on a balcony in an elite penthouse apartment.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i2-prod.dailystar.co.uk\/incoming\/article24064169.ece\/ALTERNATES\/s615b\/1_JS233568913.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Images of the scene went viral and led to the arrest by Dubai of a dozen of the models as well as Grechin and a Russian IT businessman who owned the apartment.<\/p>\n<p>They were incarcerated in a jail &quot;hell&quot; &#8211; but Grechin always denied forcing the naked models onto the balcony, and insisted he had committed no crime.<\/p>\n<p>Today in his first comment he said his release was &quot;the best moment of my life&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>He went on: &quot;The greatest pleasure for me is the ending of the suffering and uncertainty.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i2-prod.dailystar.co.uk\/incoming\/article24064167.ece\/ALTERNATES\/s615b\/0_PAY-Vitaliy-Grechin-released-2-east2west-news.jpg\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<figure data-mod=\"image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i2-prod.dailystar.co.uk\/incoming\/article24057351.ece\/ALTERNATES\/s615\/0_Joanna.jpg\"><\/figure>\n<p>Volleyballer Joanna Wolosz strips naked with trophy again in cheeky celebration snap<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/s2-prod.mirror.co.uk\/@trinitymirrordigital\/chameleon-branding\/publications\/dailystar\/img\/logo-schema-dailystar.png\"><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Grechin said he had been uncertain until the end whether he would be freed or condemned to many more weeks or months in custody.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Until the last minute in the airport, it was up in the air,&quot; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;What an adventure.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>On the rearview balcony image, he had insisted while in custody that &quot;it is not porn.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Everywhere else in the world it would be considered normal,&quot; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;In magazines, it would be considered art\u2026it was a unique shot.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>He claimed he had paid for around 20 women &#8211; &quot;friends&quot; &#8211; to travel to Dubai on an all-expenses-paid fun trip to escape lockdown, at a total cost of around $10,000 (\u00a37k).<\/p>\n<p>The US tycoon based in Kyiv said: &quot;I choose to surround myself with the people I feel comfortable with.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Everybody I know personally.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It\u2019s the equivalent of going out to a club or for dinner. There was no escorting, selling, buying, none of that.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>They were a &quot;closed group of friends&quot;.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i2-prod.dailystar.co.uk\/incoming\/article24021851.ece\/ALTERNATES\/s615b\/0_Aerial-View-Of-City-Buildings-During-Sunset.jpg\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<figure data-mod=\"image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i2-prod.dailystar.co.uk\/incoming\/article24054976.ece\/ALTERNATES\/s615\/0_ru2main.jpg\"><\/figure>\n<p>Twisted Youtuber smashed model&apos;s face into table in horrific &apos;trash&apos; live stream<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/s2-prod.mirror.co.uk\/@trinitymirrordigital\/chameleon-branding\/publications\/dailystar\/img\/logo-schema-dailystar.png\"><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hitting back at rumours about the women, he insisted: &quot;They are not models, escorts, or anything else.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Grechin was born in Soviet Ukraine and raised in the US where he became a donor to President Barack Obama and was pictured with former first lady and secretary of state Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n<p>On the naked shoot: &quot;I should never probably have allowed something like this.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The girls had the mindset that they were on private property behind closed doors.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<figure data-mod=\"image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i2-prod.dailystar.co.uk\/incoming\/article24049330.ece\/ALTERNATES\/s615\/3_JS234257267_Banner.jpg\"><\/figure>\n<p>OnlyFans star whose kids were expelled over her naked pics hires guard dog for security<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/s2-prod.mirror.co.uk\/@trinitymirrordigital\/chameleon-branding\/publications\/dailystar\/img\/logo-schema-dailystar.png\"><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&quot;Even if they went on the balcony for 15 seconds it was still something enclosed.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;There was no intent to create or distribute anything like this.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It was spur of the moment.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Of course, I regret it. I lost a month of my life.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The women spend ten days in jail, with no food or decent water, no hygiene supplies, no sheets, and with a metal bunk to sleep on.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I feel responsible for this.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<figure data-mod=\"image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i2-prod.dailystar.co.uk\/incoming\/article24046548.ece\/ALTERNATES\/s615\/0_stroke.jpg\"><\/figure>\n<p>Porn star faces &apos;mortality&apos; after suffering from stroke in near-death experience<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/s2-prod.mirror.co.uk\/@trinitymirrordigital\/chameleon-branding\/publications\/dailystar\/img\/logo-schema-dailystar.png\"><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&quot;And you can\u2019t imagine the lawyer fees I have to pay.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>They run well into six figures, he said. &quot;It makes me want to cry.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Other members of his group were released without charge &#8211; but he remained in custody after a negative Covid-19 test despite showing no symptoms.<\/p>\n<p>He was freed after a test by the prison authorities showed he was clear of coronavirus. He denied he had been banned from returning to Dubai &#8211; as many of the models were.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can return tomorrow,&quot; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailystar.co.uk\/news\/world-news\/butt-squad-playboy-finally-freed-24064201\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American playboy arrested for organising the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":124227,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23056],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&#039;Butt Squad&#039; playboy calls freedom from Dubai jail &#039;best moment of my life&#039; - Pre Coin News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/butt-squad-playboy-calls-freedom-from-dubai-jail-best-moment-of-my-life\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"&#039;Butt Squad&#039; 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