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She went on to reminisce, “The best experience of my life was at the model house. Watching porn on the TV in the background and hanging out with the girls. Matt was not only my agent; he became my family. He gave me a place to stay and he would always answer your calls. All he does is work. For the girls.”
Zarah would proceed to rack up over 60 scenes over the next two years. During 2022 and 2023, she shot for Blacked, Jules Jordan Video, Hussie Pass, Girlfriends Films, Team Skeet, Lethal Hardcore, Bang Bros, Reality Kings, Property Sex, Elegant Angel, Digital Sin, Penthouse, Mike Adriano and many others.
As 2024 began, she was going through self-analysis and occasional personal problems. This led to her decision to partially reinvent herself.
“I had a few friends die. My identity was stolen. I was a victim of fraud. All the apps that had supported me vanished,” she disclosed. “I could have had shoots but my mental health turned me to my worst vices. I needed to kick all of my bad habits.”
It was a perfect storm.
One day, in mid January, her father said to her, “Why don’t you just go to Dubai?”
“I didn’t trust him, but it seemed like a good idea,” she related. “He also said my grandmother
in Dhaka, Bangladesh was dying and she is crying to see me.”
Her entire family backed up this story, so she agreed to go.
Visiting Grandma ended up being an additional four-hour flight from Dubai. When she got to
Dhaka, Grandma was fine.
It had all been a ruse.
There was no ticket back. Her return ticket proved to be counterfeit. They took her ID and
passport and money. She stayed with her uncle’s wife for a week and all she did was cry. Then 20 or more people appeared and physically took Zarah to a lockdown facility. She tried to run and fought back. No luck. They took her to the ninth floor and locked her in. There were cages on the windows. They watched her through a camera. They badgered her until she admitted
she’d done porn.
It suddenly became clear as day why she was there. Her father either wanted her to be punished
for what she did—or thought this treatment would convert her to a good Muslim.
“They said what I did was a disgrace to my family,” she recounted. “But it was really to alleviate my father’s suffering—even though he prays five times a day, beats on women, kidnaps his whole family, and keeps his wife (who married him when she was 18 in an arranged marriage) captive
for leverage.
“They tried to convert me. My father wanted me to speak perfect Bangali when I left and be
a Muslim. They used torture tactics like isolation, and when I spoke up about one of the staff harassing a girl, they put me in solitary confinement for a month. I tried running twice and they injected me with something; I was being controlled by being overmedicated.”
There were four girls on her floor. One was 14, and Zarah befriended her. The two agreed that if either got out, they would contact the U.S. Embassy for help.
Then everything changed. Zarah’s father showed up and he was scared—she could see it in his eyes and in the eyes of the staff.
“They told me to tell everyone that I was here for treatment and it was not a jail,” she conveyed.
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