YouTube sensation Piper Rockelle’s mom crowed that she was a “pimp” making “kiddie porn” on the video sharing website where her daughter and her friends dressed in skimpy outfits and had scripted make-out sessions, alleges a bombshell lawsuit.
Rockelle’s mom, Tiffany Smith, 40, is facing a civil trial in Los Angeles later this year over shocking allegations of physical, sexual and emotional abuse of 11 young co-stars.
Smith and her live-in boyfriend Hunter Hill, 25, who is also named in the suit, produced Rockelle’s popular “Piper Squad” channel, which raked in more than $500,000 a month while her co-stars didn’t earn a penny, according to the plaintiffs’ attorney Matthew Sarelson.
The lawyer represents the parents of the alleged victims, who range in age from 10 to 16 and include two of Rockelle’s cousins.
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Smith, the CEO of Piper Rockelle Inc, and Hill, the director and cinematographer, launched the channel in 2016, which now has nearly 11 million subscribers, according to the lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court.
Rockelle and the couple live in a $3 million hot-pink house in Sherman Oaks that once belonged to actress Bella Thorne.
The mother-manager, who called herself their “madam” often reminded the teenagers that “sex sells,” encouraging the girls to “push their butts out” and dress “sluttier,” the complaint alleges.
The $22 million lawsuit filed last year exposed the often disturbing YouTube child star industry.
“When you have teenagers and preteens who are pulling in half a million a month, they are certainly going to create an atmosphere where cutthroat business practices and dealings go on,” Sarelson told Fox News Digital. “There’s too much money for it not to get contentious or worse.”
Some of his clients recently discovered that in Google searches, their children’s names appear to be linked to pornography…
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