Today's Blind Items - The Host

This foreign mafia infiltrated this tiny country long ago. Through buckets of cash thrown to the leader and occasional violence which of course is never prosecuted, the mafia use this country for their banking and laundering needs. They also use it as a hub for illegal trafficking. Most of that is an open secret. What was very much a closed secret until the past few days is the threat they made very real to make sure they had the cooperation of the leader. He was being pressured by a larger government to do something about the trafficking and violence that was seeping across the border. When the royal tried to get tough, the CEO of this athletic team and country representative for the mafia personally took part in the sexual assault of the wife of the leader and made sure to have it all filmed. He then made the leader watch it and told him who would be next if the royal didn't get back on board. The royal did get back on board but this is why his wife keeps trying to leave. She keeps coming back because of the threats made about her much much younger relatives and what will be done to them if she doesn't come back and put on a happy face.