Singer and producer MC MONG has denied allegations of prostitution. He also raised the issue of CCTV being leaked without permission and warned of legal action.
On the 5th, MC MONG expressed his grievance on his social account, saying, "Prostitution allegations? I wonder under whose direction such an article is written without any evidence or physical proof."
Earlier, a reporter from the YouTube channel "Jiritjirit" released CCTV footage from the APT. where MC MONG lives and raised allegations of his involvement in prostitution. When allegations of prostitution against former The Boyz member Ju Hak-nyeon were raised in June last year, claims also arose that his exclusion from One Hundred's activities was because he was involved in prostitution, and he was once embroiled in suspicion.
Meanwhile, CCTV footage showing MC MONG getting on and off an elevator with women presumed to be workers at entertainment establishments was released, rekindling the suspicion. MC MONG reportedly told the reporter who covered the matter that "it was a day when I simply ate with friends I know and had a wine party," and in response to a message saying "some are women who work at entertainment establishments," he rebutted, "Not everyone who works at bars engages in prostitution."
This matter was covered and spread on TV CHOSUN's current affairs program "Sintongbangtong" on the 4th. As the controversy grew, MC MONG told a media outlet in an interview, "One of them is my girlfriend. Who would sell his girlfriend?" adding, "The man is a younger acquaintance of mine; among the three women, one is my girlfriend, another is my girlfriend's acquaintance, and the remaining one is someone I met for the first time there. I don't know what those friends did in the past," expressing grievance over what he called malicious reporting.
Afterward, MC MONG also posted directly on his SNS and repeatedly denied the prostitution allegations. He said, "Why was the first CCTV opened? For CCTV to be disclosed, a report must be filed with the police, cooperation from investigative agencies is required, and another person's footage can be opened by the security guard only if escorted by the police," and asserted, "But I have never had any resident report. This footage was clearly obtained illegally."
He raised a conspiracy theory, saying, "That footage is not of people entering my home but of everyone leaving together. Someone playing with the media as if they hold it in their hands and the media that turns a simple gathering of close male juniors, female friends and acquaintances into this situation," and fumed, "That day I had declared I would quit the company, and the gathering was to comfort me; Chairman Cha Ga-won visited, everyone left, and we talked about work for about 10 minutes and that was the end of the day. People who turned an ordinary day no different from others into prostitution—you are nothing more and nothing less than devils."
He emphasized, "The resident reports were only two calls to the security office asking to lower the music while we were working on a track," and added, "I will sue Cha Jun-young, who illegally used and distributed this illegally obtained footage to reporters, and all the reporters who used that footage."
Earlier, allegations of an affair between MC MONG and Cha Ga-won, co-CEO of One Hundred and chairman of p_Arc Group, were raised, but both sides denied them outright. He claimed that Cha Jun-young, Cha Ga-won's uncle, visited him and threatened him to hand over his equity in Big Planet Made, and in the process handed over conversations that manipulated his relationship with Chairman Cha Ga-won as friends. Chairman Cha Ga-won's side also denied that the affair allegations and the messenger conversations with MC MONG "are not true," and through a law firm informed that legal action against the initial reporting outlets is already underway.
But not long after, allegations of proxy prescriptions for psychotropic drugs surfaced, which he also denied.<
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