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When Adam Aron's phone buzzed with a text from an unknown number in March 2022, he recognized the name of the sender: Mia.
"Is my memory right that you were into ballet?" Aron replied.
The woman on the other end played along: "Yes!" she replied.
And so began the text exchange that would quickly turn from flirty to explicit — and within weeks morph into extortion of Aron, who is AMC's CEO.