On the wall of immigration attorney Michael Wildes’s office hangs an enormous photo of Yoko Ono and her late husband Beatles frontman John Lennon — clients of Wildes’s father who defended the couple from deportation.
Decades later, Wildes represented some of the biggest actors and singers of his own generation. But now a growing number of those contacting him to seek visas are social media influencers and models on OnlyFans, the streaming platform for sex workers and celebrities.
“I knew the days of representing iconic names like Boy George and Sinéad O’Connor were over,” Wildes said, as he described the shift towards what he called “scroll kings and queens”.