When Barcelona’s youngest winger, Lamine Yamal, celebrated his eighteenth birthday, the world expected dazzling goals and stylish congratulations. Instead, the front pages were filled not with his dribbles but with stories of model castings, euro price lists, and suspicious hacks. Model Claudia Calvo became the chief witness to the backstage reality that revealed a completely different side of the glamorous fiesta.
“Beauty Casting”: Selection by Catalog Parameters
According to Calvo, shortly before 13 July the party’s organizers contacted her, seeking to “recruit” a dozen women with impeccable physical features. The questionnaire asked about height, hair color, and—what especially outraged the model—“strictly defined bust measurements.” All this — for a private area where photo and video shoots were forbidden and smartphones had to be left outside the door.
The Price Tag: 10–20 Thousand Euros ‘Just to Attend’
The financial side of the offer looked generous: for visiting the birthday boy’s villa, the women were promised anywhere from ten to twenty thousand euros. “But no one ever told us exactly what they expected in return,” Calvo emphasizes. Another model from the chat published by Claudia bluntly called the expected format “purely sexual.”
Screenshots Versus Backstage
On the show Tardear, Calvo displayed a fragment of her chat with a colleague. The latter confirmed that she, too, had been invited—with an unmistakable hint at intimacy. “I could have kept quiet,” Claudia admits, “but I decided the truth had to be brought to light; otherwise, such practices would remain the norm.”
Counter-Attack: Cyber Pressure at the Height of the Party
The most alarming moment came on the night of the party: at 22:26 Claudia received a series of emails about attempts to log into her Instagram and other social networks. “I’m sure it was someone from the footballer’s entourage. The party was in full swing at that moment, and they clearly didn’t like us talking about it,” she asserts.
Adult-Only Consequences of a ‘Coming-of-Age’ Match
The scandal involving dwarf entertainers had already turned Yamal’s birthday into a meme; now the story of the “beauty list” and hacking attacks has been added. The footballer’s agent remains silent, while Spanish tabloids count the clicks. How this off-pitch added time will end remains to be seen, but the party has already received a reputational yellow card.
