# "Mock wedding". I'm not clear what was going on here? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 29, 2025, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mock-wedding-im-not-clear-what-was-going-on-here/1020243 "2025-06-29T10:43:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2025, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mock-wedding-im-not-clear-what-was-going-on-here/1020243/1 "2025-06-29T10:43:23Z")
Somebody rented a venue at Disneyland Paris to film a fake wedding with people paid to act as guests. The “brude” was 9 years old. But she “suffered “no violence, either physical or sexual” and “was not forced to play the role” of bride”. > **[Briton accused of staging Disneyland mock wedding with child is charged with...](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/25/briton-accused-staging-disneyland-mock-wedding-with-child-charged-fraud-offences-france)** > > Sex offender was arrested after alleged hiring of Disneyland Paris for fake ceremony with nine-year-old ‘bride’ > **[Disneyland Paris calls in police over alleged fake wedding with child ‘bride’](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/22/disneyland-paris-alleged-fake-wedding-child-bride)** > > Police questioning two people as prosecutor says event at theme park was staged with girl aged about nine and actors So what, exactly, was the end goal of this, and what exactly was the crime? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2025, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mock-wedding-im-not-clear-what-was-going-on-here/1020243/2 "2025-06-29T10:52:46Z")
He’s a sex offender. Maybe he hoped to convince the girl that she was now actually married and had to submit to him. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2025, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mock-wedding-im-not-clear-what-was-going-on-here/1020243/3 "2025-06-29T11:08:21Z")
Maybe, but there were people hired to play her father and sister, and she wouldn’t be fooled by that. > **[Sex offender arrested after attempted 'mock wedding' with child at Disneyland...](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2025/06/25/disneyland-paris-mock-wedding-child/84359443007/)** > > French authorities arrested a convicted sex offender who reportedly attempted to stage a "mock wedding" with a 9-year-old girl at Disneyland Paris. ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2025, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mock-wedding-im-not-clear-what-was-going-on-here/1020243/4 "2025-06-29T11:09:40Z")
Per the [BBC article](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62gq269jv7o) linked in one of your sources, the charges were “fraud, breach of trust, money laundering, and identity theft,” presumably because he used a fake ID and represented the event as a real wedding when he booked the venue. He also seems to have made a habit of putting on and filming elaborately staged productions involving minors; it may be a case of “we know this guy is doing something creepy and exploitative, but it’s so weird that there isn’t a law against it, so we’ll get him on what we can whenever he gives us the opportunity.” ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2025, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mock-wedding-im-not-clear-what-was-going-on-here/1020243/5 "2025-06-29T11:48:23Z")
Now if the guy had some sort of injunction or parole condition from convictions for prior offenses of some sort of child exploitation, they could easily include conditions about not associating with minors. Whether he does have that, whether French privacy laws would allow the press to know about them, etc., is all unknown to me. But at least in US practice it would not be a nutty possibility. And might explain why the charge list looks like it does. ---
**Author:** ![DemonTree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demontree/32/8646_2.png) [@DemonTree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DemonTree)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2025, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mock-wedding-im-not-clear-what-was-going-on-here/1020243/6 "2025-06-29T11:51:27Z")
It’s a very bizarre story. Apparent he previously staged a fake film premier and a fake funeral, and filmed a stunt where he created a fireball outside the O2 Arena in London. Completely mental. > **[Who the Hell Is ‘Jacky Jhaj’—the Man Charged Over the Disneyland Pedophile...](https://www.vice.com/en/article/jacky-jhaj-disneyland-paedophile-wedding/)** > > The casting agent had an unusual task to fulfill: they needed to find 100 children, aged from five to 15 years old, to be extras in a “prestigious” high-end wedding rehearsal. This was a job that required “absolute confidentiality,” with the... ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2025, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mock-wedding-im-not-clear-what-was-going-on-here/1020243/7 "2025-06-29T12:03:15Z")
“I’m making a movie” can be cover for acting out a lot of odd fantasies. The advent of “content creators” on YouTube _et al_ has thoroughly democratized the making of fantasy content. I bet this goofball is just the tip of a huge iceberg of nutballs living out their fantasies from behind a camera. ---
**Author:** ![griffin1977](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@griffin1977](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffin1977)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2025, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mock-wedding-im-not-clear-what-was-going-on-here/1020243/8 "2025-06-29T14:53:52Z")
Yeah I also thought, like the OP, that there was an elephant in the room here that the reporting was missing (it’s fairly common for this to happen IMO, particularly with British reporting of criminal prosecutions\*, where the bare publicly available facts just leaves you with more questions than answers) But it really doesn’t seem like this is the case here. This is just a really really creepy really really weird guy who does really weird really creepy stuff. There is no master plan or motivation beyond that. I wonder what position he’ll fill in Trump’s cabinet? 😉 ‘\*’ - TBH I generally agree with the way reporting of crimes works in the UK more than in the US, where big hideous high profile crimes are treated basically like sports matches where every detail and peice if evidence is analysed and discussed, long before they end up in court ---
**Author:** ![bob\_2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bob_2/32/3341_2.png) [@bob\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bob_2)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2025, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mock-wedding-im-not-clear-what-was-going-on-here/1020243/9 "2025-06-29T16:50:46Z")
> [@griffin1977](#): > > where every detail and peice if evidence is analysed and discussed, long before they end up in court And the jurors are expected to not have seen any of it. ---
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2025, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mock-wedding-im-not-clear-what-was-going-on-here/1020243/10 "2025-06-30T02:30:50Z")
What I can’t figure out is where his money is coming from. He’s spending thousands and thousands on “actors” for his videos. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2025, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mock-wedding-im-not-clear-what-was-going-on-here/1020243/11 "2025-06-30T02:48:15Z")
I’m afraid I don’t wanna know. Terrible story. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2025, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mock-wedding-im-not-clear-what-was-going-on-here/1020243/12 "2025-06-30T14:52:34Z")
He apparently made millions as a tech bro - including [running a supposedly data-driven curated online dating service for other wealthy tech bros](https://www.accessnewswire.com/newsroom/en/business-and-professional-services/how-business-guru-jesse-jhaj-turned-into-%22hitch-for-the-rich%22-623525) (at $50 000 a pop for essentially just vetting ordinary dating site applicants!) ETA: Oh, wait, that’s the wrong J. Jhaj. Never mind. I’m going to guess family money, then. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2025, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mock-wedding-im-not-clear-what-was-going-on-here/1020243/13 "2025-07-01T12:35:23Z")
According to the [VICE article](https://www.vice.com/en/article/jacky-jhaj-disneyland-paedophile-wedding/) linked by **DemonTree** earlier in this thread, “The source of Jacky Jhaj’s wealth is unclear, though he is understood to have been involved with a real estate firm at some point and once founded his own IT company.” (I had to type that out, as VICE apparently doesn’t let you copy text from its site – the box of options didn’t pop up when I tried, although it still appears otherwise.) The page linked in the article identifies Jaskarfn Jhaj as director of TORCHBELL IT LIMITED, which has been dissolved. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2025, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mock-wedding-im-not-clear-what-was-going-on-here/1020243/14 "2025-07-01T12:56:59Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > So what, exactly, was the end goal of this, and what exactly was the crime? Count Orlaf running a scam to get hold of the Baudelaire fortune, perhaps.