New doc from Stern & Wild clients unpacks the truth behind the Chloe Ayling story

Stern & Wild filmmakers Vivienne Perry, Jasleen Kaur Sethi, Miles Blayden-Ryall and new client Stu Bernard are part of the talent-packed team behind the newly announced three-part BBC docuseries CHLOE AYLING: MY UNBELIEVABLE KIDNAPPING.

In the summer of 2017, it was reported that 20-year-old glamour model Chloe Ayling had been kidnapped in Italy by an international criminal gang known as Black Death and was told she had six days before she would be sold as sex slave as part of a dark web auction. Despite the terrifying circumstances, she was able to convince her captors to let her walk free and into the hands of the local authorities. However, in the immediate aftermath Chloe became the subject of global media speculation. Were the allegations true? Or was the crime in fact a publicity stunt to further Chloe’s modelling career?

Giving her first documentary interview since the conviction of her abductors Lukasz and Michal Herba, Chloe recounts the ordeal of her kidnapping and tries to come to terms with what happened to her, the media reaction and why many people refused to believe her.

Vivienne Perry is Series Editor on the production, Jasleen Kaur Sethi is Edit Producer, and Miles Blayden-Ryall and Stu Bernard are Directors. The series is produced by BBC Studios Documentary Unit for BBC Three and iPlayer. It was commissioned by Clare Sillery, Head of Commissioning, BBC Documentaries and Fiona Campbell, Controller for Youth Audiences. Tom Pullen is Commissioning Editor.

The series is set to air on BBC Three and iPlayer in August.

Chloe Ayling. Image: Sane Seven, © BBC Studios