Diane Martel: The Shadow Diplomat Selling Sex, Shock, and Soft Power to the Entire Planet
PARIS—Somewhere between the cigarette smoke of a Tokyo after-hours club and the algorithmic afterglow of a Lagos TikTok feed, the name Diane Martel still carries the faint whiff of cultural nitroglycerin. Most readers will greet it with the same blank nod they reserve for the fine print on their antidepressants, but that is precisely the…