Mounira and HefF, and no matter who instigated what exactly, the main takeaway is that upon leaving the shoot Ms.
Toutouni attorneys told TMZ in a statement: 'No matter what took place in the photo shoot between Ms. 'I want the entertainment industry and the public in general to be aware of people like Tony who want to use you in every way they can including, but not limited to, sexual and inappropriate acts,' she said. Mounira told TMZ that she posted the video because she didn't want Toutouni to post it before she had chance to take ownership of the situation.
She claims Tony harassed her verbally and sexually during the shoot - and also groped her while trying to get her into his room. The video has been posted on social media by both Mounira and Toutouni and has music playing in the background but the version on TMZ has just the original sounds can be heard. It is clear from these most public debates that the changes in meaning for all forms of Samoan tattooing are being made by the people who wear the images as much as the tattooists who create them.Mounira told TMZ that she posted the video because she didn't want Toutouni to post it before she had chance to take ownership of the situation The contemporary meanings and significance of malu are often vigorously contested and in recent years this has become especially noticeable in social media forums when tattooists and tattooed people share photographs of their tattoos. In the Samoan congregations of some churches, men and women have been discouraged from getting tattooed.' In New Zealand and Australia, the malu is increasingly important as a symbol of Samoan cultural identity rather than only a signifier of a persons ability to carry out specific Samoan ceremonial roles. However, the malu is not important to all Samoans, or the only symbol of an individuals commitment or participation in samoan cultural life. From at least the 1990s, there has been less emphasis on chiefly qualifications, and women of a variety of backgrounds and ages have been tattooed with the malu. It is often sufficient reward for the novice to have the opportunity of practice and to be well fed during the period occupied by the operation.For the daughter of a high chief, who is to become the village taupou, it can be readily understood that an expert artist would be requisitioned and his reward greater." Ceremonial roles are still important in Samoan society and are restricted in similar ways to particular people with the correct qualifications and cultural knowledge, but the significance of the malu has shifted.
This is also rendered possible by the fact that there is no fusita (fine mat) passed or any of the ceremony that marks the tattooing of the male. However in 1930, anthropologist Te Rangi Hiroa observed that ".the tattooing of a girl is often used as an opportunity for a student to try his prentice hand. Women with the malu were expected to perform key ceremony tasks and represent their families and villages on ceremonial occasions. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, only the chief's daughter was eligible to wear the malu and it was applied to these young women in the years following puberty.