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The New York Times said the Washington Redskins took the cheerleaders on a trip to Costa Rica in 2013 allegedly for a photoshoot.

When they arrived at the adults-only Occidental Grand Papagayo resort, their passports were taken by the team.

Some of the girls were made to strip and put on body paint for what was supposed to be a calendar shoot while sponsors and suite holders – all men – were invited to watch up-close and leer, the Times reported.

Then, after the photoshoot, nine of the cheerleaders were "selected" by the sponsors to escort them to a nightclub that evening.

"They weren't putting a gun to our heads, but it was mandatory for us to go," one unnamed cheerleader told the newspaper. "We weren't asked, we were told. Other girls were devastated because we knew exactly what she was doing."