IPhoto Trash can is not getting empty.

I am trying to use iPhoto trash can method.  just click on emtpy trash can.  But it is not working. Recently, I cleaned up my library, and deleted about 13k photos.  When I click empty, shows status bar, and it appears stucked.  I need to force out iPhoto to realize, after restarting it again, that about 100 photos are deleted in about one hour.
I have tried the sudo rm -R methods but they work only for the system trash can.  Is there any command line I can use to empty really fast the iPhoto one?  There is a lot of wasted space and I have no idea how to recover it.
Thank you.

IPhoto can not empty that large a trash
Open the trash and select all. Make a album with them, right click on the photos selected in the trash and return to the library. Then using the album delete in batches of 100 or so emptying the iPhoto trash for each batch
LN

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