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 Stingers Release Philly 
 ACORN Video 

Says it proves ACORN lied about incident

Oct 22, 09 9:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - The ACORN stingers have released another video, this time of their visit to the Philadelphia location—where, ACORN has until now insisted, they were kicked out. In the new, edited video, James O’Keefe says they weren’t kicked out, but instead sat for more than half an hour with... More »

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Philadelphia • prostitute • hidden camera • pimp • Acorn • James O'Keefe • Hannah Giles

ACORN Sting Duo Says Nobody Put Them Up to It

Call themselves 'concerned citizens'

Sep 18, 09 8:05 AM CDT
(Newser) - James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles say there's no conservative conspiracy behind their decision to dress up as a pimp and prostitute and walk into ACORN offices with a hidden camera. They’re just a pair of concerned citizens, who’ve managed to wound the mighty activist group on a... More »

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prostitution • prostitute • hidden camera • scandal • Acorn • James O'Keefe • Hannah Giles

Schwarzenegger Wants ACORN Investigation

Activist sting catches woman boasting of shooting husband

Sep 17, 09 10:11 AM CDT
(Newser) - Arnold Schwarzenegger today urged California AG Jerry Brown to launch an investigation of ACORN, the Los Angeles Times reports. The governor acted after a video sting operation that's targeted ACORN offices around the country hit the group’s San Bernardino office. In the video released Tuesday, as in previous videos... More »

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prostitution • Arnold Schwarzenegger • San Bernadino • Jerry Brown • prostitute • Acorn

Berlusconi: So Sue Me,
I Like Gorgeous Babes

'Greatest Italian PM in history' hits back at sex scandal allegations

Sep 11, 09 6:54 AM CDT
(Newser) - Silvio Berlusconi says he's the best prime minister Italy's ever had and resigning has never crossed his mind, despite a string of sex scandals, the Wall Street Journal reports. Berlusconi scoffed at claims by businessman Giampaolo Tarantini that he invited women to Berlusconi's parties and paid them to sleep with... More »

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prostitution • sex scandal • Italy • Silvio Berlusconi • prostitute

Italian Businessman: I Supplied Girls for Berlusconi

Allegations reignite Italian's leader sleaze scandal

Sep 10, 09 6:55 AM CDT
(Newser) - An Italian businessman claims to have supplied 30 women for parties held by Silvio Berlusconi, some of whom slept with the Italian leader, the Guardian reports. Gianpaolo Tarantini, who is under investigation for corruption, says he was trying to gain influence with the prime minister. He told investigators that he... More »

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sex scandal • Italy • Silvio Berlusconi • prostitute

Milwaukee Cops Arrest Suspected Serial Killer

Man linked to murders of 9 women from 1986-2007

Sep 7, 09 7:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - Authorities in Milwaukee said tonight they have arrested a man they suspect in the murders of at least nine women during the past 21 years, the Journal Sentinel reports. Walter E. Ellis, 49, is charged with two counts of first-degree murder, and his DNA was found on nine women killed... More »

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African Americans • Milwaukee • murder • violence • prostitute • serial killers • Walter Ellis

Dupre to Ladies Who Judge: You're No Better Than a Hooker

'Get real and get over yourself': Spitzer babe

Sep 3, 09 7:27 AM CDT
(Newser) - Ashley Dupre has a message for the ladies out there "who just love to judge" her $4,300 romp with a sitting governor: you're no better than hookers. The onetime Eliot Spitzer call girl blogged a rant about women who look down on her but "target guys with... More »

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prostitution • Eliot Spitzer • prostitute • political scandal • Ashley Dupre • call girl • prostitution scandal

OPINION

Hookers Are
Turning Off
Twitterers

Rising tide of porn
spam threatens
family market

Sep 2, 09 6:27 AM CDT
(Newser) - Porn spam is becoming more prevalent on Twitter and the site needs to step up enforcement or risk losing plenty of users, writes Sarah Lacy in BusinessWeek. Prostitutes seem to have flocked to Twitter of late, Lacy writes, noting that her husband received 43 scantily clad "followers" in just... More »

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social networking • MySpace • spam • pornography • prostitute • Twitter

Cops: No Evidence Linking Garrido to Dead Hookers

Search of alleged Dugard kidnapper's home finds no connection to unsolved '90s killings

Sep 1, 09 7:06 PM CDT
(Newser) - Police say they’ve found no evidence linking Phillip Garrido—alleged to have abducted a California girl and imprisoned her for 18 years—to a series of unsolved murders of prostitutes in the late 1990s, the Contra Costa Times reports. After Garrido, a registered sex offender, was apprehended with missing... More »

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murder • prostitute • unsolved crimes • Pittsburg, CA • Jaycee Lee Dugard • Phillip Garrido • Nancy Garrido

 Cops Probe 
 Garrido Link to 
 Murdered Hookers 

Victims found close to alleged workplace of Dugard suspect

Aug 28, 09 5:03 PM CDT
(Newser) - Police obtained a warrant today to search the Pittsburgh, Calif., house of Jaycee Dugard's alleged kidnapper in connection with the murders of several prostitutes in the 1990s, the Los Angeles Times reports. Garrido allegedly worked at an industrial site near where the victims’ bodies were found. He also served time... More »

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California • corpse • murder • prostitute • warrant • Jaycee Lee Dugard • Phillip Garrido

(Newser) - Silvio Berlusconi's antics with models and call girls have threatened to derail his government, but the woman at the center of the sex-and-corruption scandal says she's seen it all before. "This is how Italy always works," Patrizia D’Addario tells the Financial Times. The hooker says she came... More »

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prostitution • Italy • corruption • Silvio Berlusconi • prostitute • call girl • European Parliament • Veronica Lario • Patrizia D'Addario

China Trusts Prostitutes More Than Politicians

Oldest profession comes in third in poll; farmers are tops

Aug 4, 09 12:33 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Chinese people trust prostitutes more than they trust politicians, scientists, or soldiers, according to a new survey from Insight China Magazine. Sex workers finished third, the BBC reports, with 7.9% of the vote, just behind farmers and religious workers. “A list like this is at the same... More »

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China • prostitute • survey • farmers • politicians

NY Cops Seek Hooker in Holocaust Survivor Killing

90-year-old found bound, beaten in home

Aug 1, 09 7:18 PM CDT
(Newser) - New York police suspect a prostitute and her male cohort of strangling a 90-year-old Holocaust survivor at his Upper East Side apartment this week, the New York Post reports. The pair allegedly stole a car and credit cards from Felix Brinkmann, who periodically brought prostitutes home and, during the Holocaust,... More »

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NYPD • New York • murder • Upper East Side • prostitute

Ex-Hooker: Berlusconi Offered Me a Parliament Seat

Says he gave escorts acting, political roles

Jul 27, 09 8:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - Patrizia D’Addario, the prostitute who brought the world what she says are audiotapes of her having sex with Silvio Belusconi, says the Italian PM offered her a seat in the European Parliament, the Times of London reports. He offered her the position in lieu of paying for sex,... More »

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sex scandal • Italy • sex tape • Silvio Berlusconi • prostitute • Patrizia D'Addario

Berlusconi Admits He's
'No Saint'

Italian PM shrugs off call-girl scandal as 'low-level stuff'

Jul 22, 09 3:06 PM CDT
(Newser) - Silvio Berlusconi appeared unconcerned about the recent disclosure of tapes of an alleged intimate conversation between him and a prostitute, the Telegraph reports. “There are a lot of pretty girls about. I am no saint but you know that,” the Italian PM said today in his first public... More »

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sex scandal • Italy • prime minister • Silvio Berlusconi • prostitute • call girl • Freedom Party

 Brit Envoy 
 Quits Russia 
 After Hooker Video 

Officials accuse Russia of set up

Jul 9, 09 6:10 AM CDT
(Newser) - A senior British diplomat was forced to resign his post in Russia after a video of him canoodling with two prostitutes was posted on the Internet, reports the Daily Mail. British officials were livid about the scandal, but also angrily accused Russian officials of a sting. The 4-minute video, called... More »

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Russia • video • diplomat • Britain • sting operations • prostitute • undercover video • hooker • Ural

ANALYSIS

 'Adult' Ads 
 Make Craigslist 
 More Dangerous 

Prostitutes feel no safer with new rules

May 27, 09 3:39 PM CDT
(Newser) - Craigslist's new "adult services" section is doing little to curb prostitution and may actually be making the profession more dangerous, Ars Technica reports. With the demise of the explicit erotic services page, many posters have started using code words like "erotic massages" and "french lessons"... More »

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Internet • Craigslist • prostitute • erotic services

Stolen RAF Files on Drug Use, Sex Spark Blackmail Fears

Data bares UK
officers' foibles

May 25, 09 8:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - Top British military officials are at risk of blackmail after three Royal Air Force hard drives containing revealing vetting details were stolen, the Daily Mail reports. Files on the drives told of “criminal investigations, drug abuse, use of prostitutes, and extra-marital affairs,” said a Ministry of Defense memo.... More »

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blackmail • drug abuse • officer • Royal Air Force • Britain • prostitute • vetting • extramarital affair

(Newser) - Craigslist is due an apology from South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster, the site’s CEO writes on his company blog, after threatening “unwarranted and unconstitutional charges against us that are clearly barred by federal law.” What’s more, Jim Buckmaster charges, Craigslist isn’t the only outlet... More »

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Internet • South Carolina • Craigslist • apology • prostitute • Jim Buckmaster • attorney general • criminal prosecution • Henry McMaster • sex ads • erotic services

UK Dad Tries to Hire Prostitute for 14-Year-Old

Man snagged in police sting draws 10-month suspended sentence

May 15, 09 12:34 PM CDT
(Newser) - A UK man who confessed to trying to pick up a prostitute for his teenage son has been sentenced to 10 months in prison but won't serve time, the Daily Mail reports. The 42-year-old visited Nottingham's red-light district last year on a quest to help his son, 14,  lose... More »

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prostitution • crime • jail • arrest • Britain • Nottingham • prostitute • undercover • virginity • hooker • teenager • child • sex sting

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