Disgraced ex-guv now has his very own verb
New York Post May 12, 08 9:05 AM CDT
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Playboy's June issue introduces a new term into modern sexology parlance—"to Spitzer"—the New York Post reports. The flesh mag defines the nod to disgraced former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer as the act of asking a prostitute for sex sans condom, as in "I Spitzered her, but she was like, 'Duh, not a chance, pal.' "
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Trafficked women
aren't giving consent, campaign maintains
Reuters May 8, 08 12:10 PM CDT
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British authorities are targeting men who pay for sex with a hard-hitting ad campaign comparing some instances to rape, Reuters reports. Because thousands of women trafficked into the country each year are forced into prostitution, there's nothing consensual about the sex they sell, the ads suggest. "Walk in a punter, walk out a rapist," say the ads to be posted in men's rooms.
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Memoir reveals small-town go-getter with a 'touch of class'
Newsweek May 6, 08 9:49 AM CDT
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Most know her as the feisty DC Madam who riled up the media by releasing her clients' phone records, but a half-finished memoir obtained by Newsweek reveals Deborah Jeane Palfrey's personal side. A small-town girl turned "fuddy-duddy white lady," she overcame a stifling childhood to turn feminist entrepreneur.
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Call 'girls' take Brazilian soccer star by surprise
Reuters Apr 29, 08 8:07 AM CDT
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Soccer virtuoso Ronaldo was questioned by police in Rio de Janeiro yesterday after an altercation in a motel with transvestite prostitutes, Reuters reports. The star of AC Milan and the Brazilian national team took three call girls to the motel, only to discover that they were men in drag, according to cops. Ronaldo then offered them $600 each to close the affair, but one of them demanded $30,000 to keep the story from the media.
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'Marry me or it's over,' Mills told McCartney
Daily Mail (UK) Apr 22, 08 4:22 PM CDT
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Heather Mills gave Paul McCartney an ultimatum in the early stages of their relationship—marry me or it's over—says a former friend in a British TV show airing tonight. Heather's buddy also talks about their time together as high-priced prostitutes, reports the Daily Mail . "Heather knows how to play people, she's very clever," she says. "They're besotted, like enchanted, you know—like she throws fairy dust all over them."
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Palfrey faces 55 years on racketeering, money-laundering convictions
WTOP Apr 15, 08 2:54 PM CDT
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Rejecting the defense that she didn't know her escorts were having sex with clients, a federal jury convicted the "DC Madam," who, WTOP–FM reports, met today's verdict with a sigh. Deborah Jeane Palfrey, whose prostitution-ring bust implicated Washington highbrows, including a Louisiana senator, faces up to 55 years on racketeering and money-laundering charges at her sentencing in July.
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Silda Wall Spitzer knew of Eliot's high-priced affairs
New York Post Apr 10, 08 9:42 AM CDT
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For years Silda Wall Spitzer knew her disgraced husband patronized prostitutes—and she looked the other way, the New York Post reports. While his reps deny the rumors, a source tells the Post that former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer is telling friends that the mother of his three daughters "doesn't care, so why does anybody else care?"
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Tabloid gets to re-post hooker spanking session with 'tea break'
BBC Apr 9, 08 8:16 AM CDT
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Formula One president Max Mosley has lost his court battle to block a newspaper from hosting a video showing him cavorting with five prostitutes in a sadomasochistic scene with Nazi undertones. Mosley is suing the News of the World for breach of privacy, but a London judge ruled that, although the footage is "intrusive and demeaning," its wide dissemination would make an injunction "a futile gesture," reports the BBC.
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Corruption fears spurred unusually zealous hunt
New York Times Mar 21, 08 3:22 PM CDT
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The Justice Department's unusual pursuit of the Emperor's Club—and its most famous client—grew out of suspicions of corruption, not moral turpitude, department officials tell the New York Times. Agents tailed Eliot Spitzer, tapped his phone, and pored over his financial records, steps more costly and intrusive than prostitution cases usually merit.
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movie review
1960s icon plays a grandma-turned-sex-worker
Rotten Tomatoes Mar 21, 08 10:31 AM CDT
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Irina Palm , about a frumpy grandmother who resorts to prostitution so she can pay for her desperately ill grandson's operation, is winning over critics, both because of its unsentimental portrayal of the sex trade and because of the performance given by its star, singer/songwriter/actress and '60s icon Marianne Faithfull.
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Red lights are going out on the Reeperbahn
Independent (UK) Mar 21, 08 10:20 AM CDT
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Hamburg's Reeperbahn has been one of the world's most famous red light districts for as long as anyone can remember, but the "Mile of Sin's" flamboyant brothels are dying out, the Independent reports. Discos and cheap bars attracting binge-drinking teens are taking their place. The seedy street's old-timers lament the disappearance of live music since the days when the Beatles played nightly sets.
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Girls Gone Wild boss may put nude footage online anyway
Associated Press Mar 20, 08 6:24 AM CDT
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Girls Gone Wild mogul Joe Francis thought he'd hit the jackpot when he discovered he had raunchy videos of the call girl from the Spitzer sex scandal on file. But his find may prove less of a bonanza than he'd hoped, now that Ashley Alexandre Dupre has said she was under 18 when she spent a week on the Girls Gone Wild bus, the AP reports.
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Spitzer hooker filmed Spring Break videos in '03
Los Angeles Times Mar 19, 08 8:07 AM CDT
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The call girl who ended Eliot Spitzer's career started hers on a nude Girls Gone Wild video during a wild Spring Break weekend in 2003, reports the LA Times. Ashley Alexandra Dupré was celebrating her 18th birthday in Miami when she stumbled across the Girls Gone Wild production bus, and made seven videos over several days.
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