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prostitution scandal stories: 17 news summaries

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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 Spitzer Eying Return 
 to Politics: Insiders 

Others close to ex-guv dispute claim

Sep 1, 09 9:06 AM CDT
(Newser) - Eliot Spitzer is tossing around the possibility of a comeback bid, mulling a run for New York state office next year, insiders tell the New York Post. The ex-governor is said to be eying the state comptroller's job or Kirsten Gillibrand’s Senate seat. But it’s all informal at... More »

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politics • Senate • sex scandal • Eliot Spitzer • governor • comeback • political scandal • prostitution scandal • New York State Comptroller • Kirsten Gillibrand

 Berlusconi: I 
 Don't Even 
 Like Hookers 

Italian PM denies scandal, says call girls aren't to his taste

Jun 24, 09 4:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has denied that he paid prostitutes who attended parties at his official residences, reports the BBC. Berlusconi told a gossip magazine that the call girl who alleged she was paid over $1000 to sleep with him was "extremely well paid" by a political opponent... More »

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prostitution • Italy • Silvio Berlusconi • political scandal • call girl • prostitution scandal • Patrizia D'Addario

 Berlusconi 
 Hooker Probe 
 to Quiz 
 30 Women 

Italian PM allegedly told woman to 'wait for me in the big bed'

Jun 23, 09 5:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - Italian prosecutors are preparing to question up to 30 women, including eastern European models, as part of a probe into the alleged procurement of prostitutes for Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. The sex scandal widened yesterday when a photo emerged of two young women in short dresses posing in what appears... More »

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prostitution • Italy • Silvio Berlusconi • political scandal • prostitution scandal

Berlusconi
Gave Me $14K 'Present': Escort

Scandal ramps up as hostess also says PM
had sex with hooker

Jun 22, 09 8:02 AM CDT
(Newser) - Silvio Berlusconi is facing further pressure to resign after a 23-year-old revealed she had received a $14,000 "present" from the Italian PM after attending a party, reports the Times of London. The woman also says that Patrizia D'Addario, the escort at the center of the growing prostitution scandal,... More »

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Italy • escort • Silvio Berlusconi • political scandal • prostitution scandal • showgirls

Teary Spitzer on Comeback:
'My Obituary's Written' 

Disgraced ex-governor dismisses second act

Jun 12, 09 9:59 AM CDT
(Newser) - When Eliot Spitzer joined Vanity Fair writer John Heilpern for a hot dog in Central Park, New Yorkers swarmed with cameraphones and shouted "You're one of the best, governor!" With his Wall Street antagonists on the ropes and his successor, David Paterson, polling at record lows, New... More »

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New York • Eliot Spitzer • governor • call girl ring • New York state • disgrace • prostitution scandal

Spitzer Used Aliases, Paid With Money Orders: Court

Other details revealed at last sentencing

Jun 2, 09 8:33 AM CDT
(Newser) - The takedown of former New York governor Eliot Spitzer was not politically motivated, it was revealed yesterday at the sentencing of the last Emperor’s Club VIP defendant. Rather, the IRS noticed suspicious bank transfers from Spitzer's personal account to the account of a shell company used by the prostitution... More »

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prostitution • New York • Eliot Spitzer • governor • Emperors Club • prostitution scandal

 Spitzers Go Out, 
 Holding Hands, No Less 

First public appearance together since scandal lasts whole 30 minutes

May 8, 09 7:27 AM CDT
(Newser) - Hooker? What hooker? Disgraced former governor Eliot Spitzer and wife Silda gave no indication they were ever involved in a prostitution scandal last night, the New York Daily News reports. The Spitzers went to an Education Through Music gala together—their first public outing since the ex-gov’s resignation. They... More »

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Eliot Spitzer • prostitute • political scandal • Silda Wall Spitzer • prostitution scandal

 Spitzer: 'What I 
 Did Was Egregious' 

Former guv has tried to address his 'gremlins'

Apr 6, 09 9:41 AM CDT
(Newser) - Former New York governor Eliot Spitzer opened up about his “egregious” call-girl dalliance and subsequent resignation on NBC's Today this morning. Spitzer, who also discussed his re-emergence as a Slate columnist, claimed that he didn’t hire prostitutes frequently—“not long in the grand context of my life”... More »

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Matt Lauer • Eliot Spitzer • Today show • Silda Wall Spitzer • call girl • prostitution scandal • Slate

Spitzer Returns to Blast AIG

Disgraced ex-guv admits his mistakes
on CNN, but slams insurer's payments

Mar 22, 09 5:18 PM CDT
(Newser) - A humbled Eliot Spitzer re-entered the limelight last week with an interview on CNN, admitting that he "failed in a very important way." But the former New York governor, ousted by a prostitution scandal last year, also took aim at AIG, calling it "at the center... More »

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Barack Obama • Eliot Spitzer • AIG • comeback • prostitution scandal • economic crisis

Spitzer Got 'Too Rough' During Sex: Madam

And was 'real weasel'
about not using
condoms: book

Feb 6, 09 4:39 AM CST
(Newser) - Ouch. Bounced New York Gov. Eliot Sptizer was "rough and too aggressive" during sex and a "real weasel" about not using condoms, Manhattan madam Kristin Davis spills in her tell-all book online, the Daily News reports. The guv was "good for a call at least once a... More »

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prostitution • Eliot Spitzer • Kristin Davis • online book • madams • prostitution scandal • book deal

 Spitzer Madam Gets 6 Months 

Teary Cecil Suwal asked judge for mercy

Jan 30, 09 11:41 AM CST
(Newser) - The 24-year-old who ran the call-girl ring that brought down Eliot Spitzer will serve 6 months in prison, the New York Daily News reports. Cecil Suwal of New York, who has pleaded guilty to money laundering and conspiring to promote prostitution, wept as she asked the judge for mercy. "... More »

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New York City • Eliot Spitzer • prostitution ring • Ashley Dupre • madams • Cecil Suwal • prostitution scandal

Wife Knew Haggard Was Hot for Guys

She believed he was 'winning the battle,' spouse tells Oprah

Jan 28, 09 4:53 AM CST
(Newser) - Ted Haggard told his wife early in their 30-year marriage that he struggled with his attraction to men, she tells Oprah in an appearance with her husband due to air today. Gayle Haggard says she was shocked by the disclosure, but believed he was "winning the battle" before a... More »

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homosexuality • evangelicals • Ted Haggard • New Life Church • pastor • pastor controversy • prostitution scandal

glossies

HBO Doc Unveils Down-and-Out Haggard

"Wincingly candid" documentary set to air Jan. 29 on HBO

Jan 11, 09 5:47 PM CST
(Newser) - A new HBO documentary on Ted Haggard catches the disgraced minister at his most candid and vulnerable, Newsweek reports. Emmy-winning director Alexandra Pelosi shot the film impromptu, capturing Haggard the failed insurance salesman as he struggles with gay feelings and looks out the window at his old church. But hasn't... More »

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sex scandal • homosexuality • Christian right • evangelicals • Ted Haggard • New Life Church • pastor controversy • minister • prostitution scandal

 Ashley to Silda: 
 'Sorry for 
 Your Pain' 

Former call girl ready to move on with life

Nov 19, 08 8:32 AM CST
(Newser) - Former call girl Ashley Dupre is haunted by the pain she caused Eliot Spitzer’s wife, but insists her tryst with the former governor of New York was “strictly business,” the New York Post reports. Dupre tells People in a forthcoming interview that she didn’t realize who... More »

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Eliot Spitzer • political scandal • Silda Wall Spitzer • Kristen • Ashley Dupre • prostitution scandal

 Memoir: I Taught Dupre the Biz 

Hooker reveals Dupre's transformation from 'little lamb' to call-girl

Sep 22, 08 11:14 AM CDT
(Newser) - New York's self-proclaimed No. 1 escort recounts how she introduced Eliot Spitzer’s $4,300-an-hour call girl to the drug-fueled world of prostitution in an upcoming book, The Price. Natalie McLennan reveals, in an excerpt in the New York Post, how within months Ashley Dupre transformed from a “... More »

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New York City • sex scandal • Eliot Spitzer • memoir • political scandal • prostitution ring • Ashley Dupre • prostitution scandal

Madam Pleads Guilty in Spitzer Case

No charges yet for ex-governor

Aug 25, 08 1:04 PM CDT
(AP) - A woman accused of helping arrange trysts between pricey escorts and their customers has pleaded guilty in the prostitution scandal that forced Eliot Spitzer to step down as governor of New York. Thirty-six-year-old Tanya Hollander pleaded today to a charge of conspiracy to violate the travel act. It's against the... More »

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