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CSUN lecture to explore “The Life and Times of Xaviera Hollander” on Friday
By Donnella Collison

Dr. Kristyan Kouri will present a lecture titled “The Life and Times of Xaviera Hollander” about famed sex columnist Xaviera Hollander on Sept. 18 at 1 p.m. at the California State University, Northridge, in Sierra Hall Room 451.

Hollander, who was once a call girl and a famed New York madam in the 1970s, achieved mainstream success with the release of her bestselling book, “The Happy Hooker: My Own Story.” According to Kouri, Hollander then became known as someone who could write about sex positively and who could talk about women’s sexual pleasure.

Kouri’s lecture is part of a series of six colloquium presentations by CSUN faculty organized by Dr. C. Jacob Hale, the director of CSUN’s Center for Sex and Gender Research.

Hale said this series gives “faculty members an opportunity to present their scholarly work in progress in a supportive environment and to make more visible the expertise of CSUN faculty about sex, gender and sexuality.”

Kouri, who holds a doctorate in sociology from USC, describes the presentation as a “social psychological analysis of Hollander’s life.”

“I think that if she had had more opportunities, maybe she could have been a CEO. Her story speaks to the social constraints of society,” Kouri said.

Kouri added, “Prostitution is a Pink Collar occupation (jobs that are held primarily by women e.g. typists, secretaries). She fell into something that paid better (than her job as a secretary for the Dutch Consulate) and women are permitted to go into socially. Women are valued for their sexuality.”

She said that call girls like Hollander were usually poised, well-educated women, who moonlighted in the “high-class” profession.

“I believe that more women did than let on,” Kouri said.

It can be dangerous out there, guys. This protracted relationship ended violently. The case is closing.

Read the whole story at The Daily Mail…

Former call girl pleads guilty to killing billionaire French banker after kinky sex session
By Peter Allen

A former call girl pleaded guilty to killing a billionaire French banker after kinky sex and an argument over $1 million, saying the crime was ‘not a question of money but of the heart’.

Cecile Brossard interrupted proceedings to tell the packed Geneva courtroom that she had committed an ‘abominable act’ against her lover Edouard Stern, and wanted the full truth to be known.

Stern, 50, was found dead in his locked luxury Geneva flat on March 1, 2005. Four bullet holes pierced the head-to-toe flesh-coloured latex outfit he still wore from the night before.

‘My heart is full of remorse and pain. I have come to explain myself, not to defend myself, and say how it happened,’ a sobbing Brossard said in a barely audible voice.

‘I know it was my fault.’

She expressed regret that his three adult children – two of whom were allowed to testify privately earlier – would never again be able to celebrate Christmas with their father.

‘I want to tell them the truth, not destroy Edouard or dirty his name,’ the 40-year-old said. He had been the ‘most intelligent, refined, cultivated and marvellous man’ she had ever known.

Marc Bonnant, the Stern family lawyer, intervened to say: ‘If he was such a marvellous man, you shouldn’t have shot him’.

Stern’s family, including his former wife Beatrice, was seated just a few feet behind Brossard, who wore grey trousers and a blue vest, her blond hair in a tight bun.

‘The defence will plead it was a crime of passion,’ Brossard’s defence lawyer Alec Reymond told the courtroom.

Court papers showed Brossard confessed to having killed Stern with his own revolver after an argument over $1 million he put into her Swiss account after she demanded it as ‘proof of his love for her’.

He blocked it after she refused to return it.

Investigating officers who testified on Wednesday quoted Brossard as having said she shot Stern after he told her: ‘One million dollars is a lot of money to pay for a whore.’

The banker was sitting with his hands tied, wearing a full latex bodysuit, when she first shot him between the eyes with his own handgun.

Read the whole story at The Star-Ledger…

N.J. lawyer pleads guilty to helping run N.Y. prostitution ring
by Joe Ryan

A former federal prosecutor who became one of New Jersey’s brashest and best-known criminal defense lawyers pleaded guilty today to helping run an exclusive Manhattan call-girl ring.

Paul Bergrin, 53, admitted in New York State Supreme Court to conspiracy to promote prostitution through NY Confidential, a now-defunct $1,000-per-hour escort service founded by Jason Itzler, who once proclaimed himself “King of all Pimps.”

Bergrin, a former Army major with a thin mustache, wore a dark grey pinstriped suit and red tie today as he stood before Judge Thomas Farber in lower Manhattan. Afterward, he expressed relief at pleading guilty to a misdemeanor.

“I’m just glad all the felonies have been dismissed,” said Bergrin, whose former clients include rap stars, gangsters and a former soldier accused of abusing detainees at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison.

A former New Jersey state trooper also pleaded guilty in the case today. Hiram Ortiz, 43, admitted to attempted money laundering.

Based in a TriBeCa loft, NY Confidential was among Manhattan’s highest-profile prostitution services. Itzler advertised on titanium business cards and was a mainstay of the city’s tabloid pages.

His former star prostitute – dubbed the “incomparable Natalia” — once appeared on the cover of New York Magazine as Gotham’s top escort.

Itzler also claims to have launched the call-girl career of Ashley Youmans. The Jersey native is better known as Ashley Alexandra Dupre, the escort allegedly at the epicenter of the scandal that derailed ex-New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer.

Read the whole story in The Daily Mail…

British Schoolgirl, 15, earning £100,000 a year as an upmarket prostitute
By Paul Sims

A 15-year-old schoolgirl earned almost £100,000 a year working as a high-class prostitute, it was revealed yesterday.

By day the teenager attended classes but at night she was regularly paid hundreds of pounds for sex.

The girl, who cannot be identified because of her age, is believed to have been working for an escort agency based in Newcastle.

She lied about her age before going on to earn £1,700 a week, meeting dozens of men on school nights and at the weekend.

Her double life was exposed in November when a suspicious teacher searched her schoolbag and found condoms, a card with the name of her pimp and details of the agency she worked for.

The school alerted police and officers later searched the £200,000 family home in South Tyneside, finding £8,060 in cash hidden in the loft, a court heard.

Detectives believe she was paid £14,000 in just two months but have not been able to recover the remaining £6,000.

Her parents, aged 44 and 46, were originally arrested on suspicion of inciting child prostitution but have since been released without charge.

The £8,000 found by police was confiscated under the Proceeds of Crime Act during a brief hearing at South Tyneside Magistrates’ Court on February 13.

Asa Anderson, from Northumbria Police, told the court: ‘The money was seized after police received a phone call from a school where a teacher found a pupil’s bag. The bag was found containing certain items.’

The girl, from Eastern Europe, is now being cared for by child protection agencies.

She is understood to have arrived in the UK with her mother in the past few years.

Police sources said she looked older than 15 and was able to dupe the escort agency into believing she was 18. The identity of the agency involved has not been revealed and police are still investigating.

Had she not been caught she would have gone on to earn £84,000 in a single year.

And police believe her earning potential would have risen over £100,000 through entertaining more clients as she grew older.

Looks like the inevitable Ashley Dupre book is coming our way.  After seeing her painful interview on 20/20, I’m sure she will really struggle to fill 200 pages of worthwhile insights.

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Ex-high class call girl in Spitzer-scandal to pen a tell-all book?

Ashley Dupre, the former high-class call girl sited as the reason behind Eliot Spitzer’s resignation from his post of New York Governor, may pen a tell-all book, according to sources.

Dupre has reportedly been approached by ‘another Hollywood Madam’, Heidi Fleiss, who has offered her a money-spinning deal to narrate her part of the story for Fleiss’ publishing house, reports the New York Post.

The 23-year-old had been dubbed as an ‘informant’ during the Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal which saw the politician patronising a prostitution service that ultimately led him to announce his resignation.

Some dirt dishing regarding NY’s Ex-governor’s favorite call girl, Ashley Dupre.  The NY Daily News gossip page has the whole story…

Natalie McLennan memoir ‘The Price’ has Ashley Dupre gossip

Eliot Spitzer’s favorite hooker, Ashley Dupre, may be wilder than even the ex-guv suspected, according to a former top escort who says she used to turn tricks with her.

Natalie McLennan, who used to make $2,000 an hour working under the name Natalia, plays coy in her new memoir about her supposed acquaintances with rockers Lenny Kravitz, Fred Durst and photographer Peter Beard. But she spares no detail when it comes to Dupre.

“I don’t mind taking my clothes off,” McLennan quotes Dupre as saying when the 19-year-old Jersey girl auditioned to join pimp daddy Jason Itzler’s stable of New York Confidential beauties.

McLennan alleges in “The Price,” out Tuesday, that it wasn’t long before Dupre was jumping into her work — and a mountain of cocaine.

She recalled one of their first nights out at a club, where “we started making out. … Our session started to draw a crowd, entirely male. … [Ashley] really knew how to get guys into a frenzy.”

They didn’t need an audience. Another night, they found themselves alone at Itzler’s Tribeca loft, eating sushi.

“I poured soy sauce in her bellybutton,” writes McLennan. “She put wasabi on her nipples and dared me to lick it off. Of course I did.”

That was just a rehearsal for a coke-fueled threesome with a friend of Itzler’s. Decorum prevents us from recounting every tickle and slurp, but McLennan vouches that everyone ended up happy.

The call girl at the center of the fall of NY Governor Eliot Spitzer will be interviewed by the Diane Sawyer on this week’s edition of 20/20.  No doubt, Sawyer will be in soft focus in a fruitless attempt to hide her advancing years.

The interview will air Friday, Nov. 21, 2008, on ABC’s 20/20 at 10:00 p.m. EDT.  The State reports…

Prostitute to wife of former NY Gov.: “I’m sorry”

The prostitute at the center of the scandal that brought down former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer has apologized to his wife.

Ashley Alexandra Dupre tells People magazine she was stricken by the pained expression on Silda Wall Spitzer’s face on March 12 as the governor left office. Her message: “I’m sorry for your pain.”

An unusual (and maybe not entirely legal) glimpse into the world of a high priced NYC call girl is at NatalieMcLennanBook.com, discussed in The NY Post…

Tangled Web of Hooker Links

NATALIE McLennan – the $2,000-an-hour call girl who worked for the notorious New York Confidential escort service – blew the whistle on former Gov. Spitzer’s hooker, Ashley Dupre, in a bid to save her own skin as authorities mulled prostitution charges against her, a mysterious new Web site claims.

The site, which we’re not going to name, says it obtained diaries, little black books, notes and explicit nude photos of “Natalia” (McLennan’s hooker name) that were left in a storage space. For $5.99, anyone can log on and view the materials.

The Web site, whose owner is not identified, claims McLennan – who made the cover of New York magazine in 2005 as “NY’s No. 1 escort” – began recording phone conversations with a hooker named “Victoria,” who was actually Dupre, at the behest of authorities investigating the hooker ring.

The site asks: “Ashley, if you’re reading this, do you recall getting several phone calls from Natalia in Nov ‘06? . . . At the time, [the] DA was showing no mercy and I think he knew Natalia knew a lot more than she was saying . . . They want[ed] her to record and get some information from a former co-hooker named Victoria . . . [Natalia] was very nervous because some crazy Russian . . . dangled [New York Confidential boss] Jason [Itzler] off a roof at one time and she feared that Jason would find out that she was recording Victoria . . . Is [that] the length that a coward will go to avoid jail?”

Read the whole story at NJ.com…

Jersey charges dismissed for escort service head
by Guy Sterling

The founder of NY Confidential, a highly publicized escort service that authorities say operated in Manhattan and Hoboken, had all charges he was facing in New Jersey dropped today.

Jason Itzler, 40, a longtime New Jersey resident who lived on Central Park South when he was running the call-girl ring, will remain behind bars on an unrelated parole violation but will likely be released in another couple of months.

Charges of promoting prostitution, money laundering and possessing illegal prescription drugs were dismissed at a Superior Court hearing in Jersey City.

A state prosecutor told Judge Kevin G. Callahan that it made no sense to continue the New Jersey case against Itzler when he has already served time on similar charges in New York.