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Cristina Warthen: Self-Proclaimed Stanford Escort Pleads Guilty to Tax Evasion
Jan 27th
Before she married an Ask.com cofounder, Cristina Warthen (née Schultz) advertised escort services online as “Brazil” and boasted of making enough to pay for her Stanford law degree. She has pleaded guilty to tax evasion.
Prosecutors brought charges against Warthen in October, after a long-running investigation whose highlight was a 2004 bust in her Oakland apartment. Police found $61,000 in cash there and in a storage locker; some of the bills were found in an old law-school book. Her husband, David Warthen, whom she married in May 2004, claimed that the money was a gift from him.
“I have paid off 100% of my loans, and I have tried to send a positive message to SF escorts re: assumptions about the nature and social status of women in the business,” she wrote on an Internet message board devoted to “high-dollar hotties,” investigators wrote in an affidavit filed in the case.
Cristina Warthen: Self-Proclaimed Stanford Escort Pleads Guilty to Tax Evasion.
Ethan Imboden: Money Can’t Buy You Love — But a Recession Just Might.
Nov 18th
When the weather’s bad (either meteorologically or economically), people turn more readily to “indoor sports” (and I don’t mean Wii, though October video game sales were indeed up 18% year over year). At Jimmyjane, the design-centric sexual accessories brand I launched in 2005, we’re seeing strong evidence of this — 2008 online sales will double last year’s figures, and products emphasizing connection have been particularly popular.
Meanwhile, according to CNBC, the high-end escort business is “thriving”, even in this down economy. There’s a new trend on the rise in that market — the “GFE”. The “Girlfriend Experience” includes talking, cuddling, foreplay and — contrary to what we all learned from “Pretty Woman” — kissing. The GFE is taking over where the “PSE” or “Porn Star Experience” used to reign. Apparently, even Johns are seeking connection (albeit a fabricated one).
Ethan Imboden: Money Can’t Buy You Love — But a Recession Just Might..
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