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Police:
High-Priced Call Girls At Sugarloaf Country Club
DULUTH, Ga. -- Authorities say two women have been arrested for prostitution
in a case in which "dates" could cost as much as $10,000. Forty-two-year-old
Lisa Ann Taylor was arrested yesterday at her million-dollar home in
the exclusive Sugarloaf Country Club area. District Attorney Danny Porter
says she was charged with violating the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt
Organizations Act, also known as RICO. Porter says she also was charged
with prostitution, keeping a place of prostitution and conspiracy to
possess cocaine.
Taylor, who goes by the name Melissa Wolf on the site, boasts that
she is "North America's Most Published Centerfold and one of Penthouse
Magazine's Most Published Pets" on her personal Web site.
Jim
Brock writes in the Gwinnett Daily Post:
Information regarding Probert and Taylor's alleged business venture
was posted on The
Erotic Review, a Web site where customers, who refer to themselves
as "hobbyists," post comments about services rendered by call girls
who operate in various cities nationwide. The Gwinnett Daily Post sent
information to Porter's office in early November after an editor was
informed of the site's existence.
"I'll be interested to look at (The Erotic Review) discussion boards
tomorrow," Porter said, adding that he anticipates Wednesday's arrests
will become part of the online conversations that lately made mention
of massage parlor busts in Clayton County. "It's been a very enlightening
investigation."
Atlanta
Journal-Constitution reports.
Greg writes on the
Yahoo group FunWithPSEs: "There were a few non pornstar providers
busted in Cincinnati over the last couple of nights. I just don't see
the crime here, the majority of the ladies don't need our money. IMHO,
having sex with your favorite pornstar is not much different than having
a catch with your fav. baseball player or jamming with Gene Simmons (It's
just a lot more fun). I just hope that if TW visits the midwest, she is
still available!"
Dominant responds: "Personally I'm all for p4p sex. But if the girls
didn't need our money I doubt many would be out there. Reality is coccaine,
houses, cars and clothes aren't generally free. Wake up and smell the
anal lube."
Such arrests of prominent prostitues who advertise over the web are easy,
so why don't cops make more such busts?
Because
much of the time, cops are getting paid off with sex to not arrest prostitutes,
says Steven Levitt, author of Freakonomics.
Venkatesh and Levitt are currently collaborating on a study of street-level
prostitution in Chicago (after street-level drug dealing, the “second
worst job in America” in terms of wage to potential consequence ratio,
according to Levitt). The study isn’t published yet–he said I could
look for it in three to five months or so–so he couldn’t go into details,
but the basic methodology involves giving the prostitutes “tracking
sheets” on which they write down information about their tricks. One
of the interesting findings is that about 1 in 10 tricks are freebies
to the local police.
Melissa Wolf has made few porn movies and does not cause a ripple in
the industry. She's a former skin magazine model now working as a 42-year
old hooker who lists her annual income at $140,000 (on her divorce application),
which sounds about right.
Police took a ledger from Melissa's house with the names of her clients.
Wolf owned a home in the ritziest country club in Atlanta.
Law Enforcement says it was easy to trace IP numbers and phone numbers
from posters on The Erotic Review.
Melissa's real estate agent license had expired. Her real estate agency
was a cover for her prostitution operation, and it was the same photo
number as Melissa posted on The Erotic Review.
Wolf is getting divorced. She's accused her husband of abusing her.
The
last prominent bust of porn star escorts was of Exotica-2000 in December
2004.
Pole dancing around the issue of arrest
Jim Stingl
writes:
Having your arrest show up on the news normally is poison for your
career. Unless you're an exotic dancer. It just makes the bad girl badder.
"A $10,000 a nite callgirl? That's what I was arrested for. You've seen
me on the news, now have your picture taken with me," says the ad for
Melissa Wolf at On the Border, the "gentlemen's club" where she'll be
posing and performing all this week starting Monday.
Prostitution arrest rekindled her career
George
Chidi writes:
Taylor — a former Penthouse Magazine model and exotic dancer better
known by her stage name Melissa Wolf — faces up to 37 years in jail
on charges of running a call-girl operation from her Sugarloaf Country
Club home in Duluth. But the 42-year-old also acknowledged during a
news conference Wednesday that the charges have temporarily rekindled
her career in adult entertainment.
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