Entries from DCist tagged with 'prostitution>'
July 9, 2008
You asked for it, and now the Post is dishing it up. Sharon Waters, 42, who was fired as the manager of the Dupont Circle Metro station after she was caught in a sex sting operation, has agreed to attend a court-approved diversion program for prostitutes. If she successfully completes the program, which involves two days a week of therapy over four months, solicitation charges against her will be dropped. The other Metro employee involved......
Continue Reading "Metro Station Prostitutes Update!"May 1, 2008
The local Tampa Bay FOX affiliate, FOX13, is reporting that Deborah Jeane Palfrey, known in the media as the D.C. Madam who was last month convicted of money laundering, using the mail for illegal purposes and racketeering, has been found dead in Tarpon Springs, FL, of an apparent suicide. Police were called to the scene of Palfrey's mother's home, and have confirmed that a body found there was Palfrey. She was 52. Palfrey was set......
Continue Reading "Breaking: D.C. Madam Found Dead in Florida"April 15, 2008
If the D.C. Madam is convicted and no one cares, does she make a sound? Deborah Jeane Palfrey, the so-called D.C. Madam who got every Washington watcher all hot and bothered last year over her impending trial and purported client list, and then proceeded to bore everyone to tears with how mundane the scandal turned out to be, was found guilty today on charges of racketeering, mail fraud and money laundering. Not that you probably......
Continue Reading "D.C. Madam Found Guilty"March 28, 2008
A user on the Washington, D.C. page of the USASexGuide's massage parlor online discussion forum was kind enough to link to a post of ours earlier this week, at which point we were alerted to the web site's existence. And boy oh boy, does it contain mounds of helpful/hilarious information about which Asian massage parlors in the District offer the best "full service" technicians. In other words, this is a chat room for men to......
Continue Reading "Which D.C. Massage Parlors Offer 'Happy Endings' ?"March 10, 2008
It's always exciting when major sex scandals elsewhere turn out to have local connections. If you somehow haven't been inundated with the news already for the past couple of hours, New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer has publicly apologized after having been caught on a federal wiretap arranging for a prostitute to meet him in a hotel room. Turns out, the hotel room in question was right here in D.C., though it's unclear which hotel that......
Continue Reading "Gov. Eliot Spitzer Met Prostitute in D.C. Hotel"February 6, 2008
Third District Police Commander Larry McCoy sent out the following announcement of arrests related to a prostitution ring working out of the Washington Plaza Hotel in Thomas Circle. The Prostitution Enforcement Unit (PEU), under the direction of Insp. Brian Bray, conducted a hotel operation at the Washington Plaza Hotel targeting adult and juvenile prostitutes and johns. The operation took place at # 10 Thomas Cir. NW. As a result of the operation 11 individuals were......
Continue Reading "No More Hookers at the Washington Plaza Hotel?"
