The Secret Service agents who last month dragged the agency into a pit of scandal after they solicited prostitutes while on duty in Cartagena, Colombia were obnoxious, body-obsessed “stupid brutes,” according to the sex worker at the heart of the story who gave an interview to NBC’s Today.
Dania Londono Suarez, a 24-year-old-escort, alerted local police to the incident last month after one of the agents attempted to pay her far less than the $800 she was owed for an night’s company. The Secret Service agents were in Cartagena ahead of President Obama’s visit there for the Summit of the Americas.
In the Today interview, which was taped in Madrid, Spain, where she has family, Suarez said that while partying at the brothel where she worked, the agents repeatedly lifted up their shirts to show off their toned physiques.
“They liked to show off their bodies, great bodies, well-defined abs,” Suarez told NBC News. Apparently, the strutting was abnormal for Cartagena’s nightlife scene. “They liked attention, and we Colombian women are not used to that,” she said.
Suarez returned to the Secret Service’s hotel with an agent whom the New York Daily News identified as Arthur Huntington and is no longer with the agency in the wake of the scandal. The 41-year-old Huntington, according to Suarez’s interview, was especially proud of his well-shaped midsection. The pair had what Suarez termed “normal sex,” which she says Huntington knew was a professional service.
In the morning, Suarez attempted to collect her $800 fee and go home, but the agent, she said, got angry and offered her just $50. (An increase from the $28 as she claimed in previous reports.) From there, Suarez notified local police, and this entire kerfuffle erupted.
On top of this morning’s interview, Suarez said she’s got more potentially damning information about the Secret Service, including claims that the agent she slept with left classified documents lying about the hotel room. And she’s open to a book deal, of course. NBC’s Michelle Kosinski said the network did not pay Suarez for the interview and that she came forward under her own volition, though NBC—along with other networks—has in the recent past paid the subjects of salacious stories for their camera time.
Oh, and this whole incident has made Suarez something of an expert on presidential protection. “They seem like completely stupid idiots,” she said. “I don’t know how Obama had them in his security force. What dumb men.”
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