| April 30, 2008 | -
Brazilian football star Ronaldo picked up and was blackmailed by three transvestite prostitutes,.
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BBC
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| March 14, 2008 | - The cubicle turned 40, Viagra turned 10, and Hotel Luxor, the oldest whorehouse in Germany's red light district, announced that it would close for lack of business.
| Source 1:
Time
Source 2:
Yahoo News
Source 3:
Associated Press
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| March 12, 2008 | - It was reported that the richest man in Great Britain, the Duke of Westminster, was a client of the same high-end prostitution agency as Eliot Spitzer. The Duke allegedly haggled over pricing, requested sex without a condom, and bored prostitute Zana Brazdek with conversation “about the Army, going to Afghanistan, and bin Laden.”
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DailyNews
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| March 10, 2008 | - Eliot Spitzer refrained from resigning as governor of New York after he was linked to the Emperors Club VIP prostitution ring; he was identified as “Client-9,” who, according to a defendant quoted in an affidavit related to the federal investigation of the ring, “would ask you to do things that, like, you might not think were safe.”
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Talking Points Memo
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| November 30, 2007 | - A Chilean prostitute auctioned 27 hours of sex to raise money for a disabled children's charity, saying that she wanted “to contribute with my work to a purpose that touches me deeply.”
| Source:
Prostitute auctions 27 hours of sex for charity
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| October 9, 2007 | - The Republican candidates for president gathered in Dearborn, Michigan, for a debate on the economy. Mitt Romney, who was born in Detroit, bemoaned the “one-state recession“ gripping Michigan; Duncan Hunter repeatedly blamed the loss of American manufacturing jobs on free-trade policies with “communist China”; Ron Paul attributed the large profits of hedge-fund managers to a conspiracy among politicians, banks, Wall Street, the Federal Reserve, and the military-industrial complex to inflate or destroy currencies and swindle the middle class; and John McCain advised Paul to read ”The Wealth of Nations." The candidates generally agreed that taxes are too high. “We’re taxed to the max,” said Sam Brownback. Mike Huckabee touted his Fair Tax proposal to abolish the IRS and to tax consumption as a way to shift the tax burden onto drug dealers, pimps, prostitutes, and illegal immigrants. Paul and Tom Tancredo refused to pledge to support the Republican nominee in the general election.
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New York Times
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| August 24, 2007 | - Reality-show personality Nicole Richie was released from jail in Los Angeles after serving 82 minutes for drunk driving.
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My Way News
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| July 18, 2007 | - Recently filed court documents described how Henry T. Nicholas III, the billionaire founder of Broadcom, built a $30 million underground sex bunker in Laguna Hills, California, and stocked it with prostitutes flown in by private jet.
| Source:
The Los Angeles Times
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| July 9, 2007 | - The phone number of Senator David Vitter (R., La.), an advocate of family values and of Rudolph Giuliani, was found on the client list of Deborah Jeane Palfrey, who is accused of running a Washington, D.C., area prostitution ring.
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Washington Post
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| April 15, 2007 | - A study surveying African-American women in the Mississippi Delta found that a majority of respondents believe anyone who gets AIDS deserves it, especially if he or she is a homosexual, bisexual, or prostitute, and that the U.S. government created HIV/AIDS to destroy the black race.
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The Clarion-Ledger
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| February 7, 2007 | - U.S. Representative Joe Baca denied calling a congressional colleague a “whore.”
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Raw Story
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| October 23, 2006 | - An official in the Netherlands suggested Dutch troops bring “a few prostitutes” along on foreign military missions.
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Yahoo News
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| October 8, 2006 | - A study suggested that an increasing number of British students are working as prostitutes in order to pay their university tuition.
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timesonline.co.uk
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| August 30, 2006 | -
Australian
brothels were offering clients discounts based on their gasoline bills.
| Source:
Reuters via Yahoo!
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| July 6, 2006 | - It was reported that Melinda Gates is more comfortable than her husband Bill when it comes to holding AIDS babies in Africa or talking to male prostitutes in India.
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New York Times
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| June 16, 2006 | - Prince Victor Emmanuel, the son of Italy's last king, was arrested for allegedly helping guests at a casino to procure prostitutes.
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BBC News
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| June 6, 2006 | - The United States issued a report on the global sex trade and rebuked Germany for being “a source, transit, and destination country” for prostitutes.
| Source:
New York Times
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| May 5, 2006 | -
Iraqi
police
shot a 14-year-old boy named Ahmed Khalil in the head for being a gay
prostitute.
| Source:
Gay.com
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| April 27, 2006 | - It was reported that lobbyists had once provided former (now imprisoned) Representative Randy "Duke" Cunningham with free limousine service, free access to hotel suites, and the services of prostitutes; it was also reported that the limousine service that was used to ferry the prostitutes had received a contract worth $21 million from the Department of Homeland Security.
| Source 1:
The Wall Street Journal
Source 2:
Sign On San Diego
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| March 26, 2006 | - In San Francisco over 25,000 teenagers gathered at AT&T Park for an evangelical Christian rally. "The devil's a pimp," said one 18-year-old attendee. "Don't be his ho."
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SFGate.com
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| July 22, 2005 | - A German magazine published a coupon for free sex with prostitutes.
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Ananova
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| July 19, 2005 | - Heidi Fleiss was planning to open a brothel in Nevada. “I'm a perfect example of the fact that prison does work,” she said. “I have served my time, now will do my crime legally.”
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MSNBC Gossip
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| June 11, 2005 | - The Xochiquetzal home for elderly prostitutes was slated to open in Mexico City.
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News24.com
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| June 8, 2005 | - Officials in Dortmund, Germany, were preparing to host a game of the upcoming World Cup by setting up "sex garages" for assignations with prostitutes.
| Source:
Reuters
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| April 29, 2005 | - A Rhode Island man was arrested after he offered an undercover policewoman
T-bone steaks in exchange for sex.
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AP
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| April 13, 2005 | -
Hungary was planning to let prostitutes solicit in shopping malls.
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Daily Times
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| February 25, 2005 | -
Britain's Labour party was forced to drop Christine Wheatley as a candidate for Parliament after it was revealed she had once worked as a prostitute in Paris. “It was usually only three minutes,” said Wheatley.
| Source:
Telegraph
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| February 22, 2005 | -
UNICEF reported that 180 million children aged five to seventeen are forced into the “worst forms” of labor, including the sex and slave trades.
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HindustanTimes.com
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| February 3, 2005 | - The Nashville police paid informants $120,000 to have sexual encounters with prostitutes.
| Source:
New York Times
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| February 7, 2004 | -
Taiwan's
hookers held a rally in Taipei and called for legalized prostitution.
| Source:
BBC
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| January 19, 2004 | -
Spanish bordello owners were protesting a court ruling that the owner of an "alternative club" in Seville must pay social-security tax on the prostitutes who work there. The owners, who claim that the women are technically freelance marketing consultants, said that paying such taxes would turn them into pimps.
| Source:
New York Times
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| November 25, 2003 | - It was revealed that Neil Bush, the president's brother, has admitted to enjoying the sexual favors of strange women who simply knocked on his door while he was visiting Thailand; Bush said he didn't know whether the women were prostitutes but noted that they did not ask for money.
| Source:
Reuters
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| October 7, 2003 | -
Japan was investigating an orgy in China involving 400 Japanese tourists and 500 Chinese prostitutes.
| Source:
Reuters
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| April 29, 2003 | -
An ABC News closed-captioning typist informed viewers that Alan Greenspan was “in the hospital for an enlarged prostitute”; viewers later that evening were advised that in fact the Federal Reserve chairman was having prostate problems.
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| March 4, 2003 | -
Nevada was considering a special tax on whores.
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| December 17, 2002 | -
American non-Christians told pollsters that evangelical Christians are better than prostitutes but worse than lawyers or lesbians.
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| November 12, 2002 | -
French prostitutes took to the streets in Paris to protest new restrictions on the sex trade.
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| July 30, 2002 | -
Two prominent New Jersey priests were arrested for soliciting sex from an underage prostitute during the Catholic World Youth Day celebration in Toronto.
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| May 28, 2002 | -
Police in Turin, Italy, arrested a 24-year-old prostitute for engaging in unfair competition by charging too little for her services.
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| April 9, 2002 | -
An Irish bishop who once raised eyebrows for staying at a hotel in Thailand known for its young male prostitutes resigned after he was accused of protecting a pedophile priest.
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| March 19, 2002 | -
Police in Osaka, Japan, shut down an illegal sex ring popular among middle-aged men seeking sex and sympathy from prostitutes ranging in age from 40 to 70.
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| January 8, 2002 | -
Prostitutes in Berlin were rounding down and selling their bodies at a rate equal to two euros per mark, a price cut of 2.2 percent; hookers in Hamburg rounded up and were charging about 17.4 percent more.
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| January 8, 2002 | -
“We're accepting both marks and euros until the end of February,” said a whore, “the way you're supposed to.” Italians were having a hard time adjusting to the euro; one old lady tried to pay 600 euros ($542) for a cappuccino.
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| December 11, 2001 | -
Hookers in Romania were letting their customers buy sex on credit.
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| November 13, 2001 | -
Prostitutes in China were giving student discounts.
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| October 23, 2001 | -
Prostitutes were descending on Angeles City in the Philippines in preparation for the arrival of American troops.
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| October 23, 2001 | -
Germany gave its 400,000 prostitutes working rights, including the right to unemployment benefits, job training, health insurance, and a pension.
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| October 23, 2001 | - The hookers will have the legal right to refuse customers and to sue them if they don't pay.
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| October 9, 2001 | -
Prostitutes in Amsterdam were organizing a trade union.
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| September 13, 2001 | - One thousand prostitutes marched in Calcutta to condemn the attacks and kindly offered to donate their blood.
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| September 11, 2001 | -
Medical staff at an old-folks' home in Denmark claimed that porn and prostitutes do more good than drugs in treating the elderly.
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| June 5, 2001 | - Alejandro Toledo was elected president of Peru; 13 percent of the voters cast blank ballots, possibly to protest rumors that Toledo once used cocaine in an orgy with five hookers.
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| May 29, 2001 | -
Alabama's legislature approved a bill extending the law banning pimps and madams to cover prostitutes as well.
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| March 13, 2001 | - Twenty-five thousand prostitutes gathered in Calcutta for a three-day carnival to demand recognition as a legitimate service-industry profession.
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