#5 is the only one of those pictures that makes her look really pretty.
Otherwise, she’s just OK and it almost makes me think Spitzer did it just to think that he’s so powerful he paid $1,000 an hour for sex.
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I guess it’s different for guys. I know a guy who played the ponies (quite successfully) to pay for med school. He’s now an orthopedic surgeon, so he done good. But he’s also very good-looking, so he could have done the gigolo thing if he’d been so inclined, I suppose.
Ha! No, really, a friend. Who, interestingly, is nowhere near as sexy as my non-stripper wife.
ETA: I mean, not that I’ve seen the friend in a state of undress, mind you.
I just thought I’d point out that, contrary to the thread’s title, she didn’t get paid $5,000/hr., or anywhere close to it.
Spitzer agreed to pay $4,000 for a four-hour minimum encounter (though he only used 2 1/2 hrs. of it). So that’s a total fee for the agency of $1,000 an hour, of which Kristin/Ashley kept half - or $500 an hour.
This is undoubtedly a lot of money for most of us, but it still puts her in the lowest tier (three diamonds, or $1,000 an hour) of the girls that the escort service offered.
I imagine the girls shown on page one on the cited link (top row especially 
) would be the seven diamond girls, and even they top out at $3,100/hr.
I’m amazed that so many smart people don’t seem to understand the reason behind the high cost for these women. The sex is relatively cheap. The confidentiality costs plenty. You’re not paying $2k for someone to bark like a dog while pouring coffee up your ass, you’re paying her not to sell pictures of it to the press.
As for her looks, she reminds me of the “female Jerry” who was Costanza’s girlfriend.
Personally I think she looks hideous in those - I was like, “argh! put the makeup back on!”
The only one I thought made her look really good, face-wise, was the one where she was asleep.
Or maybe Sandra Bullock? The eyes, I think. She’s not a dead ringer, for sure, but she’s got Sandra Bullock eyes. Maybe that’s worth a thousand bucks, I dunno.
I think she’s pretty hot. But hype plays tricks with the mind…I’m usually disappointed, for instance, when people gush about how great a new film is because I’m already building my rebuttal before I’ve seen it. So when you hear that she charged that much, you expect perfection and start dissecting for flaws.
A better gauge of her babe-itude would have been to put her picture in with pictures of a couple dozen other hotties. Forget how much she charged: which one is the hottest?
I think what the smart people are saying is that that kind of confidentiality probably comes a lot cheaper than $1,000/hr for other, equally hot, prostitutes.
That doesn’t appear to work very well, case in point.
It seems you are just paying to get busted by a G-man in a suit on a phone tap rather than a patrolman with a flashlight.
Well, if you’re going to have a sex scandal, wouldn’t you rather be busted by a Federal agent in a suit than some scrubby uniformed patrolman?
Note to uniformed patrolmen and their families: I keed, I keed!
Surely I’m not the only one wondering how you would come to think of a scenario such as this. 
As to the rest of your post, I’d disagree somewhat. It’s not like these girls sign court-enforced confidentiality agreements stating they will never disclose a client’s identity. Further, I would imagine the turn-over rate is quite high and there’d be nothing to keep an escort from divulging a client’s identity after the fact if for some reason she were inclined to do so. (And as an afterthought, the johns likely hide their identity if they can; Spitzer did, anyway.)
My guess is that men use escort services for a variety of reasons, most of which have little to do with an assurance of anonymity. There is a reasonable expectation of cleanliness and lack of disease and/or infection; there is virtually no danger of a motel-room mugging at the hands of a streetwalker’s pimp or boyfriend; the girls’ looks would very likely range from at least moderately attractive to stunningly beautiful; and the girls will most likely be friendly and charming and enjoyable to be with apart from the sexual aspect of things.
Not only that, but we have no idea what percentage of this she actually pocketed. I’d be curious what she actually got from a transaction like that.
About 400,000 MySpace hits. 
The hell ever happened to going into a bar and saying to women, “I’m really not this tall, I’m sitting on my wallet”?
I heard it was 4300 for two hours, but that also included travel expenses and the mini-bar.
Since she took the train to and from NY to DC, we’re talking… what, somewhere between 5-10 hours travel time. Hopefully there’s a discounted hourly rate for that, or maybe she picked up some extra work in the club car.
No, it probably doesn’t. It could be argued that he didn’t pay enough.
I think the article makes a good argument. A prostitute that works for an agency that advertises is gonna be on someone’s radar. While it’s difficult for a man of Spitzer’s notoriety to find such women, I think he would have been at far less risk had he been more judicious and discrete.
I read somewhere that the fee gets split 50/50, which is pretty much what I would have expected.
I believe he had to cover travel, hotel and mini-bar expenses (plus a deposit for her services) prior to her traveling to meet him. That was the so-called package the agency “dispatcher” was referring to as having finally arrived.
The $4,300 figure also included a $1,500 deposit toward his next use of the agency so he wouldn’t have to go through the deposit-first routine the next time.
Disclaimer: These are all things I’ve read from legal documents on The Smoking Gun and from various news sources and may or may not be factually correct.
True, but that’s one reason why the girls at that level tend to be educated and “classy”. They want to be discrete just as their clients do. There is little honor in them admitting they are call girls before, or after the fact. Plus, I am imagine most clients are not newsworthy, or famous - just really rich. Yes, their wives might care, but you are unlikely to get any money out of them by extorting them (the johns) or the media without putting yourself at great risk. At an agency, the women are most likely vetted and watched pretty carefully. How exactly would they prove anything they have to say after the fact?
I doubt the turnover rate is that high. You can’t decide one day to be a prostitute, then start charging $1000/hour. You kind of have to be committed for a while to get to that level.