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How the NYT Got One Escort's Story Wrong

You might remember the article about sex workers in the Sunday New York Times, "The Double Lives of High-Priced Call Girls," that interviewed a Williamsburg artist and "part-time prostitute," an internet escort raising money for her uninsured father's operation, and a dominatrix. The article appeared calm and fair, and didn't identify the working women as victims. However, one of the women profiled, the artist/part time prostitute "Faith O'Donnell," was unhappy with how she was represented. The article described her as "25, is a hipster with entrancing blue eyes who carries an NPR tote bag and might offer up a few pleasantries on the Whole Foods checkout line before turning back to her Junot Diaz novel." But that's not what irked her! On the sex workers' blog Bound, Not Gagged, she tells us "How the NYT Got an Interview Wrong: For one thing, basic details were wrong, but too many identifying details were included, despite my request to the contrary (I wish I had paid off my student loans!)..." More »

3:30 PM on Tue Mar 18 2008
By Sheila
8,888 views, 44 comments

Latest by RebeccaEuryale: @lefty: Comment on How the NYT Got One Escort's Story Wrong It's after midnight and "Chill Slut" is still funny. more »

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Hooker's Myspace Friend May Have Pissed Her Off

"Mysterious" the Queens rapper who starred in a music video with Ashley Alexandra Dupré, recently appeared on the Today Show and Access Hollywood to "defend" his friend. "Mysterious" told the Today Show gang that he and Ashley are "tight like a family," but Myspace messages sent from "Mysterious" to Dupré last night indicate that Eliot Spitzer's favorite high priced hooker didn't ask him to hit the talk show circuit on her behalf. In fact, it sounds like she might be pretty pissed off about the whole thing. In the message "Mysterious" indicates that he hasn't heard from Ashley in a while despite repeated attempts to get in touch. He also tells Ashley: "i hope you feel we helped you more then hurt you in speaking out." Wow, apparently sometimes media whores do feel dirty afterwards.

12:15 PM on Sun Mar 16 2008
By hwalker
2,354 views, 14 comments

Latest by Hamud Ibn Hamud: If you're not vulnerable to the sort of depression elicited by "Miss Lonelyhearts"-type material, you might want to look at the messages left for Mysterious by young women. Without any Schedule II narcotics on hand, it's likely unwise to linger too long over, say, ghostly pale Margaret or the vixenish Naomi more »

In honor of our fallen governor, DealBreaker will be hosting an impromptu happy hour at Spitzer’s Corner on Manhattan’s Lower East Side starting around 5:30 this afternoon. If you get there early enough, we’ll probably spring for a round or two. We hope you’ll join us as we raise a glass to the end of the dirty, rotten legacy of Loathesome Eliot. "Pimps and Hos" dress code optional. Spitzer’s Corner is located at 101 Rivington St between Essex Street & Ludlow Street. [dealbreaker.com] MORE »