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You’ve been working a lot with Rick Ross lately, and were even talks of you signing to MMG. How did you two become close, or is it just a musical thing? Ross came to New York, and I was in the strip club – I’d always be seeing him, but one day I went to the strip club and he called me at like 3 in the morning and was like “Yo, come to the studio.” I went to the studio and he was like “Yo man, I love your work. I want you to be a part of MMG” and stuff like that. At first, he wasn’t trying to sign me, at first we were just doing music.  He let me hear the whole album, and he asked me what song I liked and I picked it out, and he let me lay a verse down. I laid my verse down, and he called me two days after that for my n …

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Editors would have let the facts get in the way of the most famous tabloid headline in history, “Headless Body found in Topless Bar.” Then-New York Post City Editor Dick Belsky explains how the paper confirmed the headless body was found in a topless bar.

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How I Helped Write the Best Tabloid Headline Ever
30 years later, “Headless Body in Topless Bar” is still a New York classic.
HEADLESS BODY IN TOPLESS BAR is the most famous headline in New York City tabloid history. It appeared on the front page of the New York Post in the spring of 1983 after a holdup man killed the owner of a strip club in Queens and then inexplicably forced one of the patrons to cut off the victim’s head. I didn’t write that legendary headline, but I played a part in its creation.
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But Musetto and I had a problem that afternoon. No one was really sure at that point if it was a topless bar or not. It obviously needed to be a topless place for the headline to work. We needed to confirm that, and we needed to do it in a hurry to get it in the paper. Everything was riding on that one missing fact.

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Mr. Taylor conflates abstraction and realism in his work, giving it the feeling of bluntness (and mischief) found in someone like Alex Katz, but the way he hunts down his subjects transforms his practice into a process of earnest documentation. A number of superficial factors, however, have branded him an “outsider artist”—he’s black, he grew up poor, he paints prostitutes and drug users, he is a seriously prolific curser, he didn’t finish art school until he was in his 30s, and he didn’t get his work shown in a gallery until a decade after that, when he had a 10-year stint working as a psychiatric nurse at a California state hospital. Mr. Taylor and the people close to him admonish the label. (“Motherfuck,” he said when I mentioned “outsider.” “I say to hell with all that shit. Some Rauschenberg shit can look like outsider shit and vice versa. Fuck yeah, man.”) But he’s also an artist in demand. In addition to …

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… In fact, when I moved to New York and tried getting started, I worked at Macy’s during Christmas season, but was fired because I wouldn’t stop singing along with the carols,” he says.
Driving cabs is a common occupation of would-be actors, but Cooper never did that. “I might have been luckier if I had,” he says. “Instead, I was a bicycle messenger, which, believe me, is no fun during the winter months.”
At that time, he might not have guessed that his future would include singing on Broadway, where directors, audiences and casts would appreciate his voice. Seven of the 10 Broadway shows he’s done have been musicals.
One was “The Life,” for which he won a 1997 Tony. There he was also the boss of a business, but a less savory one: a prostitution ring.

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Men charged with taking prostitute to Vermont, New York farms
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One of the notebooks also contained a tally sheet that listed female names on one side and numbers next to them, which investigators said in the complaint they believe was a ledger of prostitution transactions with the name of the women involved next to the amount of money they made at each stop.
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In that case, federal prosecutors said 53-year-old Alejandro Enrique Young-Hernandez, of Hyde Park, and Jose Tomas Flores-Rocha, 53, a Mexican living illegally in the country, worked together for months to bring prostitutes from New York City to Vermont. Young-Hernandez pleaded innocent and is awaiting trial. Flores-Rocha pleaded guilty as part of a plea agreement. He is awaiting sentencing.
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Bureau administrator Tim Buskey said Thursday that his agency, which represents 3,500 farmers, hasnt heard any complaints about prostitution on Vermonts farms many of which employ migrant workers living illegally in the country.

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… m at a studio on the west side of Manhattan, where Young Jeezy is scheduled to shoot a music video. It’s dead quiet: White guys in streetwear are walking softly around editing suites; a flat-screen is noiselessly flashing the DVD menu page for Robin Hood: Men in Tights. Then Jeezy rolls in. He sets himself up in a fluorescent-lit conference room, where an on-call barber has been waiting. And while Jeezy’s draped in a “BET Hip Hop Awards 2011″ barber cape, a swirl of activity — a circle of publicists, stylists, and cronies — forms. Along with a string of other reps, Def Jam senior VP Shawn “Pecas” Costner is trying to talk Jeezy into attending a party later that night. Apparently, there is some high-level exec whose ass has to be kissed. Jeezy brushes this off, and rattles off an amusing story about a particularly hood strip club in Detroit in which he partied last night. The punchline: “So I quit drinking again. This morning.” Ne …

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Lauren Mueller, a second year anthropology student who organized the event under the newly-formed Students Advancing Human Rights club, said she wanted to increase awareness “for the victims of the past, present, and trying to diminish the ones of the future.”
Her initiative began Jan. 9 with a screening at Edison of “Immokalee U.S.A.,” a film about farmworker exploitation. The following week, trafficking survivor Teresa Flores spoke to an audience of about 140 people about being sexually exploited as a teen in Michigan.
Low prosecution rates nationwide indicate the difficulty of bringing justice to the victims and putting perpetrators behind bars, the panel said. Changing public perceptions about human trafficking, such as considering certain cases of prostitution to be sex trafficking or accepting that the problem is local as well as global, are the next steps to a take.

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In a New York Times column that begins with the horrifying story of “Baby Face,” a 13-year-old runaway forced into prostitution by a pimp who advertised her on Backpage.com, Nicholas Kristof assails Village Voice Media, which owns the classified ad site, for profiting from such crimes. He quotes Brooklyn prosecutor Lauren Hersh, who says “Backpage is a great vehicle for pimps trying to sell girls,” and sums up the situation this way: “When Baby Face ran away from her pimp and desperately knocked on that apartment door in Brooklyn, she was also in effect pounding on the door of the executive suites of Backpage and Village Voice Media. Those executives should listen to her pleas.”
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As Daniel Fisher points out at Forbes, the reality of sex marketing is more complicated than Kristof admits. While Craigslist no longer has an “adult services” section, for example, thinly veiled sex-for-money ads have migrated to the “personals” section, where they are harder to monitor. “Want to find more professionals quick?” Fisher writes. “S …

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How Pimps Use the Web to Sell Girls
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On Backpage, the pimps claim adult ages for the girls they market, but Hersh scoffs. “I see 19,” she said, “and I immediately think 13.”
“I’m not seeing a lot of cases where there’s not coercion,” she added. “The average age where a girl is forced into prostitution is 12 to 14. And most of these 16- or 17 year-olds are being run by pretty vicious pimps.”
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When Baby Face ran away from her pimp and desperately knocked on that apartment door in Brooklyn, she was also in effect pounding on the door of the executive suites of Backpage and Village Voice Media. Those executives should listen to her pleas.
A version of this op-ed appeared in print on January 26, 2012, on page A31 of the New York edition with the headline: How Pimps Use the Web To Sell Girls.

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