New York Adult Entertainment: NY Gov. Paterson faces resignation call after abuse complaint against aide

According to The Times, the unidentified woman lodged an assault complaint against long-time Paterson aide David Johnson and told authorities that State Police, who lacked jurisdiction in the matter, had urged her to drop the case.
The woman also received a telephone call from the governor shortly before she was to appear in court for a hearing on a protective order against Johnson, her lawyer told the newspaper. Paterson told the paper that the woman initiated the call.
The case was dismissed when the woman failed to appear at the hearing, The Times reported.
On Wednesday, Paterson suspended Johnson without pay and asked Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, the governor’s possible rival in the Democratic primary, to investigate. (You can read that statement here.)
Paterson rose from lieutenant governor in 2008 after his boss, Eliot Spitzer, resigned in a prostitution-ring scandal. Paterson officially kicked off his campaign this week.

See the full article from “USA Today”

New York Massage Parlors: Tiger is no sex addict

That most men are randy and think about sex at least once an hour isn’t news to the women who live with them. Sex addiction happens when those sexual needs override everything else, and render the individual unable to function both personally and professionally. So, based on my definition, Tiger Woods is not a sex addict.
Addiction is a real thing. Anything that targets the pleasure centres of the brain can become addictive. Smoking, alcohol, chocolate, or gambling can certainly change your physiology. Any addiction that gives you a pleasurable buzz in your head can have you coming back compulsively for more.
Sex most certainly falls into this category. It goes from being a happy pill to a full blown addiction when it starts to take over an inordinate amount of brain space. The sex addicts I see in my day to day practice are paralyzed with inaction. They surf porn for hours at a time, find themselves masturbating at work, blow their rent money at the local massage parlours and are generally filled with self loathing.

See the full article from “Ottawa Citizen”

New York Strip Clubs: Cops in Subway Sodomy Trial Still Face Possible Punishment

Officer Kern’s current job is monitoring video footage at public housing projects; his co-defendants, Officers Alex Cruz and Andrew Morales, are also on modified duty. That’s where they’ll stay while the NYPD conducts its internal administrative review, which could lead to a departmental trial or result in disciplinary action for such infractions as not notifying a supervisor or calling an ambulance. (After subduing Michael Mineo, who resisted arrest after getting caught smoking marijuana, they eventually released him with a summons.)
Mineo, who is living with his fiancee, is pressing on a multimillion-dollar civil lawsuit. It’s unclear whether the federal prosecutors will also pursue the case; last week they declined to take up a civil rights case against police officers who shot and killed Sean Bell in a barrage of 50 bullets outside a strip club on the day of his wedding. The Times reports that four of the five officers involved in that case are still on desk duty 22 months after being found not guilty.

See the full article from “Gothamist”

New York Strip Clubs: New York man pleads guilty to vehicular manslaughter in friend’s death

21-year-old Brian Frankel officially pleaded guilty to second-degree vehicular manslaughter, but he will still face tough sentencing of up to a year in county jail. He will be sentenced in May. The district attorney on the case recommended one to three years in state prison, which is a fraction of the potential seven years.
Frankel lost control of his Mustang on August 16 on the New York State Thruway. He overturned the vehicle on the right side of the road, and 21-year-old Dominic Zeoli, a passenger, was ejected. The car rolled on top of Zeoli. Frankel’s BAC was registered at .16% after the accident.
Two other passengers involved in the accident suffered minor injuries. Zeoli was brother of the groom celebrating his bachelor party at a local strip club. Frankel entered his guilty plea in order to save the family pain, according to his attorney’s reports. The fact Frankel will avoid time in state prison all together, regardless of the sentencing, was essential in the guilty plea. 

See the full article from “DUIAttorney.com”

New York Adult Entertainment: Sex-vid suit slaps Fitty

Infamous rapper 50 Cent callously posted a sex tape of a Florida woman on the Internet and labeled her a “call girl,” according to a lawsuit filed yesterday.
Lastonia Leviston claimed she and a former boyfriend made the tape in New Jersey on June 30, 2008 — and he promised to destroy it.
Instead, the boyfriend allegedly sold the tape to 50 Cent, who posted it on his Web site — blotting out the man’s face, but leaving in Leviston’s.
Then in a December 2009 radio interview, 50 Cent “discussed the video, referred to [Leviston] as ‘Brooke’ and called her a ‘call girl,’ more than once,” the lawsuit, filed in Manhattan, charges.
She’s seeking unspecified monetary damages.
A rep for 50 Cent, whose real name is Curtis James Jackson, declined comment last night.

See the full article from “New York Post”

New York Adult Entertainment: Journalist was also federal official

James G. Wieghart, a former editor of the Daily News in New York who toggled between reporting on public servants and being one, got his journalistic start at The Milwaukee Journal and the Milwaukee Sentinel.
He died of complications of pneumonia Sunday in Clare, Mich., said his wife, Sharon. Wieghart was 76 and lived in nearby Lake City, Mich.
Professional roles included contributing to the final report of the independent counsel on the Iran-contra affair. He was, however, fundamentally a newspaperman. He joined The Milwaukee Journal after graduating from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1958. He moved to the Sentinel in 1962.
“Once Jim had developed a source, it appeared that he never severed the contact,” former Sentinel editor Robert Wills wrote as Wieghart was honored by Central Michigan University. “Before long his stable of sources ranged from prostitutes to federal judges, Mafia dons to street pickpockets, mayors to U.S. senators and ultimately presidents and members of their cabinets.”

See the full article from “Milwaukee Journal Sentinel”

New York Adult Entertainment: Hold your applause for Bravo women

Kelly Cutrone is the “Kell” in “Kell on Earth,” a show about a dysfunctional company that handles publicity for fashion shows, which apparently are fraught with more tension and minutiae than the plotting of the D-Day invasion. Who knew? Cutrone’s management style consists mostly of barking orders, glowering at her staff, fuming and slamming down phone receivers. Her signature line? “If you have to cry, go outside.” Her staff looks beaten down and terrified most of the time. Lots of people do great work under such conditions.
Patti Stanger of “The Millionaire Matchmaker” insists she is providing a valuable service, matching up wealthy men (and the occasional well-to-do woman) with the perfect mate. Two people meet, sparks fly, love blooms. It’s a lovely, organic concept, but unfortunately, Stanger insists on controlling every aspect of the meeting and courtship, right down to harping at her male clients to get a manicure and bullying her stable of glorified prostitutes into changing their makeup and dressing in skimpier clothing. She stops just short of opening their mouths and checking their teeth.

See the full article from “ChicagoNow (blog)”

New York Adult Entertainment: Stage Raw: Commercial Theater Institute

NEW REVIEW CELADINE With its contrived plot and wan humor, this piece of trivia by Charles Evered reminded me of the chick-lit historical romances I devoured when I was 10.  Celadine (Giselle Wolf) is an exceptional 17th century woman, an acclaimed playwright who once captured King Charles’ affections. Suffering writer’s block, she now runs a coffeehouse with her garrulous friend Mary (Holly Hawkins), a former prostitute. High-spirited and unconventional — but with a dark secret, of course –  Celadine cavorts with a young mute, Jeffrey (Will Barker); for laughs, they play horse (Jeffrey) and rider (Celadine), and he mends her pantaloons’ seam  while burrowed beneath her skirt.   The play’s real action jumpstarts around a smooth-talking thespian named Elliot (Michael A. Newcomber), who wants Celadine to write another play; soon after there’s an unexpected visit from the king (Larry Cedar) who  assigns her a dangerous espionage mission to help root out Protestant spies. The comedy might have worked had it been doused in tongue-in-cheek wit. Though …

See the full article from “LA Weekly (blog)”

New York Adult Entertainment: HUD asks gay communities in Chicago, NYC, San Francisco for help with …

Chicago, New York and San Francisco all ban housing discrimination based on sexual orientation and, more recently, gender identity. The number of complaints about anti-gay bias filed with authorities has been relatively low — generally less than 10 percent of all housing complaints — but that can be attributed to some declining to out themselves by stepping forward, advocates said.
Fear of being outed is also a reason to hold the HUD sessions in big cities, where anti-gay bias may be less prevalent than elsewhere but where people also are more willing to discuss it when it happens, said Carey.
A study by Michigan’s Fair Housing Centers, a group of private advocacy organizations, found nearly 30 percent of same-sex couples were treated differently when trying to buy or rent a home. Such treatment included a male landlord who made sexually charged comments to a lesbian couple and a Detroit landlord who told testers, “No drugs, prostitution, homosexuality, one-night stands.”

See the full article from “Los Angeles Times”

New York Adult Entertainment: North Plaza Inn closed permanently by judicial order

The hotel, at 3636 N. Dixie Drive, just east of the Dayton-Harrison Twp. border. Neighbors have long complained that the hotel, which rented rooms for $29 a day, is known for drugs and prostitution.
Montgomery County Common Pleas Judge Connie S. Price issued a temporary injunction and closing order on Nov. 18. The following day, Sheriff Phil Plummer and Prosecutor Mathias H. Heck Jr. shut the hotel down, moving people out and changing the locks.
According to the permanent order Price signed Tuesday, attorneys for Empire Hospitality Group and the prosecutor’s office had agreed to the permanent injunction. Under the agreement, Empire and its employees are restrained from entering the hotel or the parking lot until Nov. 17.

— Sheriff’s Deputy Josh Haas testified he has seen Kadaba in the hotel’s Jacuzzi room “with several known prostitutes.”

See the full article from “Dayton Daily News (blog)”

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