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They met at a bus stop, Wells said, and while Vazquez wanted to have anal sex with him, Wells gave him the brush off.
“I didn’t want to do it,” said Wells, who told jurors that he was not gay but had “hustled” sexual favors in the French Quarter before – only as the recipient of oral sex.
“He was upset, but he still gave me oral sex,” Wells testified, as Vazquez’s widow, father and other relatives sat silently in court.
“I was going to get as much as I could from him,” Wells said. “It was just a hustle.”
Wells, who dealt crack cocaine in Atlanta before moving back home in 1997, where he could make more money selling cocaine in French Quarter strip clubs than as a busboy, he testified.

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… He didn’t have to testify but you couldn’t stop him,” said Kelly. “This is his day in court.”
By 12 p.m., the veteran defense lawyer Fawer rose to finish the closing argument, saying he believes his job is a noble calling.
Fawer is Wells’ court-appointed lawyer, selected by the public-defender program last year, after Wells fired his paid attorney and announced he was indigent.
“To some of you, perhaps I have seemed too fervent in defense of Tyrone Wells,” said Fawer.”If so, I plead guilty. He is entitled to every ounce of my inner passion and my ability.”
Fawer said, “This is a battlefield, it is not a dancehall. When lies and distortions of truth are wafted through the courtroom by the prosecutors, it is our obligation to rip holes in it.” 
Wells isn’t in court today to defend his past prostitution, Fawer said.

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Very often, notable performers hailed from circus families whose tradition of performing, training animals, or even acting as support staff dated back for generations. Alfredo Codona (see above) was from such a family in Mexico.You may have heard of the Flying Wallendas the German high-wire family troupe were performing, incidentally, as the Hartford Circus Fire of 1944 broke out. We bet you know of the Ringling Brothers, too (but did you know there were seven of them, distinguishable only if old-timey photos are any indication by slight variations in their mustaches?) The Ringling Bros. operated their circus as the Sunday School of the travelling tent shows, incidentally, and upheld family-friendly acts and a clean atmosphere, in contrast with the louche nomadic operations notorious for organized pick-pocketing, gambling, and prostitution. But have you heard of the Chipperfields, a British family of acrobats, animal trainers, and clowns dating back 300 years?

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NY Post hires Dupre, the Spitzer call girl
Got a problem with your love life? Ask Ashley. That would be Ashley Dupre, the former call girl whose tryst with Eliot Spitzer led him to resign as governor of New York last year. The New York Post has hired Dupre, 24, to write a weekly advice column dealing with sex and relationships. The column in Sunday’s paper is illustrated with photos of Dupre wearing glasses and a conservative suit, along with a half-unbuttoned blouse and 6-inch heels. A video on the newspaper’s website shows Dupre posing coquettishly and signing her name in the air. Meredith, 40, from Queens asks, “How do I know if my daughter may be getting into trouble?’’ Dupre responds, “It’s all a matter of having the right perspective and approach. Most teenagers will do stupid things.’’ Dupre then adds that she herself was an honor roll student but “things really changed for me when my brother ran …

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There are some places that (to me) are year around attractions. Cities in Florida, Arizona, Nevada and California are always possibilities.
Another favorite destination is “Gnaw Lynn’s” LA which is how the locals pronounce New Orleans.
Anytime the Crescent City pops up on my travel radar I take a good hard look at the opportunity.
Recently an educational opportunity presented itself in New Orleans. I haven’t been back since Hurricane Katrina left her calling card.
So it was time to revisit the “Big Easy.
New Orleans prime location near the mouth of the Mississippi River led to rapid development and with the first mass importation of African slaves, as early as the 1720s; its unique demography began to take shape.
By the end of the eighteenth century, the port was flourishing with smugglers, gamblers, prostitutes and pirates. Newcomers included Anglo-Americans escaping the American Revolution and aristocrats fleeing revolution in France.

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Coburn is among the critics who suggested Landrieu got the amendment in exchange for her vote to allow debate on the bill, with some Capitol observers calling the amendment “the new Louisiana Purchase.” Coburn has stopped short of the harshest critiques by conservative talk show hosts Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck, both of whom called Landrieu a “prostitute.”
With Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid yet to set the debate schedule and parameters, it remains unclear whether Coburn’s amendment will come to a vote. Senate staffers on both sides of the aisle say he wouldn’t win anyway. Coburn spokesman John Hart said that’s beside the point: “He would want to have a vote.”
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The secretary was quick to praise Landrieu’s work on the amendment, though he offered little sympathy for Landrieu being a target of leading conservatives. The prostitute references, he said, “were over the top. But we all signed up for this. … This is the big leagues. This job that I have, the job the senator has, the job the governor has, it’s not for the faint of heart.”

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District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro chose to prosecute the Malta case, delivering a fiery closing argument Friday at Criminal District Court that included a statement that police could have done a much better job of gathering evidence in the days after the killing.
The Malta family, led by the vicitm’s sister Monica, left the courthouse after warmly thanking Cannizzaro.
The jury agreed with prosecutors that Ott beat to death Malta, who was found in his sweltering apartment on Port Street on his bed, a phallic-shaped sex toy shoved down his throat.
Cannizzaro, who chose to take up the case two weeks ago, said after the verdict that he didn’t believe his presence swayed jurors in any way.
“I believe jurors do the right thing,” Cannizzaro said.
Malta, 43, a salon owner, was left in an apartment with the gas oven and stovetop burning, and the thermometer spiked to 100 degrees. Furniture stripper had been sloshed thorughout the home.

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McDonagh and fellow cop Stevie Pruitt (Val Kilmer) go to an abandoned, flooded police facility to pull some items from another office’s locker. They encounter a lone prisoner, Chavez (Nick Gomez), in a jail cell about to drown. The two cops toy with the panicked prisoner and while Stevie is content to let Chavez die, Terrence has a change of heart and rescues Chavez. As a result, he injures his back and is destined to suffer pain the rest of his life.
Because of his rescue, McDonagh is promoted to lieutenant and is put in charge of an investigation into the execution-style slayings
of a family of Senegalese immigrants, apparently murdered for selling heroin in another drug pin’s territory.
McDonagh is some piece of work. He constantly snorts cocaine, forces a nervous fellow officer working in the evidence room, Mundt (Michael Shannon), to sneak out confiscated drugs. He carries on with a high-class prostitute, Frankie (Eva Mendez), and makes his bookie Ned (Brad Dourif) nervous by racking up some heavy gambling debts.

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The two-week United Nations-sanctioned conference starting this week and ending in a dramatic flourish with an appearance by Obama next week, is attracting delegations from more than 190 nations — some too poor to feed their own people, but not too poor to attend this lavish confab.
These are international leaders supposedly concerned about man-made impacts on global climate changes, but tone deaf when it comes to discussions of self-imposed poverty on their own peoples.
Attendees at the summit will spew out more than 40,000 tons of carbon-dioxide equivalent pollution from their fleets of about 300 private and government jets and nearly 1,500 gas-guzzling limousines imported from several European countries.
The two-week “summit to save the world” apparently won’t be all work, though. The Telegraph in London also reports that Denmark’s 1,400-member prostitution union is offering free sexual intercourse for anyone with an official delegate’s pass during the two-week event.

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By AMY BIANCOLLI FILM WRITER
Eva Mendes plays a hooker with a heart of gold in Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, a fascinatingly wacko Werner Herzog drama starring Nicolas Cage as an unhinged, crack-smoking post-Katrina cop. The film opens in Houston on Friday. She’s his girlfriend, a fellow addict. And she is, in some ways, one of the most level-headed characters in the movie.
“I just saw her as a flawed person. I didn’t really see her as anything else when I first signed on. I was planning on going for it: a prostitute who’s addicted to drugs and codependent on some guy who’s addicted to drugs — and a rogue cop! It was amazing to me,” says Mendes, on the phone from Los Angeles during a recent press event.

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