Word: escorting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...close to finding the least admirable characters to build a feel-good movie around. Richard Gere is Edward, a corporate raider who gobbles up companies and spits them out in divestible chunks. Julia Roberts is Vivian, a Los Angeles hooker whom Edward hires as his some-sex, no-love escort for the week...
...prince proposed that she marry him, she asked him to send envoys to bring her to him by boat; she then had the envoys and their boat flung into a pit, where they were buried alive. She next asked that the Drevlianians send their leading men to provide an escort, then offered them a bath, locked them in the bathhouse and set it afire. Thus avenged, Olga became the first Slav ruler to convert to Christianity, and the Orthodox Church allied itself to the ruling family by making her its first Russian saint...
Aggrieved customers tell of dates who were overaged, overweight, underemployed and sometimes already married. One woman recalled an escort who had "dyed bright-orange hair," while another said she was matched with "a man who had a criminal record." For such bottom-drawer Romeos, Amram allegedly charged anywhere from $1,250 to $20,000, far in excess of New York's $250 price limit on social-referral services. Amram's response: "I never break the law." The attorney general's lawsuit seeks restitution of any overcharges and an end to Amram's matchmaking in New York...
Frank's appearance at Harvard comes just two days after a Boston press conference held by his former lover, male prostitute Steven Gobie. Their two year affair and Gobie's assertions that Frank knew that he was running an escort service out of Frank's Washington apartment are the subjects of a current House Ethics Committee investigation...