Debt Service: California Lawyer Pleads Guilty to Work as Call Girl
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With lawyers and law students getting pink slips in the recession, Cristina Warthen, a Stanford law graduate, had a novel idea to support herself: she ran a high-priced call girl service. Warthen has now pleaded guilty and avoided jail time, agreeing to pay $313,000 in unpaid taxes as a prostitute who went by the name “Brazil.” She will serve a one year sentence of home detention and three years probation. She ran a website featuring her business named TouchofBrazil.net. She has said that the work as a call girl was done to pay off her student loans.
Warthen, 34, was charged with the unpaid taxes that she earned as a prostitute in 2003, a job that had her flying to Washington, D.C., Chicago, New York and other cities to meet with clients. She now faces a type of court order loss of consortium.
Warthen graduated from Stanford law in 2001. The previously named Cristina Schultz married David Warthen, the wealthy co-founder of Ask Jeeves, now known as Ask.com.
