Q&A: Heidi Fleiss on Gov. Eliot Spitzer, 'a creepy trick'

pathetic, disgusting, and very, very ugly woman, inside and out!

The interview should be about how someone can ruin thier lives by taking drugs and booze from an early age.

Finally, a newspaper talking to someone who knows something about prostitution instead of some sort of self appointed moral beacon just repeating what we all think we know to be true-prostitution is bad. Never mind that no evidence or experience is offered to support this. Or maybe they offer up a survey which has found a prostitute or 2 or 3 who is not happy with their job, is only doing it for the money and has a substance abuse problem. Does this mean that if I can find 2 or 3 Fast Food employees with the same attitudes and problems we can out law this work? The fact remains that making prostitution illegal is what produces all the abuses often cited as evidence for why prostitution is bad and should be illegal. If you make it legal, and provide sex workers (who are not all women) with rights to sue employers for illegal employment practices, the right to call the police on an abusive client, health care, retirement benefits and a safe working environment, you are left with workers who have similar rates of good heath and job satisfaction as other workers. So most newspapers will continue to talk with people who aren't interested in solving the problems associated with prostitution or sex workers. They'll be giving voice to people who insist that prostitution remain a problem. Heidi's right. If he had gone to a legal brothel, he'd still have his job. The financial transaction would have been legal and taxed. The sex worker would have been less likely to offer unprotected sex and in any case would have been working in a safe work environment with all the protections that all other workers enjoy. Plus you can be sure that the only people who are exposed to that environment are people who want to be. Children won't be pointing to prostitution scandal stories in newspapers or asking why that lady is standing on the street corner in the rain whistling at the cars.

Hmmm, I wonder what's next for the LA Times? I guess in a way this is moderately more interesting than the NY Times quoting the girl's MySpace page. But in any case, wouldn't it have been more interesting to call up a few wives of politicians-turned-adulterers to get their comments? I have a feeling this segment was created after a quick phone call from Heidi's publicist to the Times.

Eliot Ness Mess: He is the croock, not the girl! He did the crime, now he must serve the time.
What crime? Should I count the ways????

Everyone loves a good sex scandal as it sells newspapers and stimulates American's libidio whether one agrees or represses it. Guess the good-looking NY Governor didn't know about AFF! Women/Men who solicit sex for free on the internet ! Is AFF legal? Look at the subscription numbers---millions of people. How careless can a governor be? Why didn't he get it for free...obviously, he wasn't getting any at home! He is a healthy mid-life man and he needed some hot sex to release his pent up energy after a long day testifying in a Wasington D.C. courtroom. What strong, healthy "All American Male " wouldn't need some sort of helthy recreation after a tedious day. Sort of recharges the battery in a good way. And people act surprised...now that's the hypocracy...sort of reminds me of a Hawthorne novel from the days of the Puritans.

Too bad that the nation and the state of New York lost such a talented, educated, intelligent and steadfast governor to a sex scandal! Sex is as natural a need to human beings as eating a pizza, sex is only better for you! Speaking from a Colorado cowgirl's perspective. Why does the press sound so puritanical about the whole thing? Really, after this saga who in their healthy mind would actually want to work in politics? The message is that one must be sexless to be a government employee.

In the Denver paper's last month there was a prostitution ring bust by the Feds, and they said that the "clients" (Johns) did NOT have to worry yet. The names of the judges and important business men would not be released. Now, that is just not fair! Why ruin the Governor of NY and let the VIP men in Denver go free? I think out with all the client's names: Let's just see every man who has been on the list. Spread the names on the cover of the LA Times!

Finally, I agree the Madam Heide, that this activity of prostitution under the guise of escort services should be legalized, reuglated, and TAXED.

This was a funny interview. I love how blunt she is.

Ashley--or whatever her name really is--has a lovely body, but a rather plain face. I'm thinking Gov. Spitzer wanted someone who reminded him of an old flame?

I'm sure that Mr. Spitzer is very sorry...sorry that he got caught, nothing more.

I'm with Cowgirl and EJD .. live and let live. We spend so much time passing judgment on others and most don't really have a leg to stand on. Why is it that we are so preoccupied with what others are doing? The truth is that sex feels good and he probably isn't getting enough or the quality he would like at home. He and his wife probably have an arrangement that suits both of them. I would venture to guess that she is more concerned about her stature and image in the face of recent events and less concerned about where he rendevous. If we were not all so quick to scorn him for his actions, New York would still have a governor that did a lot of good for New York and elsewhere. As a small investor I am sad so see him go. The equilibrium of good and bad is tilted very much toward Spitzer's favor in my opinion. I, however, don't agree with the hypocrisy of rooting out prostitution and then engaging in it.