Confessions of a Canadian Stripper

University grads have it tough in their first few years after graduating, the toughest thing being finding employment to pay back the grants they received from the government to help pay for their formal education.

Cristina Warthen (nee Schultz), a Stanford law school graduate knows what I am talking about, and being the smart chick that I think she is she decided to explore the sex-trade industry to see if she could make enough money to pay for her college education, and then leave the industry all together to pursue her law career.

That’s what I first thought when I heard about her story.

Good on her putting her “hot bod” to good use, but too bad for her that she was eventually busted and now owes $313.000 to cover taxes she didn’t pay on her earnings. She avoided a prison sentence though.

I’m sure her law degree, with the help of a “qualified” lawyer of course,  went a long way in her securing herself a plea agreement in which she will serve one year of home detention, and pay back what amounts to nothing more than “chump change” for her and her husband.

The news story I read says the 34-year-old owner of the steamy website “TouchofBrazil.net” didn’t pay tax on the more than $133,000 she earned servicing men in Washington, D.C, Chicago, and New York among other cities she jetted off to for her sexual liaisons with “cash paying” clients.

But what I find the most interesting about “her story” is that she was married to the wealthy co-founder of search engine Ask Jeeves, now known as Ask.com. So why did she get into the escort business, and furthermore why would her husband David Warthen condone such a thing?

There are many answers to those questions, but I highly doubt those of us who are interested in this story will ever know the truth, not unless the Warthens decide to cash in on their story and do the talk show circuit, which if my wife and I were in their shoes, we would likely do.

Money, money, money…That’s what it’s all about sometimes.

The $313,000 the court ordered to pay apparently isn’t easy for Brazil to come by either, at least according to her lawyer Brian Getz it isn’t. He claims that his client needs some time to raise that kind of cash, which of course begs the questions what did she do with all the money she made, and how good was the product she was selling.

I am going to assume if she can’t raise the cash right then and there, it’s because she squandered her profits travelling in circles where she could meet a man like her wealthy husband. It’s either that or the product she was selling wasn’t good quality.

From what I understand Mrs. Warthen had been in the business for quite some time; from 2001 until she was busted a few years ago (2004?), and if the product she was selling was any good, she should have a stash of cash hidden somewhere that she can dip into to pay what she owes.

Her overhead in 2003 was only $51,000 and you can bet that she made a hell of a lot more than if she her product was good. Needs more time to come up with the money she owes… Yeah right! She’s got that kind of cash stashed somewhere.

I’m thinking that by claiming she doesn’t have the money, Mrs. Warthen might be trying to prevent the discovery of other “undisclosed assets” from the IRS. She could still ask her husband for the money though, and not raise any more flags with the IRS. The latter making a hell of a lot of sense to me.

And what about that husband? Surely he is cashed up enough to fork over the $313,000 his wife has been ordered to pay without her having to even ask, at least he should be.

For whatever reason that must not be the case if his wife’s lawyer is asking the judge for more time to come up with the payment. Hard to say really, as I don’t know much about him other than a fact he obviously didn’t have a problem with his wife spreading her legs for other men.

Then again, maybe he didn’t know about his wife’s exploits. Oblivious to the fact perhaps?

At the end of the day, it would appear that Brazil is getting off with a slap on the wrist, while her clients will have to make do “getting off” with somebody else.

Brazil is also a fitness model, having been pictured in Iron Man, Muscular Development, Maxim and Playboy Lingerie. Her story first appeared on the front page of the Los Angeles Daily Journal in October of 2004.