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- August 19, 2008 10:59 AM
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Media Whore: Who is Radar's 'Hipster Hooker'?
Now, being the upstanding people we are, we don't usually traffic in prurient gossip. Nonetheless, we were totally titillated by today's Radar post of an article from their September magazine, "Secrets of a Hipster Hooker." Despite the icky scene where writer Jessica Pilot's sometime boyfriend suggests that she herself play the escort and go out on calls (she balks in the end), the most interesting element was the profile of "Heather," a friend of the author and a burgeoning lady of the night in her own right. Particularly, we were excited by the fact that "Heather," her work name, is, "a 28-year-old who has a coveted job in fashion media." Shocking!
Details are scarce in the article, but if we are to take Pilot at her word, Heather has, "sleek, dark hair and honey-colored skin," a Cartier bracelet and, "moves in both fashion and media circles and refers to herself as a 'quasi party girl.'" She also hangs with a "Kelly" and an "Olivia" who form the other legs of an escort troika. This doesn't really narrow it down—we know plenty of people in the editorial, web, business, and pr sides of fashion media who fit the description. Hell, she could be one of us (she isn't.) Now, while we probably won't publish the answers (libel and slander aren't our strong suits), we would love to hear more details, guesses, and scurrilous commentary. Send your dirt to submissions@refinery29.com, you filthy people. (Radar)
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seriously hot....
love the story!!!! She should have a column!
this article was so dumb, and fake.
You'll never find the mysterious Heather because she doesnt exist. Everything about this article was so obviously fictionalized.
Especially when Jessica, the would-be whore, sanctimoniously 'takes the high road' and rejects sleeping with her first John instead going home to take a bath.
So smug, so superior. And yet she made the whole thing up.
I agree. Did anyone notice how blithely the author went down the road to prostitution ? Undressing in front of the so-called Madam, discussing the hourly price she would fetch, going to meet a John in a hotel....
And suddenly arrives and decides...'uh, wait...not sure I want to be a prostitute.'
A REAL person would have been able to say at any point along the way...'um, I'm just writing an article for a magazine...I wasnt suggesting that I actually exchange sex for money'.
Jessica Pilot is busted...she whored herself out and wrote a fake piece on a fake topic.
still hot...
How would she have gotten to talk to the madam if she had told her she was writing an article about prostitutes for a magazine? ("Excuse me, can I quote you?") Maybe it sounds fictionalized because some parts are so outrageous, but a) high-end call girls obviously exist, and b) what should they be like that would sound more believable? hair dressers? junkies? Banana Republic employees?
No one has any persuasive evidence that the writer made it up except that that he or she aren't aware any that life. Isn't that what makes it interesting and why Radar published it?
It's Evil Amy Sohn!!! You Kunts!!!!!
CHUG MY BOOB JUICE!!!
""No one has any persuasive evidence that the writer made it up except that that he or she aren't aware any that life.""
Er ... the story is bunkem. No high class madam would send out a new girl without any 'training' or 'preparation'. The clients are paying big money and you don't risk losing them by sending them some girl you've just met a few hours earlier.
Trust me, I've been in the business...