Stanford University law school graduate Cristina Warthen (shown, above) will have to serve a year of home detention for failing to pay taxes on money she earned while working as a prostitute.
She'll also have to pay the government about $243,000, instead of the $313,000 established in a previous plea arrangement.
Prosecutors agreed to the lower amount when Cristina Warthen demonstrated she could not pay the full amount after her divorce from online entrepreneur David Warthen, the co-founder of the online search engine Ask Jeeves, now known as Ask.com, the San Jose Mercury News reports.
As nicely summarized by the newspaper:
“It pains me ... to be advised that you are asking the court for permission to engage in advertising an escort business," Ware told Warthen.
Not so pained as to jeopardize Warthen’s plea deal, however.
(Check out her new website—apparently designed to promote the repentant prostitute for public appearances—at http://www.cristinawarthen.com/ . But she will have to finish her year of house arrest first.)
She'll also have to pay the government about $243,000, instead of the $313,000 established in a previous plea arrangement.
Prosecutors agreed to the lower amount when Cristina Warthen demonstrated she could not pay the full amount after her divorce from online entrepreneur David Warthen, the co-founder of the online search engine Ask Jeeves, now known as Ask.com, the San Jose Mercury News reports.
As nicely summarized by the newspaper:
“During a hearing in San Jose federal court, U.S. District Judge James Ware concluded he needed to impose those restrictions on Cristina Warthen after federal prosecutors disclosed she's continued to advertise herself on the Internet as a high-priced escort, even as she awaited sentencing on federal tax evasion charges related to her days as an upscale prostitute named "Brazil."
“Warthen gained notoriety when she was busted as a jet-setting call girl who sold her services to pay off her Stanford Law School debts. She got her law degree from Stanford in May 2001, but quickly began to run a steamy Web site with offers to jet off for liaisons with clients in cities around the country, including New York, Chicago and Washington, D.C.
“But Ware was dismayed to learn from federal prosecutors and probation officials that Warthen has continued to advertise her escort services as she has awaited sentencing. Assistant U.S. Attorney David Callaway told the judge Warthen has posted ads on the Internet offering "companionship" for $2,000 a night."
“It pains me ... to be advised that you are asking the court for permission to engage in advertising an escort business," Ware told Warthen.
Not so pained as to jeopardize Warthen’s plea deal, however.
(Check out her new website—apparently designed to promote the repentant prostitute for public appearances—at http://www.cristinawarthen.com/ . But she will have to finish her year of house arrest first.)
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