“I don’t want him to apologize to me. I want him to apologize to everybody that he’s lied to,” [Wendy] Cortez said. She referred to Vitter’s wife, also named Wendy, who famously said she would emulate scorned wife Lorena Bobbitt if Vitter were ever unfaithful.
KATC:
Analysts said the political future of U.S. Sen. David Vitter again was thrown into question Tuesday after a former New Orleans prostitute vouched in person that the senator was one of her former clients.
"It's just a continuous drip of information, allegations, contradictions that are beyond his control," said Silas Lee, a New Orleans political analyst. "The question is what's the tolerance of voters."
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His survival has become "definitely more complicated," said Elliott Stonecipher, a Shreveport political analyst.
With Republicans reeling, they will take measures to save the GOP's image and keep the sex scandals from tainting the rest of the party, Stonecipher said. "Vitter could become the guy the party throws under the bus to keep the discussion where it is."
Times Picayune:
A woman who once worked as a prostitute in New Orleans said Tuesday that Senator David Vitter had sex with her several times a week from July to November 1999, shortly after he was elected to Congress.
Wendy Yow Ellis said she met Vitter through an escort service and saw him two to three times a week in an apartment at Dauphine and Dumaine streets in the French Quarter. Vitter was elected to the U.S. House in May 1999 and sworn in to office June 8.
At first, Ellis said, he knew her only by her stage name: Leah.
Ellis said the affair ended "abruptly" when she gave him her real name. She shares a first name with his wife, Wendy Baldwin Vitter.
New Orleans 99.5fm:
Wendy Ellis, appeared at a news conference called by Hustler Magazine publisher, Larry Flynt, who paid for her trip to California, a lie detector test and her story which will be published in his magazine early next year.
See the lie detector test results by clicking here. (PDF File)
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Ellis said that she came forward because she felt that Vitter, in effect called her a "liar," by saying the reports about his alleged activities in New Orleans were not true.
FOX News:
A former New Orleans prostitute who will be featured in Larry Flynt's Hustler magazine appeared at his office Tuesday to accuse Sen. David Vitter of having a sexual relationship with her in 1999.
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Flynt produced parts of an Aug. 22 polygraph test that he said confirmed her account, but Ellis could provide no financial records, photographs or other evidence to support her assertion that the Louisiana Republican was a client during that time.
Vitter has denied those claims.
WWL 870am:
"I met him through an escort service," said Cortez, whose real name is Wendy Ellis-Yow. "It was purely a sexual relationship."
"He would come into the entertainment club where I worked at, and it ended very abruptly."
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