He DIDN"T KNOW she was a provider!?? And made his fortune creating a simple easy to use SEARCH ENGINE??? What am I missing here? Did he NEVER think to ASK JEEVES??? Somehow methinks he doth protest too much...but then again thats a lotta clams either way.
-- DH
However, it is unclear how much of that money he or she will see, since he is just one of the "founders" of the company, but is probably no longer one of the main owners.
Cristina Schultz, who used the name "Brazil" when she worked as a "$1250, two-hour minimum" provider in San Francisco, never lived in Brazil as she claimed on her provider website, but instead grew up in Chula Vista, a lower middle class suburb of San Diego.
She is extremely bright, and went to Stanford Law School, which she graduated from. You can read the rest of the story about her subsequent legal problems in the attached links, but the interesting part is that she recently married David Warthen, a founder of internet search engine Ask Jeeves, which sold two days ago for $1.9 billion, a fair piece of change.
He has recently said that he did not know she was a provider. This is very unlikely, and he has a motivation to say this, since it is helpful to her in her present legal problem, which involves the paltry sum of $61,000. Of course he knew she was a provider.
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Stanford law grad, U.S. clash over cache of cash
PROSECUTORS SAY WOMAN AMASSED HER FORTUNE AS HIGH-PRICED CALL GIRL OPERATING ON INTERNET
By Dan Reed
Mercury News
Considered bright by her classmates, Cristina Leeann Schultz studied hard at Stanford Law School to become an attorney. But then she turned away from law to service a different kind of client.
She worked and worked and finally paid off more than $300,000 in student loans, under the stage name of Brazil, a call girl who roamed the country to turn ``high-priced hottie'' tricks, the federal government claims. Her attorney says she simply ran a very successful Internet escort service.
Whatever her enterprise, Schultz is now far from a starving student. She's done very well. So well that federal agents rummaging her trash found $2,400 in $100 bills in a discarded law book.
This all came to light after the federal government searched her then-residence in Oakland in January, seizing about $61,000 in cash. Prosecutors have not filed charges of prostitution, or money laundering or tax evasion, although they allege all three. They do say the money is ill-gotten gains, and they've filed an asset forfeiture complaint to keep it. Schultz is fighting to keep her cash.
Her Internet site is still active. But the last day on her posted schedule of appearances is April 23 -- just a few days before she married David Warthen, an Internet mogul who co-founded the popular search engine Ask Jeeves and is now on the board of Kozoru, a new Internet search engine.
Mystery swirls around Cristina Schultz. Her Web site says she came from Porto Alegre, Brazil. Try less glamorous Chula Vista. It says she's 26; try 31. She is, however, a Gemini, as she says on her site.
Records show she graduated from Stanford Law School in May 2001, UCLA before that, although they do not show her as passing the state bar exam.
Neither she nor her husband or family will talk in detail about Schultz, but her former classmates say she is a smart woman who boasted about appearing on the skin-heavy ``Baywatch'' television show at least once.
``She showed up to class and had good comments,'' said Ty Clevenger, now with a law firm in Washington, D.C. ``It's sad and it's frustrating because I think she's very intelligent. I think she's smarter than that.''
Rumors had always swirled about the pretty, busty Southern California woman in the rarefied air of one of the country's most expensive and best law schools. Among them was that she posed for Playboy magazine.
What is known, according to federal documents, is that since 1999 Schultz lived the high life, leasing luxury cars such as a Mercedes-Benz CL500, worth $75,888, and often having large reserves of cash.
In January of last year, a police report stated, her friend Brenda Tess Broussard was arrested for solicitation for prostitution. Broussard gave up her friend, ``Brazil,'' federal records show. It was Brazil, she said, who taught her the ropes of Internet prostitution.
An undercover IRS agent found Internet postings of 82 men who claimed to have had sex with Schultz for cash.
Schultz said on one Internet posting, the government contends, ``I have paid off 100 percent of my student loans, and I have tried to send a positive message to SF escorts re: assumptions about the nature and social status of women in the business.''
Her rates for being an escort? $1,250 to $1,300 for two hours, $2,200 for four hours, $3,000 for six hours, $5,000 for overnight, and $15,000 for three days.
It's not clear how Schultz met Warthen, a software entrepreneur who has done well for himself. His search engine, which uses conversational English in queries, was launched June 1, 1997. In divorce papers, he lists more than $7 million in liquid assets.
Wed in San Diego before about 80 guests, Cristina and David Warthen now live in his $1.15 million estate in Orinda. Schultz's lawyer says she no longer is an escort, but she still does give live chats on Sunday and Thursday nights on CameraCafe, a Web site owned by Warthen.
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Interesting that polititions are the biggest whores one can find and they all love back room deals with lots of "under the table" money.
Cm.
I feel so much safer now. Another dangerous criminal off the streets.
He DIDN"T KNOW she was a provider!?? And made his fortune creating a simple easy to use SEARCH ENGINE??? What am I missing here? Did he NEVER think to ASK JEEVES??? Somehow methinks he doth protest too much...but then again thats a lotta clams either way.
-- DH