She pulled up to a business complex, Jones testified, and sat in her car until Eshun appeared at the top of the stairs and let her in. I expressed that I understood what he was referring to.”
Jones added that Eshun “wanted to make sure that I understand that it was a dating-type service that I was going to be working for. Eshun, she said, instructed her to go to a restaurant in Tustin, and to call him again from the pay phone for further directions. Jones said that the two agreed to meet at his office the next night. Sandra Jones testified at Eshun’s pretrial hearing in Orange County Superior Court that she first met the 36-year-old Pasadena native in February, 1985, after she answered an ad in a local newspaper for “young, attractive females wanting to work for an escort service.” Two months after Anaheim and Newport Beach police arrested Great Company Escorts owner Richard Blay (Roman) Eshun in October, 1985, several prostitutes told how they came to work for his escort service. There was an unspoken code,” said Marquardson, who now lives in Seattle. “They would giggle,” said Ellen Marquardson, who averaged $5,000 a month as a prostitute for Cover Girl, which was shut down by police in 1982 as a prostitution ring. Part of the “game,” she said, included having women sign a contract promising not to commit acts of prostitution while they worked, and advising them that if they did anything illegal they would lose their jobs. One former prostitute who did some of the hiring at the now defunct Cover Girl Escorts in Santa Ana told The Times that sex for money was never talked about, particularly over the telephone, in case the unschooled customer or prospective escort turned out to be an undercover police officer. Recent court cases in Orange County and interviews with admitted former prostitutes and madams in the county provide an insight into the shadowy world of the illicit escort business. “Any man that thinks he is not going to get a piece of action when he is paying $150 an hour or more should have his head examined,” Barrow, 35, said in a telephone interview. “If they were just a dating service they’d say that,” said Sydney Biddle Barrows, the celebrated escort-service owner, best-selling author and descendant of the Pilgrims who was dubbed the Mayflower Madam at the time of her 1984 arrest in New York.
Still, others who have worked in the business say escort services usually serve as a ruse for call-girl rings. “Whether the owners actually know what went on, or whether they can only be expected to assume what went on is really the issue.” And then somehow or other the police feel that they can still prosecute in that situation. “Males and females being what they are, many of them still do it. “Some operators have issued strict instructions to the women not to participate in sexual activity,” he said. “I think that what they (police) should be able to show is that the operator was participating in some way in setting up the sexual activity, and that he’s sharing in the dollars,” Stokke said. Stokke, a Santa Ana attorney who has represented several escort owners during the last 15 years, argues that police and prosecutors often fall short of proving their case against escort operators, despite the convictions they may win. I have no authority over what goes on.” Allan H. What they (women) do after is their problem.
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Alfonso Lopez, for example, who with his girlfriend, Wendy Haskin, is scheduled to go to trial in April in Orange County Superior Court on 41 counts of pimping and pandering, said outside a courtroom recently: “I just have an answering service.
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