Flynt: Vitter Used Escort Service in 2001During a press conference this afternoon, Hustler publisher Larry Flynt released the phone record that led to Sen. David Vitter’s (R-LA) admission that he’d been a customer of Pamela Martin & Associates, the escort service run by Deborah Jeane Palfrey, otherwise known as the D.C. Madam.
Flynt’s investigator, Dan Moldea, matched the D.C. number — which appeared February 27, 2001 for a 1.2 minute conversation on Palfrey’s records — to Vitter last Friday. Hustler called Vitter’s office for comment on Monday afternoon; Vitter then released his statement to the AP admitting to using the service Monday night. Vitter was a member of the House at the time.
During his conference, Flynt said that he’d outed Vitter — and would be outing others, because of his hypocrisy; or as he put it: “I’m not exposing anyone’s sex life, I’m only exposing hypocrisy.”
Flynt took out a full-page ad in The Washington Post in June, offering $1 million for “documented evidence of illicit sexual or intimate relations with a Congressperson, Senator or other prominent officeholder.” He said that Hustler had a number of investigations still going as a result, and that he’d be releasing the data “as we have it.”
Update: See the update on this here.