WASHINGTON -- A former New Orleans prostitute who has said David Vitter was a regular customer in 1999 says the soon-to-be congressman and U.S. senator was sometimes stressed during their meetings, complaining about "these damn politicians" trying to derail his career.
In an interview, and an accompanying explicit photo spread, for which she was paid by Hustler magazine, Wendy Yow Ellis reveals little new about the relationship with Vitter other than what she divulged earlier this year after Vitter's name was connected to a Washington, D.C., call girl operation.
In the interview, which will appear in the magazine's January edition, Ellis said she got into the "escort service" business in New Orleans after being approached at a strip club by a man she identified only as Jonathan. She said she soon began seeing Vitter at a French Quarter apartment, almost always on Tuesdays and Thursdays between 10:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m., for several months. She suggested that Vitter, who was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1999, went to some lengths to keep the relationship secret.
"It was a rule that I could not wear any perfume, body lotions, not even take a shower," Ellis said. "Because he did not want any scent on him whatsoever. He would always come in, hang his jacket on the door, go into the bathroom and take a shower. He would come out with a towel wrapped around him and sit down on the bed. We'd talk. And then he'd do his business."
"It was a rule that I could not wear any perfume, body lotions, not even take a shower," Ellis said. "Because he did not want any scent on him whatsoever. He would always come in, hang his jacket on the door, go into the bathroom and take a shower. He would come out with a towel wrapped around him and sit down on the bed. We'd talk. And then he'd do his business."
Ellis also said that "usually people would leave their condoms in the trash can," but Vitter would take his used condoms with him.
Vitter has acknowledged being a customer of Pamela Martin & Associates, a Washington, D.C., escort service the U.S. Justice Department says was a prostitution ring. After his cell phone number was found in the service's records, Vitter confessed to committing a "very serious sin" and said he had sought forgiveness from God and his family.
Yow and Jeanette Maier, who has admitted running a brothel on Canal Street, then said that Vitter had also used their services. Vitter has deflected questions about those allegations by saying "those New Orleans stories" are not true.
A spokesman for Vitter said Wednesday that the senator "is completely focused" on a vote to override President Bush's veto of a water projects bill important to Louisiana "and has already addressed all this."
Ellis gives some conflicting images of Vitter. At one point in the interview, Ellis, 34, says that after sex, Vitter would take a shower and then leave without saying goodbye. But later in the interview, she says Vitter told her he could trust her.
Ellis gives some conflicting images of Vitter. At one point in the interview, Ellis, 34, says that after sex, Vitter would take a shower and then leave without saying goodbye. But later in the interview, she says Vitter told her he could trust her.
"He was personal that way. He'd say, 'This is my time with you. I don't want to spend my time anywhere else because I trust you. I know that I can come here because it's quiet and secluded.' And it was -- you had to go through several doors to get there. He would park a block away or have his driver drop him off. He was very quiet, very gentle. To me, he felt like a person who needed somebody just to be there." More on the story.
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