The woman prosecutors say is behind the Miami-based escort service they claim is "one of the largest prostitution organizations in the United States" had been hoping to turn her story into a TV show.
Laurie Carr, who along with husband Gregory and three other people were busted last July in the multi-million dollar, multi-state ring, e-mailed TV execs back in 2007 to try to get her Miami Companions Escort Service on the small screen, according to the Detroit News.
Carr's most shocking claim: a famous rock band's front man dialed up the service on several occasions, including a steamy threesome at his South Florida house.
Carr claims the married rock star, who the Detroit News isn't naming, "always paid for multiple hours every time his wife was out of town," including the South Florida tryst with two "hot girls" named Paris and Julie.
The rock star had sex with Julie while Paris danced, then drove the two to what they thought was a drug house in Miami Beach, according to Carr's e-mail. The girls got scared and left the house, but when they returned to the rock star's house the next day to get their car, they allegedly ran into his wife.
"As Julie was getting out of Paris' car, (the rock star's) wife ran out to them screaming and wanted to know what the (expletive) their car was doing there," Laurie Carr wrote. "Julie unfortunately broke the cardinal rule and told (the rock star's) wife the truth, they were escorts, they had been their (sic) the night before partying and they didn't feel safe to drive back with (him) because he was so (expletive) up. (The rock star) then called us screaming that he would never use our agency again. That sucked for us …"
The rock star's wife denied the story to the Detroit News.
Parts of Carr's e-mail were filed in U.S. District Court in Detroit, where all five defendants face charges including conspiracy to coerce and entice acts of prostitution, coercion and enticement of prostitution, and conspiracy to commit money laundering. The bulk of Miami Companions' prostitution allegedly occurred in Michigan.
According to the U.S. Attorney's Office, Miami Companions, which was owned by the Carrs, sent call girls to Detroit, Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Dayton, Milwaukee, and Minneapolis beginning in the "early 2000's until March 2009." In some locations, they even rented out "exotic beach houses, where clients exchanged money for sex," according to the feds.
Nayubet Loani Swaso, 24, Michelle Matarazzo, 36, and Fabiola Contreras, 33, were the other three arrested.
Swaso, the feds allege, was the manager of the overseas call center the Carrs used to coordinate getting the call girls across the country. Matarazzo was an office manager coordinated all the prostitutes' travel plans, among other duties. Contreras also helped manage some of the outfit's business affairs and owns bank accounts in which some of the money from the ring was funneled into.
In her e-mail, Carr also alleges that a lobbyist for the National Association of Realtors in Washington was a frequent client and that he even took her as a guest to one of President George W. Bush's State of the Union addresses.
The lobbyist, who also isn't named, allegedly sent Carr lingerie and books autographed by Bill and Hillary Clinton, as well as the address ticket.
"He called me and said he wanted to meet me. He had an extra ticket to the State of the Union address with Bush and asked if I wanted to go. So (Greg) and I flew to D.C.," Carr wrote. "(He) asked if I would wear the black stocking set he had given me with a suit. So I wore a cobalt blue suit with black stockings, garter belt and matching thong and bra."
She claims she sat next to a general at the address. "If they only knew how I got this ticket," she wrote.
Realtors association spokesman Lucien Salvant told the Detroit News that Laurie Carr's story is riddled with "inaccuracies."
"The story was written by her to sell as a TV program to sensationalize her experiences. As such, it's a Hollywood fantasy," Salvant said. "The letter is filled with inaccuracies designed to attract a favorable response from TV executives, and it should be treated as such. To publish it would be irresponsible."
Laurie Carr, 40, has cut a deal with prosecutors to be a witness against her husband and may serve just a year behind bars.
Gregory Carr's attorney, Paul DeCailly, said he's seen the e-mail.
"It's juicy, but it doesn't affect my client or his case," DeCailly said. "That was her thing."
