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The seventh annual Exxxotica convention will jam the Miami Beach Convention Center Friday through Sunday with more than 8,000 sex-industry performers and their fans. South Florida resident Leena Sky is a little of both, but not at all what you may expect from a porn actress.
On Monday night, Leena, who asked to be identified only by her professional name, completed her fifth hardcore film since taking her tentative first steps into adult entertainment a few months ago with live webcam performances from her Coral Springs home. Her resume comes with references to Naked.com, Bang Bros., and the Cheetah strip club in Pompano Beach.
When she is not making porn or stripping, she has another life as a 33-year-old mother of two preschoolers who earns a living as a psychology professor at a Broward County college, as well as instructing students via two other online university programs. Leena, who has worked as a licensed mental-health counselor, has three college degrees, including an undergraduate diploma from Clemson University and a master’s and a doctorate in education from the online Argosy University.

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Phillips has long insisted that the alleged drug deal never happened. From his prison cell, he continued to investigate his case, and found records showing that Ghent was not on duty on April 6, 2001; in fact, Ghent was taking a training course in hostage negotiation on the night of the alleged drug deal.
A private investigator later helped with the case and found Ghent’s informant, who said that she never bought drugs from Phillips. Phillips’ case was also highlighted in a series of articles in the New Times Broward-Palm Beach.
Ghent was later arrested on bribery charges for taking payoffs from a West Palm Beach massage parlor-turned-brothel called Relax With Us. The charges were dropped as part of a plea deal, and Ghent agreed to surrender his certification to work as a law enforcement officer. Ghent now lives in Arizona.

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Former New England Mafia boss Luigi “Baby Shacks” Manocchio was sentenced Friday to 5 1/2 years in prison for his role in the shakedown of Providence, R.I., strip clubs. AP takes a look at some of the more notable nicknames associated with the mob and tries to shed light on their sometimes murky origins:
— Vincent “Vinny Gorgeous” Basciano, former acting boss of the Bonanno crime family, owned a beauty salon in the Bronx called “Hello Gorgeous” and was known for being obsessed with his personal appearance; serving life on racketeering and murder charges.
—Anthony “Tony Bagels” Cavezza, an accused Gambino family mobster known for his affection for New York bagels. He was indicted in Jan. 2011 as part of a sweep in New York, New Jersey and Rhode Island and awaits trial on charges including running an illegal gambling business scheduled later this month; has pleaded not guilty.

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But now the Evangelical Assembly of Christ has made it a place to hold jubilant services, members said. On the first Sunday since major renovations, nearly everyone in the 250-person congregation turned out. The preacher could hardly deliver his sermon over excited applause, said member D’andre Pierre, 12.Their second service at 1115 N. Federal Highway is 8 a.m. Sunday.”It was dark when we came here,” said Philadele Alezy, secretary of the mostly Haitian church, which relocated from Delray Beach. “Very dark, very bad.”They brushed new white and turquoise paint on the outside brick, installed new carpets and ripped out the stripper poles. The members see their locale as a symbol of Christian salvation.Their neighbors and community leaders appreciate the bright spot in a part of town where every few storefronts appear dirty and vacant.Law enforcement agents raided the strip club in October 2009, and the property was abandoned. Neighbors say it attracted vandals.Darryl Johnson, a funeral director and embalmer next door, called the pol …

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In addition to a heavyweight cast including Catherine Zeta-Jones, Alec Baldwin, and Paul Giamatti, Rock of Ages will come with a dollop of déjà vu for South Floridians. Last summer, the movie’s production consumed this area: Revolution Live in Fort Lauderdale was used as a stand-in for The Bourbon Room; the iconic Hollywood sign in Los Angeles was re-created on Monarch Hill Landfill, known as “Mt. Trashmore,” in Pompano Beach; on Miami Beach, the old theater at the Castle Beach Club—formerly the Hilton Playboy Club—became a fictional strip bar, the Venus Club, with lots of purple and gold décor and endless stripper poles. In downtown Miami, on 14th Street and North Miami Avenue, the production team turned an oddball mix of buildings in varying architectural styles into the Sunset Strip, with mock facades for The Bourbon Room and Venus Club. Rock of Ages also shot at the Ice Palace Film Studios, creating a backstage dressing room for Jaxx with a 10-foot round bed and other rock star trappings. Foreigner’s “I Want to Know What Love Is” accompanies a scene where Jaxx has sex on an air hockey table with a female reporter.

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BALDWIN, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) — Long Island’s so-called “hot dog hooker” returned to selling hot dogs again, fresh off pleading guilty to prostitution.
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Scalia was charged with prostitution after she says an undercover cop bought a hot dog with a lap dance on the side and then asked her to perform a sex act.
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The mother of four pleaded guilty to prostitution in court, but maintains she is only guilty of stripping, which isn’t a crime.
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Her kids began living with their grandparents back in 2005 after she was arrested for prostitution the first time.
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Scalia said she’ll get that peddlers permit tomorrow, but it may not be as easy as she thinks. Hempstead Town said it requires a criminal background search, and with her recent guilty plea to prostitution, that could make her ineligible, Gusoff reported.

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Florida brothel owner gets life in prison
Published: May 8, 2012 at 10:06 AM
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., May 8 (UPI) –
The man who ran a notorious south Florida brothel known as the Boom Boom Room has been sentenced to life in federal prison, prosecutors said.
James “Red” Mozie, 35, was convicted of child sex trafficking, conspiracy to commit child sex trafficking and producing child pornography, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported Tuesday.
U.S. District Judge William Dimitrouleas handed Mozie the sentence at a hearing in Fort Lauderdale.
He was accused of recruiting eight girls between the ages of 13 and 17 to give lap dances and have sex with Boom Boom Room customers.
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His wife, Laschell “Shelly” Harris, 38, is currently serving a 13-year federal prison sentence for helping him run the brothel.

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… I saw a market for it while in recovery,” said owner Don Prince. “Salons are a party industry. After work the whole crew usually goes out. There is a lot of peer pressure. It’s tough.”
Tough indeed. West Palm Beach’s Caitlin Bartolome is only 21 years old and fresh out of cosmetology school, she’s been a stylist for two years, but only working at Serenity Styles for a few months. Even though she prefers not to talk specifics about her bout with addiction, she freely admits that despite her youth she’s seen a lot, done a lot, regretted a lot.
“One day I just looked into the mirror and said, ‘so this is what you’ve become? A disgrace? Basically I was a prostitute on the street. I was clean on my 21

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The judge said it was a shame that Mozie used his apparent intelligence into recruiting child prostitutes and “ruining the lives of these runaway girls.”
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Mozie, who said he plans to appeal, turned around to nod reassuringly at family members who became upset when they heard the prison term.”It’s OK,” he mouthed to his two sisters and a brother.None of the women and young girls who worked for Mozie attended the hearing though several of them testified during his trial. They said that Mozie, accompanied by his wife and other members of his family, tried to recruit girls on the street by promising that he could get them jobs as models and dancers.One of the witnesses, a 10th-grader, said she ran away from home and made $270 in a single night at the brothel by having sex with four men, including Mozie.Dressed in skimpy outfits, the girls would dance for customers in a large living room area. Clients who w …

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MIAMI (CBSMiami.com) – An Oakland Park man convicted of running an underage brothel learned Monday how long he will pay for his crimes.
James Mozie, 34, was sentenced to life in prison for running the brothel, dubbed the “Boom Boom Room.” He was convicted in December on ten charges including sex trafficking of minors and conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of minors and production of child pornography.
Federal investigators said Mozie advertised the business through mass text messages that would let people know about what was happening at the Boom Boom Room each night.
Customers would then pay a cover charge to a security guard and once inside; minors would dance for tips and engage in sex for money. The minors working for Mozie said he knew of their age and told them not to tell customers they were underage.

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