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Michelle Braun Prostitution Ring | 05/12/2009 9:05 am

Michelle Braun Accused of Running Porn-Star Prostitution Ring

By The Staff at wowOwow.com
Michelle Braun is accused of running an online prostitution business in a case that may ensnare celebrities like "The Wrestler" star Mickey Rourke, actor Charlie Sheen, singer Courtney Love, and former New York Yankees slugger Jose Canseco.

Braun pleaded not guilty in a California Court yesterday to money laundering and transporting a person from Orange County to New York City to pimp them out, reports The Orange County Register. It’s alleged that Braun’s travel and security business, Global Travel Network Inc., was a front for her prostitution business, which employed 71 women, including adult film stars, Playboy Playmate centerfolds and actresses. The business, which she ran for 15 years, may have made her more than $8.5 million. It came crashing down after an FBI agent posing as a client got her to transport a woman across state lines.

Sources say that Braun will change her plea to "guilty" at her next hearing June 29, and that her sentence will be six years of home confinement, probation and a fine, The Register reports. The Boca Raton mother of two is out on $20,000 bail.

Braun’s plea deal may cause some better-known faces to worry, reports The New York Daily News. Rourke, Sheen and others are named in records that are part of the investigation, although they’re not accused of any wrongdoing. In some cases, it may just be that Braun was hoping to get some of these higher-profile celebrities as clients.


21 Reader Comments (so far…) Sign In or Register to comment

HA BIBI
Yeah, let’s see if she has the brass cajones to leak names. Heidi said she would too but that didn’t happen. When are women going to wake up and quit being pawns in sick men’s games and then turn around and continually protect them………This is why women will remain second class citizens in the eyes of men.
By HA BIBI on 05/12/2009 9:16 am
Chrome Toe
wow…. SHOCKING… it might ensnare Mickey Rourke and Charlie Sheen????  if these guys weren’t involved in a prostitution ring I think the world would spin off it’s axis lol.,
By Chrome Toe on 05/12/2009 9:18 am
nanchan u
the tea got spilled laughing at your post.  I’m sending you the cleaning bill, CT!
By nanchan u on 05/12/2009 9:23 am
Mel Berg
hey, great business women….8.5 million and she will probably get off pretty easy. Huh, that "age old" business is still rolling along
By Mel Berg on 05/12/2009 10:00 am
Suzanne de Cornelia
Mel, I don’t know about getting off easy, she’s had previous drug arrests. The men who used the services will get off easy though. All other ‘crimes’ both sides of the deal get jail time….why is it that only the ladies get jail and not the men?
By Suzanne de Cornelia on 05/14/2009 2:09 am
Mary Utrup
What a charming way for the mother of  two to spend her "free time". I hope they throw the book at her an everyone involved in her "enterprise". Was she planning on passing on the business to the kids when she was done? Or maybe she was going to employ them! More proof of the old axim: What you do in the dark will come up in the light. God bless the agent that made her face the light!
By Mary Utrup on 05/12/2009 11:31 am
HA BIBI

Mary,

You are right!!!

By HA BIBI on 05/12/2009 5:24 pm
Mary Utrup
Your agreement is a very welcome thing. It makes you worry and wonder just where this country is headed.
By Mary Utrup on 05/12/2009 8:16 pm
HA BIBI
It’s heading to hell in a handbasket, fast and furious, Mary, but not to worry, God is in control! :)
By HA BIBI on 05/12/2009 9:24 pm
Mary Utrup

Somedays that’s the only comfort we’ve got!!!

By Mary Utrup on 05/13/2009 8:19 am
HA BIBI
LOL Mary, that’s my reprieve from the madness in this world "Everyday" Total peace amidst the chaos! :)
By HA BIBI on 05/13/2009 9:29 am
Mary Utrup
Good for you! May you keep it each and every day!
By Mary Utrup on 05/13/2009 10:24 am
Beth Cornell

CT, NanChu, you guys are funny. I’ll send you the hospital bill for when I fall out of my chair. ;) This also made me laugh.

Prostitution is the oldest game around. It has been done for hundreds of years. Excuse the expresseion, "It gets better with time". Not to mention more inventive. You’d think cops would just give up. So Mel you are also correct in what you said here.

By Beth Cornell on 05/12/2009 12:19 pm
S G
Another thing that should be legalized and taxed. Lets face it. Prostitution has and always will be. At least there would be age limits and test required.
By S G on 05/12/2009 12:33 pm
Mel Berg
S G, I’m with you, there has always been prostitutes so why not legalize it and tax it?? Free up the police to do other things.
By Mel Berg on 05/12/2009 5:46 pm