Lisa Ann Taylor's real estate career may be in jeopardy, now that she's accused of running a prostitution ring at her suburban Atlanta mansion, but business is booming for the adult entertainer who is preparing for sold-out audiences on a whirlwind exotic dancing tour.
The 42-year-old former Penthouse model told reporters Wednesday that she had been trying to get out of the adult entertainment business and was excited about a budding real-estate career. But all that came to a sudden halt earlier this month when she and another woman were arrested on prostitution, racketeering and drug charges.
Taylor's real estate license was inactivated. A lien was placed on her million dollar home.
But her adult entertainment Web site, where she goes by the name Melissa Wolf, buzzed with traffic. At one point it became overloaded and shut down. Her upcoming shows at adult entertainment clubs in Canada and the midwest are booked.
"Business is good right now," Taylor said, citing upcoming shows in Detroit, Milwaukee, Wis., Allenton, Pa., and dates in Ontario and British Columbia. "I don't have enough weeks in the year."
Still, Taylor said the experience has been bittersweet. She said her work has been a welcome distraction and provided needed income to pay her bills and fight her case, but her arrest has pulled her back into the life she had been trying to escape.
"I was an adult entertainer one day, and all of a sudden in a lot of trouble the next," she said.
If she is found innocent, Taylor said she would like to move on.
"If I'm creative, maybe I'll sell my story. Hey, Cribs, you want to come see my house?" she asked half-jokingly, referring to the popular MTV reality show where celebrities flaunt their extravagant homes.
Wearing Chanel sunglasses, a low-cut white top and a black and white pinstriped pantsuit, and sporting a French manicure, she faced a gaggle of local news media at her lawyer's Norcross office and vowed to fight the charges.
She could face up to 37 years in prison.
"I try not to think of it too much right now," Taylor said. "I'm scared a little. But I'm confident in both of my attorneys."
She also admonished her accusers, who include some of her neighbors.
"My question to them is that if I'm having these wild parties at 4 and 5 in the morning, what are they doing up at that time in the morning peeking through my windows? Shame on them," she said.
Gwinnett County District Attorney Danny Porter says Taylor and Nicole A. Probert, 30, were operating a call-girl service out of Taylor's mansion in a gated neighborhood north of Atlanta. The women also are accused of procuring drugs for their clients and friends.
Porter has promised to bring charges against the clients as well as the suspected prostitutes. Since the case became public, several men have been arrested on pandering charges.
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