>>13116154On the very rare occasion those trials go to court, prosecuting the escort (not prosecuting the John, an important distinction), is because they eventually slip up and say dollars/paid instead of roses/donated. There is a giant stigma against prosecuting hookers from sting operations - they're usually offered non-prosecution agreements in exchange for being "rescued", offered services, etc, which makes the Police seem like the good guys
>She may have been a sugar baby for other rich men.>So an escort>Not according to the law.This was the exchange in question. The functional difference between escort and sugarbaby is that escorts openly flaunt the law (or operate in gray areas) using word games while sugar arrangements are informal in nature. For practical ("intensive") purposes, a sugar baby and an escort are the same -- an ongoing agreement to provide romantic accompaniment and sexual favors, with one (or both) parties knowing they need to be cognizant of legal ramifications. Sugarbabies will take gift cards and jewelry, escorts usually are less pliant. An escort who has ceased advertising and has only 1 client is ostensibly a sugarbaby
Prostitution is generally one-time sexual favors, with limited/zero vetting, in exchange for cash with BOTH parties knowing what they're doing is HIGHLY illegal. That's where we get movie tropes like Borat hiring a prostitute (not escorts/call girls), because it's much funnier to imagine a sex-only/no kissing/no GFE/no dates prostitute being placed in a wacky situation like a formal dinner or dance party. They just want to fuck and get paid, so asking them to go to a family reunion and pretend to be your fiancee makes for good comedy
Vince still shouldn't have treated this woman the way he did, he completely fucked up there, no matter how much money he was paying her. But I think his biggest fuck-up was giving her a paying job, which makes it clear she had at least SOME intention of becoming 'legitimate' some day.
