Law School Grad Turned Hooker Sentenced for Tax Evasion

Hookers and tax problems? Why do I keep thinking a visit to her local ACORN office could have helped this young lady out?

Law school comes in handy when trying to evade taxes as a call girl, or at least that’s what one Stanford graduate seemed to think.

Cristina Warthen - a 2001 Stanford Law School graduate - was sentenced Monday on a federal tax conviction related to her upscale call-girl business, according to a report from Mercury News.

Warthen pleaded guilty for failing to pay taxes on nearly $133,000 earned in '03 during her high-end prostitution days as a touring escort named Brazil. She serviced clients throughout the nation in various cities, including New York, Chicago and Washington.

The jet-setting Warthen, previously Christina Shultz, sold herself on a racy Web site called TouchofBrazil.net in hopes to pay for law school.

In a plea deal with the government, Warthen has been fitted with an electronic monitoring device while sentenced to one year of home detention, as well as three years' probation.

Warthen is also responsible for paying $243,000 to the government, a mercy offer by prosecutors after Warthen demonstrated she could not afford the original amount of $313,000. Her recent divorce from David Warthen – co-founder of online search engine Ask.com – has left her broke and unemployed.

The once-wealthy Web entrepreneur lost his fortune and his wife after the stock market collapsed. According to the report, he filed for divorce this year citing "irreconcilable differences."