It turns out that the man who tried to "save" escort Lindsey DeLeon may not have been such a white knight after all. DeLeon claims that real-estate developer Robert Brot moved her to the city to pimp her out, not to put her through school as he claims in his lawsuit. She told the Post, "He told me, 'I'm going to show you the high life. I'm going to show you how to live.' And he did." more ›

Despite what Pretty Woman would have you believe, most women in the world's oldest profession aren't just innocent, misguided souls waiting for their white knight. According to the Post, one Manhattan man found this out the hard way after allegedly getting conned out of $100K by an Oklahoma escort. Robert Brot, 57, met Lindsey DeLeon, 26— a "Sweet Southern Redhead with Natural DDD's"—on a dating website in 2008. After finding out she had two kids, lots of debt and was working as a stripper and escort to pay the bills, he decided he wanted to help her out. more ›

. The buyer might be a Russian billionaire, since people described him as "sounding Russian," or might not be, as writer Marc Spiegler comes across many possibilities. more ›

The best Valentine's Day related story we've seen yet must be this one from the Columbia Spectator, which looks at the Anachronistic Gentleman Rental Society. Now, while the men are actually free of charge, they can be dressed in period clothing. No joke - Columbia sophmore Genevieve Yang told the Spec why she founded the service: “One day last year I was thinking, what if instead of a one-night stand, you had a one-night-walk-in-the-park-hand-holding?” Other fun facts: Yang uses a parasol on sunny days and wears a corset, and seventeen guys have actually signed up but no one has ever rented them! This must mean there are very few aspiring ladies out there - and we thought you were suckers for Merchant Ivory films! Anyway, Gothamist recommends this as the basis for a short film at least, since the rent-a-date has been a film staple: See Can't Buy Me Love, Pretty Woman, The Wedding Date, and The Man from Elysian Fields. Also, this reminds us a little of Kate & Leopold, which we did see in the theaters and can justify seeing because it featured awesome Brooklyn Bridge mentions. more ›