A full page ad by Larry Flynt’s Hustler Magazine in The Washington Post has created a stir around the nation’s capital. The magazine’s ad was put in the paper on Sunday and offers up to $1 million for documented evidence of illicit relations with a member of Congress, senator, or other prominent office holders. The ad is in search of tales of “infidelity, sexual impropriety or corruption.” The sexual ad is requesting that people e-mail or call about illicit facts and in return, receive cash if the magazine publishes the verified details.
This is not the first time the pornography magazine publisher has run sexual ads. In the late 1990s, Flynt’s Hustler Magazine got a tip that prevented Rep. Bob Livingston from taking over as House Speaker after Newt Gingrich. Livingston confessed to cheating on his wife and later resigned. Another victim of the magazine ads was Louisiana Sen. David Vitter. Flynt connected the senator to Deborah Jeane Palfrey, a woman who became known as the D.C. Madam. Vitter publicly apologized for his unfaithfulness, but Palfrey committed suicide as she awaited her sentencing for federal conviction on money laundering and racketeering charges.
