£20k/week escort & Toys R Us Boss

Basically:

- Toys R Us manager, Hopes steals £3.7million from Toys R Us
- He spends it on 4 prostitutes
- One of these call girls is Dawn Dunbar received £1.75million from Hopes = £20k/week + Bentley as gift
- Judge doesn't believe call girl is worth that much: "How do you manage to evaluate your services – sex – at £20,000 a week?"
- She replies: ‘It wasn’t me that was putting the worth on that. It was Mr Hopes paying what he thought it was worth."
- Assets of Dunbar are seized as they are regarded not as earnings, but as gifts

As the escort says: the value of something is determined by how much someone is willing to pay. If her client wanted to pay her that much, then those are her earnings. Because the judge doesn't think she's worth 20k/week he declares the monies she received are 'gifts' rather than 'earnings' and can be seized.

Seems rather unfair to me. Nobody would challenge those in high paid 'respectable' jobs e.g. banker or...judge (!) to justify their earnings.

The call girl may not be 'hot' to most, but beauty is in the eye of the beholder and sexual desires can be 'odd' indeed. If 20k is what Hopes wanted to pay her for her services, then what's the problem?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2037001/Former-Toys-R-Us-boss-Paul-Hopes-stole-4m-paid-escort-Dawn-Dunbar-20k-week.html

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Reply 1

ebam_uk

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Sex toys r us more like :P

Reply 2

michaelhaych

15

my eyes are burning!!!!

Reply 3

34253

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They are technically earnings. He didn't give her that money out of the goodness of his heart, she did a job for it. However, an escort's bread and butter is being given insane amounts of money or high value items she could never hope to earn working on a till in Asda.

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Reply 4

crocker710

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I think the judge was trying to say he could have got at least an 8+/10 for £20,000.00 a week, not that 2/10-at-best

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Reply 5

34253

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Original post by michaelhaych

my eyes are burning!!!!

Reply 6

No Future

OP

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Original post by crocker710

I think the judg]

Yeah, but whatever she looks like, those were her earnings as a hooker.

Reply 7

hashman90

8

my god whats the world coming to?

Reply 8

michaelhaych

15

It's a bit rich for a member of the legal profession to ask someone else how they justify their earnings.

Reply 9

ibysaiyan

16

She's definitely worth that much... how much was it again .. 20k/ week ?

Mr. Hope should have gone to spec savers...

Reply 10

No Future

OP

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Original post by michaelhaych

It's a bit rich for a member of the legal profession to ask someone else how they justify their earnings.

exactly

...Lucky bitch.

OP

Original post by Xhotas

...Lucky bitch.

Well, given that her client has stolen the money and her own earnings have now been seized, I think not

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Reply 13

ForensicGeek

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They're earnings so it's wrong of the judge even if I don't agree with her work or what the boss was spending millions on.

Reply 14

Jingers

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Original post by Elipsis

They are technically earnings. He didn't give her that money out of the goodness of his heart, she did a job for it. However, an escort's bread and butter is being given insane amounts of money or high value items she could never hope to earn working on a till in Asda.