poor sugar daddy? not so much.

by Violet Blue on May 11, 2009


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This news item caught my eye today, about Greenwich Financier (and DuPont heir) Stephen Dent’s little problem with his own sugar daddy fetish and SeekingArrangement.com (not linked to in the article, of course) — snip:

Some people don’t learn lessons. Other people are very good at learning lessons. The story of Stephen Dent, a 54-year-old multimillionaire DuPont heir, includes both groups. Primarily, Dent is the one here who doesn’t learn. After getting blackmailed by a woman he met on the sugar-daddy website SeekingArrangement.com (sample testimonial: “Unlike other cash strapped students, I am pampered with expensive gifts. My sugar daddy is the sweetest man I know. He is my mentor, my benefactor and my lover”), the married Dent went back on the site only to get blackmailed again. And then once more again. And this was after the FBI and private investigators were involved the first time around. All told, Dent spent about $200,000 on women from the site, and was blackmailed for $150,000 more.

So, here’s the guy who wasn’t learning his lessons. Who was?

The sugar babies, of course! Here’s a sample ad that Dent posted for potential job applicants:

“Regarding your financial assistance, my initial thoughts are cash compensation in the range of $2,000 to $3,000 per meeting (…read more, nymag.com)

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{ 2 comments }

1 casualencounters.com/blog May 12, 2009 at 2:44 pm

Sucks to be rich and successful.

2 Nobilis May 11, 2009 at 6:54 pm

You know that if that happened to an ordinary Joe he’d be up on pandering charges faster than you could say “schadenfreude.”

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