The woman accused of running a high-end brothel on Chicago’s West Side says she does not want to give names of her former clients to prosecutors in part because they “hold positions of prestige in the community, including in law enforcement and government.”
The feds have charged Jessica Nesbitt, also known as Madame Priscilla Belle, for alleged crimes that revolve around her business, Kink Extraordinaires. In a court filing overnight, her attorney said Nesbitt has roughly 9,000 former clients and hundreds of former employees.
Though she would like to contact some of them, her attorney asked a judge in that filing to reconsider a ruling requiring her to produce their names to prosecutors. Rather, the attorney wants prosecutors to name the former clients or employees they don’t want Nesbitt to contact.
“Many of Ms. Nesbitt’s former clients hold positions of prestige in the community, including in law enforcement and government,” attorney Adam Sheppard wrote. “Given the discreet nature of the topic at hand, many have expressed their reluctance to speak to anybody but Ms. Nesbitt, directly.”
The filing says many of Nesbitt’s ex-clients “are also leaders in industry, government, and law, who have offered Ms. Nesbitt future employment opportunities.”
