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Fame Brief: The Busy Lawyer's Guide to 'Aggravated Pimping'

DSK’s most recent charge raises an important issue: What is aggravated pimping? And if pimpin ain't easy, isn’t all pimping “aggravated pimping?”

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Yesterday, a French judge charged embarrassing grandpa and former IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn with “aggravated pimping” for his role in a prostitution ring run out of upscale hotels in Lille, France. The charge is the latest in a series of sexual allegations against liver-spotted DSK, including attending sex parties with hookers, sexually assaulting his goddaughter, raping a maid in a hotel, and having sex at age 63.

DSK’s most recent charge raises an important issue: What is aggravated pimping? And if pimpin’ ain’t easy, isn’t all pimping “aggravated pimping”? According to this blogger, whose analysis sounds good to me because I’m too lazy to check it, the French charge of “aggravated pimping” likely involves some aggravating circumstance, such as paying for prostitutes with corporate funds or paying for annoying prostitutes with your own money. Apparently most U.S. states also have “aggravated promotion of prostitution” statutes, which make angry pimping a more serious crime than relaxed pimping — which makes sense from a public policy perspective.

But what about the millions of permissible P.I.M.P.s who just happen to be having a bad day? Are they at risk of breaking the law? And where do we draw the line between perfectly legal Big Pimpin’ and illegal aggravated pimping?

To help make sense of this mess — and to keep you on the legal side of where the true players are at — see my Guide to Pimping chart below….

Strauss-Kahn warned over alleged prostitution ring [CNN]
DSK Charged with ‘Aggravated Pimping’ [FindLaw]

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