Jerry has cheated on me.
It was with an escort when he was on a business trip.
I believe Jerry may have cheated on me more than once.
I believe that there may have been other times
that he's just hiding and lying about.
Jerry used to lie to me.
He used to tell me he was at a meeting or work
and he was actually at a strip club.
I was working, doing what I was doing,
and he was going off to the strip club
when he's supposed to be working.
There was one girl at a club that I saw
several times over a period of three or four months
but we never were intimate.
You're going off and spending time
with another young woman, another 23 year old
when you're 47?
Is that the magic number?
'Cause when he met me, I was 23.
She gave me private dances.
We did kiss and I enjoyed her company
and her companionship.
Jerry stole $1,200 of my money to go see this girl.
When I met Jerry at the strip club I was working at,
he gave me $10, so why'd this girl deserve $1,200?
Now Jerry has found a way to connect
with young girls by connecting with them
on a business networking site.
I logged into his account
and I saw all these women's profiles
and I started going through them
and they had nothing to do with his business at all.
I ended up deleting 300 people.
They were all young and good looking.
Okay, we'll talk about that in a second,
but you say that you're completely okay
with her doing what she does.
In fact, you've actually said that
you needed for her to do it.
I've never forced her to do to it,
I never encouraged her to make that career choice.
I only have, I did say that there have been times
where yeah, we needed her income to pay our bills.
You said, I'm not a jealous person.
I don't care that she's an escort.
I have not lived up to being her knight in shining armor.
We couldn't pay bills and support the family
without her, and your income is up and down,
so you're saying you needed this.
That's the whole point.
Yep, we needed to have two incomes.
Where they came from didn't really,
wasn't the determining factor,
but yeah, there were times when we needed
to have two incomes.
And you know that she wanted to quit
after rapes and abuse, but it was just not
always financially possible.
She's never expressed a strong desire to me to quit.
Okay.
(sobbing)
How many times have you been raped?
Total of seven.
Seven times?
There's a lot of research about
women that work in this industry.
The homicide rate for what they call sex workers,
you know, prostitutes, escorts,
whatever label you wanna use.
The homicide rate is 51 times higher than normal
for the general population.
51 times higher.
The mortality rate, not just homicide but just death
is 240 times higher.
75% of escorts attempted suicide
and they're four and a half times more likely to try it.
70 to 95% are physically assaulted.
60 to 75% have been raped,
some eight to 10 times a year.
I can't imagine that.
You're part of that statistic.
No, I understand.
That's really my biggest question on how
you would allow the woman that you say you love
to be in such a high risk situation
aside from whether you're jealous or not jealous.
Why would it be okay with you
for your wife to be in such a high risk environment?
I would love for her to get out of the business.
The couple of times that we've lived in marriage
where she didn't have opportunity to work,
she missed it.
I don't encourage her to do this kind of work.
I would love for her to find a way out of it.
Two of the times that she was raped
was when she was working with the police department
as a confidential informant
and they set her up.
It had nothing to do with her business.