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Sex for tickets scandal - Susan Finkelstein gets Phillies tix, Facebook friends, and media tour
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Phillies fan or prostitute? Susan Finkelstein poses for her mugshot.
(AP/Bensalem Police Dept)
"Desperate blonde needs WS tickets" the Craigslist ad read. "Diehard Phillies fan - gorgeous tall buxom blonde - in desperate need of two World Series tickets. Price negotiable - I'm the creative type! Maybe we could help each other."
Even less expected was the media frenzy that resulted. The story exploded popping up in the New York Post, the CBS Early Show and a Philadelphia radio talk show among other places. Finkelstein made 800 new friends on Facebook. She's been getting a ton of support and sympathy from the nation.
The hosts at the Philadelphia morning radio show, Wired 96.5 FM, were able to score the buxom blonde the tickets she so desperately needed.
Finkelstein, who is married, claims her intention was to negotiate the prices down to something affordable, not to exchange sex for tickets. Seats to the Phillies/Yankees World Series have been selling for as much $2000.
During her interview on CBS, Finkelstein's attorney, William J. Brennan, monitored the conversation closely. He quickly censored words that could potentially hurt her case, like when host Harry Smith described her ad as "seductive." The attorney also declared on the show, when asked by Smith whether she had been handcuffed upon her arrest, "They chained her to a bench like a dog for two hours!"
Heightened sensitivity to Craigslist postings has apparently caused cops to sniff out any ad with even a hint of sexual innuendo.
