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Jun. 12, 2007
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Cheerleading coach boasted of girls, clients, report says

By BRIAN HAYNES
REVIEW-JOURNAL

Esperanza Brooks bragged about her discreet girls and high-end clientele.

But the cheerleading coach turned moonlighting madame name-dropped to the wrong people and landed in jail last week.

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    • Las Vegas police arrested Brooks, 36, and four associates last week after a two-week investigation into the local prostitution ring. The investigation started when a tipster told detectives about a cheerleading coach at Andre Agassi College Preparatory Academy who might be running a prostitution service.

    When an undercover detective called Brooks, she said her girls were clean and only serviced upscale clients, a police report said. She later boasted that she had more than 40 women working for her and that her clients ranged from basketball star Shaquille O'Neal to a former president, according to the report.

    "These are not your average girls. Some of them have worked with Bill Clinton," Brooks told an undercover officer, according to the report.

    Police don't have any information to prove or disprove Brooks' clientele claims, Officer Jose Montoya said.

    A spokesman for Prism Sports Marketing, which represents O'Neal and Agassi Preparatory, called Brooks a liar.

    "It's disgusting that a person in her position would say the kind of things that she said," Rob Powers said. "It's unfair, unwarranted and untrue."

    The detectives had called Brooks and told her they needed three prostitutes for three Asian clients who were coming to Las Vegas. At a May 31 meeting with Brooks and Rashena Rashel Kemp, 30, at the Golden Steer Restaurant, the detectives outlined what their clients wanted and agreed to pay $10,000, according to the report.

    Brooks talked business with the undercover detectives while Kemp took notes, the report said.

    The parties met or talked several times during the next week to hash out more details, and Brooks later raised the price to $12,000, the report said.

    During a June 4 phone call, Brooks told a detective that she couldn't talk because she was at school, the report said. She called the detective a half-hour later to talk more business.

    The detectives met Brooks on the evening of June 7 at Ruth's Chris Steak House on Flamingo Road and gave her a manila envelope with $12,000 cash. Police then arrested Brooks on charges of pandering and living off the earnings of a prostitute. Kemp was also arrested on charges of conspiracy to commit pandering and living off the earnings of a prostitute.

    Meanwhile, another undercover officer met Rachael Alexander, 24, Tiffany Alvord, age unknown, and Rachel Wall, 20, at the Rio and arrested them on charges of soliciting prostitution. They told police they were each making $1,500 in the deal.

    After her arrest, Brooks told police she had never done anything like this before, the report said. She also told police she did nothing else to make money and said times had been slow for her husband at the car dealership where he worked.



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    bre wrote on November 18, 2007 07:28 PM: Dee-Dee
    was my cheer coach i have every doubt in mind that she did not do this and many other at my school. People may think this is a dumb thought and that us younger ones dont know what we are talking about but I know exactly what Im talking about.


    P wrote on July 18, 2007 06:40 PM: "an elegant, beautiful sharing of the body" . . .

    Uh . . . yeah. It's not tawdry, cheap or emotionally and psychologically stunted at all. Prostitution isn't a sick cycle of often desperate women manipulated and abused by greedy pimps for the base lusts of misogynistic, socially inept lowlifes.

    Oh, no no no . . . it's simply "elegant" and "beautiful". It's "art"!

    Just when you think people cannot be any more clueless . . . wow . . . just wow.


    R wrote on June 29, 2007 08:58 AM: There was a time where bring a Prostitute was a high profession, considered an art.

    It's a shame the religious powers have slandered such an elegant, beautiful sharing of the body that the profession has been lower as such.


    barbie wrote on June 28, 2007 09:23 AM: to buck (person below me). it says a "cheerleading coach" was busted not cheerleaders. other than that its their problem if they want to sell themselves, nowadays the streets is the only place oyu can make money. police always wants to get involved, no wonder they are hated a lot.


    Buck wrote on June 15, 2007 10:20 AM: Your headlines on this story always suggest that cheerleaders were working for Brooks in this deal.


    Yvetta wrote on June 14, 2007 08:17 PM: she is ignorant, she is telling all. It seems to me that she is quite a big mouth, has it ocurred to anyone that if she is lying she is really burying herself.


    VJ wrote on June 14, 2007 04:25 PM: WELL A WHORE IS A WHORE IS A WHORE NO MATTER IF SHE CHARGES $10.00 OR $1000.00.. AND FROM WHAT I HAVE READ IN HERE THERE ARE ALOT OF GUYS AND GALS OUT THERE THAT MUST HAVE A BAD MARRAGE/RELATIONSHIP. THAT THEY HAVE TO HOOK UP WITH WHORES.

    BUT WHAT THE HECK, JUST LOOK AT WHAT SOCIETY IS PUTTING INTO THIS WORLD.THE IDIOT'S OUR SCHOOLS ARE PUTTING OUT THERE. OUR SO CALLED SPORTS HERO'S, RAPPERS,HIP/HOP,MOVIE STARS WITH ALL THE DRUGS,SHOOTINGS,RAPES. THE PARENTS ALLOWING THE YOUTH OF TODAY TO WORSHIP THESE MAGGOTS OF THE AIRWAVES.


    ABDULLA FATA'AI wrote on June 14, 2007 03:30 PM: FOR CHRIZE SAKES SHE WAS A PART TIME CHEERLEADING COACH, NOT THE DEAN OF THE SCHOOL!! SHE WAS JUST TRYING TO GET SOME SCRILLA, THEY PROLLY PAY HER DIDDLY SQUAT THAT'S WHY SHE HAS TO SUPPLEMENT HER INCOME BEING A PIMP. I WONDER WHAT ANDRE HAS TO SAY ABOUT ALL OF THIS?


    Juan Tudor wrote on June 13, 2007 11:55 AM: Gangs, drive bys killing innocents, vehicle deaths, burglaries, muggings...let's say all violent crimes.

    Metro - busting ho's!

    Let's ask the taxpayer where they'd like to see the police concentrating their efforts and I betcha busting ho's is way low on that list.

    Top Notch, metro. Way to have the priorities of the citizenry in mind.


    Mojo Jojo wrote on June 12, 2007 03:55 PM: What a waste of police effort and tax payer money! Those girls were just trying to get some chips in their pockets. Las Vegas police are nothing but retarded cavemen. Go beat rocks together cavemen!!


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