ALFRED, Maine — A fitness instructor who ran a prostitution operation out of her Zumba dance studio had as many as five clients a day and wanted her business partner monitoring the trysts, according to her e-mails and text messages to him.
The messages between fitness instructor Alexis Wright and insurance agent Mark Strong Sr. were obtained yesterday through a records request by the Portland Press Herald. The communications included spreadsheets Wright used to keep track of her clients, with names, dates, times, sex acts and payments.
Last month, Wright pleaded guilty to using her studio in Kennebunk, a village known more for its sea captains’ homes and beaches than for crime, as a front for prostitution.
One series of messages from Feb. 9, 2012, show how busy Wright was having sex for money, with as little as 15 minutes between encounters, the newspaper reported.
“I had sex with Larry, Pete and Paul on Thursday,” she wrote. “And Michael, Pete, Pat, Jason and Mike today.”
In other texts, Wright is shown confirming that Strong will be monitoring the sex acts from his office 100 miles away.
“I won’t see a client without your permission and viewing so I’ll wait to hear from you I guess,” she wrote.
Wright, a 30-year-old single mother, is expected to get 10 months in jail at sentencing next month.
Strong, 57, served 15 days in jail, and was released this month.
His lawyers had characterized him as being infatuated with a younger woman and making bad moral decisions, but never profiting from the prostitution operation.