We love our pimps!
Father and son accused pimps Vincent George, Sr., and Vincent George, Jr., had an unlikely cheering section in a Manhattan courtroom today — the very five admitted prostitutes who they’re accused of threatening and coercing.
“We are not victims!” one in the quintet of curvy, long-haired women shouted at reporters outside the courthouse.
“We are a family!” shouted a second. “And we are all proud to be Georges!”
The five young women wore heels, tight pants and cleavage-baring tops, and posed outside Manhattan Criminal Court in T-shirts inscribed “Free Vincent Jr. & Sr.” in magic marker. “It’s a prostitution revolution!” insisted another of them.
“They’re unabashedly prostitutes,” explained the son’s lawyer, David Epstein. “They came in and out of Manhattan by themselves, they had their own houses and bank accounts, and they could have left anytime they wanted.”
John Temple, who heads the Manhattan DA’s human trafficking program, counters that phone taps prove both the dad, 55, and the son, 33, built up a million-dollar escort business by keeping their five women terrified virtual prisoners at residences in Queens and Allentown, PA.
To that, Epstein had this response: “Hey, there’s some fighting on the tapes. But husbands and wives fight, too.”
The Georges have remained locked up without bail since April on charges of money laundering, violent sex trafficking and pandering; prosecutors say they sold the woman for $200 to $500 per customer and kept all the proceeds. Six limo drivers accused of ferrying the women to their assignations are also charged.