Three Time Olympian Turns To Prostitution

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We often look at those in the national and international spotlight and picture them as having it all. Having perfect lives with all of the trappings that go with it. We tend to forget that they are human and are subject to the same pressures in everyday life as everyone else. Once in a while, however, we get a peek behind the velvet curtains at the life of the elite.

Andy Lyons/Getty Images Suzy Favor Hamilton, right, battles for position as she nears the finish line in the women's 1500m final at the USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships on June 21, 2003.

Andy Lyons/Getty Images
Suzy Favor Hamilton, right, battles for position as she nears the finish line in the women’s 1500m final at the USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships on June 21, 2003.

In an article by Eddie Pells, National Writer for the Associated Press, we get one of those views. Not one of the big names of Hollywood or the big money people from sports, but still one of the elite athletes of America, Suzy Favor Hamilton, a three time Olympian who suffers from depression.

Three-time Olympian Suzy Favor Hamilton says she coped with depression and a troubled marriage by turning to a life of prostitution.

In a series of posts to her Twitter account, Favor Hamilton acknowledged working as an escort following a report Thursday on The Smoking Gun website about her double life.

“I do not expect people to understand,” Favor Hamilton tweeted. “But the reasons for doing this made sense to me at the time and were very much related to depression.”

The Smoking Gun said the 44-year-old athlete has been working for the last year for a Las Vegas escort service that booked her for dates there, as well as in Los Angeles, Houston and Chicago. The website said she charged $600 an hour for her services.

One of the country’s best-ever middle-distance runners, Favor Hamilton competed for the U.S. at the Olympics in 1992, 1996 and 2000 but did not win a medal. She won seven U.S. national titles. She lives in Madison, Wis., where, The Smoking Gun reported, she and her husband, Mark, live in a $600,000 home and appear to be in no financial distress based on the website’s review of court and municipal records.

Favor Hamilton told the website that only her husband was aware of her escort work, but that, “He tried, he tried to get me to stop. He wasn’t supportive of this at all.”

The website reported that Favor Hamilton worked under the alias “Kelly Lundy” but said she told some of her clients about her true identity and suspected one of them leaked it.

Soon after the story appeared online, Favor Hamilton released a series of tweets saying in part that she was “drawn to escorting in large part because it provided many coping mechanisms for me when I was going through a very challenging time with my marriage and my life.”

The Orange County Register reported that Disney canceled a scheduled appearance by Favor Hamilton at the August 2013 expo during the Disneyland Half Marathon weekend.

A nine-time NCAA champion for Wisconsin, Favor Hamilton is the namesake of the Big Ten’s Suzy Favor Athlete of the Year Award, given to the conference’s top female athlete. Big Ten spokesman Scott Chipman said the conference had no comment.

Suzy Favor Hamilton did not respond to a request from The Associated Press seeking comment.

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11 years ago

Hard to comprehend and my guess is she had issues BEFORE she was an Olympic star. And so do the men who paid her $600 an hour.

Bill Formby
Reply to  Carol Maietta views
11 years ago

I don’t know Carol. At $600 per hour she was pulling down some serious money. Maybe that helped her depression.

Joe Hagstrom
11 years ago

Well. I gaurentee her clients ran out of money before she ran out of energy. As far as I’m concerned she was a good business person. Gave customers what they wanted.

You’d think her husband would be the depressed one.

Bill Formby
Reply to  Joe Hagstrom
11 years ago

Maybe he needed a break Joe. Long distance runners have amazing stamina. 🙂

lincoln82
11 years ago

Sorry. This just all sounds nuts to me. Just nuts. She decided to become a hooker to test her marriage, and this was a coping mechanism? Her husband didn’t like it? Well no shit!

Bill Formby
Reply to  lincoln82
11 years ago

Well, Lincoln, I guess it worked since they are still together.

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