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Transgender activist Cecilia Gentili poses for a photo at the offices of the Oxford University Press in New York on April 24, 2014.(AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)

Dealer gets 19 years in prison for providing drugs that killed prominent NYC transgender activist

 
United States' Kyle Snyder, right, celebrates after winning gold against Cuba's Arturo Silot, left, during the men's 97kg wrestling freestyle final bout at the Pan American Games Santiago, Chile, Nov. 1, 2023. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, File)

Wrestling gold medalist Kyle Snyder pleads to lesser charge after arrest in prostitution sting

 
United States' Kyle Snyder, right, celebrates after winning gold against Cuba's Arturo Silot, left, during the men's 97kg wrestling freestyle final bout at the Pan American Games Santiago, Chile, Nov. 1, 2023. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, File)

Wrestling gold medalist Kyle Snyder charged in prostitution sting

 
Sean Combs arrives at the Pre-Grammy Gala And Salute To Industry Icons at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Saturday, Jan. 25, 2020, in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Mark Von Holden/Invision/AP, File)

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs hit with new sex trafficking charges a month before trial

 
FILE- A detail including the badge and shield of one of the newest members of the New York City police is seen during his graduation ceremony, Thursday, June 29, 2017, in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, file)

Two NYPD officers are charged with burglary and forcibly touching a sex worker

 

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Cassie testifies about abuse and ‘freak offs’ in Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ trial, AP explains

Sean “Diddy” Combs’ former girlfriend, the R&B singer Cassie, told a jury Tuesday that the music mogul abused and sexually exploited her for years, as she took the witness stand for the first time during his sex trafficking trial in New York. Sighing heavily and pausing to compose herself, Cassie recounted feeling compelled by Combs to participate in lengthy “freak off” sex parties involving male sex workers. She said Combs assaulted her numerous times during their turbulent relationship.
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The nameplate stands empty on the desk that belonged to Republican Justin Eichorn, who resigned earlier, Thursday, March 20, 2025, in the Minnesota Senate chamber in the state Capitol in St. Paul, Minn. (AP Photo/Steve Karnowski)

Minnesota judge says ex-senator arrested in prostitution sting can be released to halfway house

 
The nameplate stands empty on the desk that belonged to Republican Justin Eichorn, who resigned earlier, Thursday, March 20, 2025, in the Minnesota Senate chamber in the state Capitol in St. Paul, Minn. (AP Photo/Steve Karnowski)

Minnesota state senator resigns after he was charged with soliciting a minor for prostitution

 
The chair for Minnesota state Sen. Justin Eichorn, a Republican from Grand Rapids, sits empty in a Senate hearing room in the State Capitol complex in St. Paul on Tuesday, March 18, 2025, a day after his arrest in Bloomington for allegedly soliciting a minor for prostitution. (AP Photo/Steve Karnowski)

Federal prosecutors charge GOP Minnesota state senator with soliciting a minor for prostitution

 
The chair for Minnesota state Sen. Justin Eichorn, a Republican from Grand Rapids, sits empty in a Senate hearing room in the State Capitol complex in St. Paul on Tuesday, March 18, 2025, a day after his arrest in Bloomington for allegedly soliciting a minor for prostitution. (AP Photo/Steve Karnowski)

Minnesota Senate Republicans call on GOP colleague to resign after prostitution arrest

 
Former NFL football player Dana Stubblefield leaves a federal courthouse in San Francisco, Jan. 18, 2008. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

Appeals court overturns ex-49er Dana Stubblefield’s rape conviction

 
A view of an empty chair inside of a sex worker's booth, in Antwerp, Belgium, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo, File)

A new Belgium law gives sex workers contracts, benefits and safety protection

 

Man pleads guilty to booking politicians and professors to brothels near Washington and Boston

 
Michael Jeffries, former CEO of Abercrombie & Fitch, center, exits the federal courthouse after his arraignment on sex trafficking and interstate prostitution charges, Friday, Oct. 25, 2024, in Central Islip, N.Y. (AP Photo/Heather Khalifa)

Former Abercrombie & Fitch CEO pleads not guilty to sex trafficking and prostitution charges

 
Sifa Kunguja, a 40-year-old sex worker, sits home after recovering from mpox, Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024, in Kamituga, eastern Congo. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)

Sex workers find themselves at the center of Congo’s mpox outbreak

 
FILE - Former Backpage.com owner Michael Lacey attends a Senate committee on Jan. 10, 2017, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)

Backpage.com founder Michael Lacey sentenced to 5 years in prison, fined $3M for money laundering

 

Backpage founder Michael Lacey sentenced to 5 years in prison for money laundering in case involving prostitution ads

 
FILE - Gov. Bill Lee responds questions during a news conference after a bill signing ceremony Tuesday, May 21, 2024, in Nashville, Tenn. HIV-positive people who were convicted in Tennessee of sex work under a decades-old aggravated prostitution law will no longer be required to face a lifetime registration as a “violent sex offender” under a lawsuit settlement finalized this week, Friday, July 19, 2024.(AP Photo/George Walker IV, File)

Tennessee will remove HIV-positive people convicted of sex work from violent sex offender list

 
FILE - Former Backpage.com owner Michael Lacey attends a Senate committee on Jan. 10, 2017, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Federal prosecutors in Arizona said Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024, they will retry Lacey, a co-founder of the lucrative classified site Backpage.com, on dozens of prostitution facilitation and money laundering charges that alleged he participated in a scheme to sell sex ads. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)

Backpage founder will face Arizona retrial on charges he participated in scheme to sell sex ads

 
FILE - The Tennessee Capitol is seen, Jan. 8, 2020, in Nashville, Tenn. Tennessee lawmakers will return Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2024, for several months of election-year work, anchored by the debate over whether taxpayer money to help students attend private schools should be available statewide for families of any income level. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File)

Bill would revise Tennessee’s decades-old law targeting HIV-positive people convicted of sex work

 

Tennessee’s penalties for HIV-positive people are discriminatory, Justice Department says

 
FILE - Former Backpage.com owner Michael Lacey is shown on Capitol Hill in Washington, at a Senate committee on Jan. 10, 2017. On Friday, Oct. 27, 2023, lawyers made closing statements at Lacey's trial in Phoenix, Ariz., on federal charges of facilitating prostitution and money laundering in what authorities say was a scheme to knowingly sell ads for sex on the classified site. Lacey, whose first trial on those charges ended in a mistrial, has pleaded not guilty to the charges. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)

Jurors hear opposite views of whether Backpage founder knew the site was running sex ads

 
FILE - The UN flag flies on a stormy day at the United Nations during the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday, Sept. 22, 2022. A U.N. official says the eight peacekeepers have been suspended and detained in eastern Congo on allegations of sexual exploitation. The United Nations said on Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2023 that it has taken “strong measures in response to reports of serious misconduct by peacekeepers.” The peacekeepers have been confined pending further details and a full investigation. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey, File)

UN will repatriate 9 South African peacekeepers in Congo accused of sexual assault

 

Lawyers argue indicted Backpage employees sought to keep prostitution ads off the site

 
FILE - Former Backpage.com owner Michael Lacey sits on Capitol Hill in Washington at a Senate committee. On Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2023, jury selection is scheduled to start in Lacey's federal trial on charges of facilitating prostitution and laundering money in what authorities say was a scheme to knowingly sell ads for sex on the classified site. Lacey, whose first trial on those charges ended in a mistrial, has pleaded not guilty to the charges. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)

Opening statements begin in website founder’s 2nd trial over ads promoting prostitution

 
FILE - Former Backpage.com owner Michael Lacey sits on Capitol Hill in Washington at a Senate committee. On Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2023, jury selection is scheduled to start in Lacey's federal trial on charges of facilitating prostitution and laundering money in what authorities say was a scheme to knowingly sell ads for sex on the classified site. Lacey, whose first trial on those charges ended in a mistrial, has pleaded not guilty to the charges. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)

Backpage founder faces 2nd trial over what prosecutors say was a scheme to sell sex through ad sales

 
Cars pass by the Emerald Motel and Seattle Inn on Aurora Avenue North in Seattle, on Thursday, Aug. 3, 2023. Police recently declared the establishments to be chronic nuisances due to rampant prostitution and other criminal activity, a step that requires the owners to demonstrate how they will prevent their properties from being used for criminal behavior. The recent harrowing escape of a woman who was abducted after engaging in prostitution on Seattle has helped focus attention on the consequences of tolerating an open sex trade along the thoroughfare. (AP Photo/Gene Johnson)

Another harrowing escape puts attention on open prostitution along Seattle’s Aurora Avenue

 
A car drives past a vacant lot, Wednesday, July 27, 2023, in Egg Harbor Township, N.J., where a string of seedy motels used to stand. In November 2006, the bodies of four Atlantic City-area sex workers were found in a drainage ditch behind the motels, four of many such cases that remain unsolved around the U.S. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)

Four women whose lives ended in a drainage ditch outside Atlantic City

 

An alleged Chicago brothel operator is sentenced to probation, home confinement