British ‘madam’ who ran escort agency gets four years in jail for pimping

A 45-YEAR-OLD British woman who ran a Europe-wide escort agency offering sex to rich businessmen was sentenced to four years in jail and fined €150,000 by a Paris court after she was found guilty of pimping.

Before her arrest at a Paris hotel last year, Margaret MacDonald had hundreds of call-girls on her pay-roll operating in cities across the continent and advertised their services via the Internet and the International Herald Tribune newspaper.

A convent-educated former marketing executive who speaks five foreign languages, denied the charge of “aggravated procuring for the purposes of prostitution”, telling the court her employees took part voluntarily in the agency and were at liberty to refuse to sleep with their clients.