Three-time Olympic runner Suzy Favor-Hamilton has been outed as having worked as a R5 000-an-hour “high class” call girl for the past year. The revelation was made yesterday on The Smoking Gun’s website.

Favor-Hamilton entered the public eye competing as a middle distance runner in the 1992, 1996, and 2000 Olympics. She went on to record a Nike TV advert, a swimsuit calendar and carry out Disney promo work.

According to the article, Favor-Hamilton began “working” during December last year for a Las Vegas escort service named Haley Heston’s Private Collection. Hamilton went by the name “Kelly Lund”. She later leaked her true identity to some clients, according to the Smoking Gun. A reporter for the site later confronted her and she eventually confessed – saying it was a “huge mistake.”

Soon after the story appeared online, Favor-Hamilton took to Twitter to offer her side of the story. She explained that she was initially drawn to escorting because it provided many coping mechanisms for her when she was going through a very challenging time with her marriage and her life.

It provided an escape from a life that I was struggling in. It was a double life. 

[Source: Daily Mail]