Ask.com Co-Founder Marries Escort/Stanford Law Student, Hit With Tax Evasion

Remember how back in the day Ask.com was AskJeeves.com? Well looks like the website, more specifically co-founder David Warthen, had more tricks up his sleeve, or at least a wife turning tricks as a profession. The wifey Cristina Warthen, who used to go by the moniker Brazil, once marketed herself as "an unusual mix of well-educated good-girl and erotic Bachian sensualist." Now she's been charged with tax evasion for failing to pay taxes on her escorting in 2003. The money may have been going to her pimp or her education— she attended Stanford Law School— but David Warthen claims that the money seized by federal agents had been a gift from him to her, not earnings from her services.

According to KTVU:

A Stanford law school graduate is facing tax evasion charges over thousands of dollars she was allegedly paid while working as a prostitute.

In court papers filed in San Jose federal court Tuesday, prosecutors allege that Cristina Warthen failed to pay taxes on more than $133,000 they say she earned as a prostitute in 2003.

Warthen -- then Cristina Schultz -- first came to the attention of the federal government several years ago when authorities seized more than $61,000 in cash from her home

Since then, the 34-year-old Schultz has married David Warthen, the co-founder of the online search engine Ask Jeeves, now known as Ask.com.

The previous civil case was initiated after Warthen boasted about her earnings on internet message boards (advertizing?); the hooker formerly known as Brazil obviously never considered adopting a “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, though she was strict in her belief that "multiple-hour visits are necessary to achieving your satisfaction." Four months after the asset seizure, Warthen (a UCSD grad currently working towards his PhD at UC Berkeley) and Brazil married; it has not been confirmed that the escort and older CTO met through a business transaction, but well let’s think about it.

Don't judge though, people; they probably really love each other. Remember Pretty Woman!?