That is according to a website that pairs older men looking for "love" with young women looking for money. The site's creator says it's just another dating site, but a prominent Charlotte attorney calls it illegal.
WBTV spoke to a once struggling mother of two, who snaps her fingers and is swimming in money. She thanks www. She asked us to conceal her identity, so we'll call her "Michelle". She says her "sugar daddy" is 54, owns several businesses in the Charlotte area, and met her over a year ago, when she lived in Rochester, New York.
I have a credit card I use whenever I feel like using it," she said. What does her "sugar daddy" get in return? Plenty of sex she says!
The website allows women to choose how much money they'd like each month. Her "sugar daddy" bought her a BMW and she drives it with pride. With me and my gentleman friend, it was never like that," she said. We took that question to the website's founder, Brandon Wade. He spoke to us from Las Vegas.
Obviously a prostitute has to do it because she really doesn't have a choice. She has to sleep with all her clients. A sugar baby and sugar daddy relationship is very much a boyfriend girlfriend relationship," he said. Wade says Charlotte is ranked number 19 on the list of top 20 cities to find a "sugar daddy. Laughrun says the state and federal government will not likely prosecute the operators and users of the site, because it's too costly and could be hard to prove.
