Ex-New Orleans prostitute says Sen. Vitter was a long-time client

BATON ROUGE, La. -- A former New Orleans prostitute who says she had an affair with U.S. Sen. David Vitter passed a lie detector test and will provide details of the four-month relationship on Tuesday at a press conference in Beverly Hills, according to publisher Larry Flynt.

Wendy Cortez alleges she had a sexual relationship with Vitter, R-La., in 1999 when he was a state representative in Louisiana's Legislature.

Flynt asked Cortez to take a lie detector test about the allegations after Vitter admitted links to a Washington escort service that federal prosecutors claim was a prostitution ring but denied having relationships with New Orleans prostitutes, according to a news release Monday announcing Flynt's press conference.

Copies of the polygraph test results for Cortez, whose real name is Wendy Ellis, will be provided to reporters, arrangers of the press conference said.

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