James Lipton Was a Pimp in Paris

You know James Lipton, host of 'Inside the Actor's Studio', right?? Well, it turns out, while he was living in Paris in the 1950's, he had a completely different occupation.

In a recent interview with Parade, Lipton confirmed that he was a working pimp, after he moved to Paris in the 1950's:

It was only a few years after the war. Paris was different then, still poor. Men couldn’t get jobs and, in the male chauvinist Paris of that time, the women couldn’t get work at all. It was perfectly respectable for them to go into le milieu.

When asked how he got involved:

When I ran out of money, I said, ‘I have to go home.’ She said, ‘No, you don’t. I’ll arrange for you.’ So she arranged for me to do it. I had to be okayed by the underworld; otherwise they would’ve found me floating in the Seine.

But, even having spent time as a pimp, Lipton said this when asked if he thought people should pay for sex:

I really don’t. I think if you can’t earn it on your own, then you don’t deserve it.

You can read Lipton's full interview with Parade HERE

[SOURCE: Parade]