Dancer at Fake Bachelor Party Sentenced in Prostitution Case

A star of X-rated films has been ordered to serve 45 days in jail for a 1987 prostitution conviction stemming from her participation in a fake bachelor party staged by Newport Beach police.

Pamela G. Weston, 27, of Huntington Beach--who is a central figure in a state Judicial Commission investigation involving at least five judges in Orange County’s Harbor Municipal Court--was sentenced Friday in Municipal Court in Fullerton after losing an appeal of her conviction.

Municipal Judge Margaret E. Anderson ordered Weston, whose stage name is Cara Lott, to report to Orange County Jail on Jan. 31. Her attorney, Gregory W. Jones, said he and his client believe she and another woman were set up on prostitution charges after being paid $150 each to dance nude at an Aug. 14, 1986, bachelor party in Irvine.

Nineteen police officers from departments in Newport Beach, Santa Ana and Irvine participated in the sting operation. Jones said he believes police arrested Weston and fellow exotic dancer Rhonda Linn Gary so they could be persuaded to provide evidence against Harbor Court Judges Calvin P. Schmidt and Brian E. Carter.

At the time of the arrests, Schmidt and Carter were targets of a Newport Beach police investigation. Jones said Weston refused to cooperate after her arrest. Police have denied Jones’ scenario, saying the sting operation was part of a routine investigation into local prostitution.