Here Come the Crocodile Tears

“I’m happy it’s over,” sighed Kathy Willets, wiping a tear from her eye this week after a judge in Broward County, Fla., sentenced her and her husband, Jeff, for their roles in a seamy, steamy prostitution business.

BACKGROUND: You remember the Willetses: She is the 33-year-old who police said turned the couple’s bedroom into a bordello. He is the former cop who hid in the closet with a video camera.

The Willetses were propelled to stardom when attorney Ellis Rubin said he would offer a nymphomania defense. Kathy had sex with up to eight men a day, Rubin said, because the antidepressant Prozac had given her an insatiable sex drive. And, he said, Jeff was videotaping as therapy for his own occasional impotence.

UPDATE: After Rubin was implicated in a plan to sell a videotape of Kathy in bed with former Ft. Lauderdale Vice Mayor Doug Danziger, police offered the couple a deal. In exchange for guilty pleas and information about the alleged tape sale, Kathy Willets would get three years’ probation and 400 hours of community service. Her husband would receive 364 days in jail and five years’ probation. On Monday, they accepted.

Of course, the saga isn’t over. Although Tuesday was to be Jeff Willets’ first day in the county stockade, he signed out instead on a work-release program. His job? He’s a salesman for his wife’s 900 telephone line--over which she dispenses her views on life.