Spitzer spurs ‘20/20’ special
Former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s call girl scandal prompted ABC News to give the go-ahead to a two-hour prime-time special on prostitution that includes Diane Sawyer’s visit to a legal brothel in Nevada.
The “20/20” special, which airs at 9 p.m. Friday, has been in the works for two years. It was expected to be on sometime in May or June, but ABC moved it up because Spitzer’s resignation last week put the topic in the headlines, said David Sloan, executive producer of ABC’s newsmagazines.
On “Prostitution in America: Working Girls Speak,” Sawyer interviews sex workers in poor neighborhoods outside Philadelphia and in one of Nevada’s legal brothels. ABC hurriedly set up interviews with some highly paid prostitutes who work the luxury penthouses in a nod to the Spitzer scandal.
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