Web page designer Jennifer Ringley became an online cult star by showing an uninhibited documentation of her daily life on JenniCam.com. Now she's auctioning off a lot of her possessions on eBay before moving transcontinental, to Sacramento, California. She's already sold her wrought-iron queen size bed and several pictures of herself. The $3,100 bed hit the eBay blocks April 4, and she makes no bones about its prominence on JenniCam, mentioning it in her auction description. And she admits her online fame makes it easier for her to sell. "A lot of people gave me flack for selling my bed" online, she told Yahoo! News. "But it seemed a fast and efficient way to do it." The bed ended up receiving sixteen bids and closed at $2,760 April 9. She did better with five portfolios of photographs of herself - those brought in $3,010.23, which she said made her jaw drop. It's not unusual for celebrities to auction through eBay, but Ringley won't be using them again when she sets up in Sacramento - she's planning to auction items only on her own website from now on, after several bed bidders proved either annoying or bogus.
CLIFTON, N.J. - A housewife advertising hot sex and nude massages on the Internet faces prostitution charges after a sting at her apartment. Police say neighbors of Deborah Connon-Noguera started complaining several months ago about unusually large numbers of people going to and from the home, and authorities also received an anonymous tip about a website she was said to use to solicit clients. An officer went online at police headquarters and set up the sting by probing the site's home page, corresponding with Connon-Noguera by e-mail, and arranging a massage for April 14, according to the Bergen Record. When he arrived, she allegedly took her clothes off and offered to perform a sexual act for a price. Connon-Noguera is free on $2,500 bail, while police have seized her computer, a file index, and an address book. Authorities believe her husband knew of her activities but he has not been charged.
HONOLULU - The man said to lead a ring that smuggles Japanese women here to work as nude Net models has pled guilty in federal court. Akira Sekimoto, himself a Japanese national, made a plea agreement April 19 which could get him twenty years in prison and a $500,000 fine at his July 24 sentencing. He copped to conspiracy in bringing four Japanese women to work illegally under a United States visa waiver program as models, and to money laundering through Japanese and Swedish bank accounts. He's one of four arrested in January for conspiracy, but he's been the only one held without bail, according to the Honolulu Star-Bulletin. Sekimoto is believed to be running the operation on behalf of its actual owner, Takao Asayama, but authorities say they do not know where Asayama is. Authorities also believe the other three suspects will plead guilty in the near future as well.
--- Compiled by Humphrey Pennyworth
