"In December 1973, and again in January 1974, when he was a [Cincinnati] councilman and newly wed to Micki Velten, a Procter & Gamble administrative aide, Jerry Springer visited a massage parlor across the Ohio River in Kentucky. He paid by check -- 'I didn't have the ten bucks in cash,' he later joked -- and was busted by vice cops."
[Springer told his wife and family, resigned from his political post, and came clean at a press conference. His honesty worked in his favor. In 1977, he was re-elected and, because he also got a majority of votes, under local law became mayor. He was 33.]
Sources
New York Magazine, April 20, 1998
