She was the subject of the cover story of the July 10, 2005 issue of New York Magazine, which revealed that while pursuing an acting career in New York she also worked as a call girl under the name "Natalia" for
Jason Itzler's NY Confidential escort service (also profiled briefly in the book "American Gangster"). As a result of the article and subsequent high media profile, she was arrested three weeks later on charges of prostitution and money laundering and spent 26 days in jail. In interviews and in her self-penned autobiography, she claimed to have trained
Ashley Dupré, the escort whose involvement with New York Governor
Eliot Spitzer led to his resignation.
