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The ShamWow Guy Beat Up a Hooker

I’ll tell you what I love most about my job: Sometimes I get to type out headlines like these, and they’re real. And I just read them over and over again and think, “My God, is it really my job to type out those words in that order?” But it is. The ShamWow guy. Beat up. A hooker. He beat up a hooker. He did. And then she beat him up back! ZOMG.

Meet Vince Shlomi. He’s probably better known to you as the ShamWow Guy, the ubiquitous television pitchman who has been phenomenally successful peddling absorbent towels and food choppers. Shlomi, 44, was arrested last month on a felony battery charge following a violent confrontation with a prostitute in his South Beach hotel room. According to an arrest affidavit, Shlomi met Sasha Harris, 26, at a Miami Beach nightclub on February 7 and subsequently traveled with her to his $750 room at the lavish Setai Hotel. Shlomi told cops he paid Harris about $1000 in cash after she “propositioned him for straight sex.” Shlomi said that when he kissed Harris, she suddenly “bit his tongue and would not let go.” Shlomi then punched Harris several times until she released his tongue. The affidavit … notes that during the 4 AM fight Harris sustained facial fractures and lacerations all over her face … After freeing his tongue, a bleeding Shlomi ran to the Setai lobby, where security summoned cops. Harris refused to cooperate with officers, who recovered $930 from her purse. “Both parties had a strong odor of an alcoholic beverage emitting from their persons,” police reported.

They were both arrested for felony aggravated battery, but prosecutors declined to file formal charges against either.

Still.

The ShamWow guy beat up a hooker.

Money, folks, can’t buy you anything that matters.

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