Later, at a restaurant news conference where she sipped a glass of champagne, she denied she had fostered prostitution. She said the plea was the only way to avoid trial and the subsequent embarrassment. Mary de Bourbon, spokeswoman for Dist. Robert M. Barrows was arrested last October after a raid on the West 74th Street headquarters of her three businesses--Elan, Cachet and Finesse. The indictment charged that the three were really prostitution businesses.
Police said Barrows ran her business like a corporation, sending women out with credit-card machines and keeping books which listed high-powered clients and their sexual preferences.
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