Posted on 05/22/2013 4:18:07 PM PDT by Jack Black
A Portland woman found naked and dead Monday in a Honolulu park was a traveling escort whose ads appeared in online publications across the country.
Ivanice "Ivy" Harris, 28, was in Hawaii last Thursday with friends Jillian Gibides and Mark Miles when she disappeared.
Gibides, 31, told the local Star Advertiser newspaper reporter that Harris was a prostitute who was talking to a man outside a Waikiki bar early Thursday morning when she last saw her.
The friends exchanged text messages about meeting up around 3:45 a.m., shortly after last call at Kelley O'Neil's bar, Gibides told a television reporter from KITV News 4. Then Harris stopped responding, Gibides said.
Reached on her cell phone Wednesday morning, Gibides declined to speak with an Oregonian reporter.
Michelle Yu, a spokeswoman for the Honolulu Police Department, said Harris' remains were found by a member of the public. She said the case is being investigated as an unattended death and would not confirm whether Harris was working as an escort while in Hawaii.
Gibides and Miles, a Portland rap performer known as Meezilini Da Bank'Roll, who attended Jefferson High School with Harris, distributed fliers in Waikiki while police searched for Harris.
Harris has a criminal record in Oregon for theft and tampering with evidence but no prostitution convictions. But both Harris and Gibides have an extensive footprint on escort websites.
While early reports about her disappearance indicated that Harris was simply vacationing in Hawaii, she and Gibides appeared in a joint ad on May 11 marketing their services together in Waikiki Beach. Both women had posted previous escort ads in Hawaii over the last year, including one in April 2012 in which Harris explicitly stated money "exchanged is strictly for my quality time." ...
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This story was discussed here when she was missing. It seemed pretty obvious what had happened at the time, now we know for sure what many suspected. She was a prostitute, and was in all likelihood killed by a trick.
It's sad that her parents put out so much disinformation about her: that she was going to community college, that she was with her boyfriend, etc.
Regardless of the bad decisions she made in life she didn't deserve to be murdered. RIP Ivy.
No disrespect intended for the deceased, but it just amazes me sometimes what people will pay for.
Do a little business on vacation write the whole trip off as a business expense.
She was 28?
What the...
Next, they’ll be telling us that being a hooker is a dangerous occupation.
bfl
The area in which she was found is “iffy”,at best.
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false advertizing, unhappy client, buyer beware...
What was her Better Business Bureau rating?
RIP.
Might have something to do with mainland freelancers encroaching on the local bidnesses. They don't take kindly to that. Add to this stew that all too many of these peregrinating pros are thieves and take down artists as well. Two ho's and a guy, sounds like a team. You reap what you sow.
Two drugged out hookers and their part time rapper pimp. No surprise this movie had a bad ending.
I think you misunderstand prostitution.
You are not paying a prostitute for sex....you can get that almost anywhere, for sort of free.
One pays a prostitute to LEAVE....and not take half of your stuff with her.
A hooker that looks like that wouldn’t be getting any takers in a 4-5 star hotel.
Laz wouldn’t even hit it.
when you say “people” you mean men don’t you?....it amazes me that men have to pay for “it” anyway....men who have to pay for “it” must be pretty puny since most young women seem to give “it” away free nowadays..
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