'Sugar Daddy' Site Started by Ex-Stripper
Simone Dadoun-Cohen is creator and CEO of Established Men.Simone Dadoun-Cohen is creator and CEO of Established Men. "Dating, in the most conventional terms, is dead," she said. "Absolutely dead."
(ABC News)After dropping out of college, Dadoun-Cohen, a Canadian, became a stripper to pay the bills. On a good night at the club, Dadoun-Cohen said, she was able to make "$1,500 to $2,000 Canadian."
"A rough night, I don't know," she said. "Maybe $800 to $1,000, and that was before generous tips from generous men."
Dadoun-Cohen said she learned there were plenty of generous men willing to reach into their wallets for beautiful women, including a patron who has since become her husband. Having lived the lifestyle, Dadoun-Cohen decided to pass it on and -- eureka! -- her site was born.
"We opened our doors September of '08, we are looking at over a quarter million active and satisfied users to date, and we've got tens of thousands that visit us every single day," said Dadoun-Cohen. "What is amazing about those numbers, though, isn't the numbers in themselves. ... And this is where I think your male viewers might want to turn up the volume. We actually have a four-to-one ratio on our Web site. So that is four gorgeous women to every one established man."Back in Beverly Hills, Kyle took Melissa to Wolfgang Puck's latest restaurant -- for a meal that ended up costing $600. As the two made their way through the gourmet medley, talk turned to the way they met.
"I'm so happy to have met you on Established Men," she said.
"You are? Really?"
"Yes."
"Thank you."
"Because there are not any here in L.A. that I've found so far," she said.
"Really? You mean that?"
"Mhmm."
"Thank you," said Kyle. "I feel the same way too."
Kyle rejected the link between sex and money on sites like Established Men as prostitution.
"No, it's not prostitution," he said. "Not at all."
He and Melissa, he said, hadn't taken long to establish an intimate relationship.
"It was pretty quick," he said. "And I don't mean physically, I mean mentally."
