They Did What?! The Surprising Past Lives of Celebrities

James Lipton made headlines when he revealed to Parade magazine that he used to work as a pimp in the 1950s. He told the magazine, "It was only a few years after the war. Paris was different then — still poor. Men couldn’t get jobs and, in the male chauvinist Paris of that time, the women couldn't get work at all. It was perfectly respectable for them to go into le milieu."