(AP)
Updated: 2007-09-12 14:45

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. -- A former New Orleans prostitute who will be featured in Larry Flynt's Hustler magazine appeared at his office Tuesday to accuse Sen. David Vitter of having a sexual relationship with her in 1999. Wendy Ellis told reporters that Vitter visited her two to three times a week for sexual relations between July and November 1999.

Wendy Cortez, whose real name is Wendy Ellis, attends a news conference Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2007, in Beverly Hills, Calif. Ellis says she had a sexual relationship with Sen. David Vitter, R-La., in 1999, when he was a state legislator. [AP]

Flynt produced parts of an August 22 polygraph test that he said confirmed her account, but Ellis could provide no financial records, photographs or other evidence to support her assertion that the Louisiana Republican was a client during that time.

Vitter has denied those claims.

"I want the truth to be known," Ellis said. "It was a pure sexual relationship. He would come in and do his business."

Ellis declined to comment when asked if she was being paid or reimbursed for her statement regarding Vitter, but she later said she would appear in Hustler magazine in January.

She would not say if she is being paid for the layout.

"She looks ... good," Flynt said.

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