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This fall, Jennifer Love Hewitt will try her hand at escorting- on screen, at least. The Ghost Whisperer star has signed on to reprise her role as Samantha Horton, a Texas housewife-turned-hooker, in the new Lifetime series The Client List. You can see more hookers, happy and otherwise, in Mr. Skin's database of movies about Pimps 'n Hos!
Cybill Shepherd will co-star as Samantha's mother, who lives in blissful ignorance of her daughter's nude profession. On the other hand, Jennifer's real-life mother is thrilled that her baby girl has grown up to be a (onscreen) ho, as Jennifer told Entertainment Tonight:
My mom's like, 'I'm so proud. You're pole dancing and you're going to play a prostitute. Awesome!'
It's like, 'Yeah, what you always dreamed about, mama!' But you know, it's a great part.
The Client List was skinspired by a real-life prostitution ring in Odessa, Texas, and it's far from the first tawdry tale to draw from real-life sex worker scandals. Join us after the jump for more movies that have turned news headlines into nude headlights:
The Happy Hooker, Xaviera Hollander's memoir of her glamorous life as a high-class call girl, was a skinstant success when it was published in 1971. In 1975, a film version followed starring Lynn Redgrave as the titular tart.
Lynn kept her shirt on in the original Happy Hooker film, but by the time our floozy friend made it to California in The Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood (1980), Martine Beswicke was more than happy to oblige. 
Another hooker with a household name is Heidi Fleiss, the skinfamous "Hollywood Madam" whose girls serviced some of the most famous men in Tinseltown. Sopranos star Jamie Lynn Sigler played Heidi in the made-for-TV-movie Call Me: The Rise and Fall of Heidi Fleiss (2004), though unlike Heidi, Jamie Lynn failed to perv-form her own nude stunts. 
Sex work scandals got the documentary treatment in Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Elliot Spitzer (2009), an in-depth examination of Ashley Dupre, the call girl who brought down the Governor of New York. 
Also based on a best-selling memoir, Student Services (2010) shocked even the French with its explicit portrayal of a universitystudent (Dborah Franois) who turns to prostitution to pay her tuition.
