Former U.S. Olympic Runner Suzy Favor Hamilton Has Been Working as a High-End Escort in Las Vegas
Suzy Favor-Hamilton, who represented the United States in the 1992, 1996 and 2000 Summer Olympics as a distance runner, has spent the last year as a high-end call girl in Las Vegas. From The Smoking Gun:
Beginning last December, Suzy Favor Hamilton, 44, has worked with one of Las Vegas’s premier escort services, booking scores of “dates” in Sin City and other U.S. cities, including Los Angeles, Chicago, and Houston.
While Favor Hamilton has used an alias, “Kelly Lundy,” when working as an escort, she inexplicably shared her true identity with several male clients, believing that her secret was somehow safe with strangers who paid for her company by leaving envelopes stuffed with cash on bathroom vanities in swanky hotels.
Favor-Hamilton’s work as an escort is quite the diversion from the rest of her life.
Favor Hamilton described the escort business as “exciting,” an illicit midlife diversion from her routine existence, one in which she operates a successful Madison, Wisconsin real estate brokerage with her husband, delivers motivational speeches, and does promotional work for various businesses and groups, including Disney’s running series and Wisconsin’s Potato & Vegetable Growers Association.
I will never look at the Vegetable Growers Association the same way again.
Edit: Commenters keep bringing up the fact that she is married. If you don’t want to read the entire article at TSG, here is the portion that addresses that:
She said that only her husband Mark, 44, was aware of her escort work, but that, “He tried, he tried to get me to stop. He wasn’t supportive of this at all.” The couple lives in a $600,000 Madison home and appears to be in no financial distress based on a review of court and municipal records.
[Smoking Gun, Images via SuzyFavorHamilton.com, h/t: @SladeHV]

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December 20th, 2012 at 11:53 AM
So apparently he’s cool with this? What a wierd relationship.
December 20th, 2012 at 11:56 AM
She’s still married? That must be a fantastic marital dynamic.
She and the husband must not be brokering too much real estate if they are so willing to peddle ass for money.
December 20th, 2012 at 11:56 AM
So apparently he’s cool with this? What a weird relationship.
Agreed, can’t understand people that are cool with stuff like that.
December 20th, 2012 at 11:58 AM
Thought the same thing.
December 20th, 2012 at 11:58 AM
Too bad she got outed like that. Sucks for her.
December 20th, 2012 at 11:59 AM
Go Badgers!
December 20th, 2012 at 11:59 AM
He’s cool with it because he believes that all she does is accompanies men on business dinners and events.
Interesting side note: he also recently mailed his Christmas list to the North Pole and left his tooth under his pillow.
December 20th, 2012 at 12:00 PM
with her husband,
He gets to watch.
December 20th, 2012 at 12:00 PM
well yea…i mean, who’s gonna say “DUDE, GUESS WHO I JUST PAID TO FUCK?”
December 20th, 2012 at 12:01 PM
My guess was that husband got in some bad real estate deals and somehow convinced her this would pay the bills. She’s obviously crazy, running long distances and all when a bike or car could accomplish the same task.
December 20th, 2012 at 12:04 PM
She should’ve kept her whore mouth shut. If I smashed a hot blonde and she told me she was an Olympic athlete, you can bet your ballsack I’m telling everyone.
December 20th, 2012 at 12:04 PM
Not familiar with pimping and prostitution but I think this probably NOT how the transfer of funds occurs.
/get that cash up front for godsakes.
December 20th, 2012 at 12:05 PM
I’m guessing swingers?
December 20th, 2012 at 12:06 PM
He “tried” to get her to stop. Clearly, not hard enough
December 20th, 2012 at 12:06 PM
after CRM mentioned this, i checked TSG multiple times to see if it was April 1st or this was Onion-related.
I’m still floored by it.
December 20th, 2012 at 12:08 PM
I mean, I bet she makes a helluva lot more money doing this and she gets to have lots of sex. That has to beat clocking in every day running some boring real estate business.
December 20th, 2012 at 12:08 PM
Too much of a stigma on sex nowadays. The lady’s just trying to make some scratch.
December 20th, 2012 at 12:10 PM
Get ready for a tell-all book (complete with names of “famous” clients or the threat to reveal said clients), the talk show circuit, and an attempt to milk this for as much $$ as possible. Why else would you tell anyone who would listen who you really are?
December 20th, 2012 at 12:10 PM
“Oh hey honey. What’d you do today?”
“Well, I got bogged down looking over some contracts. My fucking head hurts after reading that shit all day. How bout you?”
“Oh, you know, I just came three times and got paid $1,000 and was taken out for a nice steak dinner.”
December 20th, 2012 at 12:10 PM
Dang that story on Smoking Gun is crazy. Those pro photos. Looks like a freak.
December 20th, 2012 at 12:10 PM
If she really cared for her husband, she would’ve quit. She was in it for more than the money.
Exactly, which is why she was smashing other dudes.
Also, that’s what she said.
December 20th, 2012 at 12:12 PM
I’m still floored by it.
Her middle name is sexual. How could you not see this coming?
December 20th, 2012 at 12:12 PM
Taking Vegas by the balls and fucking her way to the top!
December 20th, 2012 at 12:13 PM
I’ll bite…what do these mean?
December 20th, 2012 at 12:14 PM
her husband must not have a set of balls.
December 20th, 2012 at 12:14 PM
In reference to the guy that “sold her out”….
Says the woman selling her body and, in essence, cheating on her husband. Jesus.
December 20th, 2012 at 12:16 PM
damn. I never met her, but when I was at Penn State, the guys at Wisconsin would tell stories about her getting naked and doing crazy shit. I’m about 10 years younger than her, but apparently she was still hanging around the program.
December 20th, 2012 at 12:16 PM
pay these athletes
December 20th, 2012 at 12:16 PM
Also, I totally get paying some chick for sex, but why in the fuck do dude’s want to take them out and shit first? Isn’t that kind of the point of a hooker? Pay her to leave and all that?
December 20th, 2012 at 12:17 PM
RCG – Ratchet Color Gobbler
December 20th, 2012 at 12:17 PM
so she’s letting other dudes get balls deep, and her husband told her he wasn’t okay with it? sounds like a woman deserving of being outed. what a whore.
December 20th, 2012 at 12:18 PM
escorting is a legitimate business, hooking is not.
December 20th, 2012 at 12:19 PM
This should end well.
December 20th, 2012 at 12:20 PM
weak
December 20th, 2012 at 12:21 PM
I have no clue what those are. Obviously.
December 20th, 2012 at 12:21 PM
DATY – Dining at the Y.
RCG – Reverse Cowgirl.
DFK – Deep French Kiss.
December 20th, 2012 at 12:22 PM
Someone to root for
December 20th, 2012 at 12:23 PM
Deep french kiss? Hilarious.
December 20th, 2012 at 12:24 PM
RCG – Recently contracted gonorrhea
December 20th, 2012 at 12:24 PM
MSOG is the most important one.
Also those aren’t acronyms they’re initialisms, goddamnit.
December 20th, 2012 at 12:25 PM
Someone to root for
I am holding off on rooting for her until she accidentally kills one of her clients in the act. Like the secretary in Dave or perhaps with her thighs like Xenia Onatopp.
December 20th, 2012 at 12:25 PM
If she were single and doing this, I could see having some sympathy for her.
Not with the whole “husband trying to get her to stop fucking other dudes for money” angle, however.
December 20th, 2012 at 12:26 PM
OT: Alex Morgan in a bikini. That is all.
December 20th, 2012 at 12:29 PM
Deep french kiss? Hilarious.
I bet the husbands hates this because a divorce would split up the successful realty company and make them both broke. No way he is actively having relations with her. If he is, I don’t feel sorry for him at all.
December 20th, 2012 at 12:29 PM
Does she have kids? Because this would be fairly traumatizing to read about your mother.
December 20th, 2012 at 12:32 PM
Does she have kids? Because this would be fairly traumatizing to read about your mother.
Nobody reads the links.
Yes, a seven year old girl. It is worth reading the article. This bitch is playing the dumb blonde card. And failing at it miserably.
December 20th, 2012 at 12:32 PM
Best Christmas ever.
December 20th, 2012 at 12:32 PM
A 44 year old escort? Those are some dumb, rich old guys
/Jerry Buss and Hugh Hefner nod in amazed agreement
December 20th, 2012 at 12:33 PM
A daughter, Kylie.
December 20th, 2012 at 12:35 PM
Suzy better get out there and earn that money. That daughter of theirs is going to need it for therapy shortly.
December 20th, 2012 at 12:35 PM
Totally agree, the husband making up an excuse that he tried to stop her is a half hearted attempt to cover. Either he didn’t know at all or he was more then happy letting it happen.
December 20th, 2012 at 12:35 PM
Off-topic? That’s a bannin’
December 20th, 2012 at 12:36 PM
Or it was his crappy real estate moves that got them in debt, forcing her into the life.
/Lifetime Movie’d
December 20th, 2012 at 12:37 PM
Her:
“If you want to fuck a Badger,
Just come along with me,
Just leave the money where I can see it,
By the light of the moon,
By the light of the moon,
By the windowsills bright shining light of the moon”
Customer: “Was that really necessary? I’m already in the room with you.”
Husband jerking off in the corner: “YES!”
December 20th, 2012 at 12:37 PM
thats cool (nods)
December 20th, 2012 at 12:37 PM
My guess is the husband doesn’t like it, but they need the money
December 20th, 2012 at 12:38 PM
Or it was his crappy real estate moves that got them in debt, forcing her into the life.
They aren’t in debt. Or, that’s what TSG claims. She’s just a straight up ho.
December 20th, 2012 at 12:39 PM
damn…i saw a tweet where simmons, wilbon and rose have to work 13 hours on christmas day
brutal
December 20th, 2012 at 12:41 PM
wow, reading that article is crazy. this chick doesn’t seem all that bright.
December 20th, 2012 at 12:43 PM
Did you check out the pictures on TSG. I think that’s a 44 year old I could be alright with…
December 20th, 2012 at 12:44 PM
Did you check out the pictures on TSG? I think that’s a 44 year old I could be alright with…
December 20th, 2012 at 12:44 PM
Sorry, trying to get work done and read about former Olympic escorts at the same time, haven’t had chance to peruse it yet.
December 20th, 2012 at 12:44 PM
So this is two major awards the B1G is going to have to rename now, right? JoePa and now her?
Leaders and Legends, indeed.
December 20th, 2012 at 12:47 PM
I didn’t. I will now though. Point is, if you’re a rich old guy, why go for a 44 year old when plenty of hotter 20-somethings are available? Maybe it’s the Olympic cachet
December 20th, 2012 at 12:49 PM
I gotta think the husband’s in on it and they have an open marriage. She can’t be that fucking stupid.
December 20th, 2012 at 12:51 PM
She looks pretty damned good for a 44 year old. Experience counts.
December 20th, 2012 at 12:53 PM
that is what I thought until I read that article. I am now beginning to think opposite.
December 20th, 2012 at 12:57 PM
Weirdest or worst Nike TV spot ever?
December 20th, 2012 at 12:59 PM
this has to be a top 10 sports story of the year, right?
Decorated Olympian, mother, wife, is an escort in Vegas? This is a lifetime movie staring Jennifer Love Hewitt, no?
December 20th, 2012 at 1:00 PM
Hey guys, I’m going to be in Vegas in February and I really want to get a hooker that used to be a world class athlete. Does anybody have any suggestions for where I can dump the body afterwards?
December 20th, 2012 at 1:01 PM
As I suggested above, only if somehow this is the husband’s fault. If she was the whore and the husband was an innocent victim, I don’t think the penis-hating audience would understand the plot.
December 20th, 2012 at 1:03 PM
As I suggested above, only if somehow this is the husband’s fault
Not always! My lady likes to tell me about the Lifetime movie where Judith Light (Angela from Who’s the Boss?) was a physically abusive wife and the husband couldn’t get anybody to believe him.
December 20th, 2012 at 1:04 PM
For the amount of money Simmons is overpaid for, I’ll take that work day.
December 20th, 2012 at 1:05 PM
Jennifer Love Hewitt has to be the poster girl for playing extremely sexual roles without ever showing the goods.
I bet they’re magnificent but worry we won’t find out until she’s 50 and decides to do a Nancy Sinatra style Playboy shoot to rekindle her popularity.
December 20th, 2012 at 1:09 PM
Why did you out her? I’m going to Vegas in January.
December 20th, 2012 at 1:11 PM
I’d like to hear Watsonian’s and jck49ers owes Watsonian $650′s thoughts on this…
December 20th, 2012 at 1:16 PM
So, does anyone have her number?
/ CuckTheFubs’d
December 20th, 2012 at 1:16 PM
I thought Chamiqua Holdsclaw was a working girl on Backpage?
December 20th, 2012 at 1:17 PM
JLH as a decorated Olympian would take major suspension of disbelief, unless she was competing in a flotational-device-dependent water sports category.
December 20th, 2012 at 1:18 PM
According to the pics, that’s some serious MILF booty.
December 20th, 2012 at 1:20 PM
Or snaps his peen in half, that like MMA dude.
December 20th, 2012 at 1:21 PM
Who even cares ? This isn’t newsworthy at all. What a married couple does is their own right, whether you like it or not.
December 20th, 2012 at 1:37 PM
Who even cares ? This isn’t newsworthy at all. What a married couple does is their own right, whether you like it or not.
Since this apparently involves prostitution in Chicago, Houston, etc. I would guess the government cares. Also, don’t be a spoilsport, or I will call you spoily.
December 20th, 2012 at 1:38 PM
Good golly Miss Molly. From the Smoking Gun article.
December 20th, 2012 at 1:40 PM
Sounds like she’s “based” in Nevada doing that, which is legal. She could get paid in NV and travel and do whatever she desires. Again, not even remotely newsworthy. Plus…you think our government is going to put a lot of time and effort into this with all they have to deal with ? Hell, they legalized pot in some states…time to legalize this !
December 20th, 2012 at 1:42 PM
Good golly Miss Molly. From the Smoking Gun article.
Did they list any other good escort twitter follows?
December 20th, 2012 at 1:45 PM
Spoily if you don’t think an Olympic runner becoming a prostitute is worthy of a single post on a sports related He-Man site like the BigLead.com then I don’t know what to tell you. This is pageviews right here. Jason is gonna buy a lot of hand lotion off this post.
December 20th, 2012 at 1:48 PM
The new Mamalickaboobooday!
December 20th, 2012 at 1:49 PM
I think prostitution should be legalized. So, good for her. Make that money. CAPITALISM!!!!!!!!!!!
December 20th, 2012 at 2:08 PM
FWIW, Hamilton is tweeting about it right now. Tough to look at her feed and see photos of her & her family.
December 21st, 2012 at 9:00 AM
Um, she’s MARRIED. Made a commitment. If you’re gonna go around doing this and not honor said commitment, why get hitched?