Brandy Britton, the former assistant professor charged with prostitution, died in an apparent suicide this weekend,
She was 43.
A relative found Britton hanged to death Saturday in her
Police said no signs of foul play were found, but the home contained other evidence that supported the finding of suicide.
Her apparent suicide comes days before
A notice posted on Britton?s front door Monday set her eviction date on Feb. 1. Her criminal trial was slated to begin Feb. 5.
In the last interview she ever gave, Britton told The Examiner of the downward spiral her life had taken since she was arrested Jan. 17, 2006, and accused of being a prostitute.
Britton, a former assistant professor of sociology and anthropology at
Without a steady job and mortgage payments piling up, Britton became desperate, she said.
“I got physically sick during the foreclosure objection,” she said in an October interview. “I knew they wanted to get my house.”
In recent years, Britton also had struggled with an abusive second husband, who twice pleaded guilty to assaulting her.
“I needed income to pay my mortgage payment, so I got into this relationship,” she said. “To make a long story short, his behavior escalated, and he got more and more violent. Then I spent the next four years trying to escape from him.”
Britton stressed the personal turmoil of losing her house and facing criminal charges. She questioned whether county authorities had the right to force her from her home.
“They foreclosed on my property illegally,” she said. “There was real misconduct here.”
Police said in 2006 that Britton had turned to prostitution.
Britton operated a Web site called Alexisangel.com that stated Britton charged a minimum of $300 an hour for modeling and providing companionship, police said.
In her last interview, Britton denied that she was anything more than a high-end escort who was paid for companionship and conversation that would not necessarily lead to sex.
“Ithought I would hate the job and I?d just have to do it,” she said. “But I really liked it and I made some really good friends, and I like men more than I ever did before. It?s a long story, but as a feminist it made me see things differently. They love their families and their kids. They?re good guys that really love their wives.”
