Maine Zumba teacher gets jail in prostitution case

Alexis Wright, 30, pleaded guilty to 20 prostitution-related counts on March 29, 2013 on accusations that she was having paid sex in her Zumba fitness studio in Kennebunk, Maine. She was sentenced on May 31, 2013 to 10 months in jail under a plea agreement. Wright was accused of conspiring with insurance agent Mark Strong Sr. to run a prostitution business in which she allegedly made $150,000 over an 18-month period. The scandal became a sensation when authorities said Wright had sex with at least 150 clients, some of them prominent. Strong, 57, was convicted of 13 counts related to promotion of prostitution and sentenced to 20 days in jail.

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Alexis Wright leaves the Cumberland County Courthouse on March 13, 2013 in Portland, Maine

Mark Strong Sr., a 57-year-old insurance agent accused of helping fitness instructor Alexis Wright use her Maine studio as a front for prostitution, was convicted on 13 counts of promotion of prostitution on March 6, 2013. He was sentenced to serve 20 days in jail on March 21, 2013. Prosecutors said he was a business partner who controlled, supervised and managed the prostitution business that operated out of a Zumba studio. Strong acknowledged having an affair with Wright and helping her open the studio but contends he didn't profit from her activities. His attorneys said he was a smitten lover who wanted to help the single mother.

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Mark Strong Sr. listens as Justice Nancy Mills discusses Strong's sentencing at Cumberland County Unified Criminal Court in Portland, Me. on March 21, 2013