The boy from Brazil ... Gasparo
kisses Betts at the MP’s flat
By MICHAEL LEA and DUNCAN
LARCOMBE
A RENT boy told yesterday how he worked as
his Brazilian Jose Gasparo, 23, was taken on as a
researcher by Labour’s Clive Betts, 53, just weeks after they got together.
Gasparo even answered the phone to Deputy PM John
Prescott in Betts’ office one day.
Hours later he was selling sex for a gay escort
agency — where he says he first met the MP for Sheffield Attercliffe.
Gasparo told The Sun: “Mr Prescott wanted to make
an appointment with Clive. Later that day I was working with prostitutes in a
brothel.
“It was weird — like different worlds.
Juggling the two jobs was driving me crazy.”
Gasparo’s job as researcher earned him £6 an
hour. But he pocketed up to £100 an hour with the Villa Gianni agency in Earl’s
Court, West London.
In a statement on Tuesday, a spokesman for the MP
insisted Betts met Gasparo at a social function and did not know he was a gay
escort at the time.
But yesterday the Brazilian told The Sun he first
met bachelor Betts at Villa Gianni at Christmas. He claimed the MP stood behind
a two-way mirror and chose from a line-up of boys. Gasparo said: “We did not
know each other. We went upstairs and he paid me £70 for full sex.”
He went on: “Villa Gianni is dark and it smells
and the people are not nice. There is a really posh sitting room and then a
corridor with a glass door and a mirror.
“Behind the door the light goes on and we stand
by the door and you’re picked.
“They advertise it by saying they offer massage.
But everyone goes there for sex — and sex is what’s offered. It’s always the
same clients.”
Gasparo said that after their first sex session
Betts asked to meet him in a hotel. He later gave the MP his phone number.
The rent boy said Betts stunned him in early
January by admitting he was an MP.
And he claimed Betts offered him the Commons job
to stop him doing escort work.
But Gasparo said the wages were not enough to
cover his rent — so he juggled his Westminster job with nights of vice.
Meanwhile, Betts sparked a security alert by
trying to get his lover a Commons pass to give him unfettered access to the
corridors of power.
Experts fear Gasparo could pass on secrets picked
up at Westminster to his other clients — just like hooker Christine Keeler did
in 1963 when she bedded War Minister John Profumo AND a Russian spy.
Gasparo told The Sun that he used to work at the
Commons till lunch.
Then he went to a language class at college in
the afternoon before peddling vice at Villa Gianni in the evening.
But he complained he was exhausted by Betts’
demands for sex.
And he told friends he did not enjoy being with
him.
Gasparo said: “I felt ashamed because I wasn’t
going with him because I liked him.
“He’s completely paranoid with me because of
Parliament.
“He’s crazy about politics and his career and
he’s afraid of being caught out.”
The pair spent last week together in Venice — as
The Sun revealed yesterday.
But Gasparo said: “I told Clive I didn’t fancy
him and in Venice nothing happened.
“Clive was always pushing, going to kiss me,
trying to have sex with me and holding me.
“But I said it was a holiday for me too and I
didn’t want to have sex with an older man.”
Gasparo added: “All he wanted was to be with me
as a friend — but a friend who wanted sex once a week. What kind of friendship
is that?”
He recalled the time John Prescott phoned when he
was working at the Commons.
Gasparo said: “At the time I didn’t know who John
Prescott was. Afterwards I said ‘he’s really polite who is he?’
“They said after Tony Blair, he’s the Prime
Minister.
“It was just amazing to walk around the House of
Commons. I never thought I could end up inside the Houses of Parliament.
“I don’t have words to say because I had always
wanted to go inside.”
Gasparo is not the first Commons researcher to
land an MP in hot water.
Pamela Bordes worked for Tory David Shaw in 1989
— but moonlighted as a hooker, earning up to £2,000 a weekend.
And Labour left-winger Jeremy Corbyn came under
bitter attack when he once employed a known associate of the IRA.
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Lovers ... Gasparo
and Betts
cuddle up at the MP’s London flat