New Book: Hookers, Coke and Xmas Orgies at ESPN

From Susannah Cahalan, nypost.com:

Andy Brilliant was thrilled -- he had the sexiest secretary in the office.

She was drop-dead gorgeous, fun-loving, and propelled him to the top of an informal contest among his fellow executives over who had the hottest help, he recalled. That is, until she began arriving late, looking disheveled and -- worst of all -- sporting tacky sweatpants.

Her work suffered so much that he eventually let her go. Months later, she invited him out to lunch and finally admitted what was wrong. Her life was spiraling out of control because of cocaine.

"How the hell could you afford [cocaine] on your salary?" Brilliant asked her.

Turning tricks, she answered. To maintain her coke habit, she, along with several other secretaries, were being pimped out of the Manhattan office by the company's mailroom guys.

"The receptionist was a really good-looking girl, and she was b---ing FedEx guys in the bathroom after work hours," Brilliant said.

This sleazy story of workplace wantonness doesn't come from the halls of Playboy or the International Monetary Fund. It's from the Disney-owned ESPN, according to a new opus on the sports network titled "Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World of ESPN."

The network's motto should be "The Worldwide Leader in Smut," instead of "Sports," according to interviews conducted by authors James Andrew Miller and Tom Shales, who penned a similarly dense tell-all about "Saturday Night Live."

The book, an oral history that tells how ESPN grew from a pipe dream to a multibillion-dollar conglomerate worth more than the NBA, MLB and NHL combined, contains 700-pages of frat-boy antics, sexcapades, back-stabbing and inflated egos that continue on to this day.

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