‘Babydol’ Alleges Affair With Officer

When authorities announced the arrest three months ago of Jody “Babydol” Gibson as one of Hollywood’s leading madams, officials said they had seized a log book of her clients as well as a manuscript that details her life in the prostitution business.

What officials did not mention, however, was that the book proposal written by Gibson alleges that she had an affair with a Beverly Hills police detective who was investigating her escort business. In the manuscript--a key section of which Los Angeles police say they have not seen--Gibson contends that the relationship played a crucial role in shielding her from prosecution during earlier investigations, sources said.

Describing the affair, which allegedly took place over several years, Gibson writes that she had frequent sex with the detective inside the Beverly Hills police station and sometimes used his cellular phone to book prostitution appointments, sources said.

The alleged affair ended two years ago and sources say that Gibson, who has been charged with 13 counts of pimping and pandering, believes that she became vulnerable to prosecution only after the relationship ended.

Gibson wrote six brief autobiographical sections in hopes of preparing a proposal for a book about her life. The unfinished manuscript is seven pages long, although LAPD investigators say they have seen only six of those pages, according to Gibson’s attorney.

LAPD Lt. David Muro, who is in charge of the Gibson investigation, denied that the manuscript reviewed by his investigators contained a section detailing Gibson’s alleged sexual escapades with a Beverly Hills vice detective.

According to sources familiar with the document, however, the first page of the manuscript promises “an entire chapter” about “my affair with the arresting detective of the Beverly Hills Police Department . . . and how I received immunity.”

Muro said he had read that passage, which “caught my eye” because it described “this alleged relationship with the Beverly Hills investigator and that this relationship helped her get immunity from prosecution.”

“I thought [the relationship] was professional and took it to mean an informant type of relationship. But it could have been a personal relationship, which might be improper, so I brought it to the attention of my supervisor.”

Asked about the use of the word “affair,” Muro replied, “An affair is not necessarily an improper relationship.”

Muro said his department is not investigating the conduct of any law enforcement officials in connection with Gibson’s operation. He said he notified his captain and the head of internal affairs about the matter and assumed that they had contacted Beverly Hills officials.

But Beverly Hills Police spokesman Lt. Ed Kreins said the agency had heard nothing of the allegation until he was contacted by a Times reporter on Thursday. Kreins said the Beverly Hills Police Department opened an investigation into the matter Thursday night.

Reached by telephone Sunday night, the Beverly Hills officer named by Gibson as her lover declined to comment.

Although the truth of many of the allegations contained in Gibson’s autobiographical manuscript could not be independently verified, Los Angeles police investigators placed sufficient weight on parts of the document to cite them as evidence bolstering their case.

In the proposal, Gibson writes that she and the vice detective fell in love and had difficulty keeping their affair secret. According to sources familiar with the document, the chapter contains the following excerpt:

“We would have sex all over the Beverly Hills Police Department. The gym (where we were seen often), the stairwell and anywhere we could. . . . I would even use his cellular phone . . . and book gigs while driving around with him on call.”

Gibson also describes a meeting with law enforcement officials set up by her lover to provide her with immunity from prosecution during the period that the Los Angeles Police Department was investigating her rival, Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss, according to sources who have reviewed the document.

Richard Green, a lawyer who represented Gibson at the time, confirmed that a meeting took place with the officials named in the manuscript, but declined to characterize the content of the meeting.

Alan Carter, the deputy district attorney who attended the meeting, said such meetings were held with individuals to gather information about the Fleiss case. Carter said Gibson did not provide any information and did not get a deal from the office.

Gibson’s current attorney Gerald Scotti refused to discuss the case. But he acknowledged that the manuscript had been seized and was baffled about the page allegedly missing from the copy reviewed by Los Angeles police.

“I received in discovery from the D.A.’s office six pages of what appears to be an unpublished manuscript that was seized during the search of my client’s property,” Scotti said. “The original manuscript and all subsequent copies that I have seen of it, several of which were left behind at the house when they searched, all contained seven pages. The fact that [the page] is missing is suspicious to me, because the information contained in that page is exculpatory to my client.”

Police say Gibson operated one of the largest illegal escort services, catering to a clientele of more than a 100 men including actors, producers, powerful businessmen and a professional athlete.

Police said Gibson ran her international prostitution ring for the last nine years with as many as 34 prostitutes working in more than 16 states and Europe.

Sources say that Gibson has been under investigation at least three times since 1992 but has never been prosecuted.

The next hearing in Gibson’s case is scheduled for Sept. 22 in Van Nuys Municipal Court.

Times staff writer Matt Lait contributed to this story.