Todd Chrisley said he was an escort at 18 in Los Angeles. He linked that account to a coming book and traced the start of the night to a table job at the original Cheesecake Factory in Marina del Rey, California.
“I was an escort when I was 18 in Los Angeles,” he said on Bunnie Xo’s Dumb Blonde podcast. He also said, “I left South Carolina when I was 17. It’s in my book that’s coming out.”
Dumb Blonde podcast account
Chrisley said the episode began after he was waiting tables and got an $800 tip at the end of the night. He remembered, “I remember waiting the tables this night, and there were, like, six or seven good-looking women,” before a limousine driver told him, “My lady would like to speak with you. She said you were their server this evening,” he said.
He said the woman was 38 and offered to drive him home. The encounter, he said, turned into a very quick meeting and later became part of a larger pattern in his life. He also said, “I was a magnet to that.”
Marriage and aftermath
Chrisley said he later learned the woman was married, which changed the episode from a quick transaction into something he said left him devastated. “I was devastated,” he said, before adding that he ended the relationship after learning she was married and later saw another woman.
The detail lands differently because Chrisley is not speaking from the margins. He has been married to Julie Chrisley since 1996, was convicted with her in 2022 of bank and tax fraud, and the two spent just over two years behind bars after receiving a combined 19-year prison sentence. President Donald Trump pardoned them on May 27, 2025.
Why the book matters
What comes next is the book itself. Chrisley says the escort story is in it, which makes the memoir the place where readers will likely get the rest of the timeline, not a piecemeal version from interviews.
For now, the value is in the specificity: 18 in Los Angeles, 17 when he left South Carolina, an $800 tip, and a quick encounter that he says ended once he learned the woman was married. That is the kind of personal history that reshapes a public figure more than another headline ever could.
