Killer’s violent sex
Hooker tells how Vegas gunman acted out abusive fantasies
A HOOKER has told how Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock acted out violent rape fantasies and bragged: “I was born bad.”
He boasted in text messages about his father Benjamin being a bank robber who escaped jail in 1969.
He wrote: “I didn’t have anything really to do with him but the bad streak is in my blood. I was born bad.”
The escort described him as “obsessive” and “paranoid” and said he would rant about conspiracy theories, including claiming 9/11 was an inside job by the US government.
The woman, 27, saw Paddock, 64, around nine times from November 2015 to June 2016 when he would visit Las Vegas without his girlfriend Marilou Danley, 62.
Paddock — who made $5.9 million in 2015, mostly from gambling — would pay her up to $10,000 a time.
They even stayed in the Mandalay Bay, from where he was to open fire on a country music festival. The escort, who does not want to be named, said: “When I first met Stephen I had left an abusive relationship and was starting all over again with nothing but the clothes I was wearing.
“He seemed like he wanted to help. We would go to the casinos together and he would spend hours drinking and gambling.
“But when he would have a winning streak, we would go back and have really aggressive and violent sex.”
The Sun On Sunday was shown text messages which appeared to show Paddock discussing tying her up “as you scream for help”.
The escort broke off contact when she started a new relationship.
She said: “He had a dark and twisted side. But even so, I could never have imagined he would do something like this.”
When police burst through Paddock’s Mandalay Bay hotel room last Sunday night they found “an armoury”.
“So many guns, so many magazines, stack and stacks of magazine everywhere,” Officer David Newton said yesterday.
Colleague Joshua Bitsko told 60 Minutes in the US “it was just like almost a gun store”.
Paddock killed himself before police breached his room after killing 58 and injuring almost 500 in America’s deadliest mass shooting.
Clark County Sheriff Joseph Lombardo praised his officers, saying their actions “prevented a thousand deaths”.