Suzy Favor Hamilton, a three-time Olympian living a double-life as a Las Vegas escort, was scheduled to speak at the Disneyland Half Marathon in August 2013.
A three-time U.S. Olympian outed by The Smoking Gun as working a double-life as a Las Vegas escort has been relieved of all future speaking engagements with Disney.
The athlete is Suzy Favor Hamilton, 44, a competitive runner, who admitted on Thursday that she was the woman posing as Kelly Lundy, a $600-per-hour sex worker employed by one of Sin City's premier escort services.
Married and mother to a seven-year-old girl, Hamilton has taken to Twitter to acknowledge the scandal.
"I was drawn to escorting in large part because it provided many coping mechanisms for me when I was going through a very challenging time with my marriage and my life. It provided an escape from a life that I was struggling in. It was a double life," Hamilton explained.
Hamilton had an ongoing arrangement with runDisney, which operates the company's races. She spoke at last August's Disneyland Half Marathon and appeared at the Princess Half Marathon at Floriday's Walt Disney World last February.
RunDisney spokesman Bob Hitchcock tells the Orange County Register that Hamilton is no longer scheduled for future Disney events.
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