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A charity foundation’s former accountant, accused of embezzling heart disease research funds to pay an Ohio dominatrix to beat him, pleaded guilty today to grand larceny and admitted that he stole more than $237,000. Abraham Alexander, 45, of East Meadow, N.Y., admitted he stole the money from the Cardiovascular Research Foundation between Nov. 2, 2003, and April 20, 2005, by using company credit cards and writing checks to himself. State Supreme Court Justice Renee White promised Alexander a maximum two to six years in prison when she sentences him May 2 but said she could shortened the term to as...

An aging dominatrix cleared yesterday in the death and dismemberment of a man strapped to a torture rack called the ordeal “emotionally draining,” while the deceased’s elderly mother blamed the verdict on jury “liberals.” “I just wish we could have gotten a little justice,” Audrey Lord said yesterday from her Texas home. “Some of those New Englanders are pretty wise but a lot are liberals. I sort of expected it.”

Dedham, Mass -- A dominatrix was acquitted of manslaughter Monday in the death of a man who prosecutors say suffered a heart attack while strapped to a replica of a medieval rack. Barbara Asher, a 56-year-old woman who called herself Mistress Lauren M, was also cleared of dismemberment. Prosecutors said that 53-year-old Michael Lord suffered a heart attack in 2000 during a bondage session in a "dungeon" in Asher's condominium and that Asher did nothing to help him for five minutes for fear authorities would find out about her business. Asher had her boyfriend chop up the body of the...

DEDHAM, Mass. — A prosecutor said Tuesday that a dominatrix waited too long to call for help as a client died of a heart attack during a bondage session, then dismembered and disposed of the body rather than report the death. But the woman's lawyer said in her opening statement that the man never visited Barbara Asher's makeshift dungeon and that police made up the story and bullied Asher into confessing.

When Susan Peacher hung up her latex evening gown and wooden paddle for a job with the federal government, the former dominatrix thought she was done with abuse. She went to work for the Treasury Department in San Francisco, but when she arrived at her new job, she found that one of the office managers was a former client. This man wouldn't leave her alone, she said in a sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit, charging that he sexually harassed her, attempting to kiss her in the elevator, telling her she had "luscious lips,'' and repeatedly asking for "sessions.''

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An independent filmmaker is mining the real-life tale of a former Quincy dominatrix and the New Hampshire man who disappeared after visiting her Wollaston ‘‘dungeon'' for his first movie. ‘‘Cricket Snapper'' is loosely based on the Quincy case of Barbara McLaughlin-Asher, known to her clients as ‘‘Mistress Lauren M.'' Asher is currently awaiting trial on charges of manslaughter and unlawful disposal of a body in connection with the death of Michael Lord, 53, of North Hampton, N.H. In real life, police say Asher admitted in 2000 that she and her boyfriend cut up Lord's body, packed it in garbage bags...

<p>May 20, 2003 -- THE estranged husband of the sexy dominatrix who accompanied reclusive "Matrix Reloaded" director Larry Wachowski to the movie's L.A. premiere says the filmmaker is a cross-dressing wife-stealer.</p> <p>Jake Miller, 40, says he's still married to Karin Winslow, 36, a professional dominatrix who walked down the red carpet with Wachowski, 37, alongside "Matrix" star Keanu Reeves.</p>

<p>DEDHAM - A Quincy dominatrix gave conflicting statements to police about where she and her boyfriend dumped the dismembered remains of one of her clients after he died of an apparent heart attack, a prosecutor said Friday.</p> <p>A Norfolk County grand jury earlier this month handed up a secret indictment charging Barbara McLaughlin Asher and Miguel Ferrer in connection with the death of Michael Lord, 53, of North Hampton, N.H., nearly 2½ years ago.</p>