May 23, 2007
Don't Hate Esther Because She's Beautiful
Esther Hwang picked a bad day for a press conference -- normally, the media would be all over the former Willie Brown secretary turned cheesecake model turned San Francisco Law School student discussing the $1 million lawsuit she's filed against the SFPD for alleged brutality against her outside a North Beach bar -- but with everyone distracted by Ed Jew's flight from the law, Carole Migden's cancer-related bad driving, and in a city that now expects out of its mayoral girlfriends underage drinking, sordid affairs with best friends' wives, and/or misjudged blog commentary, Ms. Hwang's press conference seemed like a quaint trip in the San Francisco wayback machine to the last century.
Hwang claims that she was outside the North Beach bar Dolce last week, celebrating the end of her law school finals and waiting for her boyfriend when she saw some police officers. She said, in a flirty voice, "I guess you'll have to tackle me if I try to cross the street," at which point she says the cops, totally unprovoked, grabbed her by the hair, tackled her, and took her into custody. She claims she was targeted because of her relationship with Willie Brown and says contrary to what the cops say, she was not drunk. She'd only had one pear cider that night. The cop in question, it turns out, has a long record of citizen complaints.
SFist Jim picked up a 30 second snippet of the press conference you can listen to here -- it's worth hearing Esther detail what happened to her "pretty dress," pearl necklace, and fur coat. It's like that scene in Clueless when Cher gets mugged. "But this dress is an Alaia!!!!!"
After the jump (and updated!): More excellent picture by SFist Jim for your perusal. And there's some more spectacular pictures by Luke Thomas on Fog City Journal too.
Picture by SFist Jim. Yes, those pictures behind Hwang are swimsuit pictures of herself.
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I think she's a Paris Hilton wanna-be. "Take me seriously, but wait, here's some pics of me in a bikini." Anything for my 15 seconds of fame.
Puh-leese!
Nobody hates Esther because nobody knows or cares who she is.
This'll settle out of court for some fraction of $1 million. After the lawyers take their cut, she'll still get megabucks
Thanks, Board of Supervisors!
I think she should get nothing because she asked the officers to tackle her.
She's only doing this because she found out the cop has a rap sheet, I think. No such thing as bad publicity for the owner of www.esther.com. (Ya know she could probably sell it for a tidy profit if she needed to.)
She is not even romotely attractive and waaay past the "sell by date". Tranny looking, no?
Even if she doesn't win the case, she gets free publicity for her website. Its a win-win for her.
Why is this guy Serna even still on the force? Oh, that's right, he is related to a Commander.
SFPD really needs to clean out the bad seeds like this guy.
misses Swan !
she is NasTy !
bad boOOob job - bab eyelid job - bad collagen - smellz like kimChee