WASHINGTON (CNN)  -- Larry Flynt's Hustler magazine claimed credit for exposing Sen. David Vitter's connection to the "D.C. Madam" Tuesday, saying Vitter confessed after a journalist reported finding the senator's number in the escort service's phone records. Sen. David Vitter apologized after his telephone number appeared among those linked to an escort service. "Larry Flynt's ongoing investigation into the dirty secrets of prominent elected officials has exposed another hypocrite," Hustler said. Vitter, R-Louisiana, admitted Monday that his telephone number turned up in the phone records of an escort service run by Deborah Jeane Palfrey, though he did not say he had sex with a prostitute. The records date from before he won his Senate seat in 2004.
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Magazine says its phone call prompted senator's confession
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Publisher Larry Flynt had offered reward for information
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Journalist working on book with alleged madam notified Flynt
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Sen. David Vitter admits his phone number appears in escort service's records
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