By Associated Press PUBLISHED: 00:38 EST, 25 October 2012 | UPDATED: 00:38 EST, 25 October 2012 NFL great Lawrence Taylor, reliving a night to forget, admitted yesterday that he paid for sex with a 'very, very pretty' prostitute in 2010 but denied accusations that he ignored obvious signs she was a teen runaway in distress. Taylor, 53, told a Manhattan jury at a civil trial that he had a history of hiring women for 'company' when on the road but didn't expect them to automatically have sex with him. 'I still like the chase,' Taylor testified. But he added, 'I like to stack the odds in my favor... I don't like to work too hard.'
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Lawrence Taylor, 53, admits he often hires prostitutes 'for company' when he's on the road
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He claims Cristina Fierro, who was 16 at the time, told him that she was 19 in May 2010 incident
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Taylor was charged with sexual misconduct and patronizing an underage prostitute in the May 2006 incident
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Taylor played for 13 seasons in the NFL and was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1999
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