After they moved in, Nicholson paid the couple $100 on Tuesdays and $200 on Saturdays for sex with Surette, her husband told deputies when they were called to the house in February. Nicholson allowed Surette’s other clients to come to his house for sex, as well, her husband reported.
Surette said Nicholson made her engage in uncomfortable or painful sex acts that they hadn’t agreed to.
"If I didn’t kiss him or touch him or sit on his lap, he would get angry," she said.
Thursday’s arrest report indicated that a second woman, Melinda Baker, 38, also had sex with Nicholson for money. Baker, currently in the Hernando County Detention Center on a charge of driving on a suspended license, listed Nicholson’s address as hers.
Surette said Baker lived at the house, but moved out a few months ago. In exchange for sex with Baker on Mondays and Wednesdays, the commissioner paid her rent and rehab clinic bills, Surette said.
