This article sounds like complete bullshit to me, and was probably made up by someone who read the news that Jess has been prowling for guys on myspace, posing as a shy Texas girl. She also admitted in a recent OK! interview that she has sexy late night phone conversations. People will undoubtedly comment on this article as if this is true, having only read the headline and not the commentary that I think it’s fake. This happens a lot.

Jessica Simpson is said to have picked up a guy online and to have realized he was a professional escort when she met him in person:

Sex-starved Jessica Simpson used the Internet to find a new man, but her search ended in disaster when the mystery date turned out to be a male escort.

“Jessica logged on [to an Internet matchmaking service] to find company,” reveals a friend. “She found a picture of a guy in LA she thought was ideal.”

However, her hopefulness turned to horror when she discovered the man she was meeting was a prostitute.

“They arranged to meet, but when she turned up, she found out the sad truth — he was only interested in a ‘professional transaction’. The guy turned out to be a male escort.”

The humiliated pop star fled the scene as soon as she realised she’d been tricked. “Jessica was horrified and told him to go to hell,” says a pal. “She wasn’t that desperate.”

But it was desperation that drove her to seek companionship over the Internet in the first place. Since splitting with her now ex-husband Nick Lachey in late 2005, Jess’s love-life has gone from bad to worse.

This could be true, but it seems exceptionally fake to me. It kind of plays into the “poor downtrodden Jess” image. She’s certainly dumb enough to do it. It takes some smarts to date successfully, and she only realized recently how lucky she was in her first marriage.

The details are pretty sketchy. Do you think it’s true? I really doubt it.

Here is Jessica out at Koi restaurant on November 3. [via]