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I talked with Sex.com hijacker Steve Cohen in April. He claimed a Monaco address and called me from London. Among other things, he said he didn't groove on Mexican jails.

“Mexican jails are not pretty,” he said. “You have to have your family bring you food. A friend had to put up his house for my bail.”

Cohen had been arrested for trying to export a larger-than-allowable amount of money from Mexico.

Cohen was again apprehended last week in Mexico on an outstanding U.S. warrant concerning the $65 (or so) million he owes in the Sex.com case. He was extradited to the U.S. and now languishes in a San Diego cell. Very rarely does anyone do anything in prison but languish.

"If I win, I win,” he'd said in his phone call. “If I lose, I lose. But I have no doubt that I will win if this comes back.”

Now Cohen will get the chance to prove his prediction.

“Stephen Cohen is an international fugitive and a convicted criminal,” Sex.com owner Gary Kremen told me in April. “But I’d have drinks with him in Monte Carlo.”