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By Neal Hall and Kathryn Blaze Carlson

The billionaire tycoon took the prostitute to McDonald’s — the Keg Steakhouse was already closed for the night — then paid her to have sex for five hours in his Vancouver mansion, where they role-played and smoked cocaine.

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The night took a turn near 5 a.m., a Vancouver court heard Thursday, when the woman was forced to stay against her will: She tried to escape the man’s grasps and called her father screaming, ‘Dad, help me, I’m on a bad date!” She was able to flee in the snow to a neighbour’s home after leaping over a 2.5-metre fence.

David Ho — a famously private mogul with stakes in myriad industries and connections to the world’s rich and powerful— on Thursday pleaded guilty in a plea bargain to three charges, including unlawful confinement of the woman he met online in December, 2008, and possessing an unregistered loaded Glock 9-mm. pistol.

He was spared jail time, sentenced to one year probation and ordered to receive drug counselling. He was also ordered to complete 45 hours of community service.