Instead of Murder, Drew Peterson Talks Russian Hookers, Brothel Job and Revenge on Nancy Grace

CHESTER, IL — If Drew Peterson ever gets around to talking about hiring a hitman to kill a prosecutor, it will have to be after he’s done bragging about his night in a pool with three Russian hookers, the time he almost got to work for a brothel-based reality show, and how he hopes one day to exact his revenge on Nancy Grace — and not by having her murdered either.

Prosecutors played hours more of the recordings a wire-wearing snitch made of Peterson while they were both locked up at Menard Correctional Center.

The recordings are supposed to prove Peterson, 62, plotted the murder of Will County State’s Attorney James Glasgow. But so far, they show him to be nothing more than a blowhard egomaniac, or possibly mentally ill.

Besides the hookers, the brothel and Nancy Grace, Peterson elaborated on his plan to smuggle drugs from Mexico for a cartel.

After flying in to pick up his shipment, his passenger would go “skydiving into the darkness.”

“By the time I get to customs in the U.S., my guy’s already out of the plane,” Peterson said.

Peterson’s long-winded speeches to his special prison friend, 25-year-old Antonio “Beast” Smith, also touched on his disdain for his former lawyer, Joel Brodsky.

Peterson dumped Brodsky from his defense team after he was found guilty of murdering his third wife, Kathleen Savio. The trial judge, Edward Burmila, said “Brodsky was out of his depth," and that he "did not have the lawyerly skills" to handle the case."

Brodsky’s ineffective performance was a key point in Peterson’s appeal. And Peterson doesn’t seem to have forgotten how things went during his trial in Joliet.

“I’m in here because of my idiot f---ing lawyer, not cause Glasgow’s good,” Peterson told Smith.

Peterson also called Brodsky a “buffoon” and said “I’m in here because of his dumb ass.”

On the recordings played Tuesday afternoon, the second day of Peterson’s murder-for-hire trial, the disgraced former cop expresses even greater affection and devotion for Smith, the convict who cooked with him and passed him secret notes, before ultimately running to the authorities and betraying him by wearing a wire.

“I have such feelings for you,” Peterson told Smith, whom he hoped to run off with to the Caribbean.

“And me and Beast, we going, we going to the islands, and we’re going to f---ing open a little café down there and f---ing chase Jamaican girls all fu--ing day,” Peterson mused.

Peterson apparently believed he would be free to frolic with Smith after he triumphed in appealing his murder conviction. He lost that appeal in November but the Illinois Supreme Court has agreed to hear the case.

While Peterson is on trial for allegedly trying to orchestrate his revenge on Glasgow by ordering a hit, he more explicitly spelled out his plan for retribution against cable news star Nancy Grace.

He outlined a bizarre scheme to wear a T-shirt with Grace’s name on the back, presumably during an interview with her. During this fantasy meeting, Peterson would turn around to show her the chest had been cut from the shirt so he could exclaim, “Hey Nancy Grace, we’re the same cup size.”

If this wasn’t bad enough, Peterson also dreamed of saying to her, “In your face Nancy Grace, you fat-ass, big-mouth bitch.”

Peterson also told Smith how he very nearly landed a role on the HBO reality show Cathouse, which is set in a Nevada Brothel. The deal was all but sealed and Peterson was on his way to Vegas, but at the last minute ended up in the county jail for Savio’s murder.

“I was going to be f---ing all these women,” a rueful Peterson said.

And then there was that night with the three Russian prostitutes.

Peterson regaled Smith with a tale of yet another glamorous business opportunity that arose after his fourth wife, Stacy Peterson, vanished in October 2007.

Supposedly, according to Peterson, a Russian millionaire jetted him down to Florida, where he wined and dined him, and asked him to be his head of security and to fly his private helicopter. And then things got really good.

“I’m in the swimming pool,” Peterson said, “next thing you know there’s three Russian hookers, they all got this Russian accent.

“And it’s cool and s---,” Peterson said. “I got this one, I’m leaning against her, she’s holding that one. This one’s b---ing me and I looked up … I was like in a dirty movie. It was the wildest thing I ever seen. This guy wanted me to come work for him.”

But as wild as it seemed at the time, the story didn’t have a happy ending.

“But then, anyway,” Peterson said. “I got locked up.”