You know the economy sucks when...

...hookers won't take US dollars. International soccer star Ronaldo got caught up with some cross-dressing prostitutes back home in Brazil recently. The story goes that they were tryna extort money from him. He offered them greenbacks and they refused to accept:

She told police Ronaldo offered the prostitutes $600 to end the incident but they would not accept dollars. The manager then converted the money into reals for Ronaldo, but before he made the payment one prostitute asked for 50,000 reals ($30,000) to keep the story from the media, according to the police document.

The whole story is here.