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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A South African dominatrix
has given up her battle to live in a vicarage, telling
the church's congregation they can "shove" the
disputed residence, a local newspaper reported
Wednesday.

The Pretoria News said Marianne Ellis had been renting
the manse, or vicarage, at the Doornkloof Nederduitse
Gereformeerde Kerk near Pretoria for some time when
church elders discovered her sideline as a local
dominatrix and asked her to move.

Ellis and her husband at first sought to fight the
church in court, but Tuesday decided to back down, the
newspaper said.

"It is a long story, but basically I am tired of
fighting, really tired. They can take their manse
back, in fact they can shove it," she told the
newspaper.

Ellis, who said she was promised a long lease and
option to buy the vicarage, had earlier showed
reporters her "torture chamber" at the house but said
she never had sex with her clients and was not running
a brothel.

Following the dispute with the church, Ellis told the
Pretoria News she was temporarily calling a halt to
her career.

"But I will crack the whip again after we have moved.
Then I will be back with a vengeance," the newspaper
quoted her as saying.

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