To back up her account, prosecutors showed jurors a 2004 e-mail in which the senator himself used the acronym while talking about buying an ornamental globe.
Fumo signed off by writing, "Love You."
Egrie-Wilcox kept hundreds of such e-mails and turned them over to the FBI. Now they are evidence against the once-powerful Democrat.
Fumo, 65, and Egrie-Wilcox, 51, dated between 1999 and 2004. She said that during their time together, she watched as Fumo used his political aides or employees from the South Philadelphia nonprofit Citizens' Alliance for Better Neighborhoods for all manner of personal errands and tasks.
They bought his groceries, maintained his properties, ferried his laundry, dumped his trash, planned his vacations, drove his youngest daughter to her weekly visitations with him, and more, she said.
Among their assignments was maintaining the spreadsheet for Fumo's Christmas "wish list," she said.
Prepared as a handy guide for friends and supporters who wanted to buy the senator something special for the holidays, the list included such varied items as a $2,000 Eskimo fur parka, a $29.50 brass shoehorn, and a $10,000 set of dueling pistols.
She told jurors that Fumo reveled in the perks of being a powerful politician. "It made him feel good," she said.
As Fumo wrote to her in one e-mail, "This is such a wonderful city and I am treated so well here - parking wherever I want and getting into jammed restaurants whenever I want - I want to share it all with you."
When the pair began dating - after his second marriage had fallen apart - Fumo e-mailed her to boast about his new state-leased Cadillac DeVille. In the message, Fumo added that a friend had gotten it pretty much right in saying, "Being a senator is the next best thing to royalty."
