A man accused in the brutal beating of a woman he held as his "sex slave" in a downtown hotel has been convicted of attempted first-degree murder and assault.

Jimmie Wellmon was charged in the Feb. 11, 2006, attack on a 26-year-old woman who was beaten, bitten, kicked, strangled and burned with cigarettes in a room at downtown's Adam's Mark Hotel. She also said Wellmon put her in a tub of scalding water and tried to drown her.

The woman said he became enraged and beat her up after she paid a $100 room service bill for steak and lobster that he ran up while she was out working as a stripper.

She told the jury Wellmon broke a wine glass and cut her with it, threatening to slash her throat and make her eat glass.

She said he burned her eyelid and other parts of her body with a cigarette and dragged her around the room by her hair. She suffered a broken eye socket and her body was badly bruised.

Although the trial focused on the beating, police also found notebooks in which Wellmon detailed his training methods for the woman, who was to call him "Daddy," remain nude when they were alone, kneel before him, walk behind him and speak only with permission.

Wellmon also was convicted of intimidating a former girlfriend, a key witness, into not testifying, and attempting to bribe the victim not to testify.