The New York Times outs identifies the 22-year-old aspiring singer known as "Kristen" who found herself at the epicenter of the brouhaha
surrounding Eliot Spitzer this week. At least now we know one reason
why she turned to escorting -- after listening to that track on her
MySpace page (you know, the one with what the Times called "dated
slang"), we doubt her vocal career would've made her much money anyway.
(nytimes.com)
BOMBSHELL: Gov. Eliot Spitzer a client of call girl ring
Online Hooker Ring Busted
High-priced call girls were rated on a scale of diamonds
MARCH 6--An international call girl ring that solicited wealthy male
clients via a web site that rated its hookers on a scale of diamonds
(and charged accordingly) has been busted by federal agents. The
operators of the New York-based Emperors Club were named in a felony
complaint unsealed today in U.S. District Court in Manhattan. Before
the Emperors Club web site was taken down this afternoon, TSG grabbed
the below screen shot showing part of the firm's hooker menu. Another page from the site
described how its rates were based on a woman's rating (which ranged
from three to seven diamonds) and noted that "Gift Certificates
Available Upon Request." A detailed FBI affidavit provides other
details about the Emperors Club operation, which charged up to $5500 an
hour for one of its 50 prostitutes, who operated in New York,
Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, London, and Paris. The affidavit notes
that one prospective hooker, who declined to work for the company
because it did not pay enough, complained that a friend of hers had sex
twice in an hour with an Emperors Club john who did not even spring for dinner beforehand. In one wiretapped conversation, Mark Brener, the ring's leader, complained that one of his hookers looked like a "butcher."
During another call, Emperors Club employees discussed the "baggage" a
hooker carries when she is a mother who has to leave appointments early
to pick up her kids from school. The affidavit also includes the musings of one self-aware prostitute who remarked in a phone call, "I know what my purpose is. I'm not a...moron." (6 pages)