Don't condemn women for the vices of men First published: Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Perhaps the only positive consequence of the Eliot Spitzer scandal is the general public's increased awareness of prostitution. As we have recently learned, prostitutes often come from broken homes and have a history of drug abuse. Even the prostitutes who cater to a wealthier clientele are exposed to unsafe sexual practices, venereal diseases and physical violence. Studies have indicated that these women are so emotionally damaged by the men that objectify them that they tend to objectify themselves.
I find it appalling that Judy Kuriansky, a clinical psychologist quoted in your March 13 article, "Scandal hard to keep from children," would urge parents to tell their children, "Sadly there are some women who feel that when they have an intimate experience with someone they need to get paid for it." Kuriansky's comment is blatantly misogynistic, putting the blame for prostitution on the woman. I doubt that any prostitute would classify her work as an "intimate experience." Perhaps parents should tell their children, "Sadly, there are some men who want to pay women for sexual favors." In our haste to protect children from ugly truths, we should not rush to condemn women for the vices of men. MELANIE SPAULDING Rotterdam
It takes two to tango and I see no innocent parties involved in prostitution, both parties are breaking the law. We all have to accept responsibility for our actions.
AND THERE HE HO'S AGAIN 'WICKED' SPITZER LINKED TO BUSTY BUSTED MADAM'S BIZ By JAMIE SCHRAM, LAURA ITALIANO, KATI CORNELL and CHUCK BENNETT STACKED CASE: Kristin Davis allegedly personally serviced Eliot Spitzer.
March 27, 2008 -- Disgraced former Gov. Eliot Spitzer has been identified as a long-standing client of a second high-priced call-girl ring, The Post has learned. The ex-governor regularly patronized Wicked Models, the Manhattan-based operation taken down Tuesday, according to financial documents and other evidence unearthed in a yearlong prostitution in vestigation, law-enforcement sources said.
The revelation comes three weeks after Spitzer was outed as "Client-9" in a separate federal hooker probe involving the New Jersey-based Emperors Club VIP. At the center of the new ring is Kristin "Billie" Davis, a busty bottle blonde who hails from a ough-and-tumble California trailer park. She has a reputation for hard-partying, shameless self-promotion and a rumored 10,000-name-long client list. Davis' alleged multimillion-dollar empire was smashed by city vice cops as she made plans to skip town. Prosecutors say she netted some $2 million last year by pimping out ladies of the night for as much as $1,000 an hour through four Web sites. They noted she has openly boasted of total earnings of $6 million, and has been in operation since at least 2004. Davis, 32, pleaded not guilty to money laundering and promoting prostitution in Manhattan Supreme Court yesterday and was held on $2-million bail. She faces 15 years in prison if convicted of running the ring, which also allegedly operated the Madison La A'mour and New York Body Miracle agencies. A source said Davis personally serviced Spitzer. "She personally interfaced with Spitzer a number of times" since 2003 before she became a madam, a source close to Davis said. When asked about the allegation, Davis told The Post, "I can't talk about it." Spitzer's spokeswoman, Anna Cordasco, countered that "Mr. Spitzer was not ever a client of Ms. Davis." When vice cops raided Davis' apartment at 315 E. 56th St. after learning she was about to skip town, they seized some $500,000 in various bank accounts, $15,000 from a safe-deposit box, and $4,800 from the residence. The wary madam had been tipped off to the investigation and was in the midst of destroying evidence, moving her money and planning her escape, Assistant District Attorney John McConnell said during arraignment. It's unclear what happened to any records that could identify her well-heeled clients. Sources close to the case estimated she did business with 10,000 different johns over the years. Since 2004, Davis ran a lucrative, high-end operation employing several dozen prostitutes - not just in New York, but in Pennsylvania and California, McConnell said. There's been no link between Davis' alleged operation and the Emperors Club VIP, the ring from which Spitzer was caught on a federal wiretap ordering a hooker in Washington, DC. Nor was there word on whether Spitzer wore his socks during his alleged escort encounters. Last week, it was revealed Republican dirty-tricks operative Roger Stone told the FBI that Spitzer kept his socks on during sex with a Florida prostitute. A year's worth of investigation, including undercover work and the execution of multiple search warrants, turned up a pile of incriminating bank records and other documents related to the hard-partying Davis and her business, McConnell said. These records show that in the last year alone, Davis moved $2 million in hooker proceeds through her elaborate web of money-laundering accounts, he said. Davis' lawyer, Mark Jay Heller, continued for a second day yesterday to blame her arrest on "rumors" circulated by unnamed sex-industry insiders looking for money or preferential treatment in their own cases. "She believes she's being persecuted here as a result of the Gov. Spitzer scandal," he said. But the source close to Davis said more high-profile names are involved. "There are some big people involved in the entertainment industry," the source said, adding that there are "sports superstars" including "a very prominent Yankee," along with Spitzer campaign contributors. In court yesterday, the slightly rumpled Davis wore gray tights, black Ugg boots and a black hoodie decorated by silver-sequin images of flaming skulls and crossbones. "Why couldn't they have picked me up in regular clothes and not in gym clothes?" she asked The Post. "It's more comfortable, I guess." Davis may be loving the attention. Even before her bust, she was trying to shop her story to the media, and in her pitches described herself as the madam behind "the world's largest escort agency," according to the Manhattan prosecutor. Sex-industry insiders described the tattooed platinum blonde as "a flamboyant biker chick" who boasted of her business success and reveled in telling pals about a hard-luck upbringing. "She is the female version of Jason," said one industry source, referring to Jason Itzler, the limelight-loving, tall-tale-telling pimp who ran now-busted NYConfidential. She's known in the industry for a drug-fueled, wild annual party she throws for her "girls" in Las Vegas. Her MySpace page features several photos of well-endowed women surrounded by ogling men. "I have created a business empire where I rule," Davis wrote on her MySpace page. "It's also one I could fall, and fall hard, very much like Lucifer getting kicked out of heaven." Photographer Jason Howard, whom Davis hired last year to take nude photos of her, said she was a regular on the club scene, but he had no inkling of her real business. "Had I known, I would have charged her more," he quipped. Additional reporting by Jeane MacIntosh, Murray Weiss and Reuven Fenton
At the center of the new ring is Kristin "Billie" Davis, a busty bottle blonde who hails from a ough-and-tumble California trailer park. She has a reputation for hard-partying, shameless self-promotion and a rumored 10,000-name-long client list.
Wow ... now there's something to be proud of - a milestone.
That's 2 tricks a day since age 18 - every day.
And they wonder why STD's and AIDS are running rampant? I feel bad for MRS Spitzer, what'd he bring home to share with her? ew!
Spitzer's wife and family are the ones suffering for his mistakes.
I have to disagree with you on this one shadow. I believe that 'the wife' was along for the ride. All of these politician's wives are. Just like the CEO's who make $70M/yr are. These wives have a cake life with an abundance of money and fame. They aren't like the wives down on our level, for sure!
The only way Spitzer's wife is suffering is by being pi**ed at him for getting caught in the first place. So sympathy here!!!
If Spitzer's wife does not leave him, I will place her in the same catagory as Hillary!
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
She doesn't have to leave.....they have enough houses that she would never have to sit across from him at dinner again and never have to look at a National Grid/Macy's/Bloomingdales etc bill again........as for his daughters----he can never correct that and his hero status has been erased.....he will still get a pat on the a@# from the guys in the locker room---now he can be their hero, viagra and all........
and we need viagra for what????
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
spitz · er v.tr. 1. To unexpectedly -- and spectacularly -- destroy your career in a single act so obviously wrong that having someone tell you "you should know better" would be blatantly redundant: Bob was on track to make regional manager until he spitzered himself.
Spitzer call girl linked to mob Man under federal indictment says he was trying to help 22-year-old with singing career
By WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM and IAN URBINA, New York Times First published: Sunday, March 30, 2008
NEW YORK -- Federal investigators have developed information that the prostitute whom Eliot Spitzer is said to have met in Washington last month has some relationship with a man who the authorities contend is an associate of organized crime, according to people with knowledge of the matter. It was unclear on Friday whether the investigators had determined the precise nature, or timing, of the relationship between the 22-year-old woman and the reputed organized crime figure, Anthony Scibelli, 37, a building contractor now under federal indictment in a separate case in Brooklyn.
But prosecutors and FBI agents involved in the prostitution case have begun asking questions about whether anyone involved with the ring that the former governor is believed to have patronized, the Emperors Club VIP, understands how Scibelli knows the woman, Ashley Alexandra Dupre, according to a person with knowledge of the investigation. A lawyer for Scibelli acknowledged that his client knew Dupre but said that the two did not have a sexual relationship. "He doesn't deny knowing her, but he does deny having any illicit relationship with her," said the lawyer, Gerald L. Shargel. "Anthony Scibelli is a hard-working contractor. He is not a mob member. He is not a mobster. He is someone who goes to work every day." Shargel said his client's only contact with Dupre, an aspiring rhythm and blues singer, was related to his efforts to further her music career. "He has contacts in the music business," Shargel said. "She was introduced to him because of his contacts in the music business, and she obviously thought that he could help further her career, and that was the sole basis of the relationship." He said the two met through a mutual friend whom he did not identify. There is no indication that Spitzer was aware of Dupre's relationship with Scibelli, or that Scibelli knew Spitzer had reportedly been a client of Dupre's. Indeed, two people with knowledge of the case said Dupre's only apparent contact with the governor had been the Feb. 13 rendezvous at the Mayflower Hotel, a meeting that became famous after it was disclosed that Spitzer was referred to as Client 9 in a federal complaint against the prostitution ring. But the fact that the scope of Dupre's contacts included someone the federal government lists as an organized crime associate underscores the dangerously vulnerable position Spitzer put himself in if he consorted with prostitutes. A spokeswoman for Spitzer, Brandy Bergman, said the former governor had no comment, as did a spokeswoman for federal prosecutors in Manhattan. A lawyer for Dupre, Don D. Buchwald, also declined to comment. Dupre did not respond to messages. Scibelli is listed as the owner of one construction company and as an executive in another that does business in the New York metropolitan region. He served a state prison sentence in the early 1990s for felony drug sale, according to state prison records. Last month, he was one of 62 people charged in a sweeping indictment brought by federal prosecutors against the Gambino crime family, including three reputed leaders of the family, six reputed capos, 16 men the authorities classified as soldiers and others, like Scibelli, whom the government identified as mob associates. Specifically, the government accused Scibelli of extortion and extortion conspiracy, claiming he shook down another contractor and took over the man's portable cement plant.He was charged along with three other men, Nicholas Corozzo and Leonard DiMaria, identified in the indictment as Gambino captains, and Corozzo's son-in-law, Vincent Dragonetti, a reputed soldier who is involved in a construction business with Scibelli. Shargel noted that Scibelli was not charged with racketeering conspiracy in the Brooklyn case, as were 25 of the other defendants. And he was named in just two of the 80 counts in the 170-page indictment. He is now free on $1 million bond that was secured by the house where he lives with his wife in Medford and a home there owned by his parents. Corozzo, DiMaria and Dragonetti face more serious charges: murder, racketeering conspiracy and nearly two dozen other alleged crimes for Corozzo, racketeering conspiracy and 30 extortion, gambling and other counts for DiMaria and a litany of construction-related extortion, money laundering and gambling charges for Dragonetti. Dragonetti and Scibelli are involved in a construction firm called Hunter-Atlantic, in Red Bank, N.J. Scibelli is the vice president and business records list Dragonetti as the registered agent. Scibelli also has another company, VMS Consulting Inc.
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