Gerald Grosvenor,
UK's richest man, could be Emperor's 'Client 6'
New York Daily News Mar 13, 08 4:44 PM CDT
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The richest man in England has been linked to the prostitution ring patronized by Eliot Spitzer, the New York Daily News reports. Sources identified Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor, Duke of Westminster, as Emperors Club “Client 6,” who arranged four visits in late 2006. Grosvenor is a close friend of Prince Charles—and godfather to Prince William, second in line to the throne.
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22-year-old escort says she's no "monster"
New York Times Mar 12, 08 10:00 PM CDT
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At the center of Eliot Spitzer’s fall from grace is 22-year-old Kristen, aka Ashley Alexandra Dupre, a high-priced escort and aspiring R&B singer who left her self-proclaimed "broken family" in New Jersey at age 17 to pursue a musical career in New York. “I just don’t want to be thought of as a monster,” she told the New York Times .
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Spitzer case shows how web, IMs, e-funds drive business
Associated Press Mar 12, 08 4:44 PM CDT
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Eliot Spitzer's woes are shedding light on the new world of the oldest profession. Prostitutes and escort services use online social networking to find business, IMs to record the time spent with a client, and the web to make payment simpler and more private, reports the AP. New technology also widens the divide between "indoor and outdoor" prostitution, says a sex industry expert.
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Lessons learned from Spitzer's favorite online escort service
Slate Mar 12, 08 12:19 PM CDT
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There are important lessons to be gleaned from Eliot Spitzer’s shenanigans. Namely: how to effectively run a brothel for the well-to-do. Using cached pages from the now-defunct Emperors Club website, Josh Levin lays out a business plan in Slate. Keep out the riff-raff: 92% of the club’s clients were CEOs Peddle the best product: The ladies boasted detailed, degree-laden CVs Set fair prices: A three-diamond prostitute is less talented than a seven-diamond prostitute, but she’s also one-third the price
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OPINION
Spitzer takes backlash for taking wife along; reactions run along gender lines
Los Angeles Times Mar 12, 08 11:41 AM CDT
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Eliot Spitzer is going up in flames, but Americans are wondering why his wife has to go with him: The Los Angeles Times talks to angry people on the street, including one divorcee who insists, “She should’ve said, ‘This is your fight. ... You stand there and get yourself out of it.’” But professors disagree, saying sticking on your politician husband’s arm is simply “one last spousal duty.”
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Shrink says it's time women balked at helping with cleanup
ABC News Mar 11, 08 1:14 PM CDT
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Silda Wall Spitzer, the Harvard-educated lawyer who stood grimly alongside her husband during his somewhat perplexing apology yesterday, joins the ranks of political wives who suffer publicly the sex scandals of their disgraced mates, ABC writes. She follows in the footsteps of Larry Craig's wife, Suzanne; Jim McGreevey's then-wife, Dana: and, of course, Hillary Clinton, an exception in that she didn't share the podium with Bill at his nadir.
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OPINION
Should he go? What would it take to stay?
Wall Street Journal Mar 11, 08 12:35 PM CDT
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As Eliot Spitzer mulls his options, the editorial boards of the state's newspapers are weighing in: Wall Street Journal: "The stupendously deluded belief that the sitting governor of New York could purchase the services of prostitutes was the last act of a man unable to admit the existence of, or need for, limits."
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Experts wonder why smart guys do really stupid things
Associated Press Mar 11, 08 10:55 AM CDT
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Eliot Spitzer's reported involvement with a pricey call-girl ring has left, well, everyone scratching their heads, the AP reports. What makes a public figure show such jaw-dropping disregard for the consequences of private actions? One analyst calls it "the psychology of the exception. People in power sometimes feel they can do things that us, mere mortals, are forbidden to do. There's a sense, as with adolescents, that 'I won't get caught.'"
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Friends call him a 'Boy Scout,' but governor kept secrets well hidden
Financial Times (UK) Mar 11, 08 7:43 AM CDT
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Eliot Spitzer's biographer was as shocked as anyone to discover his involvement with a prostitution ring yesterday. The New York governor was regarded as a devoted and faithful husband, and his college girlfriends still spoke fondly of him. The whole debacle, writes Brooke Masters in the Financial Times , "serves as a shocking reminder that even the most public figures can have unexpected facets."
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Bank transactions made investigators suspicious
New York Times Mar 11, 08 5:09 AM CDT
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The inquiry that uncovered New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer's alleged assignations with high-priced hookers began in a decidedly unglamorous IRS office in Long Island, reports the New York Times . There, investigators were poring over suspicious bank transactions when they noticed the governor was apparently trying to conceal the transfer of thousands of dollars via what appeared to be shell companies, officials said.
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OPINION
Writers speculate on how we got here—and where we go
Chicago Tribune Mar 10, 08 3:35 PM CDT
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Amid reports that Eliot Spitzer has been caught on a wiretap in a prostitution investigation, stunned political bloggers are speculating on whether the New York governor will resign, parsing how we got here—and where we go: Politicians have outlived sex scandals in the past, writes Mark Silva, but “so much of Spitzer’s persona is invested in his own enforcement of the law,” and politics is “unforgiving of hypocrisy.” There’s no resignation yet, but New Yorkers should start reading up on their lieutenant governor.
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New York Times Mar 10, 08 2:37 PM CDT
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In a brief press conference, New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer this afternoon apologized to his family and to the public, "whom I've promised better" for failing "to live up to the standards I set for myself." The former attorney general is reportedly identified as Client 9 in a federal wiretap investigation that brought down a high-end prostitution ring called the Emperors Club VIP last week.
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