Old Russian Lady Spouts Off
You know, we won't lie to you: We're not quite sure who Inna De Silva is. (Sorry. We're under the age of 90.) According to this week's New York Observer, she's a notorious NYC party gal who they story says, at various points, ran a Russian "concierge service," was addicted to smack, worked as a booker for models and now serves as a consultant to nightclubs while carrying around a bottle of vodka. We don't know why this necessarily makes her interesting enough to merit a profile in the Observer, but we do like listening to her talk. Some choice quotes:
"If you re in any bad situation, a street situation, breaking a bottle on somebody s head will always give you a couple of minutes. I have the mentality of a gangster."
"I was considered to be one of the hot girls in New York. Let s face it: Everybody wanted to sleep with me. And I did sleep with quite a few of them."
"I m a hustler by nature, and hustling is exhausting. Life in New York City is literally like war, and survival in one of the most expensive cities in the world is something. And I m not blowing any fat old guys!
More bon mots after the jump.—WL
"I would move to the Caribbean, open a small four-star hotel and send everybody a postcard. I believed that since I m an extraordinary person, that this was just supposed to happen. I ve often said if I knew who to blow, I would have blown that person by now, but do I really mean it? I don t know."
One recent night, she accompanied a client, an owner of the nightclub Quo, to the strip club Scores West Side, where she drank cognac until 3 a.m. "It was practically almost an orgy, right there in full view of everyone," she said. "It was pretty wild in there. No penetration, but with fingers everywhere."
After sushi, we stopped by a party for Quest magazine at the Shoreham Hotel.
"Look at the women," she said, pointing out a few beauties. "And look at the men we have in the room. What is that? I mean he s asexual. Half of them are twerps they re tiny. Way too many short men in New York. Macho is definitely not a word I d use in this room. They re all kind of fey, even if they re dating women. Darwin has been very unkind to women in New York City! This is the species that survived?
"I could beat up any of these guys," she said, laughing. "You know they re basically gay, but for whatever reason they don t feel comfortable being gay, so they become asexual."
"Free-base is the scariest high," she said. "The first time, it s like having the most intense orgasm in your life, but that s only the first time. It is evil like people at 7 a.m. crawling around on the carpet looking for rocks."
"What s unique about New York is it s not all about money," she continued. "It s about having juice. If you know beautiful women, that s juice. You bring five models into a restaurant, you just made their night. Women are juice."
