emperors-club
The Emperors Club Whored Artists, Too
Pareene · 03/28/08 11:51AMModern art is more or less indistinguishable from prostitution, but every now and then something happens to make that relationship a little less symbolic and a little more literal. Emperors Club, the high-priced call girl outfit that provided Eliot Spitzer and countless other wealthy elites with classy sex, also hooked the same wealthy clients up with classy art. According to Artnet: "As it turns out, the company that ran Emperors Club VIP, the Emperors Publishing Media Group, also runs a parallel website titled Emperors Club Contemporary Art." Millionaires and billionaires who signed up with the service would supposedly gain access to "exclusive auctions" of works by folks like Jeff Koons and Andrew Wyeth.
Did One Of These Ladies Take Down the Governor?
Pareene · 03/10/08 03:22PMThese are the lovely ladies of the Emperors' Club Spokes Model Portfolio—the front for the high-class prostitution ring that counted New York Governor Eliot Spitzer among its devoted clients. While these photos look like they've either been cut from magazines (Albany Vogue?) or borrowed from the headshots pile at local news station, there's a chance one of them might actually be "Kristen", Governor Spitzer's date that lonely February night in Washington DC. Other models, some of whose pictures are rapidly disappearing from here, might be more likely candidates, but these are the only ones with faces we've got. If you spot "Kristen", described in the FBI affidavit as "American, petite, very pretty brunette, 5 feet, and 105 pounds", please send a picture our way.