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Entries from Gothamist tagged with 'emperorsclubvip'

August 26, 2008

A woman who worked as a part-time booker for the Emperors Club escort service that former Governor Spitzer used has pleaded guilty to "conspiracy to violate the travel act." Tanya Hollander is hoping to avoid jail time. Unlike another colleague who pleaded guilty, she did not get a cooperation deal from the feds. The Daily News reports that Hollander's lawyer Michael Farkas said "if Spitzer isn't charged he'll argue that Hollander would not have been......

Continue Reading "Spitzer's Escort Ring Hooker Booker Pleads Guilty"

July 15, 2008

A woman who worked part-time for the high class escort service used by former Governor Spitzer has accepted a plea agreement. Tanya Hollander, who is a holistic health counselor, will plead to lesser charges than the Emperors Club's head, Mark Brener, his girlfriend Cecil Suwal who ran the operation, and Tameka Lewis who booked appointments. Brener, Suwal and Lewis have all pleaded guilty to prostitution conspiracy and money laundering. Hollander's lawyer hopes his client can......

Continue Reading "Fourth Guilty Plea From Emperors Club VIP"

June 3, 2008

The 23-year-old woman who helped run the prostitution ring that counted former governor Eliot Spitzer as a customer is pleading guilty to money laundering charges. Cecil Suwal, who went to a NJ prep school (yearbook photo pictured), started working for the Emperors Club after answering an ad. She later become involved with owner Mark Brener, 62. Brener is pleading innocent and is awaiting trial. Temeka Rachelle Lewis, the ring's booker, pleaded guilty last month and......

Continue Reading ""Contrite" Emperors Club Manager Will Plead Guilty"

May 14, 2008

Tameka Rachelle Lewis, a University of Virginia graduate now immortalized as the prostitution ring booker who confirmed an escort's visit with Governor Spitzer, has pleaded guilty to promoting prostitution and money laundering. Lewis was taped by the FBI when she spoke to Alexandra Ashley Dupre (pictured), whose escort name was "Kristen." She told Kristen that "Client 9"--believed to be Governor Spitzer--"would ask you to do things that, like, you might not think were safe -......

Continue Reading "Booker Who Set Up Spitzer's Hooker Visit Pleads Guilty"

March 20, 2008

Uh oh, Joe Francis! The lawyer for Governor Spitzer's call girl says she was only 17 when she made a Girls Gone Wild video a few years ago. Apparently Ashley Alexandra Dupre (known to Spitzer as "Kristen") only turned 18 a month after the video was shot. Lawyer Don Buchwald wrote in an e-mail Dupre was kicked off the GGW bus "because she was underage...It would be outrageous at the very least to play the......

Continue Reading "Spitzer Hooker Maybe Only 17 in 'Wild' Video"

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