Call Girl Confidential (13 page)

Bingo. I needed her to talk about her finances, and she'd led the conversation there herself. I tried to elicit more:

R:
Aren't you worried about that part?

A:
Look, I don't have a $2 million home and claim to make $30,000 a year. I didn't do that whole thing. Everything I ever buy or do has been in cash. I don't buy large purchases. I buy things in different names. I don't own anything in my own name. I don't own any cars.

R:
Not even your new one?

A:
No, that's in my other partner's corporation name. It's a corporate car. I get to use the corporate car but I don't own it. That's owned by the land development company my partner owns. He has no idea. . . .

For example, we have an American Express card and you claim you make $50,000 a year. But if you're doing $50,000 a year in charges, using your credit card, going on vacations, they'll think you're full of shit.

R:
Yeah, because where are you getting that?

A:
But we've never done that. I pay my kids' stuff in cash, like clothes and games. Everything has always been in cash. But all our bills have been paid from our checking account. I never had a flamboyant lifestyle. I never lived big like these other people. I never wanted to be.

Anyway, cutting a long story short, the good news is, they've looked into me and they've found nothing of interest and the lead has gone cold. They're putting it down to a disgruntled girl with a grudge.

R:
That's good.

A:
Yeah, but I'm still not coming back for a while. I'm still not comfortable. Would you be?

R:
I get it. [Boy, did I.] No, I totally understand. It must be hard to be away from your family. At least you have your dogs, though.

I waited, but no, she would never talk about missing her family. Me, I wouldn't be able to stand it. How could she stay away like that? Maybe it hurt so much she couldn't express it.

A:
The other thing, the option is that, if I came back, and there's something I could get tied to, there'd be no choice when I was going to come back.

R:
Yeah, I hear you. But since I e-mailed you this morning, I looked at this whole Kristin thing. It doesn't even seem like it's a big deal anymore.

A:
I was thinking that. Well, that's how I'm feeling. I'm sitting here thinking, OK, this bitch . . .

R:
Two million dollars. They make it out like it's a huge thing. Then all of a sudden, a week later, it's no big deal? Where's the scary part of all this? I don't know . . .

A:
The bottom line is they're on a witch hunt for Spitzer. Andreia Schwartz said, “Yes, I fucked Spitzer.” Andreia Schwartz turned in some names. My name was on that list. I had a fight with her. They started following leads on the list she gave them; they staked out my place, realized there was nothing going on, because there's not. My kids go to school; my husband goes to work every day. I'm not even there. Get my drift? Even if they put my phones and everything at my home under surveillance, we never use them for anything. I've never once made a business call from my home phone number. I never would. I always had those 514 [the Montreal area code] numbers and disposable cells. You may laugh at those 514 numbers, but they're off the jurisdiction of U.S. subpoenas for surveillance. Did you know that?

R:
No. Because they're out of the country?

A:
Yeah.

R:
Oh, that's a good idea.

A:
That's why I had an office up in Canada. All my bills, all my phones, everything is billed out of here. And in case it comes to light, it's legal in Canada.

R:
Oh, it is?

A:
Yeah.

R:
We should all move to Canada.

A:
Yeah, but it's really cheap up here. It's, like, $300 an hour.

R:
Oh, that sucks!

A:
Anywhere you go, when something's legal, it becomes cheap. That's why we get so much in [New York].

Anyway, because this Brazilian girl had a thing for me, she gave my name up. Obviously, they've done their surveillance; they've realized after pulling all my records—and let me tell you, they pulled my bank records, they pulled everything—they feel there's nothing that shouldn't be there. There's no big money flying through my account, flamboyant trips, first-class trips, nothing like that.

R:
My bank account record . . . Is that linked to some private account or is that your . . . I mean . . . I don't even look at that, so I don't really know.

Anna had made a couple of wire transfers into my bank account using the name Anna Tennant, and I was starting to worry, but I also thought I might be able to nail one of her accounts down. It had been for a payment for a trip to Tokyo. This would end up being a lead for the DA.

A:
Can I be honest? You'll be happy to hear that it's located outside of the country.

R:
Oh, OK.

A:
You want to hear a funny thing? It's not even my name. No, it's somebody else. But it's a good friend. It's cool. They're really good. It's the link to me, you know what I mean?

R:
No, as I said, I've always said, the less I know the better.

A:
You know what, Rebecca, you know what it is? I keep thinking the FBI are looking for me because they're at the bottom of my driveway. I was scared. You seem to think every time the phone rings, or you hear the doorbell ring, maybe they're downstairs for you. Maybe our fears are taking the better of us. Maybe none of this is really going on and we're all just paranoid.

R:
Yeah, I agree.

A:
[Kristin] would not give your name up. I feel it in my heart. She would not do that to you.

R:
I'm telling you, anybody else who got my name, if she gave a list of names, my name would be one of many. But if that [
New York Post
court reporter] Laura Italiano [finds out] . . .

A:
I don't like her, either. She parties with Vincent Parco.

R:
She does?

A:
Yes, she does. Our lives are very [intertwined]. Our lives are not that far apart. I don't know if you're noticing that.

R:
I'm starting to get that idea.

A:
I know her editor in chief. Very, very well. But there's a price that comes with that. Do you understand?

R:
Well, here's the question, OK? I have enough cash to get me through April at this point. If I have to come up with something very fast, this is something I have to ask my sister for.
Do you have any idea what I'm going to have to come up with?

A:
[You mean] for an attorney?

R:
No, you're saying there's a price to be paid.

A:
Oh, not that type of price! That's illegal! No, no, no. It means, if you know something about the case, or down the road, if you hear anything illegal going on, you're going to have to drop a little information.

R:
Oh, OK. No problem.

A:
It's called being a source. A newspaper source. You get my drift, right?

R:
But I don't know anything.

A:
You think you don't. But you know frickin' Kristin; you know her better than anybody.

R:
I know.

A:
I think it would be wrong at this point. Unless she gave up your name. I think it would be wrong. I wouldn't do it. Well, put it this way: if they came and knocked at my door, I swear to you on my children's' lives, I will not let anybody take the fall for my mistakes. I'd say, “I didn't keep names, I didn't keep records.” It really is the truth, Becca. If they were to look, I couldn't even tell you the names of the girls I worked with. Because I really didn't want to know. The only one I knew was that bitch Andreia Schwartz, because she's been a nightmare of mine for two years.

I knew this was coming. That's why I moved everything to Canada. I changed my phone lines two years ago. As soon as she got busted, I said, fuck that, she's going to be wanting to give out names. I know my name will be at the top of her head because we got into a fight. Lesson learned. I'll never fight with
people again. “OK, fine, you're angry. Sorry you feel that way. Good-bye.” Never again.

I just don't think Kristin would give up your name. I just don't think she would. I think she'll give up this girl [Jessica] Cutler [the sex worker and blogger called “Washingtonienne,” a friend of madam Kristin Davis], the one that's running her mouth . . .

R:
But Jessica's already outed herself.

A:
No, she's denying it. She says she was just a social acquaintance.

R:
She's a publicity whore.

A:
Nobody wants this kind of publicity. It's one thing if she bangs the governor and can write a tell-all book and make a million. But she didn't. She's nobody. This Jessica Cutler is a gossip that made enemies in Washington. I have no idea who she is. I didn't even know about her. I never heard about her before.

R:
You never read her book?

A:
No.

R:
She wrote a book about the whole thing.

A:
Lovely. Listen, I know you're going to be strapped about money. If I generate some old friends, like ——— and a couple of other people, are you nervous, or do you want to sneak out and see some people? Off the record.

R:
That's what I'm saying. You know how I feel about new clients.

A:
Well, who was the last [one]?

R:
Uh, that guy ———.

A:
He was a regular from years ago. He's an artist.

R:
Yeah.

A:
If you're uncomfortable seeing anyone, I don't even want to
bother. But you've said you're going to be really stressed about money after this month, correct?

R:
I don't know what I'm going to do.

A:
What about the guy ——— downtown? I can call him. I can let ——— know you're working. People you might want me to reach out to, I can reach out to them.

R:
I know I kind of blasted the whole [expletive] thing. He probably doesn't want to see me after not wanting to see him.

A:
I'm having trouble with him anyway. He's not making the money he used to.

R:
Oh, really?

A:
He makes money. But he would spend $10,000 a night. Now he won't even spend more than a couple of thousand. I think everybody's been hard hit with this recession.

But, no, listen, I think it's a time for caution. It's a time to be really, really careful and to stay away from the mainstream of the people. I only reach out to people I really trust.

R:
I don't know. That's the thing.

A:
I will never advertise as an agency again. Those days are gone.

R:
Anybody who does that isn't very smart.

A:
Did you see the big agencies? Oh my God, they have ads that are still up.

R:
You think they're doing that because they think they can? Because they think everybody is so busy with Kristin?

A:
The [prosecutors] are going to go through the list. They're even hitting body rubs. They're hitting everything. Kristin made such big waves because she was so flamboyant. That's what makes her an interesting media story. From what I've heard, she's not exactly a lady.

R:
Really, now . . . Is anyone still around? Aren't they kind of stupid at this point?

A:
Off the record, I knew this was all coming down. Not Kristin. But I left before any of this happened. I knew shit was coming. And there's more to come. There was a big place that got hit on Friday night and none of us know who it is. They didn't put it in the papers yet.

They made a boo-boo with Kristin. Her booker disappeared. They were supposed to get her at the same time they got Kristin. But something went wrong. It took them five days to find her. Did you know that?

R:
Yeah, well, Grace was hiding at her apartment and went up to her mom's. That's what I read in the papers.

A:
Don't read the papers. Even when you give them information, it's never what you told them!

R:
I even read in the paper that Grace had been out for a long time.

A:
I thought I read that. I don't know the girl.

R:
I heard from people who still work for Kristin that is not true, that she was still there.

A:
I know they're looking for a girl called Amanda. I don't know who she is.

R:
I know who Amanda is. I met Amanda in the summer of 2006. When Kristin was expanding Philadelphia, she needed someone to run Philadelphia when she wasn't there. So she found this girl Amanda. Kristin and I went down for the weekend to kind of hang out and have drinks.

A:
I wouldn't want to be Amanda. There's a manhunt for her.

R:
She's a highlighted blonde. Shoulder-length hair. Probably about five-six. Working girl. Cute but not drop-dead gorgeous.
The very last call that I did for Kristin, she actually was on the call. So she kind of migrated from running Philadelphia to doing some work in New York. I don't know if she went back to that.

A:
She was supposed to be running a lot of the operation.