Call Girl Confidential (14 page)

R:
There's Beth and there's Lucy. Where did Lucy go? Why is Lucy's name not out there? I haven't figured that one out.

A:
It is. I saw it in the newspaper a couple of days ago. It was in the
Post.
They didn't say the name Lucy; they just had the name of her agency. Off the record, because the media doesn't know this, she changed the name of her agency.

R:
I think Lucy is the scary one.

A:
Why?

R:
Because she knew too much information. I don't think she was just a booker. I think she was, like, Kristin's partner. . . . There's no way she had the kind of money to start that business.

A:
Jason Itzler says he booked her. I can't even see him hiring her. She's . . . not to get too personal, but she's really creepy. I thought it was a guy they were showing pictures of. I really thought it was a guy.

R:
Everybody is saying that.

A:
She's really a woman, right?

R:
Oh, yeah.

A:
The only reason I ask that is cause she really looks like a man.

R:
She goes for a lot of types of service, and I mean a lot of plastic surgery. I've seen her boobs, because she's changed in front of me, but I've never seen her crotch. Maybe I'm wrong, but I find it hard to believe that she's not a woman.

A:
I'll keep in touch with my source at the paper. And I'll ask them to keep an eye on Laura [Italiano]. My friend at the
Post
owes
me a lot of favors. I think they would kick something out if I said it was a personal favor. I've known her for fourteen years. My daughter is an intern down at the newspaper this summer. Doing it for summer credit. She's seventeen; she's going to be eighteen. She's either going to be there or at the other paper, the
New York Observer.
I'm not sure. Whatever would be best for her résumé. But she doesn't get paid to work there. She works there just for the credit. They let her go out in the field with the reporters. She can be in the office for four or five weeks. Every summer they invite four or five kids. Believe it or not, my daughter wants to do media, journalism.

Since I had a lot of connections, I was able, before any of this came up, to [arrange it]. They owed me a couple of big favors. I'm not the type of person who would turn over information that would hurt people. I wouldn't do that. But if they asked me “What do you know about this agency?” I'd say, well, not so great as they used to be. I try to be, how would you say, diplomatic. Because I know what it's like to be [in] the industry and be on both sides of the fence. I don't know Kristin. There's nothing I can ever say about her. But if they were to call me and ask me about a couple of other motherfuckers, like Jason Itzler, you're not kidding I gave out that information, and I fucking let him know I gave it too. Because I didn't care. He was a motherfucker. You know that Jason Itzler character, right?

R:
Oh, yeah. Everybody does.

A:
He's scary. He's claiming that Kristin worked for him as the rock-star groupie escort.

R:
Jason gets drunk and makes stupid comments. I don't think that . . .

A:
No, he said it on national television.

R:
He did not!

A:
He did. He was on
The View
two days ago. He was on
Howard Stern.
On
Geraldo.
Geraldo was ripping him apart. Whoopi Goldberg was ripping him apart. Every single media channel known to man. He was on
20/20.
He was talking about Ashley Dupré, who worked under the name of Victoria, and he said that she had the best pussy in town. He actually said that on
Howard Stern.

Jason actually was close with two guys who had been cops. One of the guys had a friend who was the desk sergeant at Manhattan South who did all the busts for prostitution on the task force. So Jason would get girls—hypothetically, like Julie, I'm just giving you a name, who worked for multiple agencies. He'd befriend her, make her feel like she was really special to him, go shopping and buy her shoes. Treat her like she was his superstar. Then he would pump her for information. The girls would end up giving him credit card slips, the private phone numbers for the agencies, the setup for how it's done, how the apartments are set up. That motherfucker would put it all together and then hand it to that cop friend. His friend would come in, blow coke, and see a couple of girls for free, take the information and give it to the desk sergeant at the task force.

The next thing you know, remember Jeannine from American Beauty? Jet from Tower? All these people got taken down because of Jason Itzler. He went through the whole industry. He tried this shit with me. But I knew from an insider what was going down.

I have an ex-boyfriend. He's someone nobody fucks with. Get my drift? He's the guy who, you hear his name, no matter
who you are . . . Put it this way, he was at Gotti's funeral. He dated Victoria Gotti. He's one of the most well-known guys . . .

R:
Say that again?

A:
OK, my ex-boyfriend, who I dated for three years. He looked out for me a lot. He's the guy, he's on television a lot; he's very well-known and he's very powerful on two sides of the coin. His best friend was chief director of the FBI for the entire country. When Itzler started shaking people down, he tried to shake me. Itzler called me up and said, “You need to shut down, or else I'm going to shut you down.” I said, “Oh, really, motherfucker? Let's see what happens when my friend fucks up your face. Try to understand, you have an electronic bracelet on your ankle, right? You could go back.”

You know he was arrested for drug dealing? Three thousand Ecstasy pills. [Itzler was sentenced to] a year and a half. He ratted out the Colombian drug cartel down in Miami because, before he came to New York, he was in Miami in the 900-number business. He was the number one guy in Florida, or so he alleges. There was another guy who was his competitor. I for one did not shut down. Itzler was partners with one of the Colombians. You know how these guys do? The Colombian necktie. The guy says he wants to close him down. A couple of months later he disappeared. They found him and his girlfriend decapitated in the trunk of their car. Out in the swamps, the Everglades. And suddenly Jason left town. He came to New York. He got on a plane to Amsterdam. You can go online and look at his parole record. He got a year and a half for international drug trafficking of 2,800 Ecstasy pills.

R:
That's incredible!

A:
Jason Itzler threatened me years ago, when I had a company with a different name. I got in a big pissing match with him. I said, “Listen, fuckface, you want to play the game?” I said, “You have an ankle bracelet, motherfucker.” I picked up the phone and called my guy. My guy sent two guys down to [Jason's] office to make it very clear to him. When my guy spoke to his guy, he got it. That's why I was the only one who never went to jail when Jason was turning in all the names to Vice. There were eleven agencies busted in four months. That was all because of Jason. He went through the back of
New York
magazine, and all the agencies. He was meeting girls who worked for these agencies. And getting all the information and giving it to Vice. They'd go right in and close them down. He didn't do it with me. One, I didn't use credit cards. And two, I think my people made him very nervous.

Jason's guys thought they were pretty tough. But my guys were not the type of guys they wanted to bother. Jason did threaten me. But he never bothered me again.

Jason, the day he gets arrested, he gets out the next day. You don't think that's kind of coincidental? Now you see why I kept my distance from everybody. I'm paranoid about everyone I hire. It's craziness . . .

[Anna's sister] Elizabeth is just chilling out. She was worried about you. She said, “Please tell her not to be scared.” When the storm blows over, she said you'll be on our list. Here's my new number: ———.

R:
She's so sweet.

A:
She's a nice lady. Her heart is good. She's very patient. So that's the latest gossip. Remember American Beauty and Femme Desire? They all got busted because of Jason. He was
getting info from all these girls. He has his business up again. It's called DNA Diamonds. He's fucking running it.

R:
It's pretty clever.

A:
No, it's not pretty clever! Because he cannot control himself, his mouth, and his inability to not promote himself. He cannot be across from you: he has to be “I'm number one. I'm the biggest and the best.” He's on all these radio and TV shows, telling everybody. They flew him to California. He was on
Geraldo.
I've never seen anything like this. He was on Channel 7; Channel 5; he was on CNN. He was on
Anderson Cooper
talking about Ashley Dupré. Do you even know that Ashley Dupré was with the Victoria's Agency? And just so everybody knows, she had a special thing to market: “she had the most beautiful pussy in New York.”

R:
Oh, really?

A:
That's what he was saying on
Howard Stern.
It was just gross.

Anyway, I'm going to be honest: I don't think Kristin is going to mention your name. You're so far removed [from working for Kristin in the recent past]. I think she's going to be thinking about girls from the last six months. Do you know there're girls turning themselves in, like you thought you wanted to do? I told you that was a mistake. I knew girls were going to get scared, like you were feeling . . .

R:
That's why I wanted to talk to you. Like, what am I supposed to do?

A:
You go on with your life. You wait. Somebody shows up, you say, “I need an attorney.” I'll be more than happy to come to the station with my attorney. I don't think they're going to look into you. My gut tells me you're safe. They're going to look at the last six months because it's more of an active time to nail
her. It's so hard to track people down from a couple of years ago.

R:
Jessica?

A:
Yes, she would advertise. I hope you're sleeping a little better. I swear, if you need a place to stay—if it comes to that—you can come to my place. I have a two-bedroom. It's five hours from New York City by bus. It's not a big deal. I'm in a really nice area.

R:
Oh, really?

A:
It's nice. So if it gets crazy . . .

But about the media: if you really feel you'll get a knock at the door, and your name's going to come out, you will call me, right? Because I think I might be able to keep your name out of the papers.

R:
Absolutely.

A:
That would be my biggest concern if I were you. Forget the police. They're not going to arrest you on something you may or may not have done, going back two years ago. So the only thing you really have to worry about is the media. I think that's your biggest fear. Right?

R:
Having my name in the papers is a major concern.

A:
[Chuckles.] OK, one of my best friends is the chief editor there. The head editor. One of my very closest friends. You understand? I've never asked for a favor, other than my daughter. They were giving out student internships for the summer. That's the only thing I've ever asked, and I've known him for fourteen years. And, no, he's not a client, but, yes, he knows what I used to do. Put it this way: they've gotten a couple of their biggest stories from me, ever. And it was
nothing to do with the adult industry. Do you remember the sultan of Brunei?

R:
I can't recall.

A:
That's how I started my business. I used to send the girls to Brunei.

R:
Oh, wow.

A:
I stopped booking them because I learned a lot of weird shit was going on there. A few years later, there was a huge scandal. Miss America—Shannon Something. Mamaroneck? [Marketic.] Allegedly she was sent over there and they tried to hold her hostage.

All the girls were totally gorgeous. They submit to HIV testing as soon as they arrive. They have a clinic. You fly into the private airport and they take you right to the clinic. They do all your blood work before you get sent to the harem. They do, honestly. She sued them for an undisclosed amount, and they wanted media coverage. An attorney who was co-counsel with the attorney on record knew that I was friends with the editor and said, “Can you get it into the paper?” I said, “Sure.” It was a huge story for the [
New York Post
]. I've given them a couple of big stories that are not related to the sex industry here. I won't do the sex industry here because I think it's bad karma.

R:
It
is
bad karma.

A:
I was speaking to my friend who's a DA, and I said, “What do you think they're going to do with [Kristin's] case?” He tried to get an attorney's number for you. And who better to ask than one of the DAs? [Laughter.]

I know that you feel you're trapped in this world and you can't share it with many people . . .

R:
That's the problem, you can't talk to anybody about it. Who can you talk to?

A:
I'm here. I don't know if we're all just paranoid. Don't be scared to call anytime.

Call anytime? If only Anna knew.

1
. Not his real name.

T
he assistant district attorney's office couldn't believe the information I provided in my first wiretap. But my work was far from over. It was clear to them I was an invaluable asset, and so they encouraged me to keep my connection with Anna.