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You Can Say This About the Girls of the Emperor’s Club: They’re No Morons

Yesterday the Feds busted the Emperor’s Club, a New York–based escort service that provided, according to their Website, “refined and successful international clients” looking for “risk-free dating … without long-term-commitment intricacies” with “exclusive, beautiful, educated companions of fine family and career backgrounds.” You know, hookers. Of the four people charged with running the service, three of them were women. Still, from the phone records in the FBI affidavit, parts of which are up on the Smoking Gun, it didn’t seem like it was a woman-friendly workplace, from the male founder who said that a would-be call girl “looks like a butcher in my opinion” to the conversation about the “baggage” a worker with kids has to the outraged indignation of an applicant who was “shock and confuse” that the company expected its employees to have sex with men who don’t even take them out to dinner. But then comes a tender moment between one self-aware prostie and her pimpette.

Kristen, the prostitute, has just serviced a john. Rachelle, her boss, has asked her if he was “difficult,” because, she says, this guy has asked for strange things in the past.

Kristen: “I don’t think he’s difficult. I mean it’s just kind of like, whatever, I’m here for a purpose. I know what my purpose is. I am not a … moron, you know what I mean. So maybe that’s why girls think they’re difficult. That’s what it is, because you’re here for a purpose. Let’s not get it twisted. I know what I do, you know.

Rachelle: “You look at it uniquely, because no one ever sees it that way.”

Kristen: “I have a way of dealing with that. I’d be like, listen dude, you really want the sex? You know what I mean?”

Online Hooker Ring Busted [Smoking Gun]
Four Charged with Running Online Prostitution Ring [NYT]

Update: It now seems that Kristen was talking about Governor Eliot Spitzer. For the initial wave of news updates, click here.
What We Know About Client 9 [NYM]
New Details Emerge [NYM]
Should Spitzer Resign? [NYM]
Readers’ Tabloid Headlines [NYM]
Dr. Laura: Basically, It Is Silda’s Fault That Her Husband Cavorted With Whores [NYM]
Spitzer’s Sex Scandal Sullies Super-Delegate Status [NYM]
Spitzer: Still More Tawdry Details [NYM]
Silda Wall Spitzer: More Controversial Than Britney Spears [NYM]
Eliot Spitzer Resigns [NYM]

You Can Say This About the Girls of the Emperor’s Club: They’re No Morons