New York Adult Entertainment: Book Report: Even Rough Rider Teddy couldn’t tame NYC

New York was America’s biggest city and probably its most corrupt back in the gay nineties. Back then 40,000 prostitutes plied their trade in the cities three prostitution districts.
Gambling was rampant, booze was sold illegally on Sundays and all night long everywhere.
Zacks begins by documenting the challenges Roosevelt faced — how a Reverend Parkhurst had riled up the decent citizenry to demand reform, to depart from the almost unbelievable degradation and corruption made possible by the fat cats who ran Tammany Hall, the city’s Democratic machine.
Item: A highly placed New York artisan was known as the “Prince of Plasterers” who charged the city $130,000 for two hours of plastering work on city hall.
Item: Prostitutes could be had for as little as 75 cents and for as much as the sky’s the limit in the fancier houses.

area. One such brothel was eight doors from the police station house.

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New York Adult Entertainment: Lawrence Taylor Super Bowl Ring Auction: Son Reportedly Responsible, LT Unaware

Glazer, who been in touch with Taylor’s agent Mark Lepselter, reports that Taylor had given both of his Super Bowl rings to his son years ago. According to Glazer, Lepselter said that “Lawrence was in fact unaware of it but said he gave it to TJ (his son) and its his right to do what he wants with it. He’s fine with whatever TJ decided.”
Although Taylor’s on-field accomplishments are legendary, his off-the-field struggles and crimes are nearly as well known at this point. A member of the Pro Football Hall Of Fame and the NFL’s 1980s All-Decade Team, the 53-year-old Taylor was most recently arrested in 2010 after he was apprehended with a 16-year-old prostitute. He was originally charged with third-degree rape, but he would later plead guilty to sexual misconduct and patronizing an underage prostitute, two misdemeanor charges with no jail time.

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New York Adult Entertainment: Strauss-Kahn files $1m counter-claim against hotel maid

The allegation led Strauss-Kahn to resign from his post at the IMF and was widely seen as having ruined his chance of becoming the socialist presidential candidate back in France. He is now seeking compensation for the loss of his job, defamation and false imprisonment. His claim also demands further unspecified punitive damages as well as his legal fees. In his legal filing, Strauss-Kahn denies all wrong-doing and says the sexual encounter was consensual.”Diallo falsely and maliciously asserted that Strauss-Kahn sexually assaulted her when she knew such allegation to be untrue,” the claim states. But accusations pertaining to his sexual conduct have continued to dog him since the maid’s allegations were dismissed.In March Strauss-Kahn was placed under investigation by French authorities for links to a prostitution ring in the northern city of Lille. One of Diallo’s lawyers said the counter-claim “personifies Strauss-Kahn’s misogynistic attitude”. Both lawsuits have been filed at the Bronx Supreme Court in New York. (BBC)

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New York Adult Entertainment: Former Eliot Spitzer Call Girl Ashley Dupré Opens Lingerie Boutique

Former Eliot Spitzer Call Girl Ashley Dupré Opens Lingerie Boutique
Fri, May 18 2012 06:00am PDT
NEW JERSEY — Ashley Dupré, the former call girl at the heart of the prostitution scandal that ended New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s political career in 2008, is back in the news with the launch of a new lingerie boutique.

Dupré was 22-years-old when she was identified in March of 2008 as the prostitute hired by Spitzer while in office at the rate of $1000 an hour from escort service Emperor’s Club VIP. Spitzer resigned his post as governor that same month, while Dupré unsuccessfully attempted to both start a singing career and sue “Girls Gone Wild” founder Joe Francis for exploiting her name and likeness with a website featuring topless footage of her.

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New York Adult Entertainment: NYC takes unusual approach vs graffiti

New York City has taken an unusual approach in its fight against graffiti. It temporarily closed a Harlem hardware store accused of selling spray paint to minors.
The Wall Street Journal ( http://on.wsj.com/JR7XzH) says authorities targeted Apartment Depot Hardware in a sting operation after several graffiti suspects said they had bought spray paint there.
The store’s attorney, Enrique Leal, calls the tactics that resulted in the six-day closure “outrageous.”
Store owner Jose Tejada says his son was minding the shop and didn’t know about the law. He said if police had just issued him a summons, he would have addressed the issue.
The city’s nuisance-abatement law is normally used to shut down establishments suspected of drug activity, gambling or prostitution.
Information from: The Wall Street Journal, http://www.wsj.com

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New York Strip Clubs: Larry King’s talk show to resume this summer

Season five of “The Game” is currently on-air. Mowry stars as Melanie Barnett-Davis, a medical school graduate and wife of football star Derwin Davis, played by Hall. The first three seasons originally aired on the CW from 2006 to 2009. After nearly two years off-air, BET picked up the show and it became a ratings success.
BET said it “is in the process of reworking the casting and storyline” and hopes Hall and Mowry “will make several guest appearances.”
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NEW YORK — Joey Lawrence is shedding his clothes: The actor has joined the male erotic dancing troupe Chippendales.
The 36-year-old will work as a singer, dancer and host in the Las Vegas production for three weeks in June.
In a statement to The Associated Press on Thursday, Lawrence said screening Channing Tatum’s upcoming film about being a stripper — “Magic Mike” — encouraged him to join the male revue.

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New York Strip Clubs: Rick’s Cabaret/NYC Entertainers Ready To Salute The Troops In Manhattan For …

NEW YORK, May 18, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — The entertainers at Rick’s Cabaret/NYC, the nightclub Playboy.com calls the “best strip club in New York,” are prepared to give the troops a very patriotic Big Apple welcome during this year’s Fleet Week. Anyone in uniform gets free admission to the club with drink specials throughout the days and nights from May 22nd through May 30th. The club at 50 W. 33rd St. is part of the publicly traded Rick’s Cabaret International, Inc.
group of upscale gentlemen’s clubs.

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New York Adult Entertainment: Ex-Giant Taylor auctioning off Super Bowl ring

The release comes the morning after Giants players received their Super Bowl XLVI championship rings at a ceremony at Tiffany & Co.
Taylor’s ring is described as showing “considerable wear, that in some eyes, only enhances its aura.”
The ring features two football-shaped diamonds on a background of blue enamel and surrounded by 17 smaller diamonds. On one side of the ring, “TAYLOR” is engraved above a Giants helmet with the number “56″ underneath it.
The ring also comes with a notarized letter of authenticity from Taylor, whose name also is engraved on the interior band.
Taylor was sentenced in March 2011 to six years’ probation in a deal where he agreed to plead guilty to sexual misconduct and patronizing an underage prostitute. Taylor initially was charged with third-degree rape, among other counts, stemming from an incident that occurred in May 2010.

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New York Escorts: Accused NYC madam makes legal switch _ her 3rd

NEW YORK The accused suburban-mom madam of a multimillion-dollar Manhattan escort service has moved on to a new legal team her fourth.
A judge agreed Tuesday to let Anna Gristina make her third legal switch. She’s now represented by seasoned Connecticut civil rights and criminal defense lawyer Norman Pattis.
The Manhattan district attorney’s office says Gristina peddled prostitutes for 15 years and bragged that she had law-enforcement contacts. Gristina’s lawyers have said she was merely starting a matchmaking business.
She’s pleaded not guilty to promoting prostitution.
Altogether, nine lawyers have appeared on her case at various times. One former Gristina attorney, Peter Gleason, offered to put up his apartment for her $2 million bail.
The judge urged other arrangements. Gristina has yet to raise bail.

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New York Escorts: Self-proclaimed ‘King of All Pimps’ sentenced to four years in prison

… In Nevada, the saying is, ‘If it doesn’t scare the horses, who cares?’” he told Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Thomas Farber before being led away in his handcuffs and black velvet jacket.
“I predict here and now that eight years from now, in the year 2020, New York and other enlightened states will decriminalize the world’s oldest profession, namely prostitution,” he said, ending his statement with, “And I’d like to give a shout-out to Billy Ray Cyrus!”
The perennially stoned Itzler, 44, had mistakenly believed that the alleged john in the case — a Pennsylvania man who paid Itzler $19,500 for a cocaine and hooker binge at the Trump International Hotel last year — was country singer Billy Ray Cyrus using an alias.
This is Itzler’s second escort service conviction; in 2007 he pleaded guilty to running New York Confidential, an escort service prosecutors say earned $1.2 million.

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