The Daily Caller’s Mike Colapietro has written a head-to-toe profile (with various stops along the way) of “Manhattan Madam” Kristin Davis, made famous by the Eliot Spitzer scandal. She is now running for governor of New York. A few highlights:
Davis earned a bachelor’s in business from St. Mary’s College and worked for a hedgefund. Her call-girl enterprise was complex: “She had more than 100 girls and operated in five countries, with a call center in Uruguay. She could dispatch a $1,000-plus-an-hour call girl to a hotel or residence in Paris, Berlin, Gstaad, Rome, New York, L.A., Miami, Dubai, Montreal or elsewhere within minutes.”
Colapietro is frank about Davis’s assets (with comparisons to Dolly Parton and Jayne Mansfield) and describes her smell, upon meeting her in a bar, as “intoxicating.”
How did she end up doing time? “Spitzer rolled on Davis as part of his agreement with the government not to prosecute him. Davis’s live-in boyfriend testified in secrecy to the grand jury. The lawyer she hired told her to gather evidence on Spitzer then turned it over to him for plea-bargaining. He promptly lost the records when she refused to turn over all her cash to his trust account prior to her arrest.”
After her release from Riker’s, Davis met political operative Roger Stone, who introduced her to Von Mises, Rand, Hayek, and Friedman. It then dawned on her that she was a libertarian. (Davis supports gay marriage and the legalization of pot and prostitution.)
