I don’t know which is more surprising: That caped crusader Eliot Spitzer allegedly had sex with a call girl, or that he paid her $4,300.
If you haven’t been in the market for a prostitute lately, that might sound like a lot of money. But it’s pretty typical for a high-priced call girl in a big city.
The Emperor’s Club VIP, the New York agency Spitzer allegedly used to hire a prostitute, charged $1,000 to $3,100 per hour for its so-called models, depending on their “education, sophistication and ambience created,” according to a cached version of the club’s Web site, which has been taken down.
The club’s “most valued clients” were offered membership in the Icon Club, which allowed them access to “the most highly ranked prostitutes whose fees started at $5,500 per hour,” according to a complaint filed in federal court for the southern district of New York.
Spitzer allegedly arranged a four-hour date with “Kristen” - identified by the New York Times on Wednesday as Ashley Alexandra Dupre - in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 13. It was the night before Valentine’s Day and his testimony before Congress on bond insurance.
His $4,300 payment appeared to include $1,500 to be put on deposit with the Emperor’s Club for his next rendezvous.
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What’s spooky about this is that the Mayans calculated the length of the lunar moon correctly thousands of years ago. So maybe they know what they’re talking about otherwise as well. Let’s hope not. But scientists say that the winter solstice of 2012 will feature the sun “having a bit of strife.” Old Sol has been in a period of relative stability, but solar storms are now kicking up, bombarding the Earth, knocking out power grids and satellites. This could get worse because even NASA sees the sun’s magnetic poles swapping places in a move that could burn Earth to a crisp.
Some physicists concur that the world is overdue for a major catastrophic event - such as one with the volcano under Yellowstone Park, which seems ready to erupt again and produce thousands of deaths and affiliated deaths the world over from a Volcanic Winter: no sun, no crops, starvation.
And then there is Eros, the second largest-near-the-Earth object, which will pass pretty close to us in 2012 on Jan. 31.
Personally, I’m a fatalist, and I have never paid much mind to this kind of stuff. I’d prefer to think that all those other people are right, the ones who believe that 2012 is a portal into what believers call a new “Golden Age.” But the other night I was at dinner with a remarkable woman psychic from Florida. She hit the nail on the head answering many questions from other diners. They found her to be amazingly right. So she made me tingle with apprehension when I asked about the year 2012?
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