“Client 9″ has entered the language and will be associated with Eliot Spitzer forever as if the number was tattooed to his forehead.
Anyone out there wondering who, for example, is Client 10? Client 1? No one’s talking those numbers, but one figure has surfaced. The New York Daily News has a story today identifying Client 6.
Seems the chap is Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor, the richest man in Britain who is also a Peer of the Realm, the Duke of Dumbtwaddle … sorry, it’s getting a bit too close to St. Patrick’s Day for me … our Gerry’s real title is the Duke of Westminster.
Seems the Duke, (who looks like one of those guys who is so English he can barely speak at all) is also like Spitzer, an insufferable specimen when it comes to working girls by actually HAGGLING over price with the women.
Cavendish, a married man and father of four, was also once an official in Britain’s ministry of defense until exposure as a punter (English slang for the poor clowns who pay for it) forced his resignation.
The News of the World, a Fleet Street raving rag which makes the New York Post look like The Columbia Journalism Review, ran a heavy-breathing story about the Duke of Wateronthebrain — sorry, Westminster — who bragged to a woman he was paying about $5,000 to listen to him that he knew where Osama bin Laden was hiding.
Shades of the Profumo scandal, another jumped-up British official who liked to brag to scarlet ladies about what a powerful lad he was and brought down a government because of his misplaced ego.
From the Daily News Story:
“The richest man in Great Britain was a customer of the same high-end prostitution service patronized by Gov. Spitzer.
The Duke of Westminster, listed as the world’s 46th richest person by Forbes magazine, hired four hookers over a six-week stretch in late 2006 and early last year, the News of the World reported last year.
Despite his incredible wealth, multi-billionaire Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor haggled with one of the Emperors Club girls for the cost of their date, according to the report.
Prostitute Zana Brazdek, then 26, described the 56-year-old Grosvenor as dull and demanding.
“I thought his conversation was quite boring,” the Lithuanian woman told the newspaper. “He talked about the Army, going to Afghanistan and bin Laden. And he wanted unprotected sex. I refused.”
The court documents that took down Spitzer and identified the disgraced governor at “Client 9″ also included information on nine other men who hired hookers from the sex ring.
The documents did not name any of the men, but the papers noted that “Client 6″ enjoyed a romp with a hooker named “Astrid” in London. “Client 6″ then called the Emperors Club to inquire about another girl for a follow-up session, the papers said.
The British reports about Grosvenor said the duke’s prostitutes were young enough to be his daughters. They also had an international flair: In addition to the pair from the former Soviet Union, Grosvenor entertained an Asian woman in knee-high boots and a Brazilian.
The hookers included a Russian who went by the name of Stella. She told reporters that her clients preferred whips and stiletto heels.
“At six o’clock,” she said in a thick Russian accent, “I stop to be a good girl.”
Like Spitzer, Grosvenor is married - and he has four children with wife Natalia. The duke had close ties to the royal family and is one of Prince Charles’ best friends. Grosvenor also is Prince William’s godfather.
The duke was an official in the ministry of defense, overseeing Britain’s reservists - including thousands who served in Iraq and Afghanistan.
He recently stepped down from that position due to the scandal and subsequent media attention.”
