«IT'S CALLED GOSSIP AND OF COURSE AND IT'S AN OBSESSION OF MINE»- ANDY WARHOL

A 47-page affidavit outlining the evidence revealed that “clients” paid up to $5,500 an hour and as much as $31,000 a night for the club's services. But interest centred on one particular customer of the Emperor Club.“Client 9” (reportedly Mr Spitzer) arranged to transport “Kristen…a petite, very pretty brunette” from New York to Washington, DC. In doing so, the governor apparently would have violated the Mann Act, which makes it a federal crime to transport a person across state lines to pay them for sex. The affidavit makes clear this was not the governor’s first “encounter”. After several calls to determine his existing credit with the club and whether or not his deposit had arrived, Mr Spitzer handed over $4,300 to “Kristen”. That sum included a down-payment for a future meeting.»

-The Economist
March 11 2008