Billionaire UK Conservative Aristo Caught in Spitzer Net

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Thursday March 13, 2008 · 7:09 AM PDT

2008/03/13 · 07:09

This will either be ignored in the US, outside of the NY media and the blogosphere, or it will be the poison pill that makes the sex side of the Spitzer story (as opposed to the questionable methods used to get him) suddenly a lot less tasty for our GOP/Media Complex friends.

More after the jump.

From the New York Daily News:

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.

But of course, it's OK if you're a Conservative. David Vitter shows that. And the only reason Larry Craig has initially attacked by Republicans when his own solicitation bust hit the news was because unlike Vitter and Grosvenor, he'd hit on a man, not a woman.

UPDATE: Ah, there looks to be an Option 3: Scrub the news:

**Update: Wednesay night, many UK papers' stories on the Duke's ties to Emperors Club VIP had been removed or edited down, including the Telegraph, The Times (now stripped of Westminster mentions) and the Daily Mail. The Sun still had one**

So it really does look as if this won't be on tonight's TV evening news.

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