NY Confidential

NY Confidential was the largest, most expensive, and well known New York escort service running from 2003 until January 2005, when it was raided and the owner arrested. The case was heavily publicized in the media.NY Confidential and Itzler are featured in the last chapter of the book American Gangster.

NY Confidential was founded by Jason Itzler (born 1967 as Jason Sylk), a marketing genius and early pioneer of phone sex M2 Communications and webcam porn businesses. His first agency was a legitimate fashion modeling agency SoHo Models in NYC with famed photographer Peter Beard. After an attempt to smuggle Ecstasy (3,867 pills) into the U.S. from Amsterdam in the late 1990s, he received a 5 year sentence and was paroled after having served 17 months. He started NY Confidential, while still under parole wearing an electronic bracelet on his ankle the entire time he ran the agency, and subsequently emerging as the self styled "King of all Pimps" becoming a regular guest on the Howard Stern Show and the most famous pimp/hooker expert in America.

Aspiring actress Natalie McLennan (born c. 1980 in Montreal) started to work for NY Confidential in 2004 as the escort "Natalia", and was heavily promoted by Itzler on escort review sites where she received several high ratings by satisfied customers. She would reportedly charge up to $2000 per hour, with 45% for her, 45% for the agency and 10% for the booker. Itzler and McLennan eventually got engaged. In addition to the out-call business, the agency also ran a 5,000 sq/ft harem-like loft in TriBeCa, subject of the 4-episode reality TV series "Inside New York Confidential" (2004). The police arrested Itzler and several employees in January 2005.

In the summer of 2005 McLennan talked about her experiences at the agency in a major "New York" magazine article [http://nymag.com/nymetro/nightlife/sex/features/12193/index.html "The $2,000 an-Hour Woman"] , "New York", 18 July 2005] and on CNN, [ [http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0507/25/pzn.01.html CNN Transcript] , 25 July 2005] saying that she enjoyed the work. The police used these public statements against her, and she was arrested in July 2005 for prostitution and money laundering. [ [http://select.nytimes.com/2005/10/22/nyregion/22about.html Natalie, Sold As Natalia] ", "The New York Times", 22 October 2005]

In January 2007, after a plea bargain, Itzler was sentenced to a year and a half to three years in prison for attempted promotion of prostitution. [ [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C07EEDC1330F931A25752C0A9619C8B63&scp=1&st=cse Manhattan: Prostitution Sentence] "The New York Times", 12 January 2007]

As of 2008, McLennan had returned to Canada. A forthcoming biography from her is due in the fall of this year. The memoir is being published by Phoenix Books and Audio. Its working title is "The Price". [ [http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/23589422/?GT1=43001 Q&A with a Call Girl] TODAYshow.com, March 12, 2008]

Itzler discovered Ashley Alexandra Dupré, the call girl and aspiring singer at the center of the Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal. Her first escort job was for Itzler's New York Confidential. Itzler announced this on CNN's Larry King Live [ [http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2008/03/14/2008-03-14_she_came_to_ny_looking_for_record_deal_i.html She came to N.Y. looking for record deal; instead she got hooker ring offer] , "NY Daily News", March 14, 2008]

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∗ [http://www.phoenixbooksandaudio.com/books/bks_prodcuts/theprice.htm "THE PRICE: MY LIFE AS NATALIA, NEW YORK'S $2000-AN-HOUR ESCORT]