Tell us about this project.
I don’t know why they wanted me to know or how they tracked me down, but my friend was no longer around and I think they wanted somebody to safeguard the story of their transformation of a plain Jane from Flatbush, Brooklyn, into a very willing sexual submissive to a billionaire. Just in case some big disaster hit them, I suppose. They must have wanted an intermediary. Their side of the story, not the D.A.’s.
Do you need a spoiler alert?
What were the biggest surprises for you?
Whew! That these things actually exist, I suppose. Until I saw the photos, I thought she was fabricating her account.
I’m still concerned about her lack of sleep. They packed a lot into her typical day.
And then there was the shock that somebody I had once known turned into a major league sex figure. That was a much bigger jolt than discovering our high school quarterback working as a gay prostitute at a downtown hotel.
I mean, of all the people I’ve encountered, she wouldn’t have been a candidate for the dishonors. Do you know how much some of them gross?
And then there’s so much I’ve learned about the Upper East Side, private jets, superyachts, that sort of thing — it really is a whole different world.
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