New York Post
March 29, 2008 --
The alleged second in command at a high-end hooker ring that serviced former Gov. Eliot Spitzer was busted today after a night on the lam, officials said.
Pretty Bronx brunette Grace O'Toole, 24, who left her apartment Friday night and fled with several bags and a cat travel case to her mother's home in Saddle Brook, NJ, turned herself in to the NYPD late this afternoon with her lawyer, law-enforcement sources said.
She was charged with promoting prostitution, a Class D felony, cops said.
O'Toole is accused of running the day-to-day operations of Wicked Models, a multimillion-dollar prostitution ring allegedly headed by now-jailed madam Kristin Davis.
The ring had thousands of wealthy Manhattan clients, including Spitzer, sources said.
The pretty brunette is a college student who loves botany, according to her postings on the Internet.
Her family would not talk about the situation, but others who know her were stunned to learn she had been linked to the hooker ring.
"This is a shock to me," said Annette Derose, whose son Christopher is engaged to O'Toole.
"Whatever she did, that's her business, but it's like, whoa, never in my wildest dreams."
Derose said it wouldn't surprise her if her son - a Marine on his second tour in Iraq - was in the dark about her alleged dirty work.
"Maybe she was keeping it from him, too," she said. "If he knew that, I don't think he would be with her - because he's a one-girl man.
"What you see is what you get."
She added that she has no plans to tell Christopher about O'Toole's alleged illicit activities.
"I will not do that to him," Derose said. "I don't think he needs any more stress."
O'Toole sent her fiancé a cryptic message via MySpace on Friday night that said: "Chris, I love you. Please remember that. Always!!!! You're my baby baby baby."
O'Toole did not respond to messages sent online, where she has a strong presence under screen names "Miss Lonelyhearts" and "spunky gurly gurl."
On the Web site 43things.com, she explains as "spunky gurl gurl" that when she was 18, "I was uneducated and unemployed. I utilized all my free time gardening in my Bronx bedroom."
On her 19th birthday, she wrote that she was "depressed, lonely and without a plan" until one day she visited the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens by herself and "decided I wanted to work there."
She enrolled in Bronx Community College to earn a degree in horticulture but ended up burned out and quit school.
As O'Toole dealt with her connection to the ring, so did New York Rangers left winger Sean Avery, who was alleged in a published report to be one of the many johns listed in Davis' black book.
At today's practice, Avery said he and his teammates have been "laughing hysterically over it.
"I do know that if I ever were to venture into one of those establishments, I definitely wouldn't use my own name," he said. "That's stating the obvious."
He said he has "a lot of enemies," and joked, "It could be a tri-state player who started this whole conspiracy."
Avery added he has no concerns about legal issues.
But Davis' lawyer, Mark Jay Heller, said Avery is steamed about the story.
"[Avery] is poised to initiate a $100 million defamation lawsuit against the Daily News for the piece which he perceives to be defamatory and which he believes will severely damage his public image, his reputation and his potential endorsement opportunities," he said.
Heller also says the black book that formed the basis of the story may be a fraud.
"It's my unequivocal belief that if [another newspaper] is alleging to have a black book belonging to Kristin Davis, it is absolutely 100 percent not authentic."
Meanwhile, Donald Trump is looking to showcase infamous call girl Ashley Dupre on his new MTV reality show, according to People.com
Dupre, who brought down Spitzer, is "the perfect candidate" for the series - which will send 15 hard-bitten girls to finishing school - an insider told the celebrity Web site.
March 29, 2008 --
The alleged second in command at a high-end hooker ring that serviced former Gov. Eliot Spitzer was busted today after a night on the lam, officials said.
Pretty Bronx brunette Grace O'Toole, 24, who left her apartment Friday night and fled with several bags and a cat travel case to her mother's home in Saddle Brook, NJ, turned herself in to the NYPD late this afternoon with her lawyer, law-enforcement sources said.
She was charged with promoting prostitution, a Class D felony, cops said.
O'Toole is accused of running the day-to-day operations of Wicked Models, a multimillion-dollar prostitution ring allegedly headed by now-jailed madam Kristin Davis.
The ring had thousands of wealthy Manhattan clients, including Spitzer, sources said.
The pretty brunette is a college student who loves botany, according to her postings on the Internet.
Her family would not talk about the situation, but others who know her were stunned to learn she had been linked to the hooker ring.
"This is a shock to me," said Annette Derose, whose son Christopher is engaged to O'Toole.
"Whatever she did, that's her business, but it's like, whoa, never in my wildest dreams."
Derose said it wouldn't surprise her if her son - a Marine on his second tour in Iraq - was in the dark about her alleged dirty work.
"Maybe she was keeping it from him, too," she said. "If he knew that, I don't think he would be with her - because he's a one-girl man.
"What you see is what you get."
She added that she has no plans to tell Christopher about O'Toole's alleged illicit activities.
"I will not do that to him," Derose said. "I don't think he needs any more stress."
O'Toole sent her fiancé a cryptic message via MySpace on Friday night that said: "Chris, I love you. Please remember that. Always!!!! You're my baby baby baby."
O'Toole did not respond to messages sent online, where she has a strong presence under screen names "Miss Lonelyhearts" and "spunky gurly gurl."
On the Web site 43things.com, she explains as "spunky gurl gurl" that when she was 18, "I was uneducated and unemployed. I utilized all my free time gardening in my Bronx bedroom."
On her 19th birthday, she wrote that she was "depressed, lonely and without a plan" until one day she visited the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens by herself and "decided I wanted to work there."
She enrolled in Bronx Community College to earn a degree in horticulture but ended up burned out and quit school.
As O'Toole dealt with her connection to the ring, so did New York Rangers left winger Sean Avery, who was alleged in a published report to be one of the many johns listed in Davis' black book.
At today's practice, Avery said he and his teammates have been "laughing hysterically over it.
"I do know that if I ever were to venture into one of those establishments, I definitely wouldn't use my own name," he said. "That's stating the obvious."
He said he has "a lot of enemies," and joked, "It could be a tri-state player who started this whole conspiracy."
Avery added he has no concerns about legal issues.
But Davis' lawyer, Mark Jay Heller, said Avery is steamed about the story.
"[Avery] is poised to initiate a $100 million defamation lawsuit against the Daily News for the piece which he perceives to be defamatory and which he believes will severely damage his public image, his reputation and his potential endorsement opportunities," he said.
Heller also says the black book that formed the basis of the story may be a fraud.
"It's my unequivocal belief that if [another newspaper] is alleging to have a black book belonging to Kristin Davis, it is absolutely 100 percent not authentic."
Meanwhile, Donald Trump is looking to showcase infamous call girl Ashley Dupre on his new MTV reality show, according to People.com
Dupre, who brought down Spitzer, is "the perfect candidate" for the series - which will send 15 hard-bitten girls to finishing school - an insider told the celebrity Web site.
