Longtime sports author Peter Golenbock, who is notorious for churning out insta-books, recently announced on his personal website that he has written a book about a former pimp who claims on the record to have supplied Tiger Woods with at least one prostitute.
(Pimp Itzler claims he supplied Woods with escort)
Jason Itzler, the owner of New York Confidential, the most successful escort agency ever, has written a book about his life. He made and lost a fortune owning a phone sex business, went to jail for smuggling Ecstasy, then started New York Confidential. He was closed down by Eliot Spitzer, but then his information helped bring Spitzer down.
Joe Francis, Jr. Itzler is the delightful chap who introduced Ashley Dupre to prostitution. She soon became a regular escort for Eliot Spitzer, who was later forced to resign as New York Governor after his illegal dalliances with Dupre were revealed in the media.
Itzler’s illegal activities have been widely reported in the press over the years, and he’s done hard time for his indiscretions. Now he’s trying to capitalize on an alleged connection to Woods via his since-shuttered escort business.
Here’s Golenbock’s account of what Itzler recently said about Woods for their book:
I first met Tiger Woods in 1994 when he was about nineteen years old. This was in South Beach, Miami when I was the phone sex king. I was very good friends with Chris Paciello, who was the biggest host of the stars at the time and maybe ever. He owned Liquid, the in club. Chris was dating Madonna, and that was pretty awesome.
Chris came up to me in Liquid one day and he said, “Do you want to meet Tiger Woods?” “Are you kidding? Yeah, I want to meet him.”
I had a drink with him. Tiger was a much bigger deal than Madonna because he was so mysterious and rare. Here was this kid who was being treated like a God. He was young and so wide-open, and I could see how much he loved pu—. He was addicted right away.
Liquid had the hottest girls in America, and this was a gold digger, star-f—– place. South Beach was always fun and free. The girls circled around Tiger like he was gold. He had money, power, and fame, and he didn’t try to handle it at all. If he hadn’t gotten married, no one would have cared what he did, but after he was married for just three years, fifteen girls came forward saying Tiger had affairs with them, and it turned out he was a crazy sex addict.
It was a miracle he didn’t get exposed years ago with his reckless behavior. He was a time bomb. The cocktail waitresses and the super hot girls were floating around him, and he didn’t need me hanging around him, and after five minutes I excused myself.
Years later I would own New York Confidential, the finest escort agency in the world. While I was there one of my girls boasted about how much fun she had with Tiger, and years later another of my girls would surface as one of his many mistresses.
While Joe Dinkie and Ron Sperling were filming Inside New York Confidential for a reality show on VH1, a model-type came in with her husband. He pulled me aside and said his wife wanted to work with me. That had never happened before. Very chic. I said to him, “She’s a classy girl, a pretty girl. I can make her thirty, forty thousand dollars a month if she works hard.”
The girl, whose name was Cori Rist, had a model body and a model attitude, light brown hair. She looked like she had done a little too much coke in her youth, so she didn’t turn me on, but she looked like money. She looked like she worked for Ford or Elite or another modeling agency.
As her husband stood beside me on camera I said, “This is Cori, who wants to be an escort with the permission of her husband.”
Cori worked for me, and then in 2009 she reappeared when the names of Tiger Wood’s mistresses started to surface.
Cori wasn’t the only one of my girls who had been fixed up with Tiger.
Sometime in 2004 I got a call from one of my best customers, a Goldman Sachs guy who had an apartment in Trump United Nations on a high floor. He was a class act, and once a month or every three weeks or so, he’d call me and say, “Jace, I have three young men I want to reward. I want your finest. Three hours. Overcharge me. Whatever you want.”
On this occasion he said, “Send your best,” and I sent him Kaitlin, one of the few hot shit working models making a lot of money, a nineteen year old Brooke Shields look alike. I sent her over thinking it was a Wall Street guy she was taking care of, but when she came back, she was dancing the hula, all excited, bragging about Tiger Woods.
She said it was wonderful, that Tiger was amazing, an athlete, and that she was in love. We didn’t pay much attention to her then, but in light of what’s come to light about Tiger, it’s obvious he’s always had great taste in women.
That last line? Not so sure about that.
The key thing here is if Itzler is willing to reveal the identity of the prostitute who Woods patronized. Notice that Itzler is very specific in the first half of his account. Names, dates, context. But when he gets down to accusing Woods of patronizing a prostitute, we get vagaries.
Itzler’s story is so structured to allow Woods to be able to claim that though he had sex with a woman who was a hooker, he didn’t paid for the sex himself or even have a role in booking the escort.
How convenient.
The only legitimacy that Itzler brings is his relationship to Rist, which is undisputed.
There’s a lot of smoke when it comes to whether or not Woods illegally partook of prostitutes. Especially considering his ‘relationship’ with Rist. But Itzler’s account, though somewhat interesting and new, does nothing to advance nailing Woods for doing anything illegal.
6:11 pm on January 7th, 2010
I always thought Ashley Dupre was pretty good lookin’ - maybe T finally got some quality tail….
6:43 pm on January 7th, 2010
In 1994, very few people outside of hard core golfers knew who Tiger Woods was. This was the 1st year he won the US Amateur, and the publicity was considerable, but he wasn’t well know outside of golfing circles. I am calling B.S. on this one….
7:45 pm on January 7th, 2010
Jason Itzler in my opinion is the sexiest jewish bad boy in the world. How do you think he turns out all these famous sexy hookers? He is simply irressistible to woman who prefer bad boys & he is so funny. I had a threesome with him in Miami a few months ago though I doubt he would remember! Go Jason! I want to read that book!!
7:48 pm on January 7th, 2010
And he certainly didn’t have fame and money then! He was a skinny kid.
9:10 pm on January 7th, 2010
natalia…your mistaken…it was a foursome in miami…you probably don’t remember me…i was video taping it in the next room
8:52 am on January 8th, 2010
I would do Ashlee
11:59 am on January 8th, 2010
Franklin and Natalie…
You’re right Tiger was nothing more than a 19 year-old amateur at the time. But he was the #1 amateur and already consider a phenom. don’t forget Tiger was a celebrity before he was 5. I doubt he had the money to swing for these girls, but a pimp would certainly do well to establish a relationship with Tiger, much the way all those skeevy guys flock around college “student”/athletes.
12:16 pm on January 8th, 2010
his account is bullshit. in 1994 tiger was 19 years old, in college, and a skinny dorky kid. he had won a couple of amateur titles and that’s it…no money or fame yet. think twice about what this guy says.
1:28 pm on January 8th, 2010
The Itzler’s belonged to Montammy & Turnberry Isle Country Clubs. The PIMP has golfed since he was a little kid. To a rich Aventura jew TIGER WOODS was a big deal in 1994. So what if Tiger was 19 and in college?
2:00 pm on January 8th, 2010
I’m echoing the criticism of Itzler’s 1994 statement with regard to Woods “having it all”. He was certainly well on his way to turning Pro, but the major hype on Woods (and the part where he starts having it all) isn’t until 97-98.
ALSO, talk about your factual errors, Itzler and Golenbock should be ashamed: Tiger married Elin in 2004 and it was a full FIVE years later that the girls came out of the woodwork . . . not THREE as Itzler states.
11:42 am on January 11th, 2010
Itzler’s account is bullshit and full of errors. This shitstain needs to go back where he came from. Who believes anything he says?
12:41 pm on January 12th, 2010
this guy writes like a sleeze-bag. reading this excerpt made me think I was listening to a cheap gangster-wanna-be made for t.v. movie extra. LAME!
12:57 am on July 21st, 2010
So many errors in this story. First of all, NY Conf was not the most successful agency ever. Successful agencies don’t get busted. And Eliot Spitzer had nothing to do with Itzler getting busted. Unless he got fired as AG and reassigned to the NYPD. The AG’s office had no involvement. Jason likes to say that because it makes a good story. But Jason is obviously about promoting Jason.
8:54 pm on December 23rd, 2010
I grew up with Jason in Northern NJ, knew his family went to temple with him and high school as well. I lost contact, thankfully, when he went down to FLA for college. He was and always will be a liar and self promoting person. he is very smart, i will give him that, but he is only concerned with making money and using whoever will line his pockets.
Let me also say he did not play or follow any sports, he throws like a girl, so Jason would not have known who Tiger Woods was in 1994 and probably not until Tiger was at his height of fame would have been aware of who he was…
10:33 am on December 28th, 2011
Ok, let me start by saying, i am the guy (mentioned second, typical Jason) in the first paragraph, who Produced and Directed the documentary “unscripted” series, on Jason and Natalia, “Inside New York Confidential.”
Jason sent me the first seven chapters when he was first writing the “book”. I read it, and my comment was tat i felt he was going to have a very very hard time getting it published! Jason throws around names, and scenarios in his typical fashion, like he’s on the phone selling you something! The fact is, in the seven chapters i struggled through, there were perhaps 6 or 7 sentences that could actually be “verified”. As any writer knows, you can’t really make accusations, particularly about high-profile individuals unless you can in some way substanciate your claim?
But Jason thrives on sensationalism, especially any he can attach his name to! Jason, fascinated me with his ability to sell, pretty much anything. I don’t mean in the Dale Carnegie, or Barnum, fashion, he really, really believes his own BS, to an extent I have never seen.
I did the series not as yet “another” expose on the Sex trade! it was a story about two of the most unlikely personalities, finding a path to their own inner desires, via a wild set of circumstances!
I always found Jason, to be this sort of amazing example of the fine line between genius and insanity! He has am amazing ability to sell the s@#t out of pretty much anything, even when you are not sure if he’s nuts, he starts to pull you over to his side?
Of course when you’re spent as much time with him as I have, it becomes clearly apparent that as soon as the smoke clears, as to which side of that “fine line” he’s on!
I have to admit, he is great material, and that was my motivation for the project! I remember sitting in the New York DA’s office with my own council, and him saying to my attorney “its not that we think Ron is a bad guy, its just that Jason has a way of infecting anyone he comes in contact with, causing good people to do bad things”.
Personally, I think we are all responsible for our own actions, but Jason certainly has a skill! To bad he can’t use his powers for good!…
So to conclude, I can tell you that in many cases fragments of reality exist within a sea of BS, and this is the reason the book has not come out, and movie deals abandoned. He personality, tends to discolor his appeal. He told me (on camera) that he just wanted to be famous, it didn’t matter how! Be careful what you wish for!