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The 'Manhattan Madam' who ran a high-end prostitution ring in the 2000s will be questioned in the Mueller probe - here's everything we know about her
The 'Manhattan Madam' who ran a high-end prostitution ring in the 2000s will be questioned in the Mueller probe - here's everything we know about her
Mary HanburyJul 23, 2018, 01:36 IST
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The "Manhattan Madam" is being questioned as part of the special counsel Robert Mueller's probe into Russian's interference in the 2016 presidential election.
Kristin M. Davis, 41, is notoriously known for running a high-end prostitution ring in the 2000s.
She is also a close friend of Roger Stone, a former Trump campaign adviser who has become a target of Mueller's investigation.
Davis went to prison for running a prostitution ring and selling drugs, and also ran for governor of New York.
New York's notorious "Manhattan Madam" has come back into the limelight.
Kristin Davis, 41, who was known for running a high-end prostitution ring in the 2000s, is being questioned as part of a probe into Russian's interference into the 2016 presidential election by the special counsel Robert Mueller.
Davis told The New York Times that she didn't know why she had been called in for questioning, but confirmed that the special counsel's office had contacted her asking where they can serve a subpoena.
The Washington Post reported that she is expecting to be asked about her close friend, Roger Stone, a former Trump campaign adviser who has become a subject in Mueller's investigation.
Here's everything we know about the Manhattan Madam:
Kristin Davis started her career working at a hedge fund. She claimed that by the end of her stint, she was senior vice president of operations for a $2 billion fund.
In her time working in finance, she said she was asked to book escorts for her bosses. It was from here that she decided to set up her own agency.
"I was working at my last hedge fund job when I began toying with the idea of opening an agency as a means of making additional income to help support my mother and her medical expenses,” she wrote in a blog post for XOJane in 2014.
She set up and ran an escort agency for five years.
In 2008, Davis was arrested and accused of running a prostitute ring. She was sent to Rikers prison.
She claimed to have provided escorts to Eliot Spitzer, a former governor of New York. Spitzer denied he had contact with Davis, and her name didn't come up in the investigation into his conduct.
He resigned as governor that year after admitting that he had patronized a prostitution ring.
In 2013, she was back again running for city comptroller against Spitzer. But she had to withdraw from the race after being arrested and charged for selling ecstasy, Adderall, and Xabazm in August that year.
In a statement to the press issued on Friday, Davis' publicist said: "Kristin Davis and Roger Stone are very good friends ... She is currently in the cosmetology business and she knows nothing whatsoever about Russian collusion with the 2016 election."
