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File this under things that would make good Law & Order episodes and/or Bravo TV shows: The New York Post reports that one-legged millionaire Thomas Hartmann was convicted Friday of assaulting Sophia Kandelaki with the Rolex on his wrist on the Upper East Side. On the stand Kandelaki described herself as a “gunpoint kidnapping survivor, a reality star hopeful, a stripper, a private shopper, a vegan chef, a singer, a composer and an expert in ‘deep, inner tantric massage.’” Did you get all that?
The incident occurred last April outside the restaurant Baraonda on Second Avenue after a “dancing-on-the-table-party.” (We thought these type of parties were just spontaneous and only happened in movies — apparently they are not an uncommon occurrence for the setting, according to the place’s New York Magazine listing.) Kandelaki said the blows were unprompted. Hartmann claims the slug was an accident that occurred after he “lost his balance on his prosthetic leg when [Kandelaki] reached in his pants for his giant wad of cash.”

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Lamar Odom spotted ‘throwing money’ at women in strip club
New York, Sat, 14 Jan 2012
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New York, Jan 14 (ANI): Lamar Odom was allegedly seen partying at a strip club, with a stripper who reportedly looked like wife Khloe Kardashian.
The Dallas Mavericks star went to the club with two of his new teammates, the night before his team was honored by President Obama at the White House for winning the 2011 NBA Championship.
A rep for Odom confirmed that he was at Stadium strip club, but said that no one in his group received a private or public dance.
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“Strippers were grinding on him,” the New York Post quoted a source as telling RadarOnline.
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“The stripper that gave him most of his lap dances was a complete Khloe look-a-like,” the source said.
While he was at the strip club, his reality star wife was home alone at the couple’s new condo in Dallas, Texas.

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One-Legged Upper East Side Man Found Guilty of Assaulting Ex-Stripper
MANHATTAN CRIMINAL COURT — A wealthy Upper East Side man who reportedly earned $16 million in a settlement after losing his leg in a cop car accident has been convicted of assaulting an ex-stripper outside an Upper East Side restaurant last year.
The one-time Private Eyes dancer, Sophia Kandelaki, 37, testified Tuesday that she was arguing with the alleged attacker, Thomas Hartmann, 42, outside a restaurant when he took offense to a remark she made and swung at her on April 11, 2011, about 1:30 a.m.
The incident allegedly occurred across the street the Italian eatery Baraonda on Second Avenue at East 75th Street, near Hartmann’s home, where the two met for the first time that evening.
Prosecutors showed the jury a graphic photo of a gaping gash on Kandelaki’s face with a large cut that required 10 stitches. They said she fell to the ground, bleeding from the head after the punch.

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The result sometimes bogs down in scholarly minutiae about diphthongs and interdental fricatives, and, as the book’s editors note with extraordinary candor, the author’s untimely death forced them to leave “potential ambiguity” unresolved in some cases. But Bailey’s tour of the tongue includes enough colorful language-related anecdotes and enough cultural and historical meat to reward the patient general reader. A few examples:
In early America, colonial settlers saw the propagation of English as a means of saving souls, particularly those of Native Americans. A grammar published in 1622 carried the author’s hope “that hereby they may more easily learn our English tongue, to helpe to reduce the barbarous to more ciuilitie, and so to plant Gods true religion there.”
Despite Boston’s reputation as a place of refinement and learning, early court records show it was also a hotbed of insult and invective. Around 1650, a young man was whipped and imprisoned for calling his mother “the rankest sow in the towne.” Also actionable were such taunts as poope (dolt), punke and qu [e]ne, which at the time referred to prostitutes, and Ishmaelite, a 17th-century term for Muslims.

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In a New York minute (actually the next few months), more than 1,000 saloons added 10 dinky rooms. Tammany building inspectors didn’t care if some had four-foot-high ceilings or were in former coal bins. “Ten beers and one hard-boiled egg scarcely constitute a meal,” complained Roosevelt, but local judges disagreed, allowing most anything to pass for food. The playwright Eugene O’Neill once described on a saloon table “an old desiccated ruin of dust-laden bread and mummified ham or cheese which only the drunkest yokel from the sticks” would ever dream of eating.
New York — already awash in illegal casinos and brothels — was transformed into the city that never sleeps. These Raines Law saloon-hotels could serve round the clock. Even the Metropolitan Opera added 10 bedrooms to be able to offer late-night wine. And those saloon bedrooms, located a drunken stagger from the bar, provided a haven for prostitutes and a temptation to couples who’d had a few too many drinks. Adding 10,000 cheap beds was bound to loosen the city’s morals.

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So after Jason works his way through this boat of high school travesties – casting the deciding vote on who’ll be voted Most Likely To Be Electrocuted and Best Chest…For Housing A Smoldering Sauna Rock – he follows a dinghy-full of the last remaining survivors (a dinghy of dinghies if you will, or even if you won’t) to the shores of one the greatest cities in the world. And what does he find? An unwashed jungle of filthy filth-covered filth. You could watch a Troma Team film directed by Abel Ferrara and DPed by a crack-addicted prostitute who, ironically, specializes in DP, and you still wouldn’t end up with a sleazier portrait of Manhattan than that in the last act of Friday the 13th Part VIII. I’m not even sure Jason would want to take this city, he’d end up spending a fortune on machete-sized prophylactics. This is a place where the public works department just accepts it as a given that the entire sewer …

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DSK Is Shocked — Shocked! — To Hear Women He Slept With Are Prostitutes
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DSK is under investigation in France, where he was once considered a possible successor to President Nicolas Sarkozy, after being busted for sleeping with at least 10 prostitutes at sex parties in a hotel in Lille. It’s not his first sex scandal: this May, DSK was accused of sexually assaulting a New York City hotel maid as she came to clean his room. He denied everything and claimed to be the victim of a setup; eventually, charges were dropped because his victim was considered untrustworthy by prosecutors. (A civil case is still pending in New York.) But troubles awaited him still: after he left New York, DSK headed back to France and was quickly linked to a French prostitution ring.

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