The 39-year-old heir to the Fiat empire, Lapo Elkann, was just arrested for faking his own kidnapping.  And he was arrested along with a transgender hooker…eh, escort!  Lapo flew into NYC on Thanksgiving and called several female escorts.  One of them directed Lapo to a person who has been identified as a 29-year-old transgender hooker named Curtis McKinstry.  The two were holed up in what has been referred to as a housing project and embarked on what The Daily Beast called a “two-day booze and blow bender”.  When his cash ran out, he told relatives that a woman had kidnapped him and demanded a $10,000 ransom or he would be “hurt”.  $10K?  For the Fiat heir?  With apologies to Bette Midler, was he kidnapped by Kmart?  Elkann didn’t count on a couple of things: 1) his family would report the kidnapping to the NYPD and b) they knew he called from his own cell phone!  How do you say schmuck in Italian?  The cops set up a plan to pay the ransom, and then arrested Lapo and his lap dog when they showed up to collect the dough.  At first, Elkann tried to pin the blame on the hooker, who until that point had stayed quiet.  Well, don’t diss a transgender hooker – s/he’ll cut a bitch!  The escort turned the tables, the cops let her/him go.  Elkann was charged with making a false police report, but apparently that doesn’t warrant bail.  He was released and is due in court in January.