{"id":2402,"date":"2016-12-05T01:20:47","date_gmt":"2016-12-05T09:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=2402"},"modified":"2016-12-05T01:20:47","modified_gmt":"2016-12-05T09:20:47","slug":"booze-blow-bender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2016\/12\/05\/booze-blow-bender\/","title":{"rendered":"Booze &#038; Blow Bender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 39-year-old heir to the <strong><em>Fiat <\/em><\/strong>empire, <strong>Lapo Elkann<\/strong>, was just arrested for faking his own kidnapping.\u00a0 And he was arrested along with a transgender hooker&#8230;eh, escort!\u00a0 Lapo flew into NYC on Thanksgiving and called several female escorts.\u00a0 One of them directed Lapo to a person who has been identified as a 29-year-old transgender hooker named <strong>Curtis McKinstry<\/strong>.\u00a0 The two were holed up in what has been referred to as a housing project and embarked on what <em>The Daily Beast <\/em>called a &#8220;two-day booze and blow bender&#8221;.\u00a0 When his cash ran out, he told relatives that a woman had kidnapped him and demanded a $10,000 ransom or he would be &#8220;hurt&#8221;.\u00a0 $10K?\u00a0 For the <em>Fiat <\/em>heir?\u00a0 With apologies to Bette Midler, was he kidnapped by <strong><em>Kmart<\/em><\/strong>?\u00a0 Elkann didn&#8217;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!\u00a0 How do you say schmuck in Italian?\u00a0 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.\u00a0 At first, Elkann tried to pin the blame on the hooker, who until that point had stayed quiet.\u00a0 Well, don&#8217;t diss a transgender hooker &#8211; s\/he&#8217;ll cut a bitch!\u00a0 The escort turned the tables, the cops let her\/him go.\u00a0 Elkann was charged with making a false police report, but apparently that doesn&#8217;t warrant bail.\u00a0 He was released and is due in court in January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 39-year-old heir to the Fiat empire, Lapo Elkann, was just arrested for faking his own kidnapping.\u00a0 And he was arrested along with a transgender hooker&#8230;eh, escort!\u00a0 Lapo flew into NYC on Thanksgiving and called several female escorts.\u00a0 One of them directed Lapo to a person who has been identified as a 29-year-old transgender hooker<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2403,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2402\/revisions\/2403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}