Jason Itzler is an American businessman and convicted criminal. He was born Jason Sylk in 1967 of Jewish parents. In the 1990s he ran a phone sex

Phone sex

Phone sex is a type of virtual sex that refers to sexually explicit conversation between or other persons via telephone, especially when at least one of the participants masturbates or engages in sexual fantasy...

 business in Florida. He later served a prison term for importation of illegal drugs. In 2003-2004, he ran New York escort agency

Escort agency

Escort agencies are companies that provide escorts for the agency's clients. The agency typically arranges a meeting between one of its escorts and the client at the customer's house or hotel room , or at the escort's residence . Some agencies also provide escorts for longer durations, who may stay...

 "NY Confidential" for wealthy clients. In 2005, Itzler was convicted of money laundering and promoting prostitution, and sentenced to 18 month in prison.

Itzler later claimed that Ashley Alexandra Dupré

Ashley Alexandra Dupré

Ashley Rae Maika DiPietro better known by the stage name Ashley Alexandra Dupré, is a former call girl. She is currently an American sex columnist for the New York Post and a singer. She became a public figure when it was disclosed that she was the woman at the center of the Eliot Spitzer...

, the call girl connected to the Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal

Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal

The Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal began on March 10, 2008, when The New York Times reported that Democratic New York Governor Eliot Spitzer had patronized a prostitution service called Emperors Club VIP...

, had previously been an escort with "NY Confidential".