Thread: Brazilian madam, who worked for Emperors' Club, on way home

Brazilian madam, who worked for Emperors' Club, on way home

By BARBARA ROSS and RICH SCHAPIRO
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS

Friday, March 14th 2008, 1:30 PM

The gorgeous Brazilian madam who once worked for a high-priced hooker ring that cost Eliot Spitzer his political career and reputation will return to her native country Saturday.

Andrea Schwartz, 33, will be seeing her shocked mother for the first time since she left Brazil as a teenager in 1994.

"She never said anything to me about this story of the governor," Schwartz's mother, Elza Diaz, told Brazilian newspapers. "I don't know if she had political clients, but I know that she had many famous clients."

"I only learned of her activities from the press," Diaz said. "I am happy that she is returning. She has lived in New York for eight years and I was never able to get a visa to visit her."

Schwartz's swanky midtown condo was raided in June 2006 when the brunette beauty was arrested for running a million dollar call girl ring.

Sources said investigators scooped up financial documents relating to QAT Consulting, a shell company linked to the Emperors' Club VIP, the escort agency that supplied Spitzer with the $4,300-a-night hooker "Kristen."

Schwartz did not cooperate with authorities investigating Spitzer's ties to her former agency, a source said.

The Brazilian bombshell left the Emperors Club VIP to start her own brothel out of her W. 58th St. condo, which catered to Time Warner Chief Financial Officer Wayne Pace and other financial titans, authorities said.

Schwartz pleaded guilty to drug and prostitution charges in January and agreed not to fight her deportation. She was sentenced on Feb. 4.

On her 19th birthday, she left Brazil for Italy where she studied business. In 1997, she moved to the U.S., eventually landing in New York. She worked as a stripper at Flash Dancers before getting involved in prostitution.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2008/03 ... rors_.html

The Brazilian Call Girl and Madam Behind NY Governor's Fall
Written by Elma Lia Nascimento
Friday, 14 March 2008


If you believe the New York Post a Brazilian madam had a key role on the fall of New York governor, Eliot Spitzer. Andréia Schwartz, says the New York daily this Thursday, March 13, helped the American authorities to make its case against Spitzer.

Schwartz, a 33-year old pretty brunette who was born in the Brazilian southeastern state of EspÃ*rito Santo, according to the newspaper, was the confidential source who among other things gave investigators copies of checks made to the Emperors Club as evidence of the governor's trysts. .

Andréia worked as a call girl for the Emperors Club VIP, the escort service used by Spitzer, before becoming herself the owner of a brothel and having her own list of famous johns.

During her trial, the Brazilian, who was arrested in 2006, admitted she was guilty of prostitution and drug possession, but was able to strike a deal with federal prosecutors lowering considerably the jail term she might have got.

According to the Post, the Brazilian madam was sentenced earlier this year on February 4 but was able to mysteriously remain in the city for all this time even though there an order of deportation to Brazil against her.

Andréia is being expected back in Brazil this Saturday, March 15. On Thursday, March 13, she was taken to the Brazilian consulate in New York by immigration agent to get her papers since her Brazilian passport has expired.

Schwartz was arrested in June 2006 in New York accused of prostitution, possession of drugs and money laundering. According to court records, which came to light at that time, the Brazilian madam told police that she had been a madam for a year and a half, but that she had made about US$ 1.5 million in prostitution since 2001.

She also revealed that her girls charged from US$ 700 to US$ 1500 an hour for a sexual encounter. Threesomes, which involved two girls, started at US$ 2,000 an hour.

The prosecutor also charged her for trying to buy a whole floor of the luxurious Plaza Hotel in Manhattan's Fifth Avenue using illegal money from a group of Italian investors.

Schwartz's lawyer at the time, Andrew Hoffman, in an interview to CBN Radio CBN from Vitória, capital of EspÃ*rito Santo, accused the American police of being overzealous, saying that her client had only been involved in some questionable real estate transactions and that she had had no other trouble with the authorities during the almost six years in which she lived legally in the United States.

Apparently the police started an investigation after receiving complaints from her neighbors who felt bothered by the constant visit of men to her place. Policemen posing as clients looking for sex and cocaine visited her apartment.

They arrested her when she showed a catalog with the call girls who worked for her. Three other women were detained with Andréia when she was arrested June 1st, 2006, in her Manhattan apartment.

Her current lawyer, Anthony Lombardino, told reporters that Schwartz was able to strike a deal with prosecutor Artie McConnell, by which she is being allowed to take to Brazil all her belongings plus US$ 150,000. She will lose, however, her Manhattan apartment, worth about US$ 1.2 million plus about US$ 300,000 she had in her bank account.

http://www.brazzilmag.com/content/view/9178/

KINKY LINK TO BRAZIL'S BOMBSHELL
SPITZ-CASE INFORMER DEPORTED
By DOUGLAS MONTERO and JEANE MacINTOSH

SAMBA BEAUTY: Hot-to-trot Andreia Schwartz ran a brothel at this West 58th Street building where Time Warner exec Wayne Pace was allegedly a john. Earlier, she worked for Emperors Club VIP — and cooperated with the fed probe of it.
March 13, 2008 -- A convicted Manhattan madam who served as an informant in the federal probe of Gov. Spitzer's liaisons with prostitutes was being whisked back home to Brazil last night, The Post has learned.

Handcuffed and shackled, Brazilian bombshell Andreia Schwartz - who pleaded guilty last January to state drug and prostitution charges - was quietly brought into her country's Midtown consulate by federal authorities yesterday to fill out deportation paperwork.

Schwartz had once worked for Emperors Club VIP - the escort service that supplied Spitzer with his $4,300-a-night hooker, "Kristen."

But she left to launch her own brothel based in a West 58th Street apartment - among whose clients was allegedly Time Warner Chief Financial Officer Wayne Pace.

The prostitution enterprise led to her arrest in 2006.

She accepted a guilty plea in state court that gave her immunity from federal prosecution and a sentence of time served in return for her agreement not to fight deportation.

But although she was officially sentenced on Feb. 4, she mysteriously was kept in town for more than a month - before her departure on the very day that Spitzer resigned.

In their complaint against Spitzer, federal prosecutors said they learned in 2006 from another law-enforcement agency of a woman who had worked as an Emperors Club escort.

That woman was Schwartz - and she became a "confidential source" for the federal authorities probing Spitzer, The Post's sources said.

Although she had no knowledge of Spitzer's patronage of Emperors, she provided the paper trail that linked the governor to the hooker ring, according to the sources.

The feds got access to the paychecks she got from QAT Consulting, the shell company that owns Emperors.

They were already investigating Spitzer's moving thousands of dollars worth of checks to QAT - but until that point they hadn't realized that QAT and Emperors were the same entity.

Neither federal nor state officials could be reached for comment.

Schwartz's lawyer, Anthony Lombardino, asked whether his client had been part of the Spitzer probe, said, "I don't know the answer to that."

Flanked by two federal officers, Schwartz was escorted into the Midtown consulate at about 11:30 a.m., where she spent 45 minutes filling out the official deportation documents.

She had turned in her passport earlier.

No charges were ever brought against Schwartz on allegations that she had been ferrying bags of cash to and from Brazil and was involved in a mob-tainted, ultimately unsuccessful, $350 million bid to buy a floor of The Plaza hotel.

Additional reporting by Carolyn Salazar

http://www.nypost.com/seven/03132008/ne ... 101748.htm