Yes, I ran an escort service — but the escorts didn’t put out, insists self-proclaimed King of All Pimps Jason Itzler.
“It was an escort service,” Itzler’s lawyer, Mark Jay Heller, conceded to The Post before a court appearance today. “It was for clients to have the ‘girlfriend experience, only without the sex.”
Itzler, who has “King Pimp” tattooed on his arm, plans to take his kooky case to trial, the lawyer insisted.
He is charged with running Rockstar Models & Party Girls as a Manhattan-based ring that on at least three occasions sent drugs and hookers to the Trump International Hotel.
Itzler has served time for ecstasy smuggling and for his 2007 conviction for running the notorious NY Confidential escort agency in downtown Manhattan — which he has claimed was patronized by Love Gov Eliot Spitzer.
The penned pimp has been pensive as he awaits trial in Lower Manhattan’s Tombs jail — but Heller had just the pick-me-up for him today — a copy of The Diary of Anne Frank. Asked how a Holocaust book with a decidedly unhappy ending would cheer his client, Heller called the book “a story of courage and patience.”
“I also told him your doom won’t be as overwhelming as hers,” he added.