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Condé Nast's CFO Tried To Pay $2,500 for a Night With a Gay **** Star

David Geithner, brother of ex-Obama Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, is currently the chief financial officer of Condé Nast (the parent company of Reddit). This past weekend, he’d planned to go to Chicago—where he planned to meet a gay **** star and escort for “2-3 hours” at a cost of $2,500.

But this would not be a simple sexual transaction. Geithner, it seems, ****ed with the wrong escort. The escort—who does not want to reveal his identity for professional reasons, but whom we will call Ryan—says he bailed on the date with the married (to a woman) father of three because Geithner declined to use his influence to help with a housing dispute.

The thwarted rendezvous began on July 4, when Geithner first contacted Ryan, whose phone number is available on a number of Chicago-area escort websites, via text message. Geithner said that he was going to be in Chicago exactly a week later, and would pay $2,500—plus airfare and hotel—for “2-3 hours” of Ryan’s services.

The next day, Geithner told Ryan that he would have FedEx deliver the first half of the money on the upcoming Tuesday to his home in Texas, presumably so that Geithner could establish that he was serious about meeting up in Chicago. Geithner also sent him a gleaming selfie and said, “My name is David, by the way.”

We’ve redacted Ryan’s name and address, as well as the package’s tracking number, but in the upper lefthand corner you can see that the package was sent by a “Jon Gardner” from Orleans, Mass. There are no records of a “Jon Gardner” in Orleans—but the return address on the envelope, which we have also redacted, instead matches a home that has been in the Geithner family for years.

The two continued texting over the weekend. Ryan told Geithner that he looked like Tom Cruise. He told Geithner that he was listening to Elton John at the gym, and Geithner responded by saying he enjoyed everything from Top 40 to Dire Straits to Latin music. Ryan sent him a photo of his penis, to which Geithner responded, “You are killing me.”

But before they could meet, things got weird. ...

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Mavik

Rainsford

Let me read.

edit: that escort is a ****ing asshole.

Dancehall

What a ****** escort. Poor his wife and kids though.

TheSoneNavy

youkneekorn

Who is the escort?

Bey_Rihstan

mess

Rainsford

Quote:

Originally posted by youkneekorn

Who is the escort?

I know a member who might know him.

Espresso

~~Over a ***ing dog with PTSD? A DOG?~~ Phrased that wrong

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Gawker reminds me of 2007 TMZ, before Harvey met all the celebrities he was bitching about and turned soft.

Geithner isn't even anti-gay - this is really low.

Gawker could've let karma catch up to him as opposed to instantly decimating a career and a family.

[** PTSD and needing a service dog conflicting with HUD still isn't equal retribution. Still pathetic on many levels]

Sensation

the truth always comes out. amazes me what people try to do in private and think they won't get caught.

youkneekorn

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewir...ouza-dartmouth

Is this his brother?

Reinvention

Yeah I commented on that Gawker article, I thought it was so disgusting.

Espresso

Quote:

Originally posted by youkneekorn

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewir...ouza-dartmouth

Is this his brother?

Yeah. Conservative blogs are gonna have a field day with this.

LuLuDrops

Quote:

Originally posted by Espresso

Gawker reminds me of the old TMZ now, before Harvey met all the celebrities he was bitching about and turned soft.

Geithner isn't even anti-gay - this is really low.

Gawker could've let karma catch up to him as opposed to instantly decimating a career and a family.

BuzzFeed staff dragged them on twitter. There are good and bad articles from both sites, but at least we (BF) don't ruin lives.

FunkyDinevo

The escort is an asshole. It's not your customer's job to help you with you personal problems.

youkneekorn

I would love to know the escorts name.

getback

assholes being asshole to each other. I love it

poor the wife and the kids tho

PoisonPill

Gawker is so ****ing disgusting and putrid. They ruined a family and a man's life just for fun. This was a private matter - he didn't break the law and wasn't using his power to harm gay people in any way. I cannot wait for the day that Gawker's illegal activities are uncovered and they receive their comeuppance.

Scabandplaster

This article pissed me off so much. So gross and not real journalism.

I Am Music

The escort is pretty damn pathetic. He should be outed.