‘Manhattan Madam’ met Mueller’s team
Kristin Davis, a Manhattan woman renowned for running a high-end New York City escort service a decade ago, has met with investigators from the office of the special counsel, Robert Mueller, according to two people familiar with the matter.
Davis, who was known for years in New York City’s tabloids as the Manhattan Madam, told The New York Times she was contacted in late July by Mueller’s office, which was seeking to serve her a subpoena as part of its investigation into ties between Russia and President Donald Trump’s campaign. Davis said at the time that she had no idea what Mueller’s team wanted to know from her, insisting she did not believe it was related to her former prostitution business.
The subject of her interview on Wednesday with the special counsel’s office remained unclear, but one possible line of inquiry was her long association with Roger J. Stone Jr, a veteran political consultant and Trump adviser who has become a focal point for Mueller’s investigators.
Stone, a self-described “dirty trickster” with a career in politics reaching back to the Nixon administration, was in contact with Guccifer 2.0, an online figure that Mueller’s team has said was controlled by Russian military intelligence officers. Guccifer 2.0 was instrumental in helping WikiLeaks distribute stolen emails and other internal political documents that proved damaging to Hillary Clinton’s presidential bid and to the Democratic Party.
“Kristin Davis is a longtime friend and associate of mine,” Stone said in a statement issued on Friday.
“She knows nothing about alleged Russian collusion.”NYT