I believe women of every age should have their own sexual, financial and romantic agency. If a 20-year-old woman wants to bang an older “sugar daddy” and that’s her choice at every level, so be it. As long as everyone’s an adult and everything is out in the open, do whatever. Now, all that being said, it sounds like Anthony Scaramucci is a pimp and it’s all sort of gross. In case you’ve already forgotten Anthony “The Mooch” Scaramucci, he was Donald Trump’s Communications Director for ten glorious days last year, and he’s been flat-out famous ever since. So famous that he’s hosting Sugar Daddy Nights at the NYC restaurant he owns (?) called Hunt & Fish Club. What is happening?
The Mooch is helping “Sugar Daddies” hook up with pliant young women seeking “arrangements.” Anthony Scaramucci’s Midtown restaurant, Hunt & Fish Club, is the venue for Thursday’s “Sugar Social,” where 25 “invited gentlemen” will meet for cocktails and dinner with 35 “stunning women.”
Scaramucci — the Wall Street whiz who was President Trump’s communications director for 10 days — will not be attending. His publicist Howard Bragman told me, “Anthony is happily married.” Scaramucci and his wife, Deidre Ball, reconciled after she filed for divorce last summer.
The email promoting the event promises, “Sugar Socials are our solution to a relationship on your terms — upfront and honest arrangements.” Money typically does change hands.
“Meet with 35 stunning women the first hour over cocktails. Select one (or two, if you like) to join you for dinner . . . Need help choosing the right company? Our host will pair you with someone of interest.”
Bragman said Scaramucci isn’t involved in promoting sex-for-money relationships. “Some club rented out a private room,” the publicist said. “We neither condone nor endorse.”
Sources say Scaramucci named his restaurant after the infamous Bergin Hunt and Fish Club in Ozone Park, Queens, where John Gotti and his Gambino gang liked to hang.
There is not one un-shady sentence in this whole Page Six item. “Money typically does change hands.” And how. What’s the difference between a sugar-daddy situation and just straight up prostitution? If you call it sugar-daddying, then it’s not illegal? It seems like the NYPD might want to send their Vice squad undercover, because yeeesh. Also… 25 men and 35 women? I guess that’s for the sugar daddy who can support two ladies. *barf face*
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so gross. another trump enabling grifter.
What?!
That was my first thought.
Then as I read it I began to ask myself, is he just the short male Italian Patty Stanger?
Oh, haha haha, funny
WHAT ?! (x2)
Blech.
🤢 well… I mean, I’m not morally or socially opposed to women and men getting their needs met through an open and honest arrangement. But I still find it personally gross?
I think it’s the formality of it. Like how the way in which fundies oppose birth control and abortion, but somehow The Handmaids Tale is worse for the formalized nature of it.
I was actually going to reference how I feel about abortion, but I didn’t want to upset anyone or derail the conversation!
Kaiser, that headline is perfection 😂
The article states that he has no involvement, so the headline is really misleading.
wellllll actualllllllly minx (fart noise)
it takes place at a restaurant he owns so he is involved but i guess we have a scaramucci-stan in the house?
No, Bergman was claiming Mooch “wasn’t involved in promoting sex-for-money relationships” which is a CYA statement. That’s not saying he’s not involved. It’s his place.
He’s the owner. Surely he vetted who wants to use his restaurant. He approved this booking. He’s tacitly approving this event.
Headline hilarious. Muckrakers still mucking in muck. He loves attention. Probably doesn’t care if this event gets his restaurant in the news; probably subscribes to the mantra no PR is bad PR!
Sad.
Ick. Restaurant name makes it sound like one of those constipation-inducing places where potatoes are the solitary representation of “vegetable.”
Let’s all make a pact not to think, write about, or give any energy at all to this train wreck of a person. Deny him the publicity/oxygen he so clearly gets off on.
Well, this is unsavory. No wonder tRump hired The Mooch. Scumbags of a feather and all.
Makes you wonder about how the young creep curried favour with the old orange creep, doesn’t it? Because the Mooch surely rose fast and unexpected.
“If you allow some women to be bought and sold for men’s sexual arousal or entertainment, then you compromise the position of all women in a community”
This was a sentence I read literally this morning in an article about lap dancing clubs, women are a commodity for use by men as they see fit. I am so tired of this planet today.
Nooooo, how can you say that! These women are all there out of their own volition, they WANT those gross men salivating over them and they’re super empowered by it. *sarcasm*
So if the women actually want to do it who are we to tell them they’re wrong? Either we allow women their agency or we don’t, there’s no in between. Feminism doesn’t mean infantilising grown women and their decisions.
“If you allow some women to be bought and sold for men’s sexual arousal or entertainment, then you compromise the position of all women in a community”.
Did you read that? I’m in a hurry, but I gotta say this: Prostitution (and I’m counting sugar daddies and babies in) is not a feminist act. It’s using a patriarchal system that hurts other women at best, and rape and extortion at worst. Calling it sex work and repeating how some women do it because they like it is not gonna change that. In fact, I’m from a place where prostitution is legal, and doing that, calling it sex work, and treating it just like another business has made the situation WORSE for the women in that system. I’m all for giving sex workers more rights and treating them better as a society. But raising the johns’ status at the same time and trivializing the dynamics that are at work there is a terrible terrible idea.
This man used to work for the White House. He will be in History books.
Thanks again, MAGAts!
Can you imagine high school students writing essays on the 12 days of the Mooch??!!
I…have no issue with this. Pay like you weigh, gentlemen. Make that money, ladies.
Yeah, if they are getting the money and not Mooch or one of his associates.
I’m sure the event organizer is getting a “finders fee” that both the ladies and the daddies (actually probably just the daddies) had to pay to be invited to the event, but once they’re there, sky’s the limit.
Soo we are still teaching women to prostitute themselves by another name and its ok to “get that money?”.
When that changes maybe everything will change for women, I look forward to that day when we no longer have to sell ourselves to make money. No matter what we call it.
It is appalling that men still overwhelmingly own the money.
There are plenty of women who sell sex in places where it’s perfectly legal entirely by choice. Not all prostitutes are victims. I’m against survival prostitution not because I think selling sex is wrong but because the women have limited power to protect themselves from abusers and face social stigma and legal consequences for pursing it. Create a society where capital is more evenly distributed, women aren’t castigated for their sexual autonomy, and prostitution is decriminalized, and I could care less if it’s a choice women want to make for money making purposes.
EYE am respecting adult women’s decision to do sex work. And also to MAKE. THAT. MONAAAAAAYYY.
Sometime-y feminism must be exhausting.
Oh, dear.
Sleazy is as sleazy does. He can release multiple statements but he is connected, he owns the venue. Every sentence of the description is a shady description of prostitution.
How naive am I when I was like oh, more women than men…guess some girls go home alone!!! Yuuuuuuuuuck. Adam Sandler shouting about old balls is ringing in my ears!!!
Gross
The difference between sugar daddies (that term never fails to make my skin crawl) and prostitution/escorting: Prostitution is the direct exchange of money (or things of value like drugs, jewelry, etc) for sex. That’s illegal. Sugar dating (bleh) gets around this because at least in theory there are other activities going on. Going out to dinner, on trips, normal dating activities. These people are usually getting together repeatedly and there’s at least an illusion of dating, however casual, and the relationship, like many normal ones, happens to include sex and money or gifts.
There’s a range of how much sincerity and companionship is involved but I think most of it is pretty depressing. You’re going to get a lot of women who are either desperate for money and feel like they don’t have any other options, or women who are old enough to be legal but young enough to be dumb and short-sighted. Obviously there will be a variety of experiences and there are women who know what they’re doing, but I think a lot of these women will look back, after the money is long spent, and feel grossed out they literally sold out their body like this and wasted any of their youth with someone they don’t genuinely care about or have a future with.
I mean, I’m sure it’s gross AF given the power dynamics likely involved in that club, but to be honest, I could give a shit less if women want to pursue prostitution as a money making entity. Just decriminalize it already so women can take back some of the power in the transaction.
“His publicist Howard Bragman told me, “Anthony is happily married.” Scaramucci and his wife, Deidre Ball, reconciled after she filed for divorce last summer.”
Wait, what? Wasn’t there some kind of shenanigins with another woman while she was heavily pregnant or am I did I just brain fart that.
I do remember him telling her after he found out that she gave birth that he would “Pray for our son.” or some such bs.
No, you’re right. He was supposedly fooling around with some Fox News presenter and his wife filed and kicked him out days before she wound up having their youngest child. I can’t imagine filing for divorce on the eve of the birth of a child, I would have to be like scorched earth, no coming back, extra-extra-extra done to do that, but I guess he Mooched his way back somehow. I hope she made a good choice and won’t regret staying married to this POS, and I hope that when she eventually does regret it (like 99.99% chance IMO) she gets EVERYTHING.
The Hunt and Fish Club? For a Sugar Daddy convention? Sounds appropriate.
Ick! And hey, call it what it is…he IS pimping. The girls are agreeing/looking for a Sugar Daddy, the Daddies are looking to pay/gift the ladies and The Mooch is taking all the publicity and money he can. He will continue to do whatever he can to stay in the money and be a celebrity. The entire situation makes me want to upchuck!
I’ve thought of The Mooch as a low rent Tony Soprano wannabe from the first time I saw him.
My $$ is on the current wife regretting not shoving him out the door when she filed for divorce. Honey, he is a walking Ex-Husband to be, in my book.
He. He sucks, but he’s renting out a space in his restaurant. That’s not the same thing – we wouldn’t say renting out the same space to a religious organization made him a minister.
Donald was Melania’s sugar daddy before he married her. I believe he’s 24 years older than she is. She just married her sugar daddy. And now she’s too old for him. Best believe he’s sugaring other nubile youngsters now. It will all come out.