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skahammer
11/13/09

In reply to Is Jho Low Just a Front for the Real Money?
And I suppose my cover as a compulsive masturbator is the next to blow. #jholow
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Magister
11/13/09

In reply to Is Jho Low Just a Front for the Real Money?
Maybe it's just me, but when the original Post article said that Low isn't spending his own money and his friend from Kuwait took the credit, I assumed the mystery was over. Especially, if you consider that rich Middle Eastern businessmen have been flying starlets around and renting time with beautiful women for at least, three or four decades. All in all, the whole thing sounded like a bad cliche.
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raincoaster
11/13/09

@Magister: To be fair, I used to be in the entourage of one of these dudes, and it was a BLAST. #jholow
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skahammer
11/13/09

@raincoaster: OK, but there are actually very few places where a photocopier salesman from Milwaukee is considered a "rich Middle Eastern businessman."
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raincoaster
11/13/09

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This is really just a viral marketing stunt for the next James Bond movie, isn't it? #jholow
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Uncle_Billy_Slumming
11/13/09

In reply to Is Jho Low Just a Front for the Real Money?
[gawker.com] #jholow
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trucha
11/13/09

@Uncle_Billy_Slumming: Kim Jong-un.

Rumored to be chubby and according to Wikipedia: "To date, only one known image of Kim Jong-un exists, taken when he was eleven." #jholow
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Claire Buoyant
11/13/09

@trucha: I believe the chubby one is Kim Jong-Nam (unless there's more than one), and here's a video of a recent "interview" with him:
[news.bbc.co.uk] #jholow
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trucha
11/13/09

@Claire Buoyant: I think they are all chubby, but here is where I read about Jong-un a while back.

"The chef worked in Kim Jong Il’s kitchens for 20 years and in his memoirs describes Kim Jong Un as pleasant, overweight, capable of holding his drink and a fan of the US basketball player Michael Jordan."

[www.timesonline.co.uk] #jholow
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adiam7
11/13/09

@Claire Buoyant: I never considered that as an option but I see the possibility and Lil Kim knows a thing or two about arms #jholow
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Uncle_Billy_Slumming
11/13/09

@trucha: The Nammer has/had a mole on his chin (his left side). Hard to tell but it doesn't look like our Jho Low here is sporting a mole. (Enlargeable photo please) #jholow
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skt.smth
11/13/09

In reply to Is Jho Low Just a Front for the Real Money?
So ... they send this guy out to do the partying for them? I'm not understanding how the puzzle pieces of this article are meant to be put together. #jholow
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BaldwinPeriphetes
11/13/09

@skt.smth: The idea is that Jho Low parties with an entourage; one of the entourage is actually the moneybags who chooses which starlet he wants to meet today, and they just put out that Jho Low is the big shot of the group.
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Magister
11/13/09

@BaldwinPeriphetes: Yeah. The William Hung-like fellow looks non-threatening, while those guys in the shadows might actually scare away the prospects. #jholow
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skt.smth
11/13/09

@BaldwinPeriphetes: I'm still not buying it. How does Jho Low know this (or these) "hard" guy/s in the first place? It seems to me that, if the dude were Russian, we'd just assume he was heir to an oil fortune or something and move on. Why does Jho Low have to be involved in gun-running (or be the front for a guy who is)? Because he's Malaysian, and a Malaysian can't possibly have enough money to club like that? #jholow
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Magister
11/13/09

In the 70s, it would've been sex slaves;
In the 80s, coke and in the 90s, wmd...
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BadUncle
11/09/09

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I would like to be hyper rich just to contrast with these people by living normally. And by normally I mean eating my take-out in front of the TV in my luxury submarine. #nightlife
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wholenuther
11/09/09

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I want to dislike this guy, then I start getting horribly jealous. I want him to come to my next party. And pay for it. #nightlife
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TroisFilles
11/09/09

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"...discuss the weather." Is that what the kids are calling it these days? I guess no one knows what etchings are any longer. #nightlife
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DevilsAvocadoRedux
11/09/09

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Taek Jho Low? If memory serves me correctly, stock recommendations weren't his strong point. See, for example, his waxing lyrical about the value of Infinity Broadcasting shares, based largely on the involvement of founder and CEO, Mel Karmazin... [media.www.whartonjournal.com]

Karmazin resigned less than two months later due to quibbles with Viacom antediluvian corporate overlord (TM Mark Lisanti), Sumner Redstone. #nightlife
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son of spam
11/09/09

@DevilsAvocadoRedux: Ha! I wonder if this is the same guy. Here's another great pick.

[media.www.whartonjournal.com]
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DevilsAvocadoRedux
11/09/09

@son of spam: HAH! Didn't see that one. Well, he clearly didn't make his money on the stock market.

Psst. Hear he's got the word on a once-in-a-lifetime investment opportunity with a NY high-flyer. Goes by the name of Bernie something-or-other. But keep it on the quiet, son o'spam. Don't want the whole world to know.

Hearted under my new, grey, meaningless avatar, spam. #nightlife
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Mo MoDo
11/09/09

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Just by writing his name you have signed your warrant. The First Rule of Horny Billionaires Club is: Don't let people write about Horny Billionaires Club. #nightlife
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TheSometimesWhy
11/05/09

In reply to Meet Olivier Zahm: Either the Best or Worst Human Being in New York
Clearly, this man is a fop and a dandy, all of which I can forgive. (I got my Ph.D in foppery and dandiness.) What I cannot bear is a charlatan, and this man, claiming to be French, is obviously a charlatan--where in God's name is his beret? His clove cigarette?

I rest my case. #media
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Trai_Dep
11/05/09

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We need a Marshall Plan II, to send to suffering mademoiselles our bountiful surplus with nary an expectation of personal gain.
Not grain or loans, of course. I'm referring to their pubic hair shortage. #media
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Lucia Toledo
11/05/09

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Will these sleazetard-Europlayer-wannabe-creatives... never stop coming here? #media
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RollsRoyceRevenge
11/05/09

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"'alllllooo, I am...com dit on? Your Lov-aire for z' evening. We weel start with my applying ze scented oil to your scallllllllllllp." #media
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RollsRoyceRevenge
11/05/09

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I'm kind of done with Terry Richardson. "Ugly Guy With Big Dick Gets Naked" was amusing for approximately five minutes as many years ago.

Dude, you're old enough to be my chartered accountant. Who is also sort of what you look like. #media
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