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The Secret Double Life of Spitzer's Alleged Hooker Booker

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HO-LANDER? 'Tania' from MySpace, Tanya from media reports (right)
Tanya Hollander, the woman charged with arranging prostitutes for the Emperor's Club VIP, appears to have been leading a secret double life as both a hippie-ish holistic healer and a power broker's madam.

Tanya, as the media has been spelling her name, is alleged to have booked girls for New York Governor-for-the-moment Eliot Spitzer. Meanwhile, Tania, an alias listed in charges unsealed by the U.S. Attorney's office on March 6, appears to have maintained an extensive "health counseling" website (now taken down but cached here) and a MySpace page (last login February 8), where she describes herself as "a grounded, creative, adventurous, and wise spirit," a practitioner of holistic healing in the Manhattan and Hudson Valley area who is "known to get lost in health food stores and wander for several hours."

Also, she's into "tribal fusion bellydance."

MySpace Tania, 36, of Rhinebeck, New York, bears a remarkable physical resemblance to the busted Tanya (also said to be 36 and hailing from Rhinebeck) shown in newspapers (and a pretty strong resemblance to to Alanis Morissette, while we're at it). Though the vital stats, names, and looks match up, Tania comes off as the woman least likely to schedule gloveless love for the New York gov.

Her heroes are "women who successfully walk the line of being strong, self-assured and sensual." Tania is employed in the lucrative field of "helping people to find balance & inspiration in their lives through dietary & lifestyle changes. I love working with performing singers who have health issues that get in the way of peak performance. I also help people address mood disorders without drugs." In her spare time, she enjoys the music of the Pixies, dead songwriter Jeff Buckley, Beck, Led Zepplin [sic], and, naturally, Tori Amos, favorite films Dead Poets Society and the Lord of the Rings trilogy (Risky Business isn't on her list, but Vanilla Sky is), and "the ritual of drinking loose tea from a beautiful teapot."

This crunchiest of ladyhealers is looking to meet "creative types who are spiritually evolved," potential business partners in a health food or music store, and "songwriters to collaborate with."

Her last blog entry is from February 7, 2006, and in it she describes a retreat she's just finished, at which she's learned how to determine a person's life story from their facial symmetry, something she refers to as "Oriental visual diagnosis and energetic diagnosis." "Did you know that if you have plastic surgery, the energy to your organs will change?" she asks. In her only other post, she rails against yogurt promising better digestion and other wonder foods.

MySpace messages sent to Tania Hollander seeking clarification on her identity were not answered, and phone messages left at the number on her cached website were not returned.


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Comments

Bwhahahaha!! Between Tanya and the Governor, it's hard to say who is the bigger hypocrite!

Posted by: Mary McConnell on March 12, 2008 9:21 AM

"I'd like to spread energy and light within my sphere of influence." She certainly lived up to her word.

Posted by: Bellboy on March 12, 2008 10:49 AM

If Myspace is being used for prostitution, then we are all call girls.

Posted by: Fate Popcorn on March 12, 2008 11:30 AM

Perpetrators of this type of "journalism" should be locked in a room and forced to listen to Don Henley's "Dirty Laundry" and World Party's "Ship of Fools" on infinite repeat

The sensationalism, innuendos, "text bite" extrapolation, and outright lies perpetrated by the press breaks our hearts. The genuine story of Tania Hollander is one of a courageous woman following her dream of building a holistic nutrition counseling business during rough economic times.

If so-called journalists took the time to read the Southern District of New York Federal complaint regarding the Emperors Club, their questions about Tania Hollander would have to be different... and the author above would know that she had absolutely no interaction with Spitzer

With virtually no evidence against her, why was she arrested and charged vs. merely being subpoenaed as a witness? Is it possible that Tania Hollander was completely unaware how her administrative work was allegedly used for illegal means? Is she actually a victim and not a criminal?

Allow me to answer the last question. Tania was victimized on three fronts: first by her employer, then by the feds and finally by the media. The truth will come out in the legal process. For now, alleged journalists need to know that legal counsel advises her to not have any interaction with the media.

Tania Hollander is a beautiful soul, my best friend and life partner. Soon I will be her husband. She is a budding yet successful holistic health counselor who will continue her work as best she can despite the court of public opinion wanting to burn her in a neo Salem Witch Trial. Imagine this scenario happening to one of your loved ones, knowing their innocence.

To the author of this article and to those who felt the need to comment... stand in front of a mirror a while and look deeply.

-Lance Cyrlin
Milan, NY

Posted by: Lance Cyrlin on March 28, 2008 3:20 PM

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