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I’ve got the cops on my side. I know everyone. I know this [porn] industry. I’m a lawyer.

Sat., November 13, 2004 Cheshvan 29, 5765

“Pimp” King Hunt

By JEANE MacINTOSH, LARRY CELONA and DAN MANGAN

A notorious New York porn king is being sought by cops who want to bust him for allegedly pimping call girls in a multimillion-dollar Manhattan operation, The Post has learned.

Jason Sylk Itzler, 37, disappeared from his Hoboken home after New York cops raided the Worth Street offices of his NY Confidential escort agency last Friday, law-enforcement sources.

Itzler is on parole from a New Jersey prison, where he served six months of a five-year sentence for smuggling 3,869 “ecstasy” pills on a flight from Amsterdam in 2001.

During the raid, cops arrested six women and a man who worked at NY Confidential on such charges as promoting prostitution, money laundering, falsifying business records and criminal possession of a controlled substance.

The 79 Worth St. office was used as headquarters for the agency, sources said.

Customers called to order one of nearly 100 women who signed on as contractors for the company, and paid average rates of $800 per hour to have sex with them, sources said.

Higher-priced hookers could be had for up to $2,000 an hour, according to the sources.

NY Confidential — whose ad in New York magazine boasts of being “The Ultimate Girlfriend Experience!” — grossed an estimated $300,000 per month, or $3.6 million annually, sources said.

“I run a great agency — I don’t break the laws,” Itzler told The Post last month.

“I’ve got the cops on my side. I know everyone. I know this industry. I’m a lawyer — I know what I can and can’t do,” said Itzler, a law school graduate who never took the bar exam.

Itzler, who also uses the last names of Sylk and Lubell, has bragged about making millions operating “900” telephone sex lines in the 1990s.

He first made waves in New York City by setting up a faux fashion model agency that was used to lure pretty women into his real operation, a cybersex site featuring women masturbating on-camera and chatting with clients over the Internet.

Itzler’s short tenure at that game ended after he was forced out by partners in 2001, just before his drug bust.