Jason Itzler

Jason Itzler (born February 23, 1967) is an American businessman, former pimp, and convicted criminal.

Itzler was born Jason Lubell Sylk, the only son of Ronnie Lubell and Leonard Sylk. Leonard Sylk's father, Harry Sylk, built a great fortune from his Sun Ray Drugstore. He also owned part of the Philadelphia Eagles. Jason spent his early years in Philadelphia. But following his parents divorced, Itzler moved to New York with his mother, who he cites as his greatest inspiration. Jason lost her to cancer in 1994. Another big influence for Jason growing up was his mother's father, Nathan Lubell, who was in the garment world and a big bookmaker. Jason's mother eventually remarried Ron Itzler, a then prominent lawyer in the firm of Fischbein, Badillo, Wagner, and Itzler, and so the family moved to the suburbs of New Jersey. Growing up, Jason attended a number of private schools, including the Elisabeth Morrow School, the Dwight-Englewood School, and Hotchkiss School, but graduated from the public Tenafly High School. Jason spent many of his summers in Catskills, where he worked as a cabana boy at the Concord Hotel. There he became familiar with the ultra-rich. Jason graduated from George Washington University with degrees in Political science and Art history. He was also a member of the fraternity, Zeta Beta Tau.

In the late 80s, Itzler, entered Nova Southeastern University, a law school in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. While there he started a phone sex operation called M2 Communications, Inc., where he would charge $4.98-a-minute. The company did well, averaging $600,000 a month. Due to mismanaging, he wound up owing $4.5 million and was forced to declare bankruptcy in 1997. His next company was called SoHo Models. Jason rented an 8,000-square-foot loft on the corner of Canal and Broadway in New York City to supply Webcam porn. The partners involved could not agree on the direction of the company and Jason was again saddled with a huge debt.

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