Sue Schneider: "They
are Gonna Catch You
Calvin (Ayre)!"
Online Gambling
Queen Says "You Can
Run But You Cannot
hide".
That's essentially
how Sue Schneider
closed Josh Dean's
piece on
Calvin Ayre in the
July issue of Fast
Company Magazine.
Ayre abruptly
retired before the
article was
concluded and it was
pretty obvious that
Fast Company wasn't
thrilled about this
situation after
being led to believe
that Ayre had big
plans ahead - none
of which included
retirement.
Maybe he is partying
full time, or really
will resurface soon
to focus on his
foundation, building
schools and
combating bear-bile
farming from his
Caribbean compound.
Whatever the case,
he's doing it
quietly for now,
Dean writes.
Sue Schneider is the
undisputed stoic
omnipresent Queen
Elizabeth of online
gambling
Schneider, of
Interactive Gaming
News, who has known
Ayre since the
mid-1990s, sees a
grimmer future for
the one time
industry
swashbuckler.
"The DOJ continues
to go after
founders, even those
who are out of the
business," she told
Fast Company.
Leaving the picture
"is not going to
insulate him -- at
all." (A DOJ
spokesperson
wouldn't confirm
that or comment on
Ayre, except to
point Dean to
existing case law.)
Dean reminded
Schneider that until
the end, Ayre was
swearing he'd broken
no laws, and that he
was living happily
ever after.
"That attitude is a
little passé. He can
think he's safe,"
she said. "But he's
not."
And indeed the print
publication of Fast
Company implies that
"Ayre is on the
lam".
It does more than
that. There
are subtle
implications that
Ayre might be gay
and this was not
lost on some of his
former colleagues.
"The article makes
it seem like 'Here I
am with all these
women but there
never is any contact
with these girls
whenever he is
photographed with
them' and the writer
makes suggestions,"
said one anonymous
industry analyst.
For all of his
flaunting of women,
Ayre appeared to
spend each of his
nights in Macau
alone, Dean
discloses.
Zara Taylor played
the part of the
girlfriend, but was
actually sharing a
room with Fawn
Labrie, Ayre's
personal assistant
and Taylor's
childhood best
friend. That isn't
to suggest that Ayre
has any problems
with the ladies --
one story at
Gambling911.com
claims he has bedded
8,000 women -- but
rather that not
everything you see
in James Bond movies
actually happens.
 Sparky Collins
(pictured right in
his white bikini), a
Cuban transgender
reporter for
Gambling911.com,
knows Ayre
intimately and insists
the Bodog founder is
not gay.
"He likes woman and
only woman,"
the bubbly Collins
relayed with a wink.
"I've been with him
enough to know Brotha!"
----
Christopher
Costigan,
Gambling911.com
Publisher
CCostigan@CostiganMedia.com
Originally published
June 28, 2008 9:37
pm ESt
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