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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 below) 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."

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Tanya Hollander is a health counselor and ran a web site to promote her services. The site has since gone down. Here is our cached copy of her front page:

Election Update December 28, 2007

(From The Daily Freeman)

Challenges to the Rhinebeck election results have been dropped, giving Daniel Staley a seat on the Town Board and putting control of the board back in the hands of the Republican Party.

Democrat Monique Segarra dropped her challenge in her race against Staley on Thursday in state Supreme Court in Poughkeepsie, according to the Dutchess County Board of Elections.

Court cases had been filed by both sides in a race that had Staley leading Segarra, 1,231-1,223.

The race had 51 paper ballot votes for Staley and 46 for Segarra, with 15 of those ballots in dispute and not included in the tally.

With his win, Staley will become one of three Republicans to sit with two Democrats on the board in 2008. The board had a 4-1 Democratic majority going into the election.