• andallthat@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Found him: Lou Pai. He had an affair with a stripper and I don’t think he was totally faking it because she got pregnant (or maybe he was really committed to the bit). But yes, he was very high up the corporate ladder and the timing of it was highly suspect.

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      21 hours ago

      They got married started a horse ranch (2 actually) and lived happily ever after until today even, kinda cute

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        Absolutely! I was just saying that faking the mistress would suggest that Pai saw Enron getting in trouble and mounted a scandal just to cash out before the crash.

        By all accounts that I’ve seen, the guy was a certified sleazebag so if he wanted an excuse to get a divorce, he didn’t even need to fake anything.

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      IIRC from the book The Smartest Guys in the Room Lou Pai was a frequent strip club visitor.

      I’m gonna butcher this, but the story was he would cover himself in cologne to hide the smell before he went home from the club. A coworker he was with asked “wouldn’t you just smell like a glittery person with booze and cologne?” And got subsequently fired for that.