Don't Write Checks Your Ex Can Cash

Wall Street trader Greg Calvino wrote out a $100,000 check to his girlfriend as a testament to his commitment to not straying, saying she could cash it if she ever found out he was partying with strippers. Well, one thing led to another while he was out with co-workers one night in 2005, and girlfriend Elisa Kwon cashed his check after he admitted to partying with strippers and doing cocaine, although the latter was against his will. Kwon saved a transcript of their IM conversation in which she reminded him that he had failed a $25 urinalysis test from Rite-Aid.

Calvino claims that the check was part of an extortion attempt by Kwon and that he wrote it after she allegedly threatened to go to his bosses at RBC Capital with fictional tales of drug use and hookers. The 45-year-old trader has taken his ex-girlfriend to court to get his money back with interest. He says he only wrote the check to protect his career and reputation, which might need some burnishing now that his suit has brought the matter to public attention. As for the positive drug test, Calvino blamed one of his co-workers at the time, who "put it in [his] face" while he was admittedly drunk on Jack Daniels. The trader and his girlfriend finally split up in April 2006, six months after Kwon exacted her financial pound of flesh from her wayward beau. Calvino filed his suit more than a year later in July 2007.

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By Dave Hogarty in News on September 30, 2007 1:30 PM

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MarygraceNYC

That was one of the funniest things I have heard in a long time!!

Dumb ass guy.

He deserves it!! I guess he is not as good as his word!! LOL

guest

Yup, the cocaine just fell right up his nose...

guest

Koreans are very handsome, especially the women...

guest

Very manly looking asian woman, like someone else I know...

guest

haha What a loser with his goofy looking asian whore girlfriend!

Albert Sharpton

#9 I do not know of this term "ignorant" nor do I care about it. No justice, no peace!

Kevin Bracken

lol.

he should have left off a zero, at least.

guest

italy is a hop, skip and a jump away from africa.

no way they're considered white.

guest

typical korean cunt

guest

"From selling Phone cards on Canal Street to 100,000 dollars richer from a white guy. She certainly has moved on up."

Posted by: Albert Sharpton

This statement of yours is profoundly absurd and offending. If you do not understand why I see it as such then I recommend you to look up the word "ignorant".

guest

sicilians were spawned by niggers so no.

guest

Italians are white?

guest

What a putz. That guy does not deserve that money back.

guest

asian women. Nuff said.

Albert Sharpton

From selling Phone cards on Canal Street to 100,000 dollars richer from a white guy. She certainly has moved on up.

guest

I can't believe he wants his money back. sure it's his right but that makes you out to be a cheap ass.

to them it's a mere bag of shells because he wants that boat with three propellers and the telephone on the fire escape.