Sock it to me. Your respect, that is.

Distressed debt investor Lynn Tilton recently participated in a podcast for NPR. Early in the interview she was asked “What are you wearing?” to which the Patriarch Partners founder responded, “A Cavalli top, a Versace belt, a Gucci skirt and Prada boots– 4 inches. I need to look sufficiently fierce to make sure I garner the respect I deserve,” she explained. Sure, makes sense, and is in fact the tactic used by many of Wall Streets most esteemed investors, though they all like to put their own spin on it (Carl Icahn wears a cat o’ nine tails as a belt, while Julian Robertson used to take all meetings wearing a full Dominatrix Nurse Costume). Later on, when discussing a tassel company she owns, she said her inspiration for a line of “Tassel Me” belts came from “fond memories of what I had once done with tassels.” Some of you may know what she’s talking about! For those not lucky enough to be a Christmas card-receiving client of Lynn’s when she was a salesgirl at AMROC, circa 1989, let’s get you up to speed.

Podcast: A Private-Equity Boss In Four-Inch Stilettos [NPR via BI]

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Comments (111)

  1. Posted by Anonymous | March 31, 2010 at 11:53 AM

    You misspelled Versace.

    - Donatella

  2. Posted by Anonymous | March 31, 2010 at 11:55 AM

    Lynn,

    I’m giving my secretary the respect she deserves, by pounding her in the ass.

  3. Posted by Anonymous | March 31, 2010 at 11:56 AM

    Those stuffed animals never get old.

  4. Posted by kung fu grip | March 31, 2010 at 11:57 AM

    Just all fucking wrong – distressing in fact

  5. Posted by Investorcluzo | March 31, 2010 at 12:02 PM

    she looks so…wait a minute, it’s on the tip of my tongue…in those pics.

  6. Posted by Anonymous | March 31, 2010 at 12:04 PM

    Waist-chain’s are not 100% for porn stars – just 99.9%

  7. Posted by Anonymous | March 31, 2010 at 12:08 PM

    Those photos give me a cottage cheese craving

  8. Posted by muchado | March 31, 2010 at 12:10 PM

    That woke me up … thanks …

  9. Posted by Anonymous | March 31, 2010 at 12:13 PM

    Stepladders were the Sybians of the ’80s.

  10. Posted by NakedShort | March 31, 2010 at 12:17 PM
  11. Posted by Spanishmoon | March 31, 2010 at 12:18 PM

    Gives a whole new meaning to the term “credit protection”….

  12. Posted by OptionsTrader | March 31, 2010 at 12:21 PM

    As a woman I enjoy a powerful lady in my company, but not one that looks like she swallowed a Christmas Ham – GTFO

  13. Posted by Anonymous | March 31, 2010 at 12:28 PM

    Slash pre-GNR.

  14. Posted by Anonymous | March 31, 2010 at 12:30 PM

    Can’t get away from Snookie anywhere these days…

  15. Posted by Anonymous | March 31, 2010 at 12:31 PM

    I would.
    -Tiger (not the one in the picture)

  16. Posted by Anonymous | March 31, 2010 at 12:31 PM
  17. Posted by Anonymous | March 31, 2010 at 12:32 PM

    ns- this has been seem more times than caddyshack. appreesh tho-

  18. Posted by Anonymous | March 31, 2010 at 12:33 PM

    Did she ever date Lou Pai?

  19. Posted by NakedShort | March 31, 2010 at 12:36 PM

    @17 fuck me I am out of the loop.

  20. Posted by Investorcluzo | March 31, 2010 at 12:45 PM

    @ns – when I get stuff from my brother’s friends, you know it’s old…that one came yesterday. this proves that there are deep rooted problems in our educational system. if I were a parent (and I’m not), I would have been appalled.

  21. Posted by TGFD | March 31, 2010 at 12:52 PM

    Who in hell is Lynn Tilton anyway? She’s of no consequence.

    For all you DB sissies, girlie-boys and real girls too, try some quality time with the dominatrix / cuckoldrix / UK slut, Lady Sonia. Not only is she a feast for the eyes, but as TGFD understands it, she can conduct one hell-of-a-good business meeting too.

    http://www.cuckoldrix.com/host66dmv/2pk/2.jpg

    The (Real) Guy from Delaware

  22. Posted by Seaman Bodine | March 31, 2010 at 12:52 PM

    David Shaw used to wear that stuff all the time. He’d come into our office, check our awk scripts for hacks, and slip my Indian friends dirty looks, implying he’s just NOT a vegetarian.

  23. Posted by Anonymous | March 31, 2010 at 12:56 PM

    @NakedShort – that is one F’d up school play -

  24. Posted by WTF | March 31, 2010 at 12:57 PM

    As before, I was initially appalled when I saw the pictures.

    And then I thought about it – it’s not so much that she’s ugly (she’s average looking, I suppose, if a bit “thick”), but that she’s certainly not good looking enough to think pictures like those would be welcomed by anyone not already giving her rides on the baloney pony.

  25. Posted by Investorcluzo | March 31, 2010 at 1:06 PM

    @tgfd – c’mon man, NSFW…clean it up!

  26. Posted by Anonymous | March 31, 2010 at 1:09 PM

    I was unaware that the world wrestling federation got its official start in the late eighties.

    Thanks for the update, Bess

  27. Posted by PermaGuest | March 31, 2010 at 1:15 PM

    @25/IC- To be fair to @21, what would make you think that a site entitled http://www.cuckoldrix.com WOULD be SFW?

  28. Posted by guest | March 31, 2010 at 1:18 PM

    People, we’ve moved on to how South American beauty queens are replacing Texican laser sharks now. Please try to keep up.

  29. Posted by Investorcluzo | March 31, 2010 at 1:39 PM

    @27 – good point, but there is marginally NSFW and then there is “get a call from the internet police” NSFW. that $hit is the latter…

  30. Posted by TGFD | March 31, 2010 at 1:49 PM

    When “F*ck Me Boots” appears in the headline, and when sleazy photos of a skanky, dominatrix wannabee are part of the article, what kinds of comments are appropriate? What kinds are on-topic?

    The Guy from Delaware

  31. Posted by Anonymous | March 31, 2010 at 1:55 PM

    Why is this amateur still sitting in my Bell she was fired in season 3.

    Donald

  32. Posted by Anonymous | March 31, 2010 at 2:01 PM

    assuming she was, what, 30 in those horrifying xmas cards, she’s at least fifty now.

  33. Posted by Anonymous | March 31, 2010 at 2:01 PM

    my eyes!!!

  34. Posted by Anonymous | March 31, 2010 at 2:02 PM

    stuff like those cards happens at DE Shaw all the time. it’s no big deal.

  35. Posted by Anonymous | March 31, 2010 at 2:03 PM

    mom?

    -biff basness

  36. Posted by Anonymous | March 31, 2010 at 2:04 PM

    I’ll buy a bond from you sweetheart, just put your clothes back on.

  37. Posted by Anonymous | March 31, 2010 at 2:05 PM

    let this be a warning– that $hit comes back 20 years later to haunt you.

    -LB

  38. Posted by Anonymous | March 31, 2010 at 2:06 PM

    was she selling, abstinence?

  39. Posted by Anonymous | March 31, 2010 at 2:07 PM

    I developed early. By the time I was 14 I had this body you’re looking at.

    -LT

  40. Posted by kung fu grip | March 31, 2010 at 2:08 PM

    What was that tag couple of weeks ago…”skanky cake” ?

  41. Posted by Anonymous | March 31, 2010 at 2:09 PM

    The Patriarch platform is a vertically integrated distressed private equity firm with *robust* in-house operational turnaround expertise.

    http://www.patriarchpartners.com/about.html

  42. Posted by Anonymous | March 31, 2010 at 2:09 PM

    @40 yes, it was re lohan/etrade baby

  43. Posted by Anonymous | March 31, 2010 at 2:10 PM

    I sent a pic of me in a sequined yellow banana hammock to a retiring client and she had a heart attack.

  44. Posted by Anonymous | March 31, 2010 at 2:11 PM

    Leave it to DB to get the over-the-hill hooker’s xmas cards. bess, you have sources everywhere, don’t you?

  45. Posted by Anonymous | March 31, 2010 at 2:11 PM

    DO NOT WANT

  46. Posted by kung fu grip | March 31, 2010 at 2:14 PM

    @42 Thanks and I think it works here as well – - cake’s a bit skankier than LiLo if that’s possible–

  47. Posted by Anonymous | March 31, 2010 at 3:16 PM

    hot tub time machine

  48. Posted by Anonymous | March 31, 2010 at 3:18 PM

    Photo caption FTW. Awesome.

  49. Posted by Dr. Galakowitz | March 31, 2010 at 3:23 PM

    Sounds like the first slore ponzi scheme, Yale must be so proud.

  50. Posted by Tax Chick | March 31, 2010 at 3:41 PM

    Isn’t she on the Real Housewives of New Jersey?!

  51. Posted by Anonymous | March 31, 2010 at 4:11 PM

    Do you want number one fucky?

  52. Posted by Anal_yst | March 31, 2010 at 4:19 PM

    @TC

    I was thinking the same thing, hmm…

  53. Posted by Anal_yst | March 31, 2010 at 4:31 PM

    Ya know what, I’d hit it, lights on. Bam, done.

  54. Posted by Anonymous | March 31, 2010 at 4:35 PM

    Wow, that would be like fucking a can of peaches……….

  55. Posted by Anonymous | March 31, 2010 at 4:46 PM

    Movin’ to the country
    Gonna git me a lot of peaches
    Movin to the country
    Gonna git me a lot of peaches . . .

  56. Posted by Anonymous | March 31, 2010 at 4:59 PM

    Sucky, fucky smoke cigarette in the pussy. She give you everything you want, long time.

  57. Posted by David Kiely | April 1, 2010 at 9:23 AM

    Maybe you could start a NSFW tag if after the jump there are pics that won’t look good on a banker’s desk on TV?

    I’ve had some experience with this…

  58. Posted by Disgusted | April 2, 2010 at 5:43 PM

    She is the next Bernie Madoff. Claims $6.5B in assets. Do an audit and see what those assets are really worth. Uses new money to pay off old money. Classic Ponzi scheme from a 2 bit hooker.

  59. Posted by Just me | April 9, 2010 at 2:20 PM

    It figures a good looking woman who made something of herself and the idiots have to come out and hassle her. I see a really great looking woman who I’d be peroud to be seen with, I only wish I could meet a woman as beautiful and as smart as that, That would be a dream come true.

  60. Posted by EMPLOYEE | April 22, 2010 at 10:47 AM

    Good God………..She is the “Leadership” that drives my company?

  61. Posted by subatomicparticlespace | June 6, 2010 at 3:38 PM

    They should have a Hubbell tit-o-scope.

  62. Posted by exPPMGguy | August 2, 2010 at 3:49 PM

    She is playing her lyre while her Rome (PPMG) is burning!
    Can you say MD Helicopter, ALF, XSEL Media…. $7B my ass…..

  63. Posted by impressesasamf | August 7, 2010 at 4:12 PM

    Lynn Tilton and Patriarch Partners equity firm take over companies, kill them, and put the pocket change left over back into their fanny packs. They provide no value to the United States, and everything, and I mean E-V-E-R-Y-T-H-I-N-G she says to the contract is baloney and exist only to fan her ever widening ass of vanity.

  64. Posted by Anonymous | August 9, 2010 at 4:54 PM

    Someone should ask her how much her employees respect her, if any stay around after a month or two. She seems to have a very high turnover. Why? Because she is a complete pyscho who treats people like she owns them. She steps all over them and then fires them.

  65. Posted by UFO | October 8, 2011 at 10:43 PM

    I'd fuck that. Just sayin'

  66. Posted by Mr. Powers | October 11, 2011 at 12:13 PM

    It's a man baby, yeah!

  67. Posted by gallagher0189 | October 16, 2011 at 2:21 PM

    Something about those stuffed tigers in the older photo make me lmfao!!

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