How many of my colleagues on this forum would rate their chances of making thousands of pounds chatting to bored English housewives?
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"phone-sex operation in which he earned tens of thousands of
dollars talking dirty to lonely, love-starved ladies"
===============================================gus t 18, 2004 -- ROGUE cop Michael Dowd kept his entrepreneurial spirit alive during 12 years behind bars for racketeering and even ran a phone-sex operation in which he earned tens of thousands of dollars talking dirty to lonely, love-starved ladies.
"He's a babe magnet," Dowd's agent, Jeffrey Schmidt, told PAGE SIX. "This guy thinks he's some Lothario."
When Dowd is released from a Brooklyn halfway house on Oct. 6, several women will be waiting for him — and one man. "There's a 'woman' out there who wants to be Mrs. Dowd to the point where he is having surgery to change himself from Roy to Roxanne," the agent said.
Schmidt, who owns N.Y. Creative Management, has already hooked Dowd up with a ghostwriter, Rich Hayes, and a 50-page book proposal for "Out of Control: The Michael Dowd Story" is arriving at publishing houses next week.
Before his arrest in 1992, Dowd — labeled "the dirtiest cop in America" by this newspaper — was the ringleader of a small band of corrupt cops stationed in Brooklyn's East New York neighborhood, where they robbed drug dealers and resold the cocaine in Suffolk County where they all lived.
As the late Post columnist Mike McAlary chronicled in his brilliant book "Good Cop, Bad Cop," Dowd was done in by his partner, Kenny Eurell, who agreed to help the feds bust Dowd by wearing a wire so they could tape incriminating conversations.
"Michael loved Kenny," Schmidt said. "They shared drugs, girlfriends and wives. When Michael learned Kenny had worn a wire, it broke his heart." Dowd eventually became a drug addict himself and the "ultimate outcast" inside a federal penitentiary filled with cop-hating cons.
Schmidt is also sending the book proposal to "GoodFellas" director Martin Scorsese. "Out of respect," said Schmidt. "This is all about today's 'Mean Streets' " — referring to an earlier Scorsese crime drama.
Dowd wants Mark Wahlberg in the starring role. The casting would work particularly well in the scene where Dowd, on a bus outing with fellow cops, strips down to his Calvin Klein underwear to prove to his suspicious colleagues that he, unlike them, is not wearing a wire.
Schmidt said the protagonist will have some sympathetic qualities. "Dowd never ratted anybody out like the others did," he said. "He kept his mouth shut and did his time. And while he was in jail, he saved two inmates' lives."
