{"id":207423,"date":"2026-03-06T14:33:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T14:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/207423\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T14:33:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T14:33:10","slug":"how-we-investigated-alleged-sex-crimes-of-an-sf-social-climber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/207423\/","title":{"rendered":"How we investigated alleged sex crimes of an SF social climber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph-block article-body text-left\">Army veteran and San Francisco nightlife fixture Michael \u201cMickey\u201d Gerold led a seemingly charmed life of private clubs and powerful friends. But his ex-girlfriend Emilia London claims that behind closed doors, he arranged for her to have sex with men for money. The earnings, totaling more than $100,000, went completely to fund Gerold\u2019s lifestyle, London said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-block article-body text-left\">On this week\u2019s episode of \u201cPacific Standard Time,\u201d SF Standard reporter Anya Schultz discusses her blockbuster investigation into alleged sex crimes, explains what motivated London to share her allegations publicly, and details how she stumbled across the story at San Francisco Family Court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-block article-body text-left\">More reading:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Army veteran and San Francisco nightlife fixture Michael \u201cMickey\u201d Gerold led a seemingly charmed life of private clubs&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207424,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[18929,30138,3743,101,103,102,2531,104,106,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-207423","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco","8":"tag-clubs","9":"tag-family-court","10":"tag-nightlife","11":"tag-san-francisco","12":"tag-san-francisco-headlines","13":"tag-san-francisco-news","14":"tag-sexual-assault","15":"tag-sf","16":"tag-sf-headlines","17":"tag-sf-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}