I was checking into the past of James Alefantis & came across an article on METRO WEEKLY. It contains a detailed interview with James & some good clues for more research. I found that James went to Georgetown Day School near Comet Ping Pong. I further learned that he had a business partner at Buck’s Fishing & Camping, which was his first venture as a restaurant owner in 2003. His partnership was with local celebrity chef named Carole Greenwood. I also found she was a partner of Comet Ping Pong as well, and they had a falling out.
Metro Weekly Article
http://www.metroweekly.com/2015/04/from-scratch-james-alefantis
End Of Partnership Article
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/food/article/13037971/how-are-bucks-fishing-camping-and-comet-ping-pong-faring
I further found that Carole has some kind of connection to a restaurant in New York, Red Hook, Brooklyn, named GrindHaus. The owner is a dominatrix turned restaurateur, Erin Norris. Inside the restaurant is some odd things like a taxidermy horse head at the bar...A skull and horns displayed in the window. Even the logo looks like the devil hand sign. The website looks changed but still has pics. I found her instagram page and leaned of a friend named Cynthia P Caster (Cynthia Plaster Caster, Cynthia Albritton), who is very much into the male penis....lol. She is an American artist and self-described "recovering groupie" who creates plaster casts of famous persons' erect penises and breasts.
GrindHaus Restaurant
http://grindhausnyc.com
Dominatrix Turned Restaurateur Erin Norris on Her Red Hook Restaurant, Grindhaus
https://www.6sqft.com/new-yorker-spotlight-red-hooks-erin-norris-on-overcoming-disaster-and-her-critically-acclaimed-restaurant-grindhaus
Do I provide evidence?...NO. But im hoping there are clues here for us to research together. This is what I found in my internet travels. lets find evidence together. I hope it's not a dead end.
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MaryWolf ago
good find. I read somewhere she came back to settle in NY around 2014.