Calvin Ayre’s playboy image isn’t helped by his Alec Baldwin good looks. Or his talent for taunting the U.S. Department of Justice. Or his penchant for quaffing drinks with celebrities on party yachts.
Not that it needs any help. The 46-year-old billionaire owner of Bodog.com Entertainment Group, one of the world’s largest online-gambling websites, is sipping a dry martini in West Vancouver’s Browns Social House, which he used to own, talking to a journalist about mixed martial arts, pretty much the most violent form of legal fighting, which Bodog now promotes. His date, Zara, sips at her own martini, a fruity one, and doesn’t add much to the conversation.
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