> For years, Gerold has been a regular at some of the city’s most high-profile members-only clubs, including the Battery, the Modernist, and the Amador. The clubs market themselves as places for the influential and the elite — social playgrounds for brushing shoulders with investors, CEOs, and politicians, all behind closed doors.

> Gerold appeared to belong in these spaces. He said he brokers real estate transactions. He name-dropped a group of friends he called “the Warrior Kings,” which includes prominent Silicon Valley venture capitalists, investors, CEOs, and surgeons.

> Gerold has been connected to at least six instances in which police were called or reports were filed with law enforcement over the last three years. He has reportedly been banned, suspended, or had his membership ended by at least three public and private venues in San Francisco in the last year.

he looks sinister