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Ex-governor will attend premiere of sex scandal documentary

(NEWSER) - The debut of Alex Gibney's untitled Eliot Spitzer documentary this weekend could be kind of awkward—Spitzer's going to be there, and the movie, though sympathetic, doesn't pull any punches when it comes to the Client No. 9 scandal. But Spitzer is embracing it, Politico reports, as a strategic move to shut the door on the call-girl scandal and mount what he now openly admits is an attempt at a political comeback. More»

Talks escort gig origins, Eliot Spitzer

(NEWSER) - Oh, goody: more (much, much more) Ashley Dupre! The call girl-turned- advice columnist bares all in an eight-page Playboy spread out Friday, the New York Daily News reports. In case you’re one of those people who only reads it for the articles, she also talks about her early life as an escort and says she didn’t bring Eliot Spitzer down—“he brought me down.” That settles that. More»

In cringe-inducing interview, Spitzer also gives advice to Tiger Woods

(NEWSER) - Eliot Spitzer gave his thoughts on everything from the market meltdown to the Madoff scandal in a wide-ranging interview with Big Think —but who cares about any of that stuff, when Client No. 9 also talked looooove—and Tiger Woods? When asked what advice he would give Tiger, he sagely recommended the golfer “look within” before going on to offer the even sager, “When you know something’s stupid, don’t do it.” More»

Darryl Strawberry, Cyndi Lauper, Sharon Osbourne will also compete

(NEWSER) - Rod Blagojevich will join some adequately B-list company on the new season of Celebrity Apprentice, which premiers in March. Also appearing on the Trump spectacular: Darryl Strawberry, Bret Michaels, Sinbad, Cyndi Lauper, Sharon Osbourne, and Selita Ebanks, among others. James Poniewozik is excited, he writes in Time . The Blago-Trump faceoff will surely determine “who has the worst head of hair in reality television. ” More»

Lovechildren, gay affairs, and hookers, oh my!

(NEWSER) - From Eliot Spitzer’s $80,000 worth of prostitute action to Mark Sanford “hiking the Appalachian trail,” this decade has been ripe with political sex scandals. The Frisky picks the juiciest. Some of the slightly-lesser-discussed affairs:

• Mike Duvall: A self-described “family values warrior” in the California State Assembly spilled about his mistress—while miked—meaning that a whole bunch of politicians got to hear about his propensity for “spanking her.”