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Spitzer-Like Sex Saga Tapped for TV

Posted Apr 13, 08 7:53 AM CDT in Politics,  Gossip,  Arts & Living 

(Newser) – An Elliot Spitzer-like sex saga is headed to the small screen, reports the New York Daily News. TV's Law & Order has begun casting for an episode that will feature a politician nabbed in a prostitution ring. Meanwhile, life is getting harder for Silda Spitzer, wife of the disgraced former New York governor, who is now coping with devastating health problems suffered by her sister's husband and father-in-law.

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In happier times ... Eliot and Silda Spitzer appear on magazine cover last year.   (AP Photo/Jake Chessum, 02138)
New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer .   (AP Photo/Stephen Chernin, FILE)
New York State Gov. Eliot Spitzer .   (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)
New York State Gov. Eliot Spitzer announces his resignation amid a prostitution scandal as wife Silda looks on last month.   (AP Photo/Stephen Chernin)
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