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  • July 2008

    • Spitzer 2010 Was Billed for Tryst Hotel

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Jul 16, 08 6:58 AM CDT

      Spitzer 2010 Was Billed for Tryst Hotel

      Eliot Spitzer's filings for his now-defunct 2010 reelection campaign, released yesterday, included two payments to the Mayflower Hotel in Washington—the site of his infamous trysts with call girls, the New York Times reports. Though it's unclear whether Spitzer himself stayed there, and if so on what nights, misuse of public campaign money is one of the potential charges the former New York governor could face for his participation in a prostitution ring. More »

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      Eliot Spitzer  • prostitution ring  • campaign funds  • Mayflower Hotel

  • June 2008

    • Barack Writes Campaign Check to Hillary

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Jun 27, 08 3:15 AM CDT

      Barack Writes Campaign Check to Hillary

      Barack Obama made a personal $4,600 donation to Hillary Clinton's campaign—a gesture to win over her supporters as the Democratic party tries to unify following the divisive campaign for the nomination. Obama told a meeting of 200 top Clinton fundraisers he's encouraging his donors to help pay off Clinton's $20 million campaign debt. "I'm going to need Hillary by my side campaigning during his election, and I'm going to need you," Obama said. More »

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      Barack Obama  • Hillary Clinton  • political donors  • campaign debt  • Mayflower Hotel

  • March 2008

    • Call Girl Was a 'Girl Gone Wild'

      newser  |  Los Angeles Times  |  Mar 19, 08 8:07 AM CDT

      Call Girl Was a 'Girl Gone Wild'

      The call girl who ended Eliot Spitzer's career started hers on a nude Girls Gone Wild video during a wild Spring Break weekend in 2003, reports the LA Times. Ashley Alexandra Dupré was celebrating her 18th birthday in Miami when she stumbled across the Girls Gone Wild production bus, and made seven videos over several days. More »

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      Eliot Spitzer  • sex scandal  • prostitution  • prostitution ring  • Miami  • prostitute  • Emperors Club  • Kristen  • Girls Gone Wild  • Joe Francis  • Ashley Dupre  • Mayflower Hotel  • escort  • spring break

    • Meet Spitzer's 'Kristen'

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Mar 12, 08 10:00 PM CDT

      Meet Spitzer's 'Kristen'

      At the center of Eliot Spitzer’s fall from grace is 22-year-old Kristen, aka Ashley Alexandra Dupre, a high-priced escort and aspiring R&B singer who left her self-proclaimed "broken family" in New Jersey at age 17 to pursue a musical career in New York. “I just don’t want to be thought of as a monster,” she told the New York Times . More »

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      celebrity  • Eliot Spitzer  • sex scandal  • prostitution  • prostitution ring  • Ashley Alexandra Dupre  • Kristen  • Mayflower Hotel  • Ashley Youmans

    • Gov. 'Met 8 Women for $80K Sex'

      newser  |  Newsday  |  Mar 12, 08 6:26 AM CDT

      Gov. 'Met 8 Women for $80K Sex'

      New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer had eight or more trysts with prostitutes from the Emperors Club escort agency over the last several years, a source has told Newsday . The sexual encounters, costing as much as $80,000 in cash, unfolded in hotels in Washington, Florida and elsewhere. Spitzer allegedly paid for the encounters by wiring money to front companies set up by the New Jersey operation. One call girl who claimed to have spent time with the governor described him to ABC News as a good tipper. More »

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      Eliot Spitzer  • sex scandal  • prostitution ring  • prostitute  • wiretap  • Emperors Club  • Albany  • Internal Revenue Service  • Mayflower Hotel  • call girls

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