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NEWS ABOUT: Eliot Spitzer

Eliot Spitzer stories: 138 news summaries

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SPITZER: ANOTHER HAPPY ENDING

Disgraced gov turns
out for Slate party at former massage parlor

Dec 16, 08 1:06 PM CST
(Newser) - If Eliot Spitzer could have picked a place to reenter society, he probably wouldn’t have picked a former Chinatown massage parlor called “Happy Ending,” muses John Gapper of the Financial Times. But that’s where Slate was holding its winter party, and so there the online... More »

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journalism • Eliot Spitzer • columnists

OPINION

Spitzer: Banks Are Too Big,
Let Them Fail

Instead, back smaller entities, ex-gov says
in first Slate column

Dec 4, 08 11:02 AM CST
(Newser) - The government has doled out trillions in rescue funds, but “so far, we are simply rebuilding the same edifice that just collapsed,” writes newly-minted Slate columnist Eliot Spitzer. For years we’ve concentrated capital, creating gigantic “financial supermarkets” that attempted to provide every service for their customers.... More »

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Wall Street • Eliot Spitzer • bailout • investment banks • consolidation • financial crisis

(Newser) - Eliot Spitzer continues his slow creep back into the public eye. The disgraced New York governor will begin writing a regular column for the online magazine Slate, the New York Observer reports. Spitzer's column, called the Best Policy, will debut tomorrow, then appear every other week. It will cover government,... More »

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New York • Eliot Spitzer • political scandal

 Spitzer Hooker Tunes Up 

Former call girl signs a manager

Nov 28, 08 10:23 AM CST
(Newser) - Former celebrity hooker Ashley Dupre has a new career in mind: musician. The call girl who brought down Eliot Spitzer has signed a manager, the New York Post reports. The infamous Dupre has made a deal with Chris Lighty, who has worked with 50 Cent, Busta Rhymes, and Missy Elliott.... More »

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music industry • Eliot Spitzer • prostitute • political scandal • Kristen • Ashley Dupre • call girl • recording contract

House Panel To Investigate Spitzer Probe

Dems wonder if feds' prostitution sting was politically motivated

Nov 25, 08 4:23 PM CST
(Newser) - The House Financial Services Committee is poised to open an inquiry into the investigation that led to Eliot Spitzer’s resignation, the New York Times reports, with Democratic members wondering aloud if the federal probe could have been a politically motivated hit job. The former New York governor was not... More »

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New York • sex scandal • House of Representatives • House Financial Services Committee • Eliot Spitzer • Treasury Department • Barney Frank • inquiry • prostitution ring

 Silda Joins Hedge Fund, 
 Eliot Mulls Book 

Silda joins hedge fund; Eliot may write book

Nov 24, 08 8:14 AM CST
(Newser) - Silda Wall Spitzer, liberated from the constraints of being a politician's wife, has gone to work for a Manhattan hedge fund, New York magazine reports. A former corporate attorney, Silda will be recruiting investors for Metropolitan Capital Advisors, run by the wife of a long-time Spitzer friend and supporter. Meanwhile,... More »

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hedge fund • Eliot Spitzer • book • political scandal • Silda Wall Spitzer • op-ed

Ashley Dupre Moving On
From 'Many Mistakes'

Ex-call girl gives first TV interview since Spitzer sex scandal

Nov 22, 08 9:58 AM CST
(Newser) - Ashley Dupre presented herself in a primetime interview last night as a normal girl who made some misguided decisions. The woman whose tryst with Eliot Spitzer wrecked his career told ABC's Diane Sawyer she drifted into the escort business as a "naive" and "careless" 19-year-old, just 2 years... More »

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 Ashley to Silda: 
 'Sorry for 
 Your Pain' 

Former call girl ready to move on with life

Nov 19, 08 8:32 AM CST
(Newser) - Former call girl Ashley Dupre is haunted by the pain she caused Eliot Spitzer’s wife, but insists her tryst with the former governor of New York was “strictly business,” the New York Post reports. Dupre tells People in a forthcoming interview that she didn’t realize who... More »

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Eliot Spitzer • political scandal • Silda Wall Spitzer • Kristen • Ashley Dupre • prostitution scandal

OPINION

Spitzer on
Wall Street:
I Told You So

Disgraced ex-gov explains how to rework regulatory system

Nov 15, 08 11:01 AM CST
(Newser) - These days, Eliot Spitzer may be famous for his horizontal escapades, but once he was a pro-regulation crusader trying to reign in Wall Street’s excesses. Spitzer tried to raise the alarm about market transparency, AIG, and subprime lending, but he and those like him were always “scoffed at... More »

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Eliot Spitzer • regulation • bank regulation • financial crisis

 ABC Scores Interview 
 With Spitzer's 'Kristen' 

'Ashley Dupre story' to air next Friday

Nov 15, 08 6:22 AM CST
(Newser) - Eliot Spitzer’s lady of the night met with Diane Sawyer this week for her first-ever interview, set to air next Friday, Gawker reports. “This is not the Eliot Spitzer story. This is the Ashley Dupre story,” an ABC source tells MediaBistro. The call girl in the sex... More »

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Eliot Spitzer • prostitute • political scandal • ABC News • Kristen • Diane Sawyer • Ashley Dupre

Hooker Bookers Fume After Spitzer Let Off

Club VIP managers
face sentencing as ex-governor walks

Nov 8, 08 5:43 PM CST
(Newser) - The prostitution agency that once served Eliot Spitzer is hardly happy that the disgraced former governor is getting off, at their expense, Salon reports. Spitzer evaded federal charges for patronizing a prostitution ring, prompting an attorney for one of the agency’s bookers—who is facing 6-16 months in jail—... More »

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prison • New York • Eliot Spitzer • governor • attorney • prostitution ring • criminal charges • criminal prosecution

 Feds Won't Charge Spitzer 

Not enough evidence against former NY governor in prostitution case

Nov 6, 08 3:37 PM CST
(Newser) - Former New York governor Eliot Spitzer will not be charged in connection with his involvement in a prostitution ring, the New York Times reports, as federal prosecutors could not adequately connect payments made by Spitzer. “The public interest would not be further advanced by filing criminal charges in this... More »

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US attorney • sex scandal • Eliot Spitzer • prostitution ring • Emperors Club • Ashley Dupre • criminal charges • Michael Garcia

 Memoir: I Taught Dupre the Biz 

Hooker reveals Dupre's transformation from 'little lamb' to call-girl

Sep 22, 08 11:14 AM CDT
(Newser) - New York's self-proclaimed No. 1 escort recounts how she introduced Eliot Spitzer’s $4,300-an-hour call girl to the drug-fueled world of prostitution in an upcoming book, The Price. Natalie McLennan reveals, in an excerpt in the New York Post, how within months Ashley Dupre transformed from a “... More »

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New York City • sex scandal • Eliot Spitzer • memoir • political scandal • prostitution ring • Ashley Dupre • prostitution scandal

 PI: Mob Took Down Spitzer

a PI suspects sex scandal was Gambino paypack

Aug 28, 08 9:12 AM CDT
(Newser) - A new epilogue to the best-selling book King of the Club suggests that Eliot Spitzer’s political and personal downfall was payback by the mafia, the New York Post reports. "I think it's the Gambinos," a private eye tells CNBC's Charles Gasparino in his book’s paperback edition.... More »

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prostitution • conspiracy • Eliot Spitzer • Mafia • Gambino crime family • Ashley Dupre

Madam Pleads Guilty in Spitzer Case

No charges yet for ex-governor

Aug 25, 08 1:04 PM CDT
(AP) - A woman accused of helping arrange trysts between pricey escorts and their customers has pleaded guilty in the prostitution scandal that forced Eliot Spitzer to step down as governor of New York. Thirty-six-year-old Tanya Hollander pleaded today to a charge of conspiracy to violate the travel act. It's against the... More »

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prostitution • Eliot Spitzer • New York state • prostitution scandal

OPINION

New Yorkers Owe Debt of Gratitude to Spitzer Hooker

Fastest way to chase a bad politician out of office

Jul 31, 08 11:27 AM CDT
(Newser) - Call-girl Ashley Dupre has done the state of New York a huge favor, Michael Daly writes in the New York Daily News. If the sex scandal hadn't brought down "self-righteous, mean-spirited and divisive rich kid" Eliot Spitzer, New York wouldn't have the "warm-hearted and manifestly decent" governor it... More »

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Eliot Spitzer • governor • political scandal • David Paterson • New York state • Ashley Dupre

 Downer Spitzers Cold as Ice

Tense dinner underscores marital strife, Post reports

Jul 28, 08 11:37 AM CDT
(Newser) - The “awkward” and icy marital status of shamed former governor Eliot Spitzer and wife Silda was on display last week in the Big Apple as they “made only two seconds of eye contact during dinner” with another couple, a spy told the New York Post. More »

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New York City • sex scandal • marriage • Eliot Spitzer • Silda Wall Spitzer

Spitzer 2010
Was Billed for Tryst Hotel

Did former NY gov
use reelection funds
for call girl nights?

Jul 16, 08 6:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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campaign funds • Eliot Spitzer • prostitution ring • Mayflower Hotel

Spitzer Call Girl Drops 'Girls Gone Wild' Suit 

Woman said she was 17 when she signed video contract

Jul 5, 08 1:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - The call girl at the heart of the Spitzer sex scandal has dropped a $10 million lawsuit against Girls Gone Wild founder Joe Francis, AP reports. Ashley Dupre, who said she was17 at the time she was filmed for a raunchy video, had claimed she was duped into giving her... More »

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Girls Gone Wild • Joe Francis • Eliot Spitzer • Ashley Dupre

Former NYSE Chief Wins Fight for $187M Pay

State can't block
Grasso payout, says court, after bitter battle

Jul 2, 08 5:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - The former chairman of the New York Stock Exchange has won an ugly 4-year battle to retain a mammoth $187.5 million compensation package.  A New York appeals court  dismissed an action initiated by then-Attorney General Eliot Spitzer challenging the payout for Dick Grasso as excessive, the Wall Street ... More »

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executive compensation • New York Stock Exchange • appeal • Eliot Spitzer • Dick Grasso

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