Eliot Spitzer

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Ashley to Silda: 'Sorry for Your Pain'

Former call girl ready to move on with life

(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...

Spitzer on Wall Street: I Told You So
Spitzer on
Wall Street:
I Told You So
OPINION
Nov 15, 2008 11:01 AM CST

Spitzer on Wall Street: I Told You So

Disgraced ex-gov explains how to rework regulatory system

(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...

ABC Scores Interview With Spitzer's 'Kristen'

'Ashley Dupre story' to air next Friday

(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...

Hooker Bookers Fume After Spitzer Let Off

Club VIP managers face sentencing as ex-governor walks

(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—...

Feds Won't Charge Spitzer
 Feds Won't Charge Spitzer 
Nov 6, 2008 3:37 PM CST

Feds Won't Charge Spitzer

Not enough evidence against former NY governor in prostitution case

(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...

Memoir: I Taught Dupre the Biz
 Memoir: I Taught Dupre the Biz 
Sep 22, 2008 11:14 AM CDT

Memoir: I Taught Dupre the Biz

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

(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 “little...

PI: Mob Took Down Spitzer
 PI: Mob Took Down Spitzer
Aug 28, 2008 9:12 AM CDT

PI: Mob Took Down Spitzer

a PI suspects sex scandal was Gambino paypack

(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....

Madam Pleads Guilty in Spitzer Case
Madam Pleads Guilty in Spitzer Case
Aug 25, 2008 1:04 PM CDT

Madam Pleads Guilty in Spitzer Case

No charges yet for ex-governor

(Newser) - 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...

New Yorkers Owe Debt of Gratitude to Spitzer Hooker

Fastest way to chase a bad politician out of office

(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...

Downer Spitzers Cold as Ice
 Downer Spitzers Cold as Ice
Jul 28, 2008 11:37 AM CDT

Downer Spitzers Cold as Ice

Tense dinner underscores marital strife, Post reports

(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.

Spitzer 2010 Was Billed for Tryst Hotel

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

(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...

Spitzer Call Girl Drops 'Girls Gone Wild' Suit

Woman said she was 17 when she signed video contract

(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...

Former NYSE Chief Wins Fight for $187M Pay

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

(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 ...

Spitzer Call Girl Speaks Out on 'Hard Times'

Leaves MySpace message of thanks for supporters

(Newser) - The call girl whose trysts with former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer triggered his resignation is speaking out for the first time, reports People. Ashley Dupré, 23, has written a message of thanks on her MySpace page to those who have left supportive comments—and responded to some not-so-kind zingers....

Spitzer Moves On to Dad's Real Estate Firm

Disgraced governor pitches vulture fund for distressed properties

(Newser) - Having laid low for two months after exiting in disgrace from the New York governorship, Eliot Spitzer is back in business. He’s recently been shopping a plan to start a vulture fund that would flip distressed real estate assets, the New York Sun reports. Spitzer gathered labor union officials...

Feds Nail Down Case Against Spitzer

Feds are confident about the case against the former NY guv

(Newser) - The case against Eliot Spitzer is so strong that prosecutors have decided not to strike a deal with the head of the disgraced ex-governor's preferred call girl ring, the New York Post reports. Rather than making a plea agreement, the Emperors Club VIP honcho will plead guilty Thursday. Meanwhile, the...

Spitzer Madam Pleads Guilty in 'Disgusting' Operation

Plea deal could land 23-year-old up to 27 months in jail

(Newser) - The woman who managed the prostitution ring that brought down New York governor Eliot Spitzer copped a plea yesterday in federal court, the AP reports. Cecil Suwal, 23, giggled and cried during a Manhattan hearing at which she pleaded guilty to money-laundering and promoting prostitution at the Emperors Club VIP...

Silda Steps Out of Hiding
 Silda Steps Out of Hiding 
May 22, 2008 10:30 AM CDT

Silda Steps Out of Hiding

Spitzer wife schmoozes in first appearance since hubby's sex scandal erupted in March.

(Newser) - While the fictionalized "Law & Order" version of her husband's infamous sex scandal was airing on NBC last night, Silda Wall Spitzer emerged from 2 months of self-imposed exile to attend the Manhattan benefit for Children for Children, the Daily News reports. The wife of prostitute-patronizing former New York...

New Yorkers See a Saltier Bloomberg
New Yorkers
See a Saltier
Bloomberg
May 20, 2008 1:19 PM CDT

New Yorkers See a Saltier Bloomberg

Concern over mayoral legacy might explain more frequent fits

(Newser) - In his 6 years in office, Michael Bloomberg has enjoyed a reputation as the cool, collected CEO of the Big Apple. But as setbacks have mounted and his presidential ambitions have been shelved, another side is showing: the temperamental, sometimes explosive antagonist. Bloomberg's mood is "the worst I've ever...

Spitzer Scandal Hits Small Screen Tomorrow

Law & Order season finale fictionalizes ex-gov's hooker exploits, with a twist

(Newser) - If disgraced New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer was ever a Law & Order fan, he probably isn't anymore. Tomorrow’s ripped-from-the-headlines season finale on NBC tells a fictionalized version of the sensational sex scandal that doomed Spitzer’s political career, the New York Post reports. Actor Tom Everett Scott guest-stars...

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