Eliot Spitzer (AKA "Client 9")-the gift that keeps on giving to newspapers like the NY Post.
Eliot Spitzer investigated over alleged choking incident
By Jamie Schram, Larry Celona and Bruce Golding
February 14, 2016 | 5:32pm
nypost.com
Ex-Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s night with a woman at The Plaza hotel on Valentine’s Day weekend went south when the pair started arguing and he allegedly choked her, law-enforcement sources told The Post on Sunday.
The woman told cops she broke a glass and cut her wrists after the fight, sources said. She eventually stopped cooperating.
Officers had rushed to the Midtown hotel after the woman, Svetlana Travis, used her cellphone to call 911 at around 8 p.m. Saturday to say she was having a breakdown and had cut herself, sources said.
The cops went up to the $1,000-a-night room, and Spitzer answered the door, source said. Officers asked the disgraced former governor, “Is there a problem?” a source said.
“Everything’s fine. There’s no problem,” Spitzer said, according to the source.
The officers left and called 911, telling an operator to phone Travis back. Travis told a dispatcher that she no longer needed help, sources said.
The cops went back anyway to check, although Travis had by then left the room, sources said.
After Spitzer opened the door a second time, the cops spied broken glass, bloodstains and clothing on the floor and started a search inside, sources said.
The woman reappeared, and the cops called EMS workers to take her for treatment at Roosevelt Hospital, where she told staffers that Spitzer had attacked her, sources said.
On Sunday, Spitzer’s spokeswoman, Lisa Linden, said, “There is no truth to the allegation.”
In an interview with a second set of cops after midnight, “she said that she told Spitzer she was going back to Russia and he got upset and started throwing her around, choked her, threw her to the ground and threatened her.
“She then broke a glass, cut herself and called 911,” the source said.
Her relationship with Spitzer, who quit as governor over a hooker scandal in 2008, was unclear.
In follow-up interviews with detectives, the woman gave conflicting accounts of what happened, then stopped cooperating, sources said.
The NYPD got a warrant to search her cellphone and the room for evidence, and cops were seen standing guard outside the room Sunday evening.
The incident is under investigation, police said.
The corner room, No. 1541, is at the end of long hall and is one of the hotel’s Edwardian Suites, which are nearly twice the size of a normal room and feature Louis XV-style furnishings, gold bathroom fixtures and butler service.
The hotel is blocks from Spitzer’s Fifth Avenue apartment.
During the illicit romps that led to him being dubbed “Client 9” by the feds, Spitzer once traveled to DC for an assignation in the ritzy Mayflower Hotel with call girl Ashley Dupre.
Details of his hooker habit also included the claim that the “Love Gov” would wear mid-calf, black dress socks during sex.
In her 2013 memoir, ex-prostitute Rebecca Woodward alleged that Spitzer once pinned her to a bed and choked her during a $1,500 role-playing tryst in a Murray Hill apartment.
“The more struggle there was, the more he was into it,” she wrote in “Call Girl Confidential.”
Although Spitzer’s wife, Silda Wall, stoically stood by him when he resigned, she never helped the randy pol campaign during his failed comeback bid for city comptroller in 2013.
The couple, who have three adult daughters, announced that they had split late on Christmas Eve that year. The move came one day after The Post published exclusive photos of Spitzer shacking up with Lis Smith.
At the time, Smith was a spokeswoman for then-Mayor-elect de Blasio, who jettisoned her after getting blindsided by the embarrassing romance.
In December, The Post revealed Spitzer and Smith, who has worked on ex-Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley’s now-scuttled presidential bid, had broken up, with Linden, his rep, blaming their “hectic” schedules.
Additional reporting by Frank Rosario
Eliot Spitzer investigated over alleged choking incident
By Jamie Schram, Larry Celona and Bruce Golding
February 14, 2016 | 5:32pm
nypost.com
Ex-Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s night with a woman at The Plaza hotel on Valentine’s Day weekend went south when the pair started arguing and he allegedly choked her, law-enforcement sources told The Post on Sunday.
The woman told cops she broke a glass and cut her wrists after the fight, sources said. She eventually stopped cooperating.
Officers had rushed to the Midtown hotel after the woman, Svetlana Travis, used her cellphone to call 911 at around 8 p.m. Saturday to say she was having a breakdown and had cut herself, sources said.
The cops went up to the $1,000-a-night room, and Spitzer answered the door, source said. Officers asked the disgraced former governor, “Is there a problem?” a source said.
“Everything’s fine. There’s no problem,” Spitzer said, according to the source.
The officers left and called 911, telling an operator to phone Travis back. Travis told a dispatcher that she no longer needed help, sources said.
The cops went back anyway to check, although Travis had by then left the room, sources said.
After Spitzer opened the door a second time, the cops spied broken glass, bloodstains and clothing on the floor and started a search inside, sources said.
The woman reappeared, and the cops called EMS workers to take her for treatment at Roosevelt Hospital, where she told staffers that Spitzer had attacked her, sources said.
On Sunday, Spitzer’s spokeswoman, Lisa Linden, said, “There is no truth to the allegation.”
In an interview with a second set of cops after midnight, “she said that she told Spitzer she was going back to Russia and he got upset and started throwing her around, choked her, threw her to the ground and threatened her.
“She then broke a glass, cut herself and called 911,” the source said.
Her relationship with Spitzer, who quit as governor over a hooker scandal in 2008, was unclear.
In follow-up interviews with detectives, the woman gave conflicting accounts of what happened, then stopped cooperating, sources said.
The NYPD got a warrant to search her cellphone and the room for evidence, and cops were seen standing guard outside the room Sunday evening.
The incident is under investigation, police said.
The corner room, No. 1541, is at the end of long hall and is one of the hotel’s Edwardian Suites, which are nearly twice the size of a normal room and feature Louis XV-style furnishings, gold bathroom fixtures and butler service.
The hotel is blocks from Spitzer’s Fifth Avenue apartment.
During the illicit romps that led to him being dubbed “Client 9” by the feds, Spitzer once traveled to DC for an assignation in the ritzy Mayflower Hotel with call girl Ashley Dupre.
Details of his hooker habit also included the claim that the “Love Gov” would wear mid-calf, black dress socks during sex.
In her 2013 memoir, ex-prostitute Rebecca Woodward alleged that Spitzer once pinned her to a bed and choked her during a $1,500 role-playing tryst in a Murray Hill apartment.
“The more struggle there was, the more he was into it,” she wrote in “Call Girl Confidential.”
Although Spitzer’s wife, Silda Wall, stoically stood by him when he resigned, she never helped the randy pol campaign during his failed comeback bid for city comptroller in 2013.
The couple, who have three adult daughters, announced that they had split late on Christmas Eve that year. The move came one day after The Post published exclusive photos of Spitzer shacking up with Lis Smith.
At the time, Smith was a spokeswoman for then-Mayor-elect de Blasio, who jettisoned her after getting blindsided by the embarrassing romance.
In December, The Post revealed Spitzer and Smith, who has worked on ex-Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley’s now-scuttled presidential bid, had broken up, with Linden, his rep, blaming their “hectic” schedules.
Additional reporting by Frank Rosario