In the wake of the Carlos Danger Extravaganza (I made CB and Bedhead look at his NSFW dong photos yesterday!), I’ve been wondering about the OTHER New York d-bag who cheated on his wife, Eliot Spitzer. By the way, I consider Carlos Danger’s activities “cheating” – he was sexting women, sending them dong photos and asking for the ladies to send him photos of their feet and body parts. That is cheating, to me at least. But Eliot Spitzer’s infidelity was more “conventional” although perhaps his fall was even worse. He was governor of New York when it was revealed that he was “Client 9,” a frequent user of prostitutes.
Like Weiner, Spitzer did one of those horrible press conferences with his silent and shell-shocked wife, Silda Spitzer, standing by his side. Spitzer resigned from the governorship in 2008, and I’ve heard stories that his marriage was really struggling. The NY Post and other papers claimed that Eliot and Silda were basically living apart and they just hadn’t gotten around to divorcing. Then Spitzer decided to run for NYC Comptroller this year, and…? I haven’t seen Silda around much either. Turns out, Silda is planning on divorcing the bastard as soon as the election is over:
Silda Spitzer is privately telling friends she plans to divorce her hooker-loving husband, Eliot Spitzer, Page Six can exclusively reveal.
Multiple sources tell us long-suffering Silda — who, he last night admitted, will not be joining him on the campaign trail — “has had enough” and plans to start divorce proceedings after his run for New York City comptroller is over.
One source tells us, “Silda is telling her female friends that she is done with him. She will file for divorce after the [Nov. 5] election.”
A second source told The Post’s Sally Goldenberg, “Silda is saying she is going to wait until this is all over. She has been telling friends, ‘This is too hard. This is too rough.’ ”
Page Six exclusively revealed in May that the Spitzers were living apart, with Eliot staying at 800 Fifth Ave. — less than 20 blocks from the home he shared with Silda at 985 Fifth.
While his rep has insisted they are “still a couple,” Eliot last night admitted Silda will not be seen at his side, reports The Post’s Beth DeFalco. Spitzer said, at a Bronx campaign stop, “I think it’s fair to say I’m running for office. No other member of my family is running for office. And I think the public is going to judge me, not who else is with me or not with me. She’s got a career. There are other things I think the public appreciates — I’m out here fighting every day for them.”
Asked about the divorce rumors, Spitzer spokeswoman Lisa Linden told us last night, “Eliot is running for comptroller on his record and the issues. We will not comment on the absurd barrage of stories about his personal life.”
It is not believed that Silda has yet hired divorce lawyers.
A very private person, Silda has never commented on Eliot’s patronizing of prostitutes or their marriage. But multiple sources say she is unhappy with his decision to reenter politics, thrusting their relationship back into the public spotlight. She did not respond last night to an e-mail requesting comment.
A lot of people – book publishers, women’s magazine editors – wanted Silda to come out and tell her story after the “Luv Gov” scandal, and while I admire her silence, I also think she could have totally told her story in a classy way, the way Jenny Sanford (former SC governor Mark Sanford’s wife) did after her husband “went hiking on the Appalachian Trail” down with another woman. Jenny Sanford went to Vogue and I still remember how she managed her side of the story so beautifully. Anyway… Eliot Spitzer is doing pretty well in the polls, last I saw. So Silda will divorce him after the election? How very Good Wife of her. She could go full-on Alicia Florrick and move all of his crap out of the apartment ON ELECTION NIGHT.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
Why on earth would New Yorkers elect this creep as comptroller? So he can spend MORE taxpayer money on hookers?
I guess this throws back to Carlos Danger… but what is with the dicpics? I know if I were “talking to” a guy and *that* came through as a text… it would be over. O. Vah.
Am I just old? Idk. I’m a lot younger than Spitzer/Weiner. Do people enjoy personal peen shots? I mean, seeing Fassy’s in Shame was lovely… but it wasn’t a closeup on my phone… but maybe I’d enjoy that… yes. I think I’ll definitely need Michael Fassbender to text me a close up of his unit just to make sure it’s really as gross as I think it is… maybe more than one…
I’m a lot younger than them as well, and you can add me to the list of people who don’t get this trend. To me, there’s nothing sexy or appealing about getting a picture of just a peen with no other context.
No you’re not alone. I just turned 39 and I see no appeal in a dick pic. Sorry. If I am into a guy, I like seeing him in person, but it’s just such an ugly body part on it’s own lol. Plus, I mean I know they guys are all obsessed with theirs, but the rest of us aren’t.
The frisky had a good article about d pics that explained why some men send em.
You’ve got to check out Jezebel’s guide to d**k pics. Hilarious.
http://jezebel.com/should-you-send-a-lady-a-dick-pic-a-guide-for-men-885697791
Yup. That was perfect!
Seriously, are all of these wives more competent, honourable and electable than their POS husbands or WHAT?
Co-sign
He’s not running for something high profile or anywhere near powerful like Weiner did, which is very smart.
Exactly. Spitzer is going to slowly rebuild his brand. He will win comptroller and go on to bigger things. Spitzer was a legitimate politician before his fall. Whether you agreed with his policies or not, he was the real deal. Weiner was and is just a gadfly.
Especially in the attorney general’s office–he took on wall street and the mob. He has much more to contribute than weiner (although dragging his wife back into the spotlight is equally as selfish)
None of my search engines are working? wtf? So I’ll ask it here: What’s a comptroller?
And he looks creepy…
A comptroller generally supervises/manages the finances and accounting of an operation. NYC comptroller is really a pretty big, important job. It isn’t sexy, but it is important.
ah, ok. Thank you.
How are the questions absurd if they relate to proven past behavior? I love how the pols respond with righteous indignation about past sexual dalliances when you know they would happily expose the same of their opponents and use it to their advantage.
What’s the big deal if a woman divorces her husband for cheating with prostitutes? That makes sense. Not being honest about that makes the candidate look deceptive and prone to cover ups.
He looks like a claymation puppet.
Client #9 and Carlos Danger…the NY Post must be in heaven!
They love it. After all they did give Spitzer’s hooker Ashley Dupre a weekly ‘advice’ column.
He is so gross. He tried to pressure the sex workers he was with to not use condoms. People should remember that. He was willing to not only increase his risk of contracting a disease but someone else’s too.
It makes me angry that the sex workers and madams get in legal hot water, while the johns get off at least twice.
“It makes me angry that the sex workers and madams get in legal hot water, while the johns get off at least twice.” <<<I totally agree with you here, but the issues that the Spitzer case brings up are far more important than this. The crash of the US economy in 2008 precipitated financial disasters around the world, which we're all still suffering from today. Those honchos on Wall St. are directly responsible for that, and as far as I know only Spitzer tried to go after them. I really can't get as bent out of shape about a guy going to a prostitute as I can about the bankster sociopaths.
I think Elizabeth Warren is trying to go after them from a congressional standpoint. But Congress never seems to get anything done these days.
You’re right about Warren, merritt. I hope she gets somewhere with it and isn’t given the “Spitzer treatment”.
What kills me is that Spitzer’s downfall was calculated and created by those he was trying to take down and the general public couldn’t see through the ruse to what was actually going on. I care a lot more about wall street big wigs essentially criminally defrauding America than I do about who Spitzer is sleeping with (and I would like to think that most people would feel the same way!!).
Good Wives abound and give men the impression that if they cheat, their wives will stay because, well, that’s politics. Free passes for everybody!
I understand that there are children to consider (not to mention fortunes) when deciding to end one’s marriage, but dipping with prostitutes? That’s a deal breaker, ladies!
I hope he wins the STDs in the settlement.
He is disgusting. I pray the people of New York do not elect him.
i cant believe a city as big and important as NYC has no one else
Ha, yeah. There are always more sociopaths waiting in the wings to shoot for a political position.
You have to have political experience, a shit ton of money, connections, and access to run.
The selection of people who fall into this category are narrower than you think.
And leaving aside Spitzer’s personal life, I’d argue that he was actually a pretty amazing attorney general. Who cares who he’s sleeping with if he is willing to actually make the right decisions for his constituents (ie: attepting to take down the a-holes who ran the american economy into the ground and profited massively from it).
except that sleeping w the hooker is an illegal act and he was the atty general, kind of a conflict of interest
These d-bags do what they do because they know that the wife or partner will allow it. Once these women realize that they can’t change them and to make a life for themselves, they will keep ‘suffering’. Never mind the children because lets face it Celebitchy crew, the man didn’t give a damn about the welfare of his kids and wife when he does what he does. People can rationalize, patronize, agonize, excuse all they want but it is what it is.
I thought the were already divorced!
Hmmmmm….
So now there’s two women waiting to see if their husbands get the job so they can claim that extra income in the divorce settlement PLUS, and it’s a big one, use that office to keep his ass in line on keeping the child support, alimony, money payments and property splits by threatening to expose ALL the dirty secrets.
Smart women on one hand and stupid and pitiful on the other..
To be fair, I don’t think that the post-election income has anything to do with it in these specific cases: Weiner and Abedin together made $500,000 as “consultants” – I don’t think the Mayor’s salary is that big, although the prestige is huge and you get to live in the Mayor’s mansion.
And Eliot Spitzer comes from piles and piles of money – hundreds of millions of dollars. He and his wife have been married for over twenty years now, so she is going to get a substantial settlement when she leaves no matter what.
I think that Spitzer’s wife might be staying with him through the election as a last nice gesture; she is taking the moral high ground by not leaving him immediately over his decision to run again, but as soon as it’s over she’s gone (if the rumors are true).
Weiner is hotter – are they running in the same election?
My brother worked with him when he was in the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office and said he was a narcissistic d-bag even before he was caught as Governor. I believe in second chances, but not of the expense of public office.
The whole Spitzer case deserves some serious research. Check this out, written in 2009, after the prostitution thing:
http://www.counterpunch.org/2009/03/30/where-s-eliot-spitzer-now-that-we-need-him/: “The Spitzer case brings up some unsettling questions about Bush’s surveillance programs; mainly whether they are really being used to investigate potential terrorists or simply a means of destroying political enemies. Spitzer made a name for himself by sticking it to bigshot business tycoons and Wall Street kleptocrats, the very type of people who fill out Bush’s campaign donor list. That’s why many people believe that the Bush Justice Department was simply carrying out a vendetta on behalf of Spitzer’s many powerful enemies.”
Personally, if he’s pitbull enough to go after the financiers that ruined the US and other economies in the world, and it looks like he is, then as far as I’m concerned he can visit as many prostitutes as he wants as long as he rids us of those sociopaths.
Look, I voted for Obama, but he expanded the surveillance programs, and we ARE ALL being watched. Someone in government, in particular, should know that. Prostitution is still illegal in NY.
How many of the Wall St. big boys have been done for going to prostitutes? With massive media coverage? You think they don’t?! There’s a problem here that’s far more important than a few visits to wh*res.
You completely missed my point. There is a recklessness inherent in someone who knows the risks of that behavior on a career, and then goes and does it anyway. THAT is telling. If you want to change the laws about prostitution, then that is a different matter entirely and has nothing to do with what other crimes people have been caught doing and were subsequently taken down by Spitzer. It looks incredibly bad to be going after people breaking the law, when you, in fact, are breaking the law. That means you think you are above it, even if it is a much lesser crime.
Very Smart Binturong that you would go and see how effective he was before he was brought down. He had WallStreet running scared. He knows how their game is played. And I am hoping that he can get back to doing what he did best.
^^^ This!
THANK YOU!
binturong – youre winning me over. it must be true that nice guys just cant cut it in politics. you HAVE to be an egomaniac and worse. now what i really wanna know about is: Who’s this Alicia Florrick!!? That story sounds GOOD….
She’s the title character on “The Good Wife”, a TV series.
dappadaph and stinky: I think it’s amazing that he’s making a comeback, given the monumental amount of media mudslinging he had to endure, so stinky I think you may be right–it takes an egomaniac to go after egomaniacs! I hope he succeeds, though I’m not from NY.
It’s the really big creeps that we never hear about that worry me the most, you know?
Campaign finance reform. Repeat 50 times. Then reformation of Lobbying practices. Rinse, lather, repeat.
Kiddo, the people with the real power in this country are NOT the ones that are elected. When was the last election for the CEO of Exxon-Mobil, or Raytheon, or Bank of America or the huge financial institutions?
Yep, sad. And that goes for both parties. Frankly, I feel like there is only one party these days. Party of pay-off.
She actually did a rather candid piece with Vanity Fair (?) I believe some time after the scandal. Eliot Spitzer was there for some of the interview and contributed a bit but it was her piece. I remember it being rather shocking for me, as I had no idea what an accomplished women she was up until that point. I got the impression that she had sacrificed too much to leave at that point. Guess she finally realized it wasn’t worth it after all
Why? Why is she waiting until after the election? Do it now Silda, and rake this slime bag through the mud like he should be. Set a standard for how a scorned wife should act, and stop being a robot.
Speaking for myself as a New Yorker I don’t want this creep in charge of anything, let alone our finances! How much will go towards his seedy habits? Can we please just have some competent, intelligent, dedicated, experienced candidates who will take their jobs seriously? I mean honestly, the cesspool we are being given to choose from!
What Weiner did was non-consensual and was sexual harassment. It would have been every bit as bad if he were single.
As for Spitzer, if the prostitutes were completely consenting and of age and he wasn’t a douche to them (which apparently he was), I wouldn’t care. At all. That’s between him and his wife and is not my business.
Well, Celebitchy’s posts on Spitzer and Weiner have gotten me interested in the whole privacy/”morality” thing. Here’s a very funny and very to-the-point article on Weiner: http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/07/26/the-wiener-affair-phase-two/
(not sure if this is ok to post in a Spitzer section?)
Spitzer is a rare politician. He actually cares about the public good and I hope he’s able to reinvigorate his career. His column for Slate was always an interesting read. As for his shagging of pro sex workers in a private brothel/escort situation, if given a choice of the type of cheating husband I could have, I’d choose this over let’s say, Tiger Woods or Jesse James. It’s a straight exchange of money for services rendered w/no expectations of a relationship.
I was answering phones at an agency at the time of the Spitzer scandal. His behavior has not changed. He may have taken a short period of grace, but not long after things started dying down, he started seeing girls again. He was known for stopping to see girls while out running. He would leave his bodyguard outside, and show up at the girl’s apartment in a running suit. I still know a lot of people in the industry, and he’s still making the rounds.
Not surprised.
I watch The Good Wife and the thing about Alicia (the cheated wife) is that, in time, she reveals herself to have many similarities with her cheating husband: she’s smart but also manipulative,ambitious, shrewd and a cheater too.
It’s as if she chose the husband to express something that was repressed in herself.
I love that show and I think it’s spot on. One can make mistakes in life and marry d-bags, but if you stay with them through the shit it doesn’t make you a ‘good wife’, it makes you their true d-bag soul mate and you deserve each other.
I hope this lady dumps his ass but she sure takes her time.
Hey, I like the show too, but coming to a conclusion about all married women who stay with political husbands who cheat, based on a fictional TV show, is not good science or proof of that conclusion.
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