A book about the rise and stunning decline of former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, co-authored by the makers of a book and documentary about the fall of Enron, is being published by Penguin Group (USA), Penguin imprint Portfolio announced Wednesday.
The founder of "Girls Gone Wild" released a video Tuesday that he said proved the call girl involved in a scandal that brought down New York's former governor agreed to be filmed in 2003.
The hotel where then-New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer allegedly had a tryst with a high-priced call girl has been doing a brisk business in souvenirs since news of the scandal broke last month.
Ever since the prostitution scandal shoved Gov. Eliot Spitzer out the door, people have wondered: Did he spend taxpayer dollars or campaign money to subsidize trysts?
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Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland is giving a food bank $10,000 in campaign cash he got from former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer.
A $1 million offer to the call girl linked to former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer was rescinded because she'd already shot footage for "Girls Gone Wild." Now it might be the video maker who will lose out.
Among the charges Gov. Eliot Spitzer could face in the call-girl scandal that has cost him his job is one that has been brought against a slew of other prominent men in the past century.
Eliot Spitzer finally had to tell someone his secret. It was last Sunday morning, and he had just spent five hours driving through a fierce storm to his family and his Fifth Avenue apartment.
In March 12 and March 13 stories about New York Lt. Gov. David Paterson becoming the next governor following Eliot Spitzer's resignation, The Associated Press reported erroneously that Paterson would be the nation's first blind governor. Bob Riley, who was legally blind, was governor of Arkansas for 11 days in 1975.
The lawyer for the call girl linked to the downfall of Gov. Eliot Spitzer lashed out at the media on Friday for thrusting the 22-year-old woman into the "public glare" without her consent and publishing revealing photos.
A woman accused of controlling money for the escort service that led to the resignation of New York's governor has been released on bail.
The collateral consequence of scandal often is newfound celebrity, and for the 22-year-old call girl involved in the Eliot Spitzer scandal, prospects are rising.
Silda Wall Spitzer wore a blank, shellshocked, puffy-eyed expression as she stood by her husband throughout the tawdry call-girl scandal that would cost him the governor's mansion.
In a story profiling lawyers involved in the federal prostitution investigation of Gov. Eliot Spitzer, The Associated Press reported that one of his lawyers, Michele Hirshman, won a conviction of former Rep. Robert Garcia on extortion charges related to the Wedtech Corp. scandal in the early 1990s. The story should have noted that both Garcia's convictions in the Wedtech case were reversed on appeal.
The woman at the center of the Eliot Spitzer call girl scandal will have no problem cashing in on her notoriety: Penthouse and Hustler are already knocking on her door.
Gil Rosa's high school students were young children when Bill Clinton's trysts with Monica Lewinsky threatened his presidency.
As Gov. Eliot Spitzer prepares to leave office, the disgraced politician faces a tangled battle with prosecutors that will send lawyers into murky legal territory.
The call girl at the center of the prostitution scandal that prompted Gov. Eliot Spitzer to resign in disgrace has been identified as a 22-year-old aspiring musician who struggled in a broken home as a child.
If a customer had the money, Emperors Club VIP had the women.
Eliot Spitzer probably doesn't need to get a day job when he leaves the governor's office next week.
Gov. Eliot Spitzer's personal and political tragedy unfolded rapidly, from the news that he was linked to a prostitution ring to Wednesday's resignation. Some key moments in the scandal:
In a startlingly swift fall from grace, Gov. Eliot Spitzer resigned Wednesday after getting caught in a call-girl scandal that made a mockery of his straight-arrow image and left him facing the prospect of criminal charges and perhaps disbarment.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton — no stranger to political sex scandals — sounded a short, sympathetic note Wednesday for disgraced Gov. Eliot Spitzer, saying she is thinking of his family.
Reaction to the resignation of Democratic New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer and his succession by Lt. Gov. David Paterson:
They couldn't actually find a newspaper clipping that was titled what they wanted ("Obama Attacks Clinton gas tax plan"), so they made one up... but they attached the headline to a Troopergate article! LOL!
NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes, with a boost from a natural "zoom lens," have uncovered what may be one of the youngest and brightest galaxies ever seen in the middle of the cosmic "dark ages," just 700 million years after the beginning of our universe.
When Congress passed the Patriot Act in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, law-enforcement agencies hailed it as a powerful tool to help track down the confederates of Osama bin Laden. No one expected it would end up helping to snag the likes of Eliot Spitzer.
The escort service accused of enticing Eliot Spitzer and a host of other clients was operated by four improbable masters of temptation: a rejuvenated tax specialist, a boarding school pixie, a literature major from Virginia and a clog-wearing nutritionist...
Ever have someone comment on your job who has absolutely no experience whatsoever at it? It's quite annoying.
Already this year we've had Spitzer. Last year we had Senator Craig. I'm sure anyone could find examples of hypocrisy in government (or any major organization).
Some may not be aware that Spitzer was an important catalyst in developing the market for robust transactional monitoring technologies that the financial services industry today uses to uncover money laundering, fraud and market manipulation.
That leaves it to the imagination why Paterson would have eschewed a 20-minute ride home from his chauffeur for an expensive stay at the Crowne Plaza or Clarion.
Woah..too funny..this guys is brutal towards spitzer but you have to find it amuzing at some level..may offend some..but hey..this is America!!
The explaination for Elliot Spitzer and why men have such a sex drive, but have trouble with closeness.
The New York Post is reporting that a controversial former Republican consultant was the one who tipped off the FBI about Governor Spitzer's involvement with a prostitution ring.
The outrage over former New York governor Eliot Spitzer hiring an A-list hooker makes me feel like throwing a gigantic, crippling pile of superheavy biology and economics books at everyone in the United States and possibly the world.
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department used some of its most intrusive tactics against Eliot Spitzer, examining his financial records, eavesdropping on his phone calls and tailing him during its criminal investigation of the Emperor's Club prostitution ring.
Taxpayers may find some solace in one aspect of the sex scandals enveloping the two governors that New York has had in the past week.
An interesting take on the whole Spitzer issue...
More talk about treating symptoms rather than the disease...
The outrage over former New York governor Eliot Spitzer hiring an A-list hooker makes me feel like throwing a gigantic, crippling pile of superheavy biology and economics books at everyone in the United States and possibly the world.
Obama's speech raises more concerns than it settles; Spitzer's whore mulls suing instead of screwing; Iraq war protesters numbers don't match what the media is telling you about this war.
The Orlando Sentinel found several photos in their archives of Ashley Dupre from a Sunday feature they did in the spring of 2003. The pictures are posted
I checked the other articles about this already on Newsvine, and none had actual Girls Gone Wild video from the AP like this one does, LOL! So I'm seeding it.LOS ANGELES (March 19) - Stop that $1 million check: It turns out the call girl linked to Eliot Spitzer had already shed …
Hours after replacing a New York governor who resigned because of a prostitution scandal, Gov. David Paterson has confessed to extramarital affairs during his decades as a legislator in Albany.
Fresh out of prison, the irrepressible Girls Gone Wild founder Joe Francis is already capitalizing on scandal, culling his archives for footage of call girl-turned-MySpace star Ashley Alexander Dupre and promising to release his findings on girlsgonewild.com "shortly."
One day after taking office, Gov. David A. Paterson held a noontime news conference to discuss news reports that he and his wife, Michelle Paige Paterson, had extramarital affairs during a strain in their 15-year marriage.
Independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader, reflecting on the quick exit of former New York governor Eliot Spitzer, wonders aloud in a new essay how President George W. Bush has escaped the same fate despite Bush's role in considerably more damning and damaging crimes...