NY - Gov Spitzer tells staff he's linked to prostitution ring

[IdahoMom]

Gov. Paterson admits to sex with other woman for years


http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2008/03/17/2008-03-17_gov_paterson_admits_to_sex_with_other_wo.html

snip

The thunderous applause was still ringing in his ears when the state's new governor, David Paterson, told the Daily News that he and his wife had extramarital affairs.
In a stunning revelation, both Paterson, 53, and his wife, Michelle, 46, acknowledged in a joint interview they each had intimate relationships with others during a rocky period in their marriage several years ago.
In the course of several interviews in the past few days, Paterson said he maintained a relationship for two or three years with "a woman other than my wife," beginning in 1999.
As part of that relationship, Paterson said, he and the other woman sometimes stayed at an upper West Side hotel — the Days Inn at Broadway and W. 94th St.
He said members of his Albany legislative staff often used the same hotel when they visit the city.
"This was a marriage that appeared to be going sour at one point," Paterson conceded in his first interview Saturday. "But I went to counseling and we decided we wanted to make it work. Michelle is well aware of what went on."

 

[Taximom]

I heard mention of this on a weekend program on Fox's Red Eye, but they said more would come out this week.

Well, good for them!

 

[philamena]

Good lordy!
Seems like men in office in NYC can't be with their wives only.

 

[IdahoMom]

I heard mention of this on a weekend program on Fox's Red Eye, but they said more would come out this week.

Well, good for them!

I think that by talking about it, they're able to diffuse it a great deal.

 

[philamena]

adnoid,
Not none stop sex you goof. :crazy:

 

[IdahoMom]

Wouldn't they both be awfully sore by now? I mean it's great and all, but you've got to take a break now and again.

Bahaha! Good one!:crazy: :clap:

 

[Dryad]

I guess the thing that really bothers me about this is that bad behavior is rewarded in this country. She will be getting more offers left and right, making money and the attention she so desperately wants. Just like the Paris Hiltons and the other non-talented nobodys who get fame and money for doing nothing that requires hard work and dedication.

This young woman is not going to college, is not working a low-paying minimum wage job to pay her tuition or food like most girls her age who have high morals and do it the "right" way. She is not working hard as a waitress somewhere or staying up all night studying so one day she can "be something" and support herself and feel good about it. She is lazy, low-class, and doing it the easiest way she knows how...on her back with her legs spread. Anyone can be a prostitute. Doesn't take much to let yourself be used. And we (as a country) buy into it. Reward her for it. Makes me sick.

 

[IdahoMom]

I guess the thing that really bothers me about this is that bad behavior is rewarded in this country. She will be getting more offers left and right, making money and the attention she so desperately wants. Just like the Paris Hiltons and the other non-talented nobodys who get fame and money for doing nothing that requires hard work and dedication.

This young woman is not going to college, is not working a low-paying minimum wage job to pay her tuition or food like most girls her age who have high morals and do it the "right" way. She is not working hard as a waitress somewhere or staying up all night studying so one day she can "be something" and support herself and feel good about it. She is lazy, low-class, and doing it the easiest way she knows how...on her back with her legs spread. Anyone can be a prostitute. Doesn't take much to let yourself be used. And we (as a country) buy into it. Reward her for it. Makes me sick.

Perfect post!! :clap: :clap:

I agree 1000%!

I fear young women will look at what this girl has done and think it's the way to go... this is a very sad commentary on what gets rewarded in America.

 

[IdahoMom]

Hmmm. I guess Ashley spent some time with the Girls Gone Wild gang a few years ago, and Joe Francis is planning to release the video...

http://www.tmz.com/2008/03/18/spitzer-girls-wild-18th-b-day-caught-on-vid/

There's still lots more money to be wrung out of this drama...and this is America so some will milk it for all it's worth $$$$.

 

[sweetmop]

I guess the thing that really bothers me about this is that bad behavior is rewarded in this country. She will be getting more offers left and right, making money and the attention she so desperately wants. Just like the Paris Hiltons and the other non-talented nobodys who get fame and money for doing nothing that requires hard work and dedication.

This young woman is not going to college, is not working a low-paying minimum wage job to pay her tuition or food like most girls her age who have high morals and do it the "right" way. She is not working hard as a waitress somewhere or staying up all night studying so one day she can "be something" and support herself and feel good about it. She is lazy, low-class, and doing it the easiest way she knows how...on her back with her legs spread. Anyone can be a prostitute. Doesn't take much to let yourself be used. And we (as a country) buy into it. Reward her for it. Makes me sick.

You have put into words exactly how I feel, Dryad!
Enough is enough!


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[Truly]

I'm with dryad, idahomom, and sweetmop.

The whole idea of men thinking that they have a right to purchase young (women, men, children... ugh, whatever...) to basically rape them, is a big problem in our culture.

These rich and powerful men are seen by other men who don't happen to have an extra several thousand dollars to buy a hooker...so they decide to just take what they want. They rape girls in high school...they rape little children...apparently they will rape their own infants. All these crimes we see here...where do these guys get the idea that they're entitled to rape and murder?

We need to prosecute the men who buy human beings for sex. Not just fire them from their jobs. Prosecute them and send them to prison. :behindbar

 

[Taximom]

Excerpt from "The Clandestine Activities That Eliot Spitzer Loved"
http://nymag.com/news/features/45118/

"She couldn’t stop crying. Barely one day earlier, the man she’d been married to for two decades, the father of her three daughters, had stunned Silda Wall Spitzer with the revelation that he’d been sleeping with prostitutes. Now here they were, on a cloudy Monday afternoon, in a warren of state-government offices on the 39th floor of a midtown building, among shell-shocked and tearful staffers. The New York Times had just broken the story on its Website.

She hated what he’d done, hated the idea of being seen as a “stand by your man” wife. But maybe appearing together today would somehow help their daughters through this nightmare. And Silda, an experienced lawyer herself, had somehow been able to think objectively about what her absence might say to federal prosecutors. She and Lloyd Constantine, a longtime Spitzer confidant, were nearly alone in arguing against an immediate resignation; Eliot, recognizing he was a political dead man, had wanted to do it first thing Monday morning. So they’d settled on a press conference in which Spitzer would apologize, admit nothing, and cling to his job. It was scheduled to begin at 2:15. Nearly an hour later, Silda wasn’t ready for an excruciating appearance in front of the press.

Spitzer stood still, not trying to console her or to make excuses. He was silent, his head down. He would wait as long as Silda needed. Spitzer dabbed his eyes. Silda slowly composed herself. Then they walked through the door, into the glare of TV lights, for the beginning of the end. Eliot Spitzer’s secret was out." (more at link)

Very long, but very interesting article. It sure helped me understand Silda's investment in Eliot, and Eliot's psyche.

 

[Taximom]

Two interesting links, one of which I posted on the main Spitzer link because it deals with Eliot more:

The Clandestine Activities That Eliot Spitzer Loved:
http://nymag.com/news/features/45118/?imw=Y
(excerpt on main thread)

Why stand by?
http://nymag.com/news/features/45120/
During his 2006 campaign, Eliot Spitzer said of his wife, “The fact that she believed in me enough to put her very promising legal career on hold was a great source of inspiration.” While this move may well have helped him achieve his goals, it put Silda Spitzer in the nationally televised bind we witnessed last week. This is a Harvard-educated woman who was once a corporate lawyer who made more money than her husband and was proud of it. But since 1994, the year Silda opted out of the workforce to witness her husband’s first run for attorney general, all her formidable drive has had to be channeled into his career. Fourteen years later, retreat wasn’t possible. As the rest of the state called for his head, Silda told her husband to fight for power. It was a moment Hillary Clinton, no doubt, could have advised her about. But for Silda Spitzer, even more was at stake. And she will not have the consolation of her own career as she comes to terms with the man she gave it up for. In a way, it’s the saddest part of the story, and it exposes the risks women take when they make certain kinds of choices—things that, after Silda, they might not think are safe.

 

[PolkSaladAnnie]

Hi Taximom :blowkiss: Long time ....

Very interesting articile, thanks. When I saw Silda at the 1st presser, it was obvious she was very pale and drawn - I can't imagine the land mine effect this must have had on her emotions. I'd turn into an iceberg: I'd be cold, numb and isolated in icy waters - with absolutely no warmth around me other than a lifeline's glow of light through 3 daughters. Can you imagine the shock of realizing 25 years of waste? Hardly recyclable at that. Lordie-lord ... Spitzer: you did one major-massive ... "wrong".

As for Ashley Dupre?

Well - will her next hit be a remake of "Love Potion Number 9" ?

Whatever she is or isn't; whatever she does or doesn't do - and whoever she wants to call herself ... there is absolutely NO way on this planet that I believe for a solitary second that she did not know her "client" was NY's Gov Spitzer. No way. It's no use blaming the prostitutes; they are never going to drop their trade or cease to lick their upper lip at the revenue and perceived "connections".

Nevertheless, to be happy to sell her story, gain publicity and increase her position of "also a victim" is, quite frankly utterly sick [I'm assuming this will be her route, b-t-w]. To make MORE money at the expense of Silda and these 3 lovely girls makes her actions as criminal as Spitzer's.

Wow - we don't know that it stopped at Clint number 9 ... 10 or 30, for that matter. There has to be a few very worried high-profile figures out there.

So - does anyone wonder if Spitzer will be The Big Repenter and go out of a charity drive of mega-note? What will become of this man? Curiouser and curiouser ...

JMHO

 

[PolkSaladAnnie]

Hmmm. Interesting, seems she's Been There, Done That in this article:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/03/18/dupree.girls.gone.wild.ap/index.html

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Stop that $1 million check: It turns out the call girl linked to Eliot Spitzer had already shed her clothes for "Girls Gone Wild" as an 18-year-old while partying in Miami, Florida, the video company's founder said Tuesday...........

............ "It'll save me a million bucks," Francis said Tuesday. "It's kind of like finding a winning lottery ticket in the cushions of your couch."

Francis said at that point, his offer was off the table: "We actually had been dealing with her rep," he said. "Our [offer] was the real deal. We just never made the connection."

 

[Truly]

So - does anyone wonder if Spitzer will be The Big Repenter and go out of a charity drive of mega-note? What will become of this man? Curiouser and curiouser ...

JMHO

I did not comment on Silda in the Up-to-the-Minute thread, and i won't drag her in here.

May I ask why anyone would think that Spitzer should get to orchestrate his own frickken Charity-Ball-Grand-Exit? Why would anyone make this into some sensationalized sex scandal instead of a violation of the laws of the State of New York which the Ex-Governor should be prosecuted for violating?

Are the laws just a game that the rich and famous get to flaunt? Do the laws only apply to citizens, while for others the same laws are just a little scandal, just a little game?

 

[Mygirlsadie]

I wonder how Silda is holding up now that Miss Hotpants is being offered millions all over the place? They even want to use her for a new vodka ad! Vodka #9 or something like that? I saw her Girls Gone Wild video and let me tell ya she is definately a wild thang!

 

[Taximom]

That's what I keep wondering, Mygirl! Hotpants name/face is all over NY probably. Mostly I feel sorry for the daughters. I can imagine "mean girls" having a blast with this one. It would be horribly embarrassing at that age.

I have only seen ads for the GGW videos. Is it mostly half-naked girls romping around? Maybe I shouldn't ask that here, but curiousity made me.

 

[believe09]

That's what I keep wondering, Mygirl! Hotpants name/face is all over NY probably. Mostly I feel sorry for the daughters. I can imagine "mean girls" having a blast with this one. It would be horribly embarrassing at that age.

I have only seen ads for the GGW videos. Is it mostly half-naked girls romping around? Maybe I shouldn't ask that here, but curiousity made me.

There is a trailer/RV that roams spring break area-Spitzer's girl allegedly stayed in it for a week making videos of same sex encounters if you get my drift, not to mention showering/soaping up etc...it used to be breast-baring videos only and rapidly accelerated to lots of underage girls being plied with alcohol which is how the owner/operator ended up doing time. He and Snoop Doggy dog allegedly used to insert themselves on occasion. Now the girls have to sign iron clad contracts about their appearances.

It is a heartwarming form of exploitation, in my book-I cannot believe that these women can be considered to have given informed consent considering the amount of alcohol and whatever involved....

 

[Taximom]

Hmmm. Interesting, seems she's Been There, Done That in this article:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/03/18/dupree.girls.gone.wild.ap/index.html

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Stop that $1 million check: It turns out the call girl linked to Eliot Spitzer had already shed her clothes for "Girls Gone Wild" as an 18-year-old while partying in Miami, Florida, the video company's founder said Tuesday...........

............ "It'll save me a million bucks," Francis said Tuesday. "It's kind of like finding a winning lottery ticket in the cushions of your couch."

Francis said at that point, his offer was off the table: "We actually had been dealing with her rep," he said. "Our [offer] was the real deal. We just never made the connection."

"It's kind of like finding a winning lottery ticket in the cushions of your couch." ----> To this I say I wouldn't want to know what's in the cushions of Ashley's couch! If she really made him keep a condom on, I'd say he's probably lucky because Lord knows what diseases he could have gotten and passed on. Even if it was just oral, did they use protection either way?

Sounds like ES was #9 of 1,000. :sick: Of course, who knows how long ES has been at it, and what STD's he might have.

O/T: PSA, I almost fainted when I saw your nick up there. Welcome back! I hope all is well. :blowkiss: