Sarabeth Spitzer

Dear Eliot Spitzer, I am writing to offer my condolences for your current troubles and to offer what help I can. Like you I was once caught in an illicit ring — a vicious circle of guilt and self-pollution that lasted ten years and cost me over $15,000 in lube and dry-cleaning. I suffered the curse of Onan and I could find no way out. I tried psychoanalysis, but after three years of treatment I was still suffering from an agonizing Carmen Electra Complex and gave up in despair. Then, when I thought I would never find my way out of the “jerk-circle” as ... Read Full Story

Fathoming the mysteries of other people's marriages is a fool's game. But we are entitled to try to understand what short-circuits occur in people of power to drive them to such jaw-dropping recklessness. First because it happens so often and second because with Spitzer the ironies and the wild hypocrisies are too large to ignore. His sanctimony upon taking office was undiluted. Among his first acts: the forcing out of office of the just re-elected state comptroller Alan Hevesi (also a friend) because he had used a state car and chauffeur to drive his ailing wife around. How does that look now? Lust or ... Read Full Story

Well, the other shoe dropped. It took a couple of days, but that naughty Eliot Spitzer finally abdicated his position as the governor of New York in the wake of the biggest personal scandal to afflict a politician since a certain blue dress . You know the story by now. Client 9 , as Spitzer was allegedly known within the alleged Emperor’s Club prostitution ring, allegedly arranged for an alleged $1,000-an-hour working woman (identified as “Kristen”) to be allegedly transported across state lines. If true, that’s a violation of the Mann Act , a felony. The FBI was nosing around Spitzer, initially thinking they ... Read Full Story

Horace Mann, the tony New York private school, was founded to get kids into Harvard. Silda Wall, ex-governor Eliot Spitzer's wife, is on the committee there. It's been much in the news lately—from student Facebook scandals featured in New York mag to fired Horace Mann professor Andrew Trees's satirical prep-school novel, Academy X. Now 6 Vote(s) Read Full Story

"A French-born New Yorker who is a headhunter for Luxe Avenue, Laurent Guerrier, said Mr. Spitzer's scandal would be in a class by itself on either side of the Atlantic. 'The Spitzer case is a deep problem because the guy was seen as Mr. Clean and was supposed to use his position to enforce against prostitution,' Mr. Guerrier said yesterday. 'In a similar situation in France, it would have been a big thing also.'" [NY Sun] 26 Vote(s) Read Full Story