Spitzer's alleged call girl tab could hit $80,000

Source: AP

Updated 05:00 p.m., March 11, 2008

ALBANY, N.Y. — With pressure mounting on Gov. Eliot Spitzer to resign over a call-girl scandal, investigators said Tuesday he was clearly a repeat customer who spent tens of thousands of dollars — perhaps as much as $80,000 — with the high-priced prostitution service over an extended period of time.

Spitzer and his family, meanwhile, remained secluded in their Fifth Avenue apartment, while Republicans began talking impeachment, and few if any fellow Democrats came forward to defend him. A death watch of sorts began at the state Capitol, where whispers of "What have you heard?" echoed through nearly every hallway of the ornate, 109-year-old building.

On Monday, when the scandal broke, prosecutors said in court papers that Spitzer had been caught on a wiretap spending $4,300 with the Emperors Club VIP call-girl service, with some of the money going toward a night with a prostitute named Kristen, and the rest to be used as credit toward future trysts. The papers also suggested that Spitzer had done this before.

Speaking on condition of anonymity, a law enforcement official said Tuesday that Spitzer, in fact, had spent tens of thousands of dollars with the Emperors Club. Another official said the amount could be as high as $80,000. But it was not clear over what period of time that was spent.



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No condom! He must resign!

or 80,0000 $1 hand jobs

80,000 $1 hand jobs!! :rofl:

No matter what, I can always find a good laugh here sometimes.

That 80 mil was about ten times what bush spent on investigating 9/11.

per the transcripts :evilgrin:

So, about 8 Million a blow, but that's still a lot of money to investigate an affair....

The Bigger they are etc etc etc

$80,000. I can't imagine. He must have some kind of sex addiction.

I expect he was trying not to bring home a disease, trying to be careful and discreet so what is happening now would NOT happen to him and his family.

And throwing "sex addiction" out there is just ridiculous. At the prices the Emperor's Club charged, his tab would have been over a million if he was a "sex addict."

Maybe there was something he really liked that his wife wouldn't do. Maybe he's in the throes of male menopause.

In 1858, there was one brothel in Chicago for roughly every three hundred people. They had their own directory and published their own paper. Prostitution just isn't that weird. It was pretty much common behavior for well-to-do men to visit houses of pleasure. Poorer guys paid for it on the street. That was in the days when good girls saved it for marriage. And there was no social security or social safety net. So girls sold what they had to sell.

Girls are still doing that. Men are still buying it.

Big, stupid, fuss.

apparently, the whores considered him difficult because he asked them to do unsafe things.

Looks like the well-being of his wife and family was the last thing on his mind.

Men kept slaves in 1858, too. Does that somehow justify modern day slavery?

was referring to the fact that he did not like to wear rubbers.

I wonder if the prostitute will be prosecuted?

just every corporate sellout of a politician.....

Oh... how is bribing legal? It's called lobbying with a big wink and a nod

Repeatedly.

caught my dad paying hookers.

She'd take an equivalent amount of money out of the account and go on a shopping spree, preferably in Paris.

Let's hope Mrs. Spitzer has the same philosophy.

a Penalty Purchase....it's a Southern thang....:)

usually a guy doesn't forget an important date after the wife buys
one or two PP...

:rofl:

It answered my question.

:rofl:

He wasn't paying those hookers nearly enough.

Maybe johns should be charged on a sliding scale. :shrug:

that was a picture of Spitzer during his news conference, grim with the reality of his situation

he's decent enough looking

and his wife was gorgeous

except murder ---

But, honestly!!!

I know why he had to pay for sex.

because if it was for love, she must be suffering enormously.

The daughters have the good fortune of looking like their mother. I feel especially bad for them for the shame and disappointment their father has caused.

Way to go, you spineless, shivering wonders.

we need to blink at shit like this? It is rumored he is trying to make a DEAL - that indicates to me this goes a lot deeper..
Is it OK to prosecute people for this while you do it yourself?

Huge betrayal of his trust of office, his party and citizens who are fighting to resurrect the
party to fight fascism . . .!!!

.

This could ruin Dem chances in the White House race.

He definitely has too much money.

What a stupid and ridiculous comparison.

:dem:

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...that Hillary has been very quiet lately?

Also, the bit from the article "...and the rest to be used as credit toward future trysts." made me think that that was some "piggy" bank. Soowee!

You think she hired prostitutes too? :eyes:

...but the prospect of discussing a philandering political CEO is a bit close to the bone. And he is a pro-Hillary superdelegate.

Anything she says will boomerang. She is actually playing safe by playing it quiet.

Why is it that no one is looking into what congressman King Of New York did when on his last trip to the Bahamas' I for one know that the person he was with was not his wife.......weather she was a pay for play person I don't know.

etc. Hurray.

:shrug:

:crazy:

Resign and get it over with. You're history.

Can we please get more women in office?

he's the kind of guy Edwards supporters would love

Spitzer actually did what Edwards promised

All aspects of this are disgusting. He's got to resign asap and save our party the trouble of asking him anymore.

:D

to step up.

himself.

The guy was an idiot. He knew he had many enemies and then he did this?

whore goes whoring...big frickin deal....make him time s man of the year for christ's sake!!!!

How many thousands of people did Spitzer murder by fucking a whore?

Don't get me wrong...Spitzer sounds like scum. But shouldn't we demand that murderers to resign before the likes of Spitzer?

abetted the crime resign from their House or Senate positions.

I shudder to think that Congress' lax attitude toward impeachment may enable the invasion of Iran.

It stunk when Giuliani used his security force to cover his ass during his affair and it will stink if (as I fear) it comes out that Spitzer did something similar.

Have you ever felt lonely and
how much would you pay to be rid
the feeling?

I have never PROSECUTED anyone for satisfying the lonely and then gone and done the same for which I ruined the lives of the lonely.

Spitzer is a nasty fucker. Has been his whole life.

is beside the point.

They hire prostitutes because they feel horny.

slackmaster. Far be it for me to quibble with what works for you personally but please do not presume to speak for all men.

someone who's studied the issue says there are many reasons

including thrill seeking

or, very related, wanting a completely 180 degree different experience

in Spitzer's case, many are suggesting he had some self destruct component

to take those risks was reckless

In any case, it was pretty stupid of him to go that route and get caught.

When you have a lot of money, you can buy anything, including poor kids forced to make a living off the street.

This is a case of rich meets poor, with the disadvantaged (most of whom happen to be women, and if "lucky," beautiful women) actually being allowed admittance into NBC studios. There are a lot of "Kristins" in American's streets, whether male or female. Let's shine a light on that, media.

better than the woman he promised to care for--and who promised to care for him--for the rest of his life?

Please. This was about sex, not friendship.

very important office as state AG, who let their 80K "loneliness" put them at-risk for extortion?

:eyes:

Take the wife out for a romantic dinner? Chocolates? Roses? Nope. He was with a hooker.

He wouldn't need to worry about impeachment if I was his wife. He'd need surgery to repair what I'd do.

Spitzer's wealthy - his father is a billionaire, and I think his wife comes from real money, too.) But spending that much money is just sick.

Remember Spitzer prosecuting that scumbag thief, the CEO of Tyco, and making a big deal out of a $6,000 shower curtain the CEO bought? Eliot is worse that that sack of shit, IMO.

:evilgrin:

Still don't understand how you could be so stupid. Wasting $80,000 on call girls....I actually had high hopes for this guy...

Where did he get the money? You make pretty good coin as Governor but not that good.

I guess $3.50 gas isn't really a problem for him.

...$80,000

Divorce Lawyer....$500,000

Polly Thumb and her 4 whores...Priceless

Regulated and taxed! I'm sure the girls involved didn't mind the $80,00 windfall! So what if a rich old codger transfers wealth to a young hottie! It may be the last sweet thing befor he dies!

i'm not defending spitzer, but people should realize this "service" didn't exactly cater to one customer only...

Who are clients 1-8?

Who told Spitzer about the Emperor's Club, and all the other places he may have patronized?


This is good-ole-boy to the max, how DC runs, and every other major and minor city.

Meanwhile, poor kids on the street get screwed every which way.

It's the Duke of Westminster, the world's 46th richest man, according to Forbes.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_world/2008/03/12/2008-03-12_richest_man_in_england_also_a_regular_of.html

What a tool.

Charlie has probably stepped in to hobble that media investigation.

I'd like to hear about the other 7. It the US media were worth its salz, we'd know by now.

meant when he said in his resignation speech "our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." I guess he rose and fell and rose and fell quite a bit.

Obviously, as a New Yorker and a Democrat, I voted for Spitzer and had great hopes, but I was always turned off by his aura of sanctimoniousness. The whole thing reminds me of Oedipus played by Uriah Heep.

$80k for hookers, amazing. What a society we live in. And now the hooker he met with will make a fortune telling her story. We live in some fucked up times.

Sometimes, it's a lousy world we live in.

and she has not yet accepted (more offers to come). She lives in a penthouse costing almost $7k/month.

Meanwhile, the good and beautiful and devoted wife, mother of Spitzer's three young daughters, who is also - by the way - highly educated and intelligent and gave up a career for him, has had her life shredded.

What a mess.

which states that one cannot profit from criminal activity. Ms. Dupre should be prosecuted for soliciting prostition, and the state sould take every penny that she earns from her sudden notoriety and apply to the costs to the state occassioned by Spitzer's resignation.

As to Spitzer, I had hoped him different. But he has proven himself to be just another arrogant and spoiled rich kid with a sense of entitlement, who fancies himself above the law.

Regarding all the whining about selective prosecution, stop it. There would have been no prosecution -- selective or otherwise -- if Spitzer had not engaged in criminal conduct. He is pondscum plain and simple and he has fallen to his rightful place in the dustbin of history

Spitzer went after corrupt corporations and corrupt CEOs and nailed them

he went out and accomplished the anti-bad-corporation goals that Edwards dreamed about

Spitzer took a fall

he's punished enough

leave him alone

Just like those who want to "unrecommend" some threads, the need on the part of some DUers to censor others is, unfortunately, still alive and well.

to censor you

i'm expressing my opinion

bashing Spitzer is crappy

he's been punished enuf

and the 80K....was in the papers 5 days ago

also: wasn't directing my post to you, but to the op

this is not all about you

lol its not news because the story is 5 days old now? Bashing poor Spitzer, your making him seem like a victim somehow. Poor guy, poor little rich scumbag spitzer who preaches on high while setting up dummy corps to pay for hookers. Great role model you got there.

They are all SOMEBODY's daughter, sister, friend, cousin, mother, wife, lover. They are all our neighbors. Whatever they do had a background, has a reason, whether or not we understand it.

I can't help but wonder how Spitzer would feel, if one of his daughters looked at her mom's suffering and "Kristen"'s lifestyle decided that "Kristen"'s life looked like a pretty good deal after all - and applied to the Emperor's Club? Of course, this would never happen, but such men hold quite a double standard: fine for someone else's daughter, never for his.

How many billions did Halliburton, Blackwater and friends steal from Iraq? And where the fuck is Osama and his travelling movie studio?

Don't get me wrong, what Spitzer did was inexcusable and he should face the full penalty for what he did, but I find the level of outrage to be a little disproportionate. This is trifling bullshit compared to the BFEE crimes that have been ignored. Did Spitzer's companion have access in Albany and state secrets?

This shit is bananas. B-A-N-A-N-A-S.