New York – Newsweek: Eliot Spitzer Had Come Out of Hiding

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    New York – There is no success so exquisite as the kind you find in Manhattan and no disgrace so excruciating as the kind you find on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Residents of the rarefied blocks north of the Plaza Hotel and east of Central Park marvel at the smallness of their neighborhood, how each day they run into friends—strolling through the park, marching down the wide avenues, sitting in thewell-lit restaurants. This familiarity is a comfort to the neighborhood’s better sorts, the knowledge that most anyone they know, most anyone who matters, might be about to round the corner. For pariahs, it is torture, a torture they have no choice but to endure. They can hole up in the country for the weekend … but the children must go to school. They can send the laundry out, they can order food in … but even the airiest apartments turn stuffy after a while. Eventually, they have to go out, onto the street.

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    Eliot Spitzer goes out to walk the dogs. For three days after resigning as governor of New York in March 2008, he stayed in his Upper East Side apartment, out of the cameras’ view. In those early days of exile, his name was on the lips of most everyone in the city—the disgraced governor …

    Silda’s no-good husband … Client No. 9. Along Fifth Avenue, outside his apartment building, the photographers and press hounds formed a thick line. Watching from inside, Spitzer was amazed by the spectacle. He wondered, is there nothing else going on in the world?

    But dogs have needs that transcend damage control. And so the first images of Eliot Spitzer, private citizen, were of a man in baggy sweatpants, trailing after his wheaten terrier, James. The photographers followed them. “I explained to James that he was a good-looking dog,” Spitzer recalls. “People wanted to take his picture.” He didn’t know what he would encounter outside his door, but there was nothing he could do about it. “You put up barriers and sort of prepare yourself.”

    Spitzer kept walking the dog through the last bitter days of winter. The photographers lost interest. By summer he was an Upper East Side curiosity—Whatever happened to Eliot? I don’t know, was a common answer, but I’ve seen him walking his dog.

    A year later, he is still walking. Now he has a new companion. When he was a young politician with a tough-guy reputation, he preferred to walk only James and leave Jesse, the other family dog, at home. Jesse is a bichon frisé, the kind of dog that blue-haired women leave their fortunes to. “I wouldn’t take her out in public,” Spitzer recently explained. “I thought James was the better image for me.” Now, most any weekend, he can be seen trailing after both animals. “It’s like, OK, I have a bichon, a little white ball of fluff … I don’t care. What do you have to lose?”

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    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    Good for him

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    Who cares? He is last weeks trash!!

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    What goes around comes around. Elliot Spitzer delighted in dehumanizing and destroying the targets of his “investigations” so it is entirely fitting for him to get a taste of his cruelty to others.
    The guy is a heartless spoiled SOB. I hope and pray, for the sake of civilization, that he spends the rest of his miserable life in oblivion.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    Regardless of his personal desires and wants, hes the only guy who stood up to criminal (cough cough corporate) america. hes the only guy who brought justice to a small percentage of the people who got us into this horrible recession with their false advertising, irresponsible products, and price/fee gouging

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    He’s a self hating jew

    Yanki
    Yanki
    14 years ago

    He killed AIG and others just for his own interest, ego, publicity using his position to behave like a dictator. What comes around, goes around

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    #7 You must be kidding??!!! That’s why it makes him worse because while calling other white collar criminlas names he felt that he himself was beyond reproach

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    interesting article

    PMO
    PMO
    14 years ago

    To be honest, I had no problem with him using a high-priced call girl. It is none of my business. Just like it was none of our business when John McCain was no longer satisfied by his wife after her accident that he started cheating on her with Cindy. People have personal lives with ups and downs. He didn’t harm anyone else. Yes, it was against the law and as such, he should have just paid a fine like every other man who gets caught the first time. Had he done this in the right county in NV, there would have been no problem at all!