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Ex-madam: Spitzer bargained for call girl rates
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No matter what the transaction, former Gov. Eliot Spitzer is apparently a tough negotiator.
The infamously hard-charging pol, who resigned last year in a prostitution scandal, used skills that served him well as governor and a top prosecutor to get lower rates for call girls, according to an ex-madam who claims he was a client.
“He was one of my more consistent bargainers,” said Kristin Davis, who ran a high-priced prostitution ring in Manhattan.
Davis, 32, who is hawking a book about her years running the $5 million business, said Spitzer, a regular customer when he was governor and attorney general, would pay $800 to $1,200 an hour for dates, the lower end of the scale, which went up to $2,500.
In her book, which is available on Davis’ Web site and excerpted in the April issue of Penthouse magazine, Davis said Spitzer, who called himself James, was “too aggressive” in trying to avoid using condoms, prompting complaints and a 2006 ban.
“He’d be a real weasel about it, too,” Davis wrote. “After the begging, pleading, and commanding didn’t work, James would pretend to relent, only to change to another approach.”When she confronted him, Davis recalled yesterday in a phone interview, he lost his temper. “He started yelling at me, and I said that’s the kind of aggression I’m talking about,” she said.
After he was blacklisted, Spitzer booked dates under a different false name, Davis said.
A message left yesterday at Spitzer’s office was not returned. He resigned in March 2008 after it was revealed in court documents that he was “Client No. 9” for a different high-priced hooker ring.
Davis, who once worked as a call girl for Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss, was arrested last year and spent 3½ months in prison.
She is expected to decide soon what to do with the reported 10,000 names on her client list. The roster, she said, includes prime ministers, Middle Eastern royalty, pro athletes, titans of Wall Street and the governor of an East Coast state that is not New York.
Reports last week linked Davis to Yankees star Alex Rodriguez. She would not comment on A-Rod yesterday, saying only “there has been some involvement on a personal and professional level.”
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