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Friend Says Silda Spitzer Upset by Kristen's Age
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Jen Chung
Published Mar 14, 2008
Modified Mar 14, 2008
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While call girl "Kristen" is getting a lot of attention, the thoughts and feelings of Governor Spitzer's wife Silda Wall Spitzer are still the object of much curiosity. The Post spoke to a friend of hers who said Wall Spitzer is most upset about Ashley Alexandra Dupre's age (22).
According to the Post, "The fact that Dupre is only four years older than the Spitzers' eldest daughter, Elyssa, is not lost on Silda." Still, the friend says she is Spitzer's "rock," and the couple, who met at Harvard Law School, have been attending meetings with his lawyers. Another fascinating detail: A neighbor at 985 Fifth Avenue says, "Eliot is actually apologizing to any of the people he sees in the building." Another says Wall Spitzer has not been in hiding, rather she's seen "holding her head up high."
The NY Times had reported Wall Spitzer answered her cellphone on Tuesday "with extreme politeness" to a reporter's call and said ,"I really don't have anything to say." But friends who emailed her to offer support were surprised to get responses, which were "generous and loving."
Wall Spitzer has also been questioned and criticized for standing beside her husband during his press conferences, though a Boston University professor explains the stand-by-your-man moment might be "one last spousal duty" in the political marriage. Author Susan Shapiro Barash writes in the Daily News today, "Everyone has an opinion and everybody - except Silda - seems to feel the need to unload. We feel qualified to express our opinions because we have so much access to so much information. We forget we're outsiders who are projecting our experiences onto the predicament of a stranger."
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Jen Chung is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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