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Madam: Spitzer Got "Rough" With Her Girls
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Jen Chung
Published Feb 6, 2009
Modified Feb 6, 2009
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Kristen Davis, the Manhattan madam who was busted for running a prostitution ring, has a new book—available online—that details her various johns. And the Daily News reports on how she characterized a very famous one: Former governor Eliot Spitzer. Spitzer, fake name "James," was a steady client ("at least once a week") between 2004 and 2006, but she when "the complaints began coming in hot and heavy" about him "getting rough and too aggressive with the girls - repeatedly pressuring them to do things they didn't want to do," Davis declined his business. Especially because he was a "real weasel about" not wearing a condom, which confirms (ew) the federal wiretap conversations between another prostitution ring's booker and Ashley Dupre about Spitzer being "difficult."
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Jen Chung is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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