Police said they are investigating beleaguered former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer for the alleged assault of a woman in a New York City hotel. At the hospital, she told doctors she had a relationship with the 56-year-old Spitzer, and he choked her and shoved her after an argument, the officials said.
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The woman claims that she and Spitzer had been friends for two years.
Spitzer resigned as Governor in 2008 after a prostitution scandal.
“Everything’s fine. There’s no problem”, Spitzer said, according to the source. According to the report by ABC, officials informed that the woman said she and Spitzer had been together at a bar at the hotel earlier Saturday evening. She reportedly told officers at the hospital that she and Spitzer argued, and that’s when it turned physical.
Police obtained a warrant for the woman’s cell phone and are looking for text messages between the two.
“I said it then, I’ve said it since”. The newspaper said the woman reappeared and was taken to a hospital where she told staffers Spitzer had attacked her. She said she would tell the police that she attempted suicide “as I had before”. “Manhattan detectives are now investigating allegations of an assault”. In 2013, Spitzer tried to get back into politics by running for New York’s comptroller position, but he ultimately lost the race.
Police went to the hotel Saturday after receiving a call of an emotionally disturbed person, the source said. He said Spitzer had heard from the woman last week. No arrests have been made and no other details are now available, said Detective Adam Navarro.
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Known as the “Sheriff of Wall Street” during his tenure as New York’s attorney general, Spitzer was elected governor in a landslide victory in 2006.
