Following the conversation, the former governor and the woman agreed to meet at The Plaza Hotel Saturday afternoon.
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“You tried to save me”, she wrote to Mr. Spitzer, according to the copy of the email provided by Mr. Kaufmann.
Sunday night, Lisa Linden, a spokeswoman for Spitzer said the allegations against him were false.
A lawyer for former Gov. Eliot Spitzer says no hotel room assault occurred, and that Spitzer was trying to help an emotionally troubled woman.
“This is someone that he had a relationship with in the past”, Kaufmann told the Times, although he would not say how how Spitzer and Travis knew each other.
Travis has apparently refused to press charges and had already left for Russian Federation. She sustained a small cut to the top of her wrist during the commotion, which prompted hotel officials to call police.
She suggested that she made up the assault story because she was scared she would be hospitalized for a long period.
A former New York Governor is being investigated in a possible assault case over the weekend.
The accuser, a woman in her 20s, had a cut on her arm and had been rushed to the hospital, according to initial reports. The couple broke up in December after about two years of dating. “The decision was the right one, in terms of what I felt was best for the state, for me”, Spitzer said.
The divorce was announced three days after Spitzer was seen leaving Lis Smith’s apartment; she was then working on the transition team for mayor-elect Bill de Blasio.
Travis reappeared, and the cops called EMS, which took her to Mount Sinai West Hospital, where she told staffers Spitzer had attacked her, sources said. She left on a flight to Russian Federation on Sunday evening, one official said.
FILE – In this August 22, 2013 file photo, former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer participates in a primary debate for New York City comptroller in the WCBS-TV studios, in New York.
That’s exactly what happened: the Spitzers announced they were divorcing in December of that year, about six weeks after that lost election.
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He was never charged, but in a federal investigation, he was identified as a patron of a high-priced prostitution ring.
