In an FBI affidavit filed March 5 in Manhattan Federal Court, prosecutors described complex discussions about a payment for sending a hooker named “Kristen” on the train to Washington to meet Client 9 ...
From a redacted copy of the sealed complaint about the Emperor’s Club prostitution ring, we were able to extract the following details about Client 9’s dealings with the organization, and his ...
We all watched while Elliot Spitzer became a darling of the Democratic party in his role as New York's Attorney General, then as the state's Governor, and then as the latest politician to pull an ...
The documentary Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer focuses on the fluctuating fortunes of former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer and chronicles his journey through the controversies that ...
Alex Gibney’s Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer begins with a portentous saying about how mankind occupies the middle ground between angel and animal. This is the movie’s way of suggesting ...
CAN that really be Eliot Spitzer, the disgraced former governor of New York, smiling into the camera with his co-host, Kathleen Parker, on a new CNN talk show, or is it some kind of fever dream? Did ...
He forgot about the church ladies: The Rev. Floyd Flake had to withdraw his endorsement of Eliot Spitzer after his congregation erupted in anger. Ellis Kaplan The Rev. Floyd Flake, senior pastor of ...
You want tears? You want convulsive sobs, weepy remorse, pleadings for forgiveness? Well, look elsewhere, because Eliot Spitzer isn’t going to give them to you. What he will do in the documentary ...
Classical tragedy meets the tabloids in Alex Gibney’s irony-enriched “Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer,” which replays the ignominious crash-and-burn of the former New York governor as if ...
It's a hell of a year for documentaries. Another one to add to your list of docs to see by the end of the year is Alex Gibney's Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer, an investigative inside ...