While some of the tawdry deeds that got Eliot Spitzer in trouble occurred in Washington, Alex Gibney‘s upcoming documentary “Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer” doesn’t spend much time in the Mayflower Hotel.
It’s a wholly New York movie about the former New York governor, with the Mayflower making a cameo twice.
Same goes for Ashley Dupre, the woman Spitzer was with in Room 871. (Still a popular request at the hotel, by the way).
It turns out she was with Spitzer only that one time, and his preferred companion’s name was “Angelina.” While the real “Angelina” wouldn’t show her face in the film, she did talk to Gibney, who then had an actress play the escort.
And she cleared up a few things. First off: “The black socks things isn’t true,” she said. “He wore low-cut socks and he took them off.”
Good to know. She also called out Dupre for acting like a victim throughout the saga.
“It is such a load of crap,” Angelina said. “We are being paid a ridiculous amount of money.”
And she did recognize “George Fox” as Spitzer back when they were hooking up.
“I would have my little rants about New York City and what needed to be fixed,” she said, laughing.
Besides Spitzergate, Gibney spends a big chunk of the film detailing Spitzer’s crusading days as New York’s attorney general and illustrating his circle of enemies and why they wanted him taken down. The director also points out the parallels between the Spitzer prostitution case and that of the D.C. Madam Deborah Palfrey, blaming partisan politics for why Spitzer stepped down and yet former Louisiana Republican Sen. David Vitter, who called for prostitutes during congressional roll call votes, still has a job.
Instead of blaming anyone, Spitzer points the finger at himself.
“It wasn’t an addiction, it was a desire,” he said. “My view is that I brought myself down.”
“Client 9” hits D.C. theaters Nov. 12.
