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 ...

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 ...

Perhaps you’ve noticed this lately: It’s remarkably easy to distract people from substantive issues by telling them entertaining stories, whether or not they bear any relationship to the truth. (E.g.: ...

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 ...

Alex Gibney's "Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer" is on firm and infuriating ground when it puts forward the idea that the one guy who was doing something about Wall Street BEFORE the Great ...

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 ...