OY VEY!7:30 PM, April 14, 2010 ι By MAGGIE HABERMAN
Eliot Spitzer was once so voracious for sex that he ordered three different hookers for three separate visits - all in the span of a few hours in one day, an explosive new book claims.
The passage from Peter Elkind's "Rough Justice: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer," describes how the Attorney General-turned-governor procured the women from his favored service, the Emperors Club VIP, using the alias "George Fox."
Here's the passage from page 122:
"On one occasion, George Fox had booked an appointment in the late morning at the Mark Hotel, on the Upper East Side, just five minutes' walk from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. As usual, he paid the girl in cash - about $1,200 an hour. Not long after it was over, he called (the booker) back, wanting to see a second escort. 'Who else is around?' he asked. (the booker) made the arrangements.
Then, late that afternoon, (Spitzer) called again.
'You're going to think I'm crazy,' he began. 'But can you send somebody else right now?'
He wanted a third girl? The booker chuckled: "You must be Superman! The man of steel!" (The booker) found him another girl. It wasn't even dark yet."
According to Elkind, Spitzer also flew in one of his favorites - whom the author dubs "Angelina" - to San Juan while he was attending the Somos conference in 2007. She left the same day that Spitzer's wife Silda arrived to spend the weekend with him.
And in a heartbreaking moment at the book's end, former Spitzer confidante Lloyd Constantine claims the disgraced pol's wife, Silda, was so tormented by trying to understand what happened that she blamed herself, questioning whether it was her "failing" in their sex life that caused it.
There's also lots of political intrigue, including an assertion that Mario Cuomo told a Spitzer aide in 2006 that the Attorney General was "unfit to be governor" -because of a "man and a woman" problem.
The book reveals the anecdote and sources it to Dopp, who was long Spitzer's spokesman until he was ousted in the "Troopergate" scandal and, he said, made the fall guy unfairly.
Elkind - who repeatedly interviewed Spitzer for the book - also asserts that the former governor ordered three different prostitutes from his favored escort service in a single day.
The tome - which goes onsale early next week but was purchased by The Post at a city bookstore - dives deep into the role Dopp played as go-between with his then-boss Spitzer and the Cuomo family, which wanted the Attorney General to endorse Andrew Cuomo's candidacy.
Mario Cuomo, for whom Dopp once worked, repeated said Spitzer had no "honor," according to the book.
The passage, on page 120, reads this way:
"You don't understand," Cuomo finally declared, his voice quavering with emotion. "He's unfit to be governor. He's a bad man."
Dopp was shocked. Why was Cuomo saying this? Was it because of how ELiot had financed his old campaigns?
"No, it's about more than that," Cuomo cryptically replied, according to Dopp. "It's about the relationship between a man and a woman." He wouldn't go any further.
At another point in the book, Spitzer insists - over the denials of Andrew Cuomo - that the AG threatened to re-open the Troopergate probe if the then-governor kept sliming the report. The piece deals with the tension between the two men after Cuomo's Troopergate report, including Spitzer snubbing Cuomo at a state Democratic Party event around that time.
According to Spitzer, he told Cuomo that saying he would re-open the probe "would be called extortion."
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