Former Gov. Eliot Spitzer is asking a decide to dismiss a lawsuit towards him from escort Svetlana Travis
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Eliot Spitzer has requested a decide to think about tossing the remainder of a lawsuit filed by his accuser and Russian escort Svetlana Travis — as components of her go well with had been simply made public.
The alleged $5,000-a-night name woman filed go well with towards the disgraced former governor in 2020 however the case was filed below seal and solely partially made public not too long ago after The Put up and one other media outlet petitioned a decide.
In October, Manhattan Supreme Court docket Justice Paul Goetz ordered that the parts of Travis’ go well with regarding her bombshell allegations that Spitzer choked her throughout a intercourse session gone flawed on the Plaza Lodge on Feb. 13, 2016, can be unsealed.
Goetz’s order additionally dismissed all of Travis’ allegations towards Spitzer besides the one regarding the Plaza Lodge incident.
An unsealed, however nonetheless closely redacted, model of Travis’ go well with was filed on Dec. 16 however solely not too long ago made accessible to the general public.
A letter from Spitzer’s lawyer Adam Kaufmann asking Goetz to permit him to file a movement to dismiss the remainder of her go well with was additionally made public.
“Plaintiff launched this motion as a part of her effort to extract revenge towards Mr. Spitzer, his household and anybody remotely near him after she was prosecuted and jailed for her extortive scheme towards Mr. Spitzer and one other sufferer,” Kaufmann wrote in a letter to Goetz solely made public this week.
“Plaintiff’s personal filings to the court docket reveal that her single remaining declare can't be sustained,” Kaufmann wrote asking to file a movement for abstract judgment.
Of the newly unsealed go well with, Kaufmann stated, “There may be nothing new in these allegations. They've been investigated by legislation enforcement and dismissed as full fabrications.
“In reality, Ms. Travis herself despatched an electronic mail unequivocally apologizing and retracting the allegations the day after she initially made them,” Kaufmann continued in an announcement. “We're happy the court docket dismissed many of the counts and are assured the remainder of the case will comply with.”
Travis was sentenced to 90 days time served in 2017 after she pleaded responsible to tried petit larceny for attempting to steal hire from one other ex-lover. The plea deal meant she didn’t should cop to expenses accusing her of extorting $400,000 from Spitzer to maintain quiet about their affair.
In 2017, Spitzer filed go well with towards Travis accusing her of fraud and extortion however he dropped the case just some months later.
Travis’ lawyer Joseph Murray filed a response letter Tuesday opposing Spitzer’s request to make a movement for abstract judgment, alleging that Spitzer’s aspect has filed motions which have delayed the case from transferring ahead.
Murray additionally disputed all of Kaufmann’s assertions from his letter alleging that Travis, not Spitzer, was the actual sufferer and claiming that the ex-guv threatened Travis to maintain her from totally cooperating with officers over the Feb. 13 incident.
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