Silda and Eliott Spitzer have officially gone their separate ways, but newly leaked documents reveal that Silda left the relationship with a $7.5 million lump sum, an additional $240,000 a year until she remarries or dies and a strict order not to talk to the press about the relationship.

Lis Smith handled communications for Bill de Blasio during his campaign and throughout his transition, and was widely expected to join him in the mayor's office. Instead, she was unceremoniously dumped from the job just before the new year. The reason was the public discovery that Smith is in a relationship with…

The spurned wife of former New York governor Eliot Spitzer, whose antics with prostitutes have been somewhat overshadowed by Anthony Weiner's penis this week, is reportedly fed up with it all, reports Page Six. The New York Post says that come November 6, we should all be on the lookout for some filed divorce papers,…

Ex-New York Governor Eliot Spitzer who paid to have sex with women and then paid the price by resigning from his job because this is America, is back in the spotlight, this time running for New York City Comptroller, which is basically a glorified (?) accountant. Of course, because of this, he will be asked to — and…

Both Anthony Weiner (who's running for New York City mayor) and Eliot Spitzer (who's running for New York City comptroller) are leading in their races right now. This is a big deal not only because the pair have seemingly recovered from their respective sex scandals, but because they — Weiner in particular — are now…

Known better by her working name, Kristen Davis aka the Manhattan Madam has declared that she's running for New York City Comptroller, immediately after former Governor Eliot Spitzer announced that he would be attempting to get back into politics in that very same office. “Gosh, it’s going to be a fun race!” Davis…

The latest development in the seemingly never-ending legal battle between the Anna Nicole Smith estate and the late J. Howard Marshall's son E. Pierce Marshall may see 6-year-old Dannielynn Birkhead, the daughter of Larry Birkhead and Anna Nicole, $49 million of the elder Marshall's fortune, estimated to be anywhere…

Eliot Spitzer's supposed to be a controversial and "polarizing" figure. So why does his new CNN show look so boring?

Around the time the married governor of a populous northeastern state resigned following revelations about high-priced call girls, a man I was having dinner with said that any man who claimed he'd never been to a prostitute was lying.

Yesterday, we learned that voters were polled on whether Barbara Boxer or Carly Fiorina has better hair. Even without the 2008 election's bombast (Hillary Clinton, Sarah Palin), the past year has been rather rocky for women in politics. Some lowlights:

Says Lloyd Grove on The Daily Beast: "Now, four weeks into his multimedia ordeal, Gore hasn't managed to formulate an effective PR strategy to counter the toxic fallout polluting his once-gleaming image."

Rumor has it that Eliot Spitzer is negotiating to take over the timeslot vacated by Campbell Brown for a Crossfire-style opinion show. By the laws of cable news symmetry, this means he'd get a conservative co-host — possibly a lady.

By this morning, scrutiny into Elena Kagan's private life — so suspiciously man-free at age 50 — has reached absurdist heights, with the White House trotting out friends to talk about which boys Kagan might have crushed on in college.

On her husband Eliot Spitzer's infidelities. [Politics Daily, via Washington Post]

The best part is how she can't even hide her revulsion. [Vintage_Ads]

• Six students from Rutgers have been arrested for violently paddling pledges and depriving them of food, all in the name of sisterhood. The women of Sigma Gamma Rho allegedly told the pledges that the beatings would "humble" them. •