NY police investigate assault claim against ex-Gov. Spitzer

According to a statement by the Office of the Deputy Commissioner of the New York Police Department, Manhattan detectives are now investigating the incident in response to allegations of an assault. “Through an ongoing investigation, we are attempting to further establish the identity of the subject and the nature of the incident”. Spitzer’s spokeswoman says the claim is untrue. Sources say Spitzer responded, “everything’s fine, there’s no problem”. The woman, Svetlana Travis, is said to have told police the two had been together for the past two years.

Inside the room where the woman was staying, police removed several items as possible evidence, according to a law enforcement official. Police left, but for some reason returned, and that is when they spotted blood and broken glass.

The 25-year-old woman flew to her native Russia Sunday, a move that puts her out of reach of the NYPD and likely ends any risk Spitzer would be charged, said one of the sources. She left on a plane Sunday evening. She said she would tell the police that she attempted suicide “as I had before”. It appears some information on the phone was wiped remotely, according to the official.

On Saturday night, the woman called 911 and cops rushed to the fifteenth floor where they reportedly found the former governor. She was rushed to Mt. Sinai hospital.

Former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer is denying allegations of choking a woman during a hotel altercation. The woman is now back in Russian Federation. Police have not spoken to her since her departure.

It was unclear when the woman met Spitzer, who was divorced in 2014 from his wife Silda in the aftermath of revelations that he partied with prostitutes, a scandal that forced him to resign as governor in 2008.

FILE – In this August 22, 2013 file photo, former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer participates in a primary debate for New York City comptroller in the WCBS-TV studios, in New York. Oh yes: in July 2015 the Times reported that, having had his short-lived CNN show canceled back in 2011, he was working in the family real estate business.