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Do Politicos' Rendezvous Hotels Mirror Their Personalities?

Where: 215 West 94th Street [map], New York, United States, 10025
March 24, 2008 at 1:30 PM | by jennm | 0 Comments

Eliot Spitzer was widely known for his overly aggressive personality during his tenure as governor of New York--who can forget his "I'm a f***ing steamroller" comment, uttered when he wasn't getting what he wanted out of the New York State Legislature during his first few months as governor? So it makes sense that a man so entitled would choose one of Washington's most prestigious (and scandalous) hotel addresses, the Mayflower Hotel, to conduct an extra-marital affair.

Spitzer's replacement, David Paterson, has yet to outline his agenda as the state's new governor, but The New York Times has taken the liberty of reviewing the hotel where Paterson held his rendezvous with a woman who was not his wife: The Days Hotel Broadway on Broadway and 94th Street. If the property provides similar insight into Paterson's political personality, New Yorkers are in for an interesting tenure.

The Times reporter was only allowed to inspect the lobby--apparently all 250 rooms were booked full for the Easter holiday--and came up with this assessment:

"...[I]n light of the hotel's recent brush with fame, [the lobby] seemed rich with metaphors of deceit. The fake fireplace has an imitation stone mantle and sits near vases filled with plastic flowers. And among the faux books in the sham library were the disembodied spines of several copies of the politician's bible, 'The Prince' by Niccolò Machiavelli."

Now, we don't know which is worse: A governor who hires a high-class prostitute for a tryst in a $400-per-night hotel room in Washington's Mayfair Hotel, or a governor who takes his mistress to a Days Inn in the less tony section of New York's Upper West Side?

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Infidelity in Full Bloom at the Mayflower Hotel

Where: 1127 Connecticut Ave NW [map], Washington, DC, United States, 20036
March 20, 2008 at 4:07 PM | by jennm | 1 Comment

Following revelations that high-priced call girl "Kristen," a.k.a. Ashley Alexandra Dupré, met Client No. 9, alias Eliot Spitzer, at Washington's Mayflower Hotel, The New York Times has written a story that paints the property as an upscale bordello.

The article details the various dalliances and scandals that have gone down at the Marriott-owned property, naming it as a favorite of President Kennedy for his numerous indiscretions; as the place former Washington Mayor Marion S. Barry Jr. smoked crack; and where House members interviewed Monica Lewinsky during the impeachment of Bill Clinton--specifically, in the hotel's 10th-floor Presidential Suite. Oh, the irony.

Of course the daily comings and goings of the hotel, just steps from the White House, aren't all so lascivious. J. Edgar Hoover lunched there every day for 20 years and Franklin Roosevelt penned his first inaugural speech in Room 776, The Times points out.

But who cares? The details on how the hotel staff looked the other way at such gossip-worthy comings and goings are far more interesting. "We are in the business of selling rooms," an anonymous former manager of the Mayflower told the paper, "[a]nd the escort services are in the business of keeping our guests happy."

All of this leaves us wondering: How will this tally sheet affect the Mayflower's reputation? Will the Mayflower clean house of its staff? Or will the hotel become a pit stop on the "Sex Lives of Politicians" tour?

[Photo: dbking & Ashley]