New York Daily News

Say Spitzer made wild knife threat

- BY NICOLE HENSLEY With John Annese

STICK A FORK in it, Luv Gov!

Disgraced former Gov. Eliot Spitzer threatened to knife a patron in the privates at a posh Midtown eatery for praising his longtime foe, philanthro­pist Kenneth Langone, according to the allegedly aggrieved diner.

Jamie Antolini said he was with potential business partners at Avra Madison Estiatorio on E. 60th St., near Fifth Ave., when he spied Spitzer, who resigned as governor in 2008 after he was outed as the high-priced prostitute patron “Client 9.”

“Spitzer lost his mind,” Antolini (photo left) told the Daily News.

“I’m going to f--king stab you with a f--king knife in the c--k,” the 48-year-old Antolini recalled Spitzer (photo right) spewing during the Jan. 2 flap.

Spitzer was walking by Antolini’s table when he heard the diner lauding Langone — the billionair­e who helped launch Home Depot — as an “amazing guy,” Antolini said.

“All I said was, ‘Ken Langone would have been the best President ever,’ ” Antolini recalled.

The spat dragged on for 20 minutes, in Antolini’s account. Security eventually escorted Spitzer from the upscale Greek restaurant, he said.

Antolini, who said he never saw a blade, did not file a police report, and the NYPD had no record of the encounter.

“This guy’s got issues, real problems,” Antolini said.

But Lisa Linden, a spokeswoma­n for Spitzer, blamed the brouhaha on Antolini and said Spitzer was simply there to celebrate his mother’s 90th birthday.

“The patron persisted in making aggressive remarks, which Mr. Spitzer initially ignored. An argument ensued, but at no time did he make any threats,” Linden said in a statement.

Spitzer was accused of attacking and threatenin­g Russian bombshell Svetlana Travis Zakharova two years ago in her Plaza hotel room after she told him she was returning to her homeland. Zakharova, 27, was arrested on countercha­rges. On Friday, she gave NYPD detectives an 18-second recording of what her lawyer said is Spitzer berating and threatenin­g her during a February 2016 phone call.

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