‘Bully’ Spitz
Harass complaint vs. ‘steamroller’ ex-gov
A FORMER Wall Street tycoon filed a complaint alleging that ex-Gov. Eliot Spitzer threatened his life — and his manhood — inside an Upper East Side restaurant, cops said Sunday.
Jamie Antolini filed an harassment complaint with the NYPD last Friday against the disgraced “Love Gov,” officials said.
Spitzer, 58, flipped out when he overheard Antolini say Spitzer foe Ken Langone’s name at Avra Madison Esitatorio on Jan. 2, the one-time financier claims.
In the complaint, Antolini, 48, claims Spitzer approached his table and told him, “I’ll f---ing kill you. I will have you killed. I’m going to stab you in the c--k with a f---ing knife.”
“I was at a business dinner, basically interviewing for a job, and was discussing Ken Langone and he doesn’t like Ken Langone,” Antolini said. “He overheard me talking about Langone, and he freaked out — threatened my life.”
Langone, a businessman and investment banker, has reportedly clashed with Spitzer in the past.
“I didn’t respond until the third or fourth time when I no longer felt safe and I wasn’t sure,” Antolini added. “He had walked away, came back, walked away, came back, screaming in my face, threatening my life.”
“The people I was with are still in shock,” Antolini said. “I just don’t understand how anybody can make those comments.”
“I believe that there may be many more victims of Eliot Spitzer’s threatening, bullying and otherwise abusive tactics who will come forward when the ‘steamroller’ is finally arrested by the NYPD,” said Antolini’s lawyer Joseph Murray.
A spokeswoman for Spitzer denied the accusations.
“There was an argument started and provoked by an Avra patron. Mr. Spitzer was at a dinner celebrating his mother’s 90th birthday,” Lisa Linden said in a statement. “The patron persisted in making aggressive remarks, which Mr. Spitzer initially ignored. An argument ensued, but at no time did he make any threats.”
Earlier this month, Svetlana Zakharova Travis, who claims she carried on a longtime affair with the pervy pol, said she had him on tape berating her and making disturbing threats.
“You know what’s going to happen to you? You’re going to be f---ing dead,” says the man in the recording, identified as Spitzer by Murray, who’s also representing Travis.
The man in the recording also tells Travis she will die a “slow, painful death.”
The former politician, who fell from grace after getting caught patronizing high-priced escorts, has not been arrested in relation to the incident with Antolini, according to authorities. It wasn’t immediately clear if he was being questioned.