NEW YORK (WCBS 880) -- Former Gov. Eliot Spitzer is asking a judge to toss the remainder of a suit filed by accuser Svetlana Travis.
Travis, an alleged escort, brought the suit against the ex-gov. in 2020, but the case has only been partly made public after efforts made by the New York Post.
A Manhattan judge allowed for the suit to be somewhat unsealed in October, and also dismissed all but one allegation leveled against Spitzer.
The remaining allegation relates to an incident at the Plaza Hotel in February 2016 where Spitzer was accused of choking Travis, leaving her "scared for her life."
"Plaintiff launched this action as part of her effort to extract revenge against Mr. Spitzer, his family and anyone remotely close to him after she was prosecuted and jailed for her extortive scheme against Mr. Spitzer and another victim," Spitzer's lawyer Adam Kauffman wrote to the judge.
Kauffman told the Post that the latest allegations brought "nothing new" and that Travis has, "sent an email unequivocally apologizing and retracting the allegations the day after she initially made them."
Spitzer in 2017 filed a suit against Travis on allegations of fraud and extortion, but dropped it.
Travis' lawyer Joseph Murray fired back Tuesday, saying, "I write in opposition to defendant's letter ... in which Mr. Kaufmann continues to smear my client with false allegations ... All plaintiff has done is serve a summons and complaint. At what point does defendant's successive motions become an abuse of process?"
"To be clear, Eliot Spitzer is not now, nor has he ever been the victim of anything but the consequences of his own criminal acts. Those acts include his disgusting efforts to deceive, coerce, and forcibly compel a beautiful young lady, against her will, into doing whatever he wanted," Murray goes on to say.
Travis also got 90 days in prison in 2017 for petit larceny involving another partner.
Spitzer resigned as New York governor in 2008 after a New York Times report of him allegedly spent thousands patronizing an escort service.
