Metro

Spitzer & Lis overshadow de Blasio announcement

Bill de Blasio’s choice for the city’s top lawyer was overshadowed Sunday by his spokeswoman’s affair with Eliot Spitzer and his daughter’s history of drug abuse.

The mayor-elect said flack Lis Smith was “on vacation,” to explain her absence during the run-up to his Wednesday inauguration. He refused to say whether she would have a job in his administration.

De Blasio also wouldn’t say if daughter Chiara, 19, ever used anything harder than the alcohol and pot she confessed to in a Christmas Eve video.

“I think the video speaks for itself,” he said.

“I think it’s quite clear that exactly what she said is exactly what happened.”

He said he and wife Chirlane McCray paid for the video but wouldn’t provide the cost or any details of its production.

A de Blasio spokesman later confirmed political ad whiz John Del Cecato was behind it.

Del Cecato produced the memorable campaign ad featuring de Blasio’s son, Dante.

At Sunday’s Manhattan news conference (right), de Blasio introduced ex-Brooklyn US Attorney Zachary Carter as the city’s next corporation counsel.

De Blasio reiterated his intent to drop the city’s appeal of the court order imposing guidelines on the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk tactics.

He also said the city will settle a suit brought by the Central Park Five, who were imprisoned for the rape of jogger Trisha Meili based on confessions made while teens.

De Blasio said “a huge injustice was done” in the case.

As US Attorney, Carter prosecuted the Abner Louima police-brutality case and “Wolf of Wall Street” Jordan Belfort.

“If anyone has worked to end the tale of two cities, that person is Zach Carter,” the mayor-elect said.

Carter, 63, is a partner at Dorsey & Whitney, where his clients include state Sen. John Sampson (D-Brooklyn), accused of embezzling nearly $500,000.