Looks like former Gov. Eliot Spitzer isn’t getting any love from his alma mater.
The Harvard Club has turned down Spitzer’s membership application because the ritzy organization does not want to be associated with the love gov’s prostitution scandal that forced him to resign in 2008.
His spokeswoman Lisa Linden said: “The decision by the Harvard Club’s admissions committee is disappointing.”
She added that last year, the school “asked Eliot to speak on ethics at the school. He supports the institution financially. It would seem that whoever made this decision at the club is not on the same page as the university itself.”
Nicole Parent, the club’s president, declined to comment on the Spitzer snub.
Applications are rarely rejected.
Spitzer is a 1984 graduate of Harvard Law School and gave a lecture at the university’s Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics last November.
The Harvard Club is housed in a 1894 building on West 44th Street.
On its website, the Harvard Club says in its mission statement that it aims to promote “fellowship among its members.”
Spitzer was the person known only as “Client No. 9” in a federal affidavit about a high-priced prostitution ring.
According to the affidavit, Spitzer arranged to meet a prostitute, later identified as Ashley Dupre, from the Emperors Club VIP in Washington, DC a day before he was to testify at a congressional hearing.
Spitzer has spent the past two years trying to rehab his image.
His new show, Parker Spitzer, which debuted earlier this month, averaged less than 500,000 viewers in its first week, finishing a distant third behind 8 p.m. counterparts Bill O’Reilly on Fox News Channel and liberal Keith Olbermann on MSNBC.
The Post reported that booking guests on the show has been so last-minute that CNN has not been able to issue press releases on upcoming names, as it does for its other shows.
With AP