The man whose name Gov. Spitzer used as his alias in his hookup with a prostitute is a high-powered hedge-fund manager, political donor – and one of Spitzer’s best buddies.
Spitzer used the name “George Fox” when he checked into a Washington, DC, hotel to rendezvous with a high-priced call girl, sources said.
Fox, the president of Titan Advisors – and one of the few allies the governor has on Wall Street – praised Spitzer at one of his 2003 political fund-raisers as someone who was “keeping an eye on [investors’] best interests.”
Fox could not immediately be reached for comment.
But a source close to the governor denied that Fox was involved in anything untoward after Spitzer was named as a john who had a steamy tryst with a call girl named “Kristen” at the Mayflower Hotel.
“George has nothing to do with the allegations,” the source said.
The hedge-fund manager has donated $140,000 to Spitzer’s campaigns for governor and state attorney general going back to 1998, campaign-disclosure records show.
He travels in the most well-heeled circles, once rubbing elbows with movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, Cablevision CEO Jim Dolan and actress Bernadette Peters at a $2 million fund-raiser for Spitzer, where he applauded the governor’s efforts on behalf of Wall Street investors.
Fox’s firm, Titan, was founded more than 16 years ago, according to its Web site. The site trumpets the firm’s “longstanding relationships with some of the world’s most sought-after asset managers.”
Fox began his career as a floor trader at the Coffee, Sugar and Cocoa Exchange and the Commodity Exchange in 1984, according to his biography.
He moved on to create his own hedge-fund advisory firm in 1992.
He rolled his $650 million business into Titan in 2001.