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HIS TRYST WITH KRISTEN

She was waiting for him near the king-sized bed in Room 871, a stunningly sexy, petite brunette who called herself “Kristen.”

She knew Client-9 had paid good money – $4,300 – for what would be their few hours of steamy sex together at Washington, DC’s historic Mayflower Hotel on the day before Valentine’s Day, in a deal brokered several days earlier by her pimp back in New York.

When her excited, distinguished-looking john arrived to the cozy room, she text-messaged her madam to say he was there.

The alleged madam, Temeka Rachelle Lewis of Brooklyn, next heard from Kristen less than 2½ hours later to say the john was gone and that “she thought it went very well,” according to an explosive criminal complaint unmasking the prostitution ring.

“Kristen said that she liked him and that she did not think he was difficult,” the complaint said, based on wiretaps.

Lewis continued that from what she had been told, “He would ask you to do things that, like, you might not think were safe – you know – I mean that . . . very basic things.”

“Kristen” responded: ‘I have a way of dealing with that. . . . I’d be like, ‘Listen, dude. You really want the sex?’ . . . You know what I mean.”

“Kristen” was new to the Emperors Club VIP, a high-priced call-girl operation, but it’s clear she knew the rules of the game.

It’s more murky whether she knew who her john was – even though several of her call-girl coworkers had reportedly already discovered the startling truth.

He went by the name “George Fox.” But at least several of the prostitutes had already figured out his real identity after numerous past encounters, the New York Times reported: Gov. Eliot Spitzer, the very married, sex-crime-fighting former attorney general.

Spitzer was a regular with Emperor, according to the complaint that contains the extraordinary details of the governor’s tryst with the curvy bombshell: haggling over the price – and a down payment on future services – as well as the kind of sex the governor wanted.

When it came to setting up payment, “Client-9” – identified by law-enforcement sources as Spitzer – told Lewis, “Same as in the past, no question about it.”

He wouldn’t do “traditional wire transferring,” Lewis noted.

Instead, he paid for the room at the Mayflower “in his own name” and that “what he had on account with [the escort service] covered the transportation” for Kristen to Washington from New York. He booked her on Amtrak, aboard a cheap, regional train rather than the fancier, more expensive, Acela.

After being told by Lewis that the financial end of the seamy deal had been taken care of, Spitzer asked who his “date” would be.

Told it was “Kristen,” he gushed, “Great, OK, wonderful,” according to the complaint.

But later, the governor apparently needed a little reminder of what “Kristen” looked like.

“Lewis said that she was an American, petite, very pretty brunette, 5 feet, 5 inches and 105 pounds,” the complaint noted.

Before their hookup, the madam said she needed to know from “Client-9” whether Kristen would have to give a name or simply tell the hotel concierge that she was one of his guests and pick up an envelope with a key to the room. Kristen didn’t want to have to give her name.

It was decided that she should just go up to the room, where the door would be open, and she could then walk right in and wait for him there.

Spitzer would be billed for four hours at Kristen’s usual rate of $1,000 per hour.

While he may have skimped on her train fare, he proved to be more generous in the end: He left $4,300 in the room after the two hour-plus tryst.

Kristen later told Lewis that she didn’t mind “difficult” clients because “I mean, it’s just kind of, like . . . whatever . . . I’m here for a purpose. I know what my purpose is. I am not a . . . moron.

“So maybe that’s why girls maybe think they’re difficult. . . . Let’s not get it twisted, I know what I do, you know.”

Spitzer has not been charged in relation to the multimillion-dollar prostitution ring.

The now-notorious business would rank its hookers on a seven-diamond scale on its Web site and then charge its wealthy clientele accordingly for “dates,” court papers said.

Its operators allegedly raked in more than $1 million with a stable of 50 girls who serviced clients in New York, Washington, LA, San Francisco, Chicago, Miami, Las Vegas, London, Paris and Vienna.

Besides Lewis, those arrested in the ring were Mark Brener, 62, and Cecil “Katie” Suwal, 23, who live together in Cliffside Park, NJ.

Brener is the alleged mastermind, while Suwal – who routinely dressed in fishnet stockings and short skirts – was the banker.

Also busted was Tanya Hollander, 36, of upstate Rhinebeck; both she and Lewis were the alleged booking agents who assigned women to clients around the city and the world.

With the incredible liaison, Spitzer continued a grand Democratic Party sex-scandal tradition by carrying on with a prostitute at the opulent Mayflower Hotel – which bills itself as “Washington’s Second Best Address” after the White House.

President John F. Kennedy’s mistress Judith Campbell Exner stayed at the Mayflower for a two-year period. She secretly shuttled back and forth between the hotel and the White House when his wife, Jacqueline, was away.

The Mayflower also was featured prominently during President Bill Clinton’s impeachment proceedings over his affair with Monica Lewinsky.

Lewinsky was grilled by congressional investigators at the hotel about having sex with Clinton, an affair he lied about.

Hotel guests yesterday were stunned that hookers plied their trade there.

“I didn’t know this was the Red Light District,” chortled one visitor.

One hotel worker recalled Spitzer’s stay but didn’t see any girls with him.

Four blocks from the White House, the Mayflower promotes “lush” apartments for government officials and visiting foreign diplomats requiring long-term stays.

“Special guests enjoy a separate entrance and elevator, and quarters that feature a large living room, dressing room, breakfast room and small kitchen, as well as multiple bedrooms and bathrooms,” the hotel said.

cathy.burke@nypost.com