Eliot Spitzer has been spending time away from his family home and staying over at 800 Fifth Ave., a building owned by his father, Bernard Spitzer.
Sources exclusively tell us the disgraced former governor has been regularly spotted at the new address — less than 20 blocks from the home he shares with wife Silda Spitzer at 985 Fifth — for at least a month.
One source said Spitzer, 53, has a two-bedroom apartment at 800 Fifth that usually rents for about $14,000 a month. He has been spotted leaving the building for his regular early morning jog around Central Park.
Spitzer spokeswoman Lisa Linden confirmed the ex-gov was “spending time in the building [800 Fifth],” but explained it was in order to “spend more time with his ailing parents, who live there.”
Linden added that Eliot and Silda, who married in 1987, were “still a couple,” and he had not permanently moved out of their marital home.
Silda, a co-vice chair of the Urban Green Council, stood by his side when the “Luv Guv” scandal broke five years ago, and has done so ever since. A very private person, she has never commented on Eliot’s patronizing of prostitutes or why she chose to stay in the marriage.
Another source tells us that 89-year-old real-estate developer and philanthropist Bernard Spitzer, whose fortune is estimated at more than $500 million, has recently been very unwell, suffering from Parkinson’s Disease.
Bernard’s empire includes both 985 and 800 Fifth Ave., the Corinthian on First Avenue and 38th Street and apartment buildings at 200 and 210 Central Park South.
The source said, “Eliot has been running the company while his father has been sick.” But the source added, “Eliot and Silda’s three daughters have all gone to college and left home; it is not unusual for empty-nest couples to start doing things separately.”