Spitzer’s Wife Gave Up Lawyer Job for Family
Eliot Spitzer’s wife gave up a career as a corporate lawyer at a big law firm for her family.
Silda Wall Spitzer met her ambitious husband at Harvard Law School, and the couple married in 1987, the New York Post reports. The couple seemed like the perfect pair, Eliot Spitzer’s former roommate, Clifford Sloan, told the New York Times in 2006.
A friend of the couple, Carl Mayer, described the relationship this way: “He’s kind of rough edges and ambition, and she’s tremendous charm.”
She had formerly worked at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, and then as in-house counsel for Chase Manhattan Bank. At Skadden she billed about 3,200 hours a year and made more money than her husband. But she gave up the work to concentrate on family and to start a philanthropic foundation called Children for Children, which helps kids participate in community service.
Silda Wall Spitzer stood by her husband’s side yesterday when he made a statement to the media following allegations that a government wiretap had caught him hiring a high-priced prostitute. Her eyes filled with tears and “she looked like a woman whose world had just come crashing down,” the Post says.
A hat tip to the Wall Street Journal Law Blog, which posted the stories.
