His wife knew what was going on. She had her own agenda which included a Senate bid in 2012. Feel sorry for their children who are the ones who are really going to be left scared by all this horrible behavior.
Spitzer’s wife is gorgeous and the 24 year old Kerstin cannot match her at all (except Kerstin probably has a better political mind than that Harvard educated feminist).
That being said, women are legal at 18 and there is mostly no social stigma, even in the USA, for men of any age to be with them, nor should there be IMO...although that 80 year old with Anna Nicole Smith was too much. :-)
McCain, Thompson and Giuliani were not harmed politically for having wives young enough to be their daughters. Fred was the FR favorite and he was 42 when his future wife was 18. Kucinich probably gets all of his 2% of voters from jealous young men who like his much younger wife.
Ben Kingsley, Nicholas Cage...married to much younger foreigners.
To someone old enough that 10 years is a small time period, it is admittedly weird to think that a 24 year old was just a 14 year old only ten years ago. But nobody needs to go through that mental exercise. All psychologists agree that 18 is an adult age.
Spitzer’s kids look a good deal younger than 18.