Russian accused of blackmailing ex
Eliot Spitzer
NEW YORK (AP) â  A Russian woman who was accused of blackmailing disgraced former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer  is seeking to lift a court-mandated gag order so  she  can talk about what  she  says are  Spitzer 's fetishes.
The New York Post reports Svetlana Zakharova filed papers in Manhattan state Supreme Court seeking to lift the gag order imposed as part of  her  prosecution.
Zakharova called police in February 2016 claiming  Spitzer  had choked  her .  Spitzer  said  she  was extorting  him .
 She  later was arrested and charged with forgery and grand larceny.  She  eventually pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of trying to steal from another man.
 Spitzer  spokeswoman Lisa Linden calls Zakharova's new allegations "reprehensible lies from an extortionist."
A prostitution scandal forced  Spitzer   a Democrat  to resign as governor in 2008.
NEW YORK (AP) â  A Russian woman who was accused of blackmailing disgraced former New York Gov.  [TGT]   is seeking to lift a court-mandated gag order so  she  can talk about what  she  says are  Spitzer 's fetishes.
The New York Post reports Svetlana Zakharova filed papers in Manhattan state Supreme Court seeking to lift the gag order imposed as part of  her  prosecution.
Zakharova called police in February 2016 claiming  Spitzer  had choked  her .  Spitzer  said  she  was extorting  him .
 She  later was arrested and charged with forgery and grand larceny.  She  eventually pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of trying to steal from another man.
 Spitzer  spokeswoman Lisa Linden calls Zakharova's new allegations "reprehensible lies from an extortionist."
A prostitution scandal forced  Spitzer   a Democrat  to resign as governor in 2008.