Book and film follow Spitzer’s scandal

Eliot Spitzer, who stood down as New York state governor in March after it was revealed he'd patronised a high-priced prostitution service called Emperors Club VIP, is not going to be allowed to forget his moments of madness any time soon. Not only have Penguin Books signed up an investigative journalist to write a book about the affair, but that author is also making a film to accompany it.

The book, as yet untitled, will be written by the editor-at-large of Fortune magazine Peter Elkind. For the movie, Elkind will be collaborating with filmmaker Alex Gibney. The pair previously worked together on Gibney's Oscar-nominated film adaptation of Elkind's Enron: The Smartest Men in the Room.

Spitzer resigned in March after the New York Times reported he had spent time with $1,000-an-hour call girl Ashley Alexandra Dupre. Since then Spitzer has withdrawn from public life to lick his wounds. Dupre, however, has basked in the attention and has recently launched a $10m legal compensation suit after a film company released footage of her in a pornographic film, Girls Gone Wild, made when she was a 17-year-old.