Eliot Spitzer made $200,000 per month for his failed hosting gig on a short-lived talk show on CNN, his tax filings reveal.
The 10-month show with two names, first “Parker Spitzer” and then “In the Arena,” earned Spitzer more than $2 million — including at least $1 million after the show went off the air in August 2011.
“I have no comment at all. That’s what they paid me,” said Spitzer, who resigned as governor in 2008, when asked in Brooklyn about the golden parachute.
A CNN spokeswoman said, “We don’t comment on contracts.”
Spitzer’s tax filings put his family income in 2011 at $3.7 million — most of it from work related to his and his father’s lucrative real-estate dealings.
Spitzer and his wife, Silda, took home nearly $4.3 million in 2012, buoyed by the generous CNN payment.
