from www.nydailynews.com – ABC News correspondent Chris Cuomo may not have the juice to get Kristin Davis a pardon from his brother, but the former Manhattan Madam (and 2010 gubernatorial candidate) would appreciate it if he could exert some pull to get the interview she just did with him to air.
Davis tells us that on Thursday, she gave Gov. Cuomo’s little bro what was at the time an exclusive TV interview regarding former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s alleged use of prostitutes.
The segment was supposed to run on Friday’s installment of “20/20,” but never did.
Davis says the Disney-owned network went so far as to promote the interview during “Good Morning America” on Friday, but then didn’t air any of it. A spokesman for ABC News tells us that the interview was “cut for time” and “could still be used.”
The network rep explains that the producers were doing a time line of the Strauss-Kahn scandal and had “too much material” for the time allotted.
Davis has been in demand with the media since she gave an interview to The Times of London in which she claimed that Strauss-Kahn was once a client.
Davis spent four months at Rikers Island for promoting prostitution in 2008. She was caught up in the wake of reports that former Gov. Eliot Spitzer, who she claims was a client, had used call girls. (Spitzer resigned as a result.)
Last year, Davis ran for governor on a platform that included legalizing the world’s oldest profession — and, along with then-attorney general Andrew Cuomo, participated in last October’s gubernatorial debate.
After the London Times interview hit the Internet, Davis agreed to talk to ABC and found herself being questioned by Chris, 40. She says she “broke the ice” by telling him that it was “surreal” to be talking to him after debating his sibling.
She says Chris told her, “Yes, we were very scared when we heard you were coming” to the debate.
Chris, she says, also deadpanned, “I’m much more handsome than my brother.”
During another off-camera moment, Davis says she joked, “Do you think you could talk to Andrew about a pardon?”
“I don’t have that much influence,” she says he replied, then added, “But you know you love Andrew.”
Davis says that, in fact, she does like the job that the governor has done so far.
She was less complimentary of Spitzer, whom, she says, she named in her interview with Chris about Strauss-Kahn’s reportedly “aggressive” behavior with call girls. We talked about Spitzer,” Davis says. “We talked about why powerful men do the things they do. I told him it all comes down to ego. I called it the Spitzer Effect.”