The admitted ex-hooker who accused former Gov. Eliot Spitzer of choking her inside the Plaza Hotel made similar allegations in a 2013 assault suit she filed against another man, court records show.
Svetlana Travis — who cops believe wrote a 2014 tell-all Web article about working as a $5,000-a-night call girl — claimed that Ernest Atayan “grabbed (her) by the neck, and hit her head on the countertop” in a Brooklyn apartment.
Travis’s Brooklyn Supreme Court suit further alleged that when she fell toward the floor, Atayan “kicked her in the butt, causing her to fall further.”
The incident allegedly unfolded around 3 a.m. on May 19, 2013, following a birthday party at the since-closed New Cats Cafe in Bay Ridge.
Travis and Atayan were among five people who helped Yana Dubrinkskaya carry home her presents and the leftover food, the suit says.
Atayan and two male friends allegedly “refused to leave the apartment,” with Atayan telling Travis “not to tell him ‘what to do,'” the suit says.
Court records show the case is no longer pending, and Atayan’s lawyer, Mitchell Elman, said Travis “made false accusations against my client.”
“No criminal charges were ever brought. She sued him civilly without success,” Elman said.
Lawyer Arkady Bukh, whose firm initially represented Travis, said: “On ethical grounds we’re no longer representing that lady.”
He declined to comment further.
Spitzer, who quit as governor in 2008 over a hooker scandal, has denied choking Travis inside a $1,000-a-night room at the Plaza on Saturday night.
She flew to her native Russia on Sunday after telling cops she didn’t want to press charges against the disgraced ex-pol.