Disgraced “Luv Gov” Eliot Spitzer likes to take long romantic walks — at the end of a leash, new court papers claim.
The hooker-happy former governor’s fetishes include a penchant for paying “young girls” to lead him around “on all fours” like a dog — and use kinky sex toys on him, former escort Svetlana Travis Zakharova alleged.
Zhakharova, who last month struck a misdemeanor plea bargain after being charged with extorting $400,000 from Spitzer, filed the stunningly revealing papers in Manhattan Supreme Court, seeking to lift a gag order imposed as part of her prosecution.
The 27-year-old Russian native says she has a First Amendment right to “discuss any and all actions or events that she participated in with Spitzer.”
“Moreover, the fact that Spitzer was paying young girls to insert sex toys into his anal cavity and walk him around the floor on all fours with a leash is conduct that he made a conscious choice to engage in,” wrote her lawyer, Joseph Murray.
Zakharova also accused Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark — who served as special prosecutor in her case — of seeking the Feb. 15 gag order as part of a “desperate” bid to protect Spitzer because he’s a “rich, powerful man.”
“If these facts are embarrassing to Spitzer and his family then shame on Spitzer for engaging in the conduct in the first place and shame on the Bronx DA for catering to Spitzer by trying to suppress [Zakharova’s] right to free speech,” the court papers say.
A pair of color photos attached to Zakharova’s filing show an array of items — including a short, black leather leash, a variety of sex toys and five wrapped condoms — seized from her following a bloody Feb. 13, 2016, incident involving Spitzer at the Plaza Hotel.
Zakharova says she phoned 911 after an attack in which Spitzer beat and strangled her, calling her a “Russian whore” and asking, “What am I paying you for?” when she refused to have sex with him.
She also says in the filing that official NYPD notes show Spitzer “got defensive” and tried to throw his weight around when cops arrived at the scene, saying, “Do you know who I am?” and “Should I call Bill?,” in reference to then-NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton.
Spitzer, 58, also allegedly reverted to form when he tried to check on Zakharova after she was taken for treatment at Mount Sinai West hospital.
Spitzer twice called the hospital, then showed up in person — wearing a hat to hide his face — but each time identified himself as “George,” court papers say.
In 2008, Spitzer was infamously revealed to have used the pseudonym “George Fox” — the name of a longtime friend and supporter — to book a room at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, DC, for a romp with a high-priced hooker.
Spitzer’s exposure as the black socks-wearing “Client-9” in a federal prostitution probe led to his resignation as the state’s chief executive.
Spitzer’s then-wife, Silda Wall Spitzer, grimly stood by her cheating hubby during that scandal.
But she finally gave him the heave-ho in 2013 after The Post exclusively revealed his since-ended affair with Democratic political consultant Lis Smith, who at the time was a spokeswoman for Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio.
In addition to lifting the gag order, Zakharova’s post-conviction motion seeks to disqualify Clark, with her lawyer noting that he believes “there is evidence of corruption we want to make public.”
Clark was special prosecutor in Zakharova’s case after Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance bowed out over his close ties to Spitzer.
Both men are Democrats and former political allies, and some of Vance’s top aides formerly worked for Spitzer, who was New York attorney general before being elected governor.
Zakharova claims that Spitzer “was required, under New York law, to be arrested” following the Plaza Hotel incident, and notes that Spitzer’s lawyer, Adam Kaufmann, is a former high-ranking Manhattan prosecutor.
She also alleges that “for some unknown reasons,” the case was transferred from Manhattan’s Midtown North Precinct — where detectives “were postured to arrest Spitzer” — and transferred to the Bronx Homicide Squad.
The Bronx DA’s Office now “has no intention [of] arresting or prosecuting Spitzer,” her filing says.
The filing also seeks the return of the cellphones and an iPad seized from her when she was arrested, saying they contain recoverable video and audio records of Spitzer threatening to kill her and her family.
Although Zakharova was accused of extorting Spitzer, she copped a plea to attempted petit larceny on Oct. 2 for trying to steal rent money from another ex-lover, toy store owner Paul Nippes.
She was sentenced on the spot to 90 days’ time served, following nearly a year in custody since her arrest at JFK Airport in October 2016.
At the time, a law enforcement source told The Post she scored the sweet deal because neither Spitzer nor Nippes want to air their dirty laundry by testifying against her.
Spitzer’s spokeswoman, Lisa Linden, called the allegations in Zakharova’s court filing “reprehensible lies from an extortionist” and said “the record in this case and her guilty plea speak for themselves.”
The Bronx DA’s Office declined to comment, saying it hadn’t yet received the court papers.
Additional reporting by Rebecca Rosenberg, Priscilla DeGregory and Bruce Golding