Lila Kirton

Lila Kirton was an Assistant Attorney General under Eliot Spitzer. She is currently director of community affairs in the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs. According to New York Sun reports, Kirton is the staffer with whom David Paterson admitted to having an affair. With the resignation of Spitzer, Kirton is now working directly under Paterson.

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• The Washington Post: Paterson: Campaign 'Might Have' Paid for Hotel Tryst (March 20, 2008)
• New York Daily News: Gov. Paterson admits bedding women, jealousy over wife's affair (March 19, 2008)
  • Paterson says he never supervised Kirton and never used government funds to support the affair.

• New York Daily News: Woman with whom gov had affair once on staff for Spitzer, now works for him (March 19, 2008)
  • The New York Daily News notes that Lila Kirton "bears an uncanny esemblance to Paterson's wife..."

• The New York Times: IN BUSINESS; A Billion-Dollar Fund-Raising Machine (March 9, 2003)
  • "When her twins, Parris and Brandon Lloyd, were born eight weeks prematurely, they were given surfactant therapy for their lungs and she was able to deliver at a hospital nearby. Ms. Kirton credits her children's positive outcome to both factors."