If, like me, you wondered how someone could spend $80,000 on anything and not miss it, let alone have their partner notice, we have an answer.

The scion of a wealthy Manhattan real estate developer, Spitzer is a millionaire who could easily live off his share of his father’s real estate business.

He reported $1.9 million in income to the IRS in 2006.

Not including last year, his earnings have been $14.9 million since 1998, and that total only hints at his family’s wealth. His father, Bernard Spitzer, is said to be worth at least $500 million.

Spitzer’s tax returns show that a majority of his income comes from rents collected on apartments and shops owned by the family. As governor, he earned $179,000 a year.

His wife, Silda Wall Spitzer, gave up a lucrative career in corporate law in 1994.

One person might miss Spitzer’s various assets. Hillary Clinton just lost a superdelegate.

New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer and Lt. Gov. David Paterson are both in the Hillary Rodham Clinton camp. Spitzer was a superdelegate because he was governor, Paterson because he’s an at-large member of the Democratic National Committee. Now, Spitzer is out, so Clinton will lose a vote. Paterson occupies two “slots.” He could resign as a DNC member. But since it’s an at-large slot, his replacement could come from any state, and for either candidate. There are already two vacancies in at-large seats. There is no indication that Howard Dean plans to fill them.

But then, there is also no indication Howard Dean plans to do anything about anything.