Disgraced New York governor Eliot Spitzer may have wanted to set a romantic mood for his alleged rendezvous with his high-priced call girl.  Shortly before he met the prostitute inside a luxury VIP suite at Washington, D.C.'s Mayflower hotel, he reportedly went searching for a classical music CD. 

Witnesses say just after 9 p.m. Spitzer was spotted walking through the ornate hotel lobby and entering the bar where he asked members of his entourage for the music to help him concentrate, claiming he was going to be working late into the night.  
 
Room 871, where Spitzer is said to have met the prostitute calling herself Kristen, is now blocked by a security guard.

Inside room 871 is the epitome of  elegance.

The luxury VIP suite was booked under an alias, George Fox, and it turns out George Fox is a real person...a long-time friend and supporter of Spitzer's.  In a statement, the wealthy hedge fund investor said he had no involvement with the incident and was upset that the just-resigned governor used his name, adding that the news "comes as a great surprise and disappointment."

Meanwhile, new questions are arising about why Spitzer was even in Washington D.C.  He testified in front of Congress on Valentine's Day, less than 12 hours after  his encounter with Kristen.  But Republican Congressman Spencer Bachus says Spitzer was not invited to appear at the hearing.

"We had not invited the governor to speak, he just showed up.  When he came he wasn’t prepared to answer some of the questions, so you wonder why he was there," said Bachus.

Now there are questions as to whether Spitzer used the hearing as an excuse just to meet the call girl.  Congressman Bachus said that the governor "came unglued" and "became very animated and...very hostile and testy."

A photograph of the fallen governor, looking solemn while dressed in a white tie and tails, was taken Saturday at Washington D.C.'s elite Gridiron Club dinner, where President Bush broke into "Auld Lang Syne."

It turns out that Spitzer attended the dinner the day after federal prosecutors told him he was under investigation for his alleged involvement in the high-priced call girl ring.  The Washington Post reports that Spitzer looked "absolutely stricken," as if he had lost a family member.