On Monday, Eliot Spitzer, the former Governor of New York offered pieces of advice for Geraldo Rivera regarding his half-naked photo posted over the weekend. Spitzer said that the public would forgive Rivera for tweeting the now-deleted selfie photo.

"The public will not only forgive you but they will say move on, because, and this is where the reservoir of good will comes from, you have been the journalist who focuses on the tough issues, no one agrees with you all the time but I've said before, when it comes back to the issue of care for those who are disabled, for the weakest and poorest and most vulnerable in our society, you did something that is so overwhelmingly important that that reservoir of goodwill carried through," Spitzer stated on Rivera's radio show.

On a late Saturday night, Rivera tweeted a shirtless picture of himself due to boredom following a few drinks. The photo took the attention of several famous people and sites which deliberated Rivera's behavior.

"I look pretty good for a 70-year-old, and I think because I'm so old people will cut me some slack. They won't take it too seriously," Rivera defended.

Rivera's estimated net worth was US$12 million. He was a host, journalist, lawyer and writer. He won awards for his investigative journalism analysis regarding abused patients and the death of John Lennon and Elvis Presley.