Woman at the Center of Governor’s Downfall - New York Times

• benji23

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  She may be a 3 diamond hooker, but for a couple of hours of sex with Client #9, she'll walk away with a book, movie and record deal. Hell even I'd do Spitzer for that.

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• mattehavoc

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  I only wish I had a spare $80,000 lying around.

  Posted 3/13/2008 [reply] [flag]

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Eliot Spitzer's prostitute Ashley Alexandra Dupre knows "What We Want"
Published 3/12/2008 at The Daily Swarm - The Swarm
... getting to the song first. If the song is at 98 cents, then it’s a given that a lot of people on Amie Street think it’s a great song. We support our artists by giving them 70% of song sales and never taking ownership of their creative work. We want all artists on Amie Street to be successful and we believe that our unique marketplace will accomplish this goal to a degree never achieved before. Ashley Alexandra Dupre MySpace page NYT: Music is her first love, and on the MySpace page, Ms. Dupre ...

The 'Times' Found 'Kristen'! [Heart Of Gold]
Published 3/12/2008 by Pareene at Gawker
... if you'd like to listen to her demo. Or check out her top five! The kind-of insane Times story pretty clearly just went live because they knew their scoop wouldn't last. It summarizes her MySpace bio, quotes her talking about how she saw the Rolling Stones, and criticizes her demo song's "dated slang." And that's about it for news. But still, good show! Ashley's blog entry from Thursday, August 30 is full of awesome advice, so we will reprint it, below. ...

Hello, Kristen [Eliot Spitzer's Whore]
Published 3/12/2008 by Jim Newell at Wonkette
... , it plays a pretty blah hip-hop song ("amateurish, hip-hop inflected rhythm and blues tune that asks, 'Can you handle me, boy?' and uses some dated slang, calling someone her 'boo,'" says the mean New York Times). That's when we lost sympathy, and also why she'll probably get a record deal within hours. Finally: three Whore Diamonds. She was only a three Whore Diamond whore. [NYT] ...

Lowest Common Denominators
Published 3/12/2008 by Cord Jefferson, MollyGood at Mollygood
• This is the prostitute for whom Eliot Spitzer pissed away his life. She’s 22, from New Jersey (no duh!) and a budding singer. Oh, yeah, she’s also willing to have sex with unattractive but powerful men for money. Friend her on MySpace! [NYT] • Rosie O’Donnell’s partner currently looks like Susan Powter used to look. Yes, compliment. [DListed] • It wasn’t that cold yesterday. [PS] ...

Ashley Youmans aka Ashley Alexandra Dupre aka Kristen or Gov. Eliot Spitzer's Escort Friend
Published 3/12/2008 at The Bosh
... Ashley Alexandra Dupré' or Kristen or Ashley Youmans talks to the New York Times about the downfall of Gov. Eliot Spitzer of New York. ...

Spitzer's "Kristen" Revealed; Says It's "Difficult," "Complicated"
Published 3/12/2008 by Jen Chung at Gothamist
... Client No. 9's escort "Kristen" has been unmasked by the NY Times. She's known as Ashley Alexandra Dupre (born Ashley Youmans), a 22-year-old aspiring singer who was raised in NJ, lived in a number of cities before settling in NYC. ...

School for Scandal - Spitzer's Side Piece Revealed!
Published 3/12/2008 at Radar: Fresh Intelligence Blog
The New York Times continues to OWN Eliot Spitzer and his high priced ho bagging ways. First, they break the biggest story of the year when he turns up on a wire tap arranging pay for play. Now they grind their six-inch red stiletto into his eager groin via an exclusive interview with Ashley Alexandra Dupr , or as Spitzer knew her, Kristen. (She was born Ashley Youmans, but she's an artist now; her music is on her ...

The Closing Bell
Published 3/13/2008 at Pollstar
... Invades North America - To spread the word about its forthcoming album, the band announces a 30-city run. Link-O-Rama … Evidently the "escort" in the Eliot Spitzer scandal wants a music career. Gosh, do you think she can afford the pay cut? - The New York Times (registration may be required) How much is free music worth? ...

Eliot Spitzer’s “Kristen” Revealed: Ashley Alexandra Dupre
Published 3/13/2008 by Free Britney at The Hollywood Gossip
Just 22 years old, Ashley Alexandra Dupre (better known as Kristen), is an unwitting star in a steamy drama that took down New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer. Kristen, described in an affidavit as having a February 13 rendezvous with Eliot Spitzer at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, has spent the last few days in her ninth-floor rental in an upscale New York apartment. According to the New York Times, Ashley Alexandra Dupre made a brief appearance in court Monday as a witness in the case against four people charged with operating the infamous prostitution ring known as Emperor’s Club V.I.P. In a series of telephone ...

Why not just go all the way and call her a lamestain?
Published 3/13/2008 at Radosh.net
... Getting all these Spitzer scoops is making the New York Times a little cocky (if I may). Here's a paragraph from the paper's profile of "Kristin": ...

Saving a life
Published 3/13/2008 at Hollywood Elsewhere
... Doolittle -like makeover -- a "pimp my ride" show for humans instead of cars. She'd attend cultivation classes, college philosophy courses, art classes, diction lessons, piano lessons, cooking classes in Florence, a fresh circle of friends...the whole schmeer. Everybody wants to change, upgrade, do better, reach higher. This would be a reality show about trying to literally save someone's life. We all know what happens to most prostitutes, sooner or later. The N.Y. Times has a story about her, and the Smoking Gun has a ...

Eliot Spitzer's Ho Revealed; Meet 22-year Old Ashley Alexandra Dupre
Published 3/13/2008 by Dave and Thomas at Dave And Thomas Daily Timekillers
... "The New York Times has just found out the true identity of "Kristen," the high-priced hooker that New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer met in February. Ashley Alexandra Dupré is 22, an aspiring R&B singer, the product of "a broken home," and, of course, gorgeous. ...

N.Y.’s Finest Call Girl Ashley Alexandra Dupré
Published 3/13/2008 by bumpshack at Bumpshack.com
Ashley Alexandra Dupre: $4,400/Hour You can stop trying to figure out who the hooker is that brought down New York governor Eliot Spitzer earlier this week. Her name turns out to be Ashley Alexandra Dupré (photos). She is known as ‘Kristen’ in court papers but the N.Y. Times has identified her as Dupre. Born Ashley Youmans but now known as Ashley Alexandra Dupré, she spoke softly and with good humor as she added with significant understatement: “This has been a very difficult time. It is complicated.” ...

Ashley Alexandra Dupre is Spitzer’s Hooker
Published 3/13/2008 by Risemoon at Right Celebrity
... As revealed by the New York Times, Ashley is uncertain about all of the attention she will be getting. ...

Kristen
Published 3/13/2008 by Miss Cellania at YesButNoButYes Stories
... . Leave it to the New York Times to get to the bottom of things. They have identified “Kristen” as Ashley Alexandra Dupré. You can be her friend on ...

Vieira: "I Did Spend Nine Years With the Lesbians of The View"
Published 3/13/2008 at mediabistro.com: TVNewser
... of WABC and 20/20; CNN's Jeanne Moos ; and Rita Cosby . Just a few floors from where the biggest news story of the year broke, Vieira deadpanned, "Tonight's event comes on the day that New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer resigned from office, embroiled in a sex scandal. That was a story that we , at the Today show broke, as you know." Vieira then introduced Bill Keller , the Times's executive editor whose metro desk broke the Spitzer news Monday afternoon. Viera added that the paper had just published the story of "the woman who was behind the whole scandal." More on Keller's ...

Eliot Spitzer’s call girl: Kristen aka Ashley Alexandra Dupré
Published 3/13/2008 by The Blemish at The Blemish
All that was known about Eliot Spitzer’s call girl was a fake profile ripped from the Emperor Club’s website that identified her as Kristen. Today, Kristen gave an interview with the New York Times and revealed her real name: Ashley R. Youmans which was legally changed to Ashley Rae Maika DiPietro. However, on MySpace, fans know the 22-year-old as Ashley Alexandra Dupré. So, we’ll go with that. The impetus for granting the New York Times an interview isn’t clear, but did I mention she’s an aspiring musician? You can buy her music for a mere $.98! What a steal. (Eliot paid $1,000/hour for ...

Ashley Alexandra Dupre - Eliot Spitzer’s High Priced Hooker (Photos)
Published 3/13/2008 by Jeanette at Jeanette's Celebrity Corner
... ) was seen having a secret rendezvous with Spitzer on February 13 at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C. The 22-year-old is said to be having trouble sleeping and told The New York Times, “I just don’t want to be thought of as a monster.” Oh whine, whine, whine…. ...

Ho’s Unite N.O.W.
Published 3/13/2008 by the_dallas at dallaspenn.com
... Aside from the NAACP, can you think of another progressive movement as ineffective as the National Organization for Women? Maybe they burned a few bras in the 1960’s, but what have they done for the bitches lately? If they wanted to get themselves back into the public conscious they would piggyback off the fame of the young woman in the eye of the storm of the latest tryst by the former New York state governor. She calls herself ASHLEY ALEXANDRA DUPRE and her MySpace page has had more hits in 24 hours than the N.O.W. call center has had in two decades. There has got to be ...

What Does Ashley Alexandra Dupré Teach Us About Our Fucked Economy? [Crappy Hour]
Published 3/13/2008 by Moe at Jezebel
This our favorite picture of Ashley Youmans aka Ashley Alexandra Dupré aka "Kristen." She will forever be known as Eliot Spitzer's whore, even though he fucked several whores including someone named "Sienna," maybe even someone with a higher "diamond rating" than Ashley. Maybe she will find a gig performing her soulful ballads, or maybe she could sing backup in Gennifer Flowers' band. Perhaps she and her mother, who seemed so proud her daughter could "handle someone like the governor," will be offered a reality show or a self-help show or a mother-daughter Playboy spread a ...

What Ashley Alexandra Dupré Says About Our Fucked Economy [Crappy Hour]
Published 3/13/2008 by Moe at Jezebel
This our favorite picture of Ashley Youmans aka Ashley Alexandra Dupré aka "Kristen." She will forever be known as Eliot Spitzer's whore, even though he fucked several whores including someone named "Sienna," maybe even someone with a higher "diamond rating" than Ashley. Maybe she will find a gig performing her soulful ballads, or maybe she could sing backup in Gennifer Flowers' band. Perhaps she and her mother, who seemed so proud her daughter could "handle someone like the governor," will be offered a reality show or a self-help show or a mother-daughter Playboy spread a ...

Will Spitzer's Siren Sell Her Story?
Published 3/13/2008 by jbercovici at Portfolio.com: Mixed Media
... Judging from her profile in The New York Times, Ashley Alexandra Dupre -- a.k.a. "Kristen," the prostitute at the center of the Eliot Spitzer scandal -- has a taste for fame. Indeed, she already has a ...

Bad Taste Reporting: Spitzer’s Escort
Published 3/13/2008 by Ariel at Simply Dumb
... The New York Times has run an expose on former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer’s last call girl. They have pictures, link to her mySpace page, and give her life story. ...

Eliot Spitzer Could Have Learned A lot From Drug Dealers
Published 3/13/2008 by bucky at Complex
... covered disposable phones. Plus he could have went a step further and only texted, further reducing any identifying trace, since his voice wouldn’t have been captured like a fingerprint. Every major carrier offers pre-paids, so we took a look at some of the sleek ones—with dude spending $4300 an hour on prosties as hot as this there’s no reason for him to get a chump phone—that could have helped keep Spitzer’s hot dog out of boiling water. ...

Eliot Spitzer's R&B Jumpoff (Bounce-Worthy?)
Published 3/13/2008 by nOvaMatic at SOULBOUNCE.COM
... makes Cassie "viable". Among the influences and idols listed on her Myspace page are Mary, Aretha, Etta, Whitney, Lauryn and Amy, which points to an acknowledgment of surviving hardships to become a diva rather than any vocal inspirations. But there may be hope for her yet. We imagine Ashley will be among the first acts signed to Warner Brothers by way of Perez Hilton's A&R deal. For an Aspiring Singer, a Harsher Spotlight [NYT] Prostitution [Wikipedia]

What a Waste of $40,000!
Published 3/13/2008 by TMZ Staff at TMZ.com
... for one "meet and greet" with Scarlett Johansson at a film premiere. Sure, the money goes to charity, but that same amount of cash could buy 40 dates with Gov. Eliot Spitzer's hot hooker -- and she's a sure thing! Talk about more bang for your buck! Filed under: ...

Ashley Alexandra Dupre: Gov. Spitzer's special lady
Published 3/13/2008 at The Superficial - Because You're Ugly
... This site doesn't really delve into politics but, once a bikini became involved, the story of Governor Eliot Spitzer and his $4,000 prostitute immediately fell into my jurisdiction. This is a photo of 22-year-old hooker Ashley Alexandra Dupre that the New York governor solicited on the night of February 13, according to the New York Times. She's admittedly pretty damn hot. Unfortunately to gain access to her lady parts you have to be a governor, willing to drop four grand and have a cool code name like "Client 9." Well, I've got the four grand (Ah, cash ...

god loves prostitutes
Published 3/13/2008 by The Cajun Boy at Cajun Boy in the City
... me: well, by now you've likely heard about the unmasking of the prostitute, "kristen," at the epicenter of the eliot spitzer scandal. her actual name, which was first reported last night in the new york times but is now seemingly everywhere on the web, is ashley alexandra dupre. there's even a ...

Kristen, la dama (la verdad, muchacha) que hizo caer al gobernador Spitzer
Published 3/13/2008 by Carlos Rajo at AOL Latino Blog
Dice que ha dormido poco en los ltimos d as y que no quiere que la gente piense que "es un monstruo". "Este ha sido un tiempo muy dif cil. Es complicado", confes la dama en una entrevista con el diario New York Times. Es Kristen, la prostituta de lujo en el centro del esc ndalo que provoc la ca da del gobernador de New York, Eliot Spitzer. La joven tiene apenas 22 a os y m s que como prostituta se define como aspirante a cantante. Admira entre otros dice, a Patsy Cline, Frank Sinatra, Christina Aguilera y Lauryn Hill, lo mismo que a Madonna y Amy Winehouse. ...

When Did the 'Times' Get Tabloidy? [You've Come A Long Way, Baby]
Published 3/13/2008 by Pareene at Gawker
... , the hooker who took down Eliot Spitzer? And how insane was the story that broke it, what with its links to her MySpace profile and bizarre criticism of her "rhythm and blues" music? Arthur Suzlberger truly is ...

Ashley Alexandra Dupre Will Get Naked For Money
Published 3/14/2008 by Dickie at Dickism | The Guys Guide To Celebrity Gossip
This site doesn’t really delve into politics but, once a bikini became involved, the story of Governor Eliot Spitzer and his $4,000 prostitute immediately fell into my jurisdiction. This is a photo of 22-year-old hooker Ashley Alexandra Dupre that the New York governor solicited on the night of February 13, according to the New York Times . She’s admittedly pretty damn hot. Unfortunately to gain access to her lady parts you have to be a governor, willing to drop four grand and have a cool code name like “Client 9.” Her ...

Judith Regan Hasn't Lost Her Touch
Published 3/14/2008 by jbercovici at Portfolio.com: Mixed Media
... , would be the obvious choice to publish a tell-all by Ashley Alexandra Dupre, better known as "Kristen," the first prostitute definitively linked to Eliot Spitzer. ...

Diane Sawyer Gets Ashley Dupre Exclusive
Published 19 days ago at mediabistro.com: TVNewser
... The only public comments made by Dupre since the scandal broke in March has been a few sentences to the New York Times in the days after Spitzer resigned as Governor. The New York Post got an exclusive as well — but ...