Try "until she watched him announcing his resignation." Says Dupre, still trying to milk some popularity out of this whole ordeal six months after it happened:
'I mean, ask a lot of 22 year olds,' she said. 'I was wrapped up in my family, my music. I knew the name, but the face … I'm not really a TV person,' she told People.
Having used the July 4 holiday weekend to quietly drop her lawsuit against Joe Francis, former Eliot Spitzer call girl Ashley Dupre is working on her next for-profit venture: reality TV show. She’s supposedly in talks with MTV, among other networks, to launch her own dating show, with Dupre becoming the next Tila Tequila as contestants vie to penetrate the Jersey Shore’s finest.
After a few months spent hiding from the prostitution scandal that toppled his career, Eliot Spitzer, the beady-eyed, deposed governor of New York, has again secured gainful employment. Though his new position carries slightly less prestige than head of one of the greatest states in America. Spitzer's working at his daddy's real estate company.
Spitzer Enterprises, the real estate business Bernie Spitzer, started decades ago, is a multimillion-dollar New York City empire, so there's plenty of dough to pay for Eliot's services. The problem is defining what Eliot's services are exactly: "What I hear from my sources is that he walks around and makes suggestions, or discusses ideas. I don’t think anyone knows if any of these ideas will work," an insider told the Observer.
Surprisingly, nobody seems to think it a bad idea to let Eliot around all these tall buildings.
GIRLS GONE LITIGIOUS "The call girl linked to the downfall of former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer sued the founder of the 'Girls Gone Wild' series on Monday for $10 million, claiming he exploited her image and name to advertise the racy videos. Ashley Alexandra Dupre, 22, contended in the lawsuit that she was only 17 — too young to sign legally binding contracts — and drunk on spring break in 2003 when she agreed to be filmed for 'Girls Gone Wild' in Miami Beach."
Blood is in the water surrounding ex-Governor Eliot Spitzer and it's a goddamn feeding frenzy of pimps, hookers and newsmen.
All three converged to spit up the Post's lead story today, a poorly written attack piece about yet another prostitute who claims to have serviced the fallen politico. The headline proclaims, "AND THERE HE HO'S AGAIN". Of course, the boldness of ALL CAPS is belied by the article's infirm linchpin: "A source said [the prostitute] personally serviced Spitzer."
New York, I love you, but you're bringing me down.
MONEY FOR NOTHING, CHICKS FOR FREE " … 'Girls Gone Wild' founder Joe Francis was prepared to pay [Ashley Youmans, Eliot Spitzer's prostitute] $1 million to appear in the company's new magazine, but then rescinded the offer when it was discovered she was already in one of the company's videotapes from 2003. Even the Orlando Sentinel discovered it had a topless image of her from a story that year on the 'Girls Gone Wild' series."
• Some things don't ever need to "git dun." [BWE]
• The New York Times is now sparking gay rumors. Give it two more years before Family Circus is next to Maureen Dowd. [DListed]
• This just keeps getting better: Eliot Spitzer's number one lady was once the star of a Girls Gone Wild scene. [HT]
• It's NYC graffiti, son! Co-opt that shit. [CityRag]
• Carrie Bradshaw says she's angry about Maxim naming her the least sexy woman in the world, and that it made her husband, Matthew Broderick, question his taste in women. Understandable, but they should both realize they're getting mad at Maxim, laugh and then use that paper erection as kindling. [Yeeeah]
• Candy Spelling gets blog space on the Huffington Post? Really? Oh, cruel media. [ICYDK]
• Ashley Tisdale is a Muppet, right? [INO]
Ashley Youmans, the Jersey prostitute so enticing she made Eliot Spitzer forget he could maybe one day be President, was once also a plaything of famed whoremonger Charlie Sheen, according to a report out of the UK.
Pimp Jason Itzler, 41, claims he sent [Youmans] under the name of Victoria and another girl, Cheryl, to Sheen more than two years ago …
He claims Sheen paid $20,000 for a threesome with the girls dressed up as cheerleaders.
"Sheen got the girls to dress up as cheerleaders and chant his name while performing sex acts. They loved Charlie. They said he was a great guy. A great lover. One time he had them dressed up like cheerleaders, chanting 'Charlie! Charlie! He's our man. If he can't do it, nobody can!'"
Sheen's publicist says that even if the "alleged cheerleader incident" did happen, it happened 15 years ago. Translation: "The cheerleader incident did happen, just not with Youmans."
• Madonna's new album cover reveals that she still believes the world wants to see her crotch. [People]
• Snoop Dogg takes the next logical step and appears on a soap opera. Because middle-aged cat women have major street cred. [PageSix]
• Paris Hilton swears her relationship with Benji Madden is not a joke. Her entire life, however, is still debatable. [Us]
• Anyone free — and desperate — next Friday? [PITNB]
• Edward Norton decided the best way to get us to remember him is by acting like a complete tool. [IDLYITW]
• We can tell where former American Idol contestant Danny Noriega got his sass. [DListed]
• You would think after this week the media would learn how to spell Eliot Spitzer's name. [Jossip]
WHO SAYS THE TIMES IS TOO POMPOUS? From an article entitled "Emperor’s Club Sold an Oxymoron: High-Class Prostitution": "Here’s the fantasy that the prostitution ring, the Emperor’s Club V.I.P., was selling Governor Spitzer about a young woman it called Kristen, who calls herself Ashley Alexandra Dupré: that she was a successful swimsuit model who’d traveled the world (as opposed to a singer getting nowhere with a boyfriend who’d paid her rent, as The Times reported yesterday); that she enjoyed civilized pursuits like dining at exclusive restaurants (actually, she’s been hoping for work at a friend’s restaurant); and that she liked sampling fine wines (no mention of the drug abuse she’d reported on her MySpace page). The site also described her as 24 (in fact, she’s 22, an age that might have sounded dangerously collegiate to an affluent clientele)."
Ashley Youmans, aka Ashley Alexandra Dupré the fledgling chanteuse, aka Kristen of the Emperor's Club prostitution ring, aka the worst decision Eliot Spitzer ever made, is not a foolish call girl. She knows you gotta strike while the iron's hot, so that's why, yesterday, she debuted a new song on the Internets, despite currently being involved in one of the biggest scandals in the nation. (Nevermind that everyone's calling her a whore, maybe those puritans like to dance!)
Kristen's latest track is called "Move Ya Body," and, for just 98 cents, it can be yours—totally worth it as far as ironic downloads go. A sampling of the lyrics: "If you wanna take me out after the club/ You gotta do it right, baby, show me some love/ Sex, money, drugs is what I'm all about…" Good for her. Two out of three ain't bad, Eliot.
• 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]
• "Want To Know How Much Angelina Jolie’s Outfit Costs?" Huh? Do ya? Do ya? [INO]
• As a child, Julie Andrews was molested by her stepfather, but she still kept his surname. Sick all around. [ICYDK]
• More of the same from Carmen Electra. Honestly, she needs to give it up. Everything. Just stay at home and relax. Enough with the modeling. [HT]
• Why do celebrities get such bad tattoos? [CityRag]
THAT IS UNSAFE Former Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss on what that hooker meant when she said Governor Spitzer asked her to do "things that, like, you might not think were safe.": "I'm sure he wanted anal sex without condoms."
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