Meet N.Y. Gov.'s 22-Year-Old Call Girl

(CBS/AP)  New details emerged Wednesday about the call girl at the center of the prostitution scandal engulfing New York's governor, with a newspaper report identifying her as a 22-year-old aspiring musician from Manhattan.

The New York Times reported that the real name of the woman - identified as "Kristen" in court papers alleging that Gov. Eliot Spitzer paid more than $4,000 for prostitutes' services - is Ashley Alexandra Dupré.

Don D. Buchwald, a New York lawyer, confirmed to The Associated Press that he represents Ashley Alexandra Dupré, the same woman in the Times story. "That's as far as I can go," he said.

She briefly spoke to the Times about the Spitzer scandal. Law enforcement officials identified the governor as "Client 9" who had a Feb. 13 tryst with "Kristen" and paid her $4,300, according to court papers.

"I just don't want to be thought of as a monster," Dupré told the Times. "This has been a very difficult time. It's complicated."

According to the Times, Dupré did appear in court Monday. She's expected to testify against four men accused of running the Emperor's Club VIP prostitution ring.

Last night outside her upscale apartment building in New York's trendy Flatiron district, a media crush waited for any glimpse of Dupré in person.

In New Jersey her brother Kyle Youmans said she was just trying to get through the scandal.

Speaking to CBS News correspondent Bianca Solorzano, Youmans said, "She's a great woman, independent woman. She's the best sister you can have."

Asked about her daughter, Dupré's mother said she was shell-shocked when she heard she had been working as an escort. "She is a very bright girl who can handle someone like the Governor. But she is also a 22-year-old and obviously got involved in something much larger than her."

Dupré's MySpace page provides a window into her life as she went from a broken home in New Jersey to a music career in the city, and gives a clue about how she might handle the future:

"I can sit here now, and knowingly tell you that life's hard sometimes. But, I made it. I can honestly tell you to never dwell on the past, but build from it and keep moving forward."

"I have been alone. I have abused drugs. I have been broke and homeless. But, I survived, on my own. I am here, in NY because of my music," she wrote.

In an Aug. 30 blog posting on MySpace, she writes: "The past few months have been a roller coaster with so called friends, lovers, and family ... but its something you have to deal with and confront in order to move on ..."

"What destroys me strengthens me" is the slogan next to a Dupré photograph. The photos show her at various places, including in a bikini on a boat in a tropical locale. Traffic to her Myspace profile soared after the story broke; by Thursday morning her page had registered more than 2.5 million hits - with many visitors posting messages by turns supportive, insulting or (given the large audience) self-promoting.

Dupré describes her favorite musical artists as Etta James, Aretha Franklin, Celine Dion, Christina Aguilera and Frank Sinatra, among many others.

Her Web site boasts a recording of a song, "What We Want." "I know what you want, you got what I want. I know what you need. Can you handle me?" she sings.

The case started when banks noticed frequent cash transfers from several accounts and filed suspicious activity reports with the Internal Revenue Service, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press. The accounts were traced back to Spitzer, leading public corruption investigators to open an inquiry. (Read more on the investigation.)

Dupré told the Times she had slept very little since the allegations against Spitzer were revealed.

She told the paper she worried about paying her rent in a ninth-floor Manhattan apartment after her boyfriend recently left her. She said she was considering moving back in with her family in New Jersey.

She declined to comment when asked by the Times when she first met Spitzer and how many times they had been together.

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[nothappyatall]

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[newsterl]

Leviticus 20:10
And the man that committeth adultery... the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death."

Yeah qaz, and it says

Phuxyou 66:6 Thou who faileth to kill adulterers as the LORD demands shall have his blood upon him and be cast into the fires of he11 with the adulterers forevermore.

You didn''t follow the order, so you are just as guilty, now get on a train to NYC, find both of them, and then do as your lord COMMANDED you!

[newsterl]

"As far as being a minor crime, Mrs. Spitzer would disagree with you. - has anyone thought of her?

Posted by k40982"

The Mrs can take a flying leap, put it this way- if this guy had to go to a hooker and pay $4300 an hour what does that tell you about their marriage and their home-life? their marriage was already on the rocks far as I can see and now theyll join the others in the 50% marriage failures.

[randynason]

Well, the girl is certainly entitled to her 15 minutes of fame, before she retires to her true vocation; as accomplished musician on the skin flute.

[newsterl]

Prostitution? dont you think the department has more important crimes daily to deal with as you saw?

Even the COPS are corrupt;

in 2006; A New York City police officer and two supervisors, including one charged with maintaining integrity in their vice unit, are expected to surrender to prosecutors today on felony charges that they broke into a massage parlor in Brooklyn, a law enforcement official said yesterday.

The three officers, a lieutenant, a sergeant and a police officer who worked together in the Brooklyn South vice unit, will face third-degree burglary charges in the break-in, which occurred in April in Sunset Park, according to the official

[newsterl]

the prostitutes in my example were in New York City''s criminal justice system and subject of a book;

Hellhole; the shocking story of the inmates and life in the New
York City House of Detention for Women by Sara Harris (1968)

I have that book, it details the arrest of prostitutes, their drug habits, arraignments, fines and releases. Not only were drugs and pimps the root of the problems, but the justice system didnt do anything to correct those-and so the system became a revolving door where the SAME hookers would be arrested over and over, pay fines and be back out on the street again. The ones who DID do any time were the ones caught with quantities of illegal drugs, once out they went back to the streets and drugs again

So the city was doing little more than just collecting fines, which in this case resulted in little more than a tax- cost of doing business.
The pimps might be charged with heavier crimes, but the girls
would be back out on the street in short order. Were talking about consentual s.ex here between a willing paying man and a willing woman, this is not bank robbery or child rape and the citys system has far more important crimes to deal with- armed robbery, murders, assaults, burglary; between 2003 and 2005, 1662 murders were committed in the city, 120,000 burglaries reported in 1990

[k40982]

newsterl,

So which examples did you give of prostitutes? I wasn''t able to discern any from your post.

No, I don''t think this episode ruined her life. That was accomplished long before this recent story.

As far as being a minor crime, Mrs. Spitzer would disagree with you. - has anyone thought of her?

[newsterl]

k40982 I dont really care what happens to her, but follow the history- even mass murderers, and OJ have been offered lucrative book and movie deals! ''Scooter'' libbye even wrote a raunchy book The apprentice years ago whose story included incest, rape, pedophilia, bestiality, prostitution and more, the book was an out of print nothing before his scandal. Soon as he hit the news that little $1.99 pb became hot as gold with copies sold on Ebay and elsewhere selling for HUNDREDS of dollars and more, the demand was so great that the publisher took it out of cobwebs and issued a new printing run of it!
As far as this ruining her life like I said, in 2-4 weeks people wont even remember her name because she wont be in the DAILY news FODDER any more, like ''scooter'' who was in the news all over the place, now hardly a mention, she will go too- replaced by the newest scandal.
Prostitution is a MINOR crime and the law is limited on what it can do, you are thinking of murder cases where the court can demand no profit when the convicted is under their jurisdiction for 30 years or something Ashley may pay a FINE, MAYBE get 6 months, and be out free. Hookers in NYC typically got arrested, held at Riker''s or elsewhere for court, fined and released on the street again. If they had drugs on them (many did) that was another penalty, but still nothing.

"..BIBULL SAYS ABOUT ADULTERY/FORNICATION?"

I''m sure youll fill us all in for the 50th time Qaz, I dont give a flying phux what it says

[hutphoto]

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