Despite claiming that she didn’t want to be a sellout, a hypocrite, a fake, Ashley Dupre (the hooker who “brought down” NY Gov. Eliot Spitzer) has finally posed for Playboy. SELLOUT! Um, what is she selling out again? I mean, she was a literal prostitute. In the grand scheme of things, I think being paid to pose naked is less of a “sellout” move than being a hooker. As far the actual photos of Ashley… well, I’ve never really thought she was all that pretty, and it doesn’t seem like Playboy’s photographers could do anything to make her look less cock-eyed. She does seem to have a nice figure, though. And pretty good hair, if only it wasn’t teased out and over processed. Here’s more:

Ashley Dupre has gone from call girl to cover girl.

Dupre, the woman who’s best known as Gov. Eliot Spitzer?a>??s former high-priced call girl, graces the cover of the May issue of Playboy magazine, due to hit newsstands April 16.

“I had a lot of fun doing these pictures,” she said of her photoshoot. “You’re naked and you’re in front of a bunch of guys – good-looking guys, too, manly men.”

The steamy 8-page pictorial features Dupre in her birthday suit – but also offers an exclusive glimpse into her early days as an escort and life post-Spitzer sex scandal.

“I was at a club one night, and a rich older guy said to me, ‘I’ll give you a thousand dollars if you come home with me,'” she said of her first experience being paid for sex. “I was like, wow, a thousand dollars sounds good. But I was scared.”

But she said she’s not proud of her career as a call girl.

“Some people call me the girl who brought down the governor of New York, but in reality he brought me down,” she said. “I was an escort. As much as I wish I could make that go away, I can’t.”

Dupre, 24, has since recovered from the 2008 scandal and has launched a music career and a new pop culture and relationship blog, stilletosuicide.com. Dupre also landed a gig as a relationship advice columnist for the New York Post.

After all, who better to give advice on a sticky sex situation than Dupre?

But she swears her days as an escort are well over.

“I love sex and I’m very good at it, but I’m saving that,” Dupre said. “That’s for my future boyfriend from now on. And it will be fabulous.”

People.com reported last month that Dupre’s hair caught on fire at the sultry Playboy photoshoot.

[From The New York Daily News]

I recently told CB that out of all of the hookers, strippers, mistresses, professional party girls, good time girls, Waffle House waitresses, porn stars and every “other woman” that has come out in various sex scandals over the past few years, Ashley is the only one I do feel some sympathy for. Initially, she didn’t sell her story, and she only told federal prosecutors about Eliot Spitzer because she got caught up in an on-going federal probe. You know? She wasn’t looking to get famous from screwing powerful/famous men, she was trying not to go to jail. That being said, she’s not all that bright and not all that cute. Meh.
Playboy photos courtesy of NYDN.