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.

When we told you that former call girl (you know, a fancy name for a hooker) Ashley Dupre had been hired by the NY Post to give advice on sex and relationships, you thought it was a joke. We did too! But then when Ashley’s first column came out, we all learned that she’s totally serious about this and thinks her previous experience as a high-priced prostitute makes her qualified to be some kind of authority on men and their urges. Well, you didn’t quite buy it, and neither do many media pundits who think the decision by the Post was appalling.

Yep, there she was, Ashley Dupre, with her creative and profitable experience between the sheets, giving advice to New York’s sexlorn in a newspaper that puts a new down in downmarket.

Still, there is a certain logic in setting up a woman who made so many mistakes before the age of 24 as a Dear Abby for the ’10s.

As we all know, those mistakes go far beyond her error of getting a “Hang in There” tattoo in Latin. or agreeing to have sex with Spitzer while he still had black knee socks on.

Dupre is a rich girl who decided the best way to maintain the lifestyle to which she’d become accustomed would be to have sex for money with objectionable guys. Over and over.

Gotta have those Birkin bags and a huge apartment in the Flatiron District while you’re a struggling singer!

Why hear from dignified young actresses and musicians who choose to stay vertical to make ends meet?

Hearing the world view of someone who turned the oldest tricks in the book affords us such sage wisdom as this from Dupre: “Guys are primal.” Isn’t she the first one you think of when you want advice on love, children, and gift items?

She has been penitent on her MySpace page after meeting Russell Simmons in yoga class and siphoning off some of the record mogul’s inner peace as they did the downward dog.

Regrets, yes, though she didn’t go as far as even greedier Imelda Marcos, who crawled up a church aisle on her knees. Guess that position would be kind of redundant.

It’s a wonder that “David K of Tribeca” and “Meredith of Queens” needed to seek out the counsel of the former prostitute.

It’s also a wonder how they knew Dupre would have her first column Sunday and had already written to that fact-challenged paper with questions like “My girlfriend says she doesn’t like porn. Is she lying?”

Hey, if her editors want to give the wanna-be singer her 16th minute of fame and they’re consenting adults, who are we to be snarky about it?

They’re providing a service for those who don’t frequent porn sites. Where else would we have learned that Liberator sex futons are having a Christmas sale if Dupre hadn’t given us the hot tip?

Political cynics might wonder if Dupre isn’t just being used, this time between sheets of paper, to keep Client No. 9′s naughtiness in the public eye as he tries to rise from the Ashleys and run for office again.

Perhaps Democrats will demand equal time and have Republican wife Jenny Sanford pen a competing column after being cheated on by frequently rising GOP star Gov. Mark Sanford of South Carolina.

Of course, they once gave Victoria Gotti a column, so maybe it’s just all about selling newspapers?

With Dupre spread across the newspaper Sundays, perhaps six of Tiger Woods’ mistresses could pick up the slack the rest of the week.

Or, taking the logic a bit further, Bernie Madoff could write a what-not-to-do with your money column; we could get travel tips from Salvatore (Sammy Bull) Gravano; Sen. Larry Craig could advise on how to meet new people; Mel Gibson could give lessons on tolerance and Lindsay Lohan, on sobriety.

[From the NY Daily News]

Of course, not everyone is completely disgusted by the fact that Ashley seems to be parlaying a career out of her previous job choice. She was invited to sit in with the women of “The View” to give her opinion of the continuously growing number of women who are coming forward to talk to the media about their affairs with Tiger Woods. Somehow, Ashley seems to think she is better than they are because the media had to hunt her down instead of the other way around. Radar Online has video of Ashely ripping into these other women for being famewhores. She also slams them because when she apologized to Eliot Spitzer’s wife, she was “sincere,” while these other women aren’t. And the ladies of “The View” seemed to buy this! Nobody called her out at all. I was waiting for Joy Behar to call Ashley a hooker because this time, she wouldn’t have to apologize. But no- Joy just sat next to Ashley and seemed interested in what she had to say.

It would be really cool if the media could just go back to ignoring Ashley again. I realize that some people might consider her relevant again with this whole Tiger Woods scandal, but let’s make one thing clear: so far, none of these women have admitting to being hookers. They actually thought they were in relationships with this guy. Were they skanky? Yes. Should anyone care what they have to say? No. But do we need to bring in an even bigger skank to tell us this? Of course not.

The New York Post’s promotional image of Ashley Dupre, courtesy of the Post. Additional image of Ashley, credit: WENN.

Eliot Spitzer’s hooker, Ashely Dupre, has a new weekly column in the NY Post in which she dispenses love advice. Because Ashley Dupre, allegedly 24, has a wealth of experience to draw on as a committed wife and mother – or just spreading her legs for cash – whatever. Ashley overreaches immensely by telling us all that children can drive a wedge in a relationship and that we need to stroke our husband’s… egos. It’s implied that if we don’t do so they’ll end up calling in a professional. The Post even lets Ashlee put in some titillating details about how she bought a vibrator and got all hot from the instructional video.

Are there telltale signs a man isn’t happy in his marriage? — J. Marshall, 37, East Village

Guys are primal. They’re proud and need to be treated like they’re proud and special.

Girlfriends do that for the most part. But I think that wives with children have so much pressure on them, the natural thing is for the kids to take priority. The husband feels secondary and in one form or another may seek out that required special attention outside the marriage.

Guys are so easy to please and I don’t just mean sexually. We all need to feel loved and appreciated. Ask yourself, when was the last time you did something to make your husband feel loved, special and appreciated . . . and if you can’t remember, then that’s your sign right there.

The children are a product of your love for each other. Your relationship should always be priority. Always. Remember, happy parents usually means happy children.

My girlfriend says she doesn’t like porn. Is she lying? — David K, 36, TriBeCa

Some women don’t like porn and some love it. I’m not big into it myself. But I must say, I was buying the Liberator [sex aid] and I was watching the demonstration video for all the different positions and I was thinking about my boyfriend at the time, and it got me super turned on . . . just thinking about him and us, and exploring all the different positions on this thing.

Try sending her an e-mail of a soft-porn clip and say “I can’t wait to do this to you tonight.” And see what she says.

[From The NY Post]

This is the same girl who recently said “When you sleep with a married man, you’re helping him stay married” and repeatedly compared prostitution to dating. I’m not sure why she’s being considered some kind of relationship expert, but that’s probably not the point. She’s getting publicity for the Post, much like the time she appeared topless on the cover.

The post really is a cheap rag, isn’t it? Gawker wonders who Dupre slept with to get the job and points us to this tweet by Post writer Justin Rocket Silverman, “I met Ashley Dupre on Friday. Total sweetheart. Super cute too. Obviously.” Yeah, and she really knows how to make a relationship work. Just listen to the trite pearls of wisdom she comes up with. “It’s the little things that married people sometimes forget. Like spending romantic alone time together. I think sometimes you get so wrapped up in the kids, you put your relationship second by default and that’s definitely not healthy for the relationship.” Never heard that one before.

Asley Dupre at a fashion show in New York on February 13, 2009. Credit: WENN. Also, photo of Ashley in New York on July 23, 2007.

Elliot Spitzer’s high priced hooker, Ashley Dupree, claims that she quit the sex-selling business after it came out that she was the woman behind the Governor’s resignation. Dupree, 24, hasn’t stayed quiet since the scandal broke, but she hasn’t cashed in with a nude photo shoot or tell all book either, and she’s been really self righteous about that. In her 20/20 interview last year, she pretty much compared prostitution to dating, and said “This wasn’t any different than going on a date with someone you barely knew and hooking up with them. The only difference is I can pay my rent.” Dupre repeated that claim in a blog entry for Global Grind a few months ago, and basically said that everyone’s relationships were unequal and material-based and at least she was honest about hers. If that’s how Dupre feels about it why doesn’t she just go back to escorting?

Now Extra TV has asked the opinionated possibly ex-call girl what she thinks about the Tiger Woods cheating scandal. She says in a roundabout rather stupid way that the women screwed up by talking about it, and that they should have kept silent. She also recommends that Tiger and Elin go to counseling to work on their relationship, and makes the kind of strange statement that “When you sleep with a married man, you’re helping him stay married.” It seems like Ashlee means that sex outside a marriage either helps it stay strong or somehow enables a guy to act like everything is fine at home as long as he gets some on the side. Either way, it’s an offensive and obnoxious thing to say.

“[She should] take some time to herself, digest everything, go to counseling,” Dupre — the former escort whose relationship with Eliot Spitzer caused him to resign as the governor of New York — tells “Extra.”

“If she really loves him, and they have those bonds… go to therapy, see if you can work it out,” Dupre goes on.

“I believe in love and making it work out,” she adds. “They can do it.”

Dupre doesn’t think the women should have opened up to the press about their affairs with the married golfer.

“I don’t agree with that they’re doing. I don’t agree with coming forward,” says Dupre, who says she never sought out publicity in her case — and felt like she was hunted down and outed.

She goes on, “I mean, he has a family, he has a wife, he has kids. For people who just come out and say things… that’s really wrong. You’re messing with some one else’s life.”

Plus, she adds, “When you sleep with a married man… first of all, you’re only helping them stay married.”

“I’m not trying to stick up for him at all,” she says of Woods.

[From ExtraTV via Jezebel]

So what is she trying to say exactly? I hear her saying that men are going to cheat anyway, that it’s human nature and ultimately helps relationships, and that the other women should keep quiet about it. When the wives find out, they should forgive their cheating husbands. I guess she would feel that way, given the line of work she was in. I doubt she would feel the same if she was the one being cheated on. Why would Extra TV ask Ashley Dupree for relationship advice anyway? It’s not like she has a perspective other than that of the opportunistic hooker willing to sleep with anyone who can pony up the cash.

Don’t ask me why, but I am still fascinated by the whole Eliot Spitzer-Ashley Dupré scandal from last year – it’s been more than a year and a half since it broke, and I’m still interested in hearing more about these people. I think I’m captivated by the players because the scandal didn’t over-stay its welcome. The whole thing – from the outing of “Client Number Nine” to Gov. Spitzer’s resignation, the whole ordeal only took a week. It was a really fun week, gossip-wise, but I’d still like to know more about all of the players, from Eliot Spitzer, to Silda Spitzer, to Ashley Dupré.

Before I get to Ashley’s latest, I just want to ask if anyone had read “Out to Lunch… With Eliot Spitzer” in Vanity Fair’s September issue? It’s a good piece, and Spitzer’s own contrition is compelling. I tend to think he paid a very heavy price for some hooker action. Granted, he was totally gross, but I think his political disgrace came not just from the hooker action, but that he was unafraid to take on Wall Street and Albany. Anyway, back to Ashley. Ashley posted a blog entry on Global Grind which the New York Post and People picked up on. In the “essay” Ashley blasts… well, pretty much everyone. She basically says that many women are prostitutes, but she’s a better person for being honest about it. She also says that she’s a better person than, say, Monica Lewinsky, because she didn’t “out” the Governor, nor has she been out there, selling her story and trying to profit from her tenuous connection to power. Of course, Ashley’s promoting her new single, “Inside Out”.

I read the front page of the NY Post this week and was happy to see that Mr. Spitzer is moving on with his life and considering getting back into politics. Everyone makes mistakes. Everyone deserves a second chance. Me too, right? Well, apparently not. Why? Because many people are liars and hypocrites. Let me give you just a few examples of what I keep encountering, despite my best efforts to move on.

First, I’m often referred to as the “woman who brought down the Governor” – excuse me people, I didn’t call the tabloids, I didn’t blow the whistle and I didn’t save “the dress.” I did nothing to shine a light on my indiscretions or to “out” anyone else.

Second, I keep being accused of “cashing in” on the scandal – wrong again. People think I made money off music that was exploited when the scandal first broke, that I am doing reality television, and that I made millions posing nude for magazines. The truth is none of those things happened. This situation closed far more doors than it ever opened. I didn’t see a dime for my songs, but other people certainly did. I didn’t pose nude for a magazine, but other people made money off of photos of me that they sold to tabloids. Even photos I posed for ages ago were sold to the highest bidder. I never sold any photos of myself – but people who I trusted did. And the “millions” for the nude pics? I was offered that, repeatedly – and turned them down because I didn’t want to perpetuate the problem or feed into the stereotype.

Third, speaking of perpetuating the problem and feeding into the stereotype, let me tell you about most book publishers – they are worse than the tabloids. I won’t give them the “tell all” they are demanding and won’t glorify and sensationalize “how exciting the life of a high-priced NYC escort must be,” as one major publisher put it. Sorry folks, my life wasn’t like a “Sex And The City” episode. I’m not sure that exists anywhere but on television. Oh, and I also love how some publishers who were interested in my story and had offers on the table suddenly pulled them because executives in the company had “personal and political reasons” about publishing the book. What does that mean? Did this hit too close to home for you because your husband cheated on you with an escort? Or would your wife feel insecure if she heard you were working with me? I will write the book regardless and do it for the right reasons.

Fourth – ladies, ladies, ladies – so many of you have been cool, supportive and loving. But there are those of you out there who just love to judge. Let me say this – most girls, to varying degrees of course, want to be pampered and have nice shoes, designer handbags and gorgeous clothes. I know many women who target guys with money and use them to get these things. They toy with them, flirt, go on dates, have sex and then drop hints about that new dress at the store down the street or being short on rent money – and the guys deliver it. This is a dishonest relationship. I see this all over New York City. Some women aren’t as vindictive, but still dive into relationships with wealthy guys who they don’t love or even find attractive, but they stay in it because they have a nice home, a car and spending money – they would rather stay in an unfulfilling or loveless relationship than lose that security. This, too, is a dishonest relationship. I see this type all over the suburbs of New Jersey with the housewives who are strung out on mood stabilizers or the couples who put all their attention on their children so they don’t have to deal with their own issues. What about going to those sugar daddy websites? Is that legal? Should it be? Is what I did any more dishonest? Get real and get over yourself.

You’d be shocked at some of the messes I’ve gotten myself into….and, more importantly, how I got out of them. I have so much more to say, and I will – but it’s time for Yoga class! Om Shanti!

[From Ashley Dupre’s blog entry, Global Grind]

I think the “stereotype” Ashley is referring to in her diatribe is the “stereotype” that you can pay a hooker for pretty much anything. Gawker points out that Ashley is in fact “right, morally” and she’s doing “the right thing to retain [her] humanity.” But then they go on to blast Ashley for being too dumb to realize that by giving her “story” away for free (by using said story to jointly promote her music career), she’s being “conned”. They suggest – and I hope Ashley’s listening – that she simply “sell out like the evil world wants you to, or just fade into obscurity. One’s good for your soul. The other’s good for your wallet. Playing footsie with the Post will only lead you off the cliff. Trust us here.” Gawker has a point.

Meanwhile, Eliot Spitzer just started his new job - as a political science adjunct professor at the City College of New York. He just told the New York Times that the rumors of his attempts to rescucitate his political career were “totally untrue”. Om Shanti, bitches!

Here’s Ashley Dupre spending her summer relaxing on the beach in New Jersey in July 2008. Images thanks to INF Photo.

Ashley Dupre, the professional high-priced call girl who rose to fame after servicing kinky former NY governor Elliot Spitzer, told Page Six that she’s in a much better place now because she’s doing yoga all the time. Then she name dropped her yoga classmate, media mogul Russell Simmons, and said he’s also been a great help to her. She even went so far as to call him her “mentor”:

ASHLEY Dupre is using her body again – but this time for a wholesome purpose.

Former Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s infamous $4,000-an-hour escort credits the yoga classes she’s been taking for the better part of the past year with “saving her life.”

“The past year has obviously been very difficult for me,” Dupre tells Page Six’s Neel Shah. “Yoga has really helped me turn it into a huge learning experience. I’m working hard to take what I went through and turn it into something positive. Yoga helps me focus.”

The 5-foot-1 brunette has even made a new friend. “Russell Simmons and I have been going to the same class, and he’s just an amazing and wonderful person and spirit,” Dupre says of the rap impresario and Def Jam co-founder. “He’s become a mentor, and has helped me work through my issues. I feel liberated and honored that people like him support me. I’m starting to feel respected for who I am.”

[From The NY Post]

Russell wanted to set the record straight on his relationship with Ashley Dupre so he blogged about it in an account on his site, Global Grind. He basically said that the first time he noticed the girl was at a class this weekend and that all he did was show her how to do a pose she was messing up. She then approached him for help telling her story truthfully. He was impressed and seems to have bought her yoga act hook, line and sinker:

So, over the weekend, I went to my normal practice in the city and while bent over in uttanasana, I noticed a cute, little, short girl whose hands were not placed properly. When you do a complete forward bend, your fingers and your toes should go ten across on the floor, not the hands in front of the feet. I offered my help, which she thanked me for and she then moved on. Later, while doing a twisting triangle, I noticed again that she needed a little direction. So about an hour later when the class was over, she thanked me for the guidance and introduced herself as Ashley Dupré. I said to myself, “Oh my god, this 5 foot, 1 inch god-seeker was the $4000 “escort” of Governor Elliot Spitzer.” Before I could speak, she said “I’ve seen you here many times. This is my favorite place and I’ve been coming here regularly since I’ve moved back into the city, and have been practicing yoga for about a year. Yoga saved my life.” I had seen her in class before, but never said anything to her. We spoke for a few more minutes and I was curious to find out about how her “business” was going and was she benefiting from all of the exposure. She told me that she hadn’t taken a nickel since the scandal broke and the reason was because every deal that had come in front of her involved further destroying her spirit. It is almost impossible for a 23-year-old girl, like her, or anyone for that matter, to be able to resist the temptation of further exploiting yourself when they are throwing money in your face – like Penthouse and Hustler, who offered a video component as well for millions of dollars. She said these things are not her. They are her experiences, but not her. I said that it is amazing to see that you’re in yoga and trying so hard to lift yourself up. She wants to write a book, but the dilemma is that most publishers are too blind to see that people are more interested in her personal, honest evolution, rather than the exploitive tell-all. She told me that she wants to tell her real story, a story that she feels could inspire a thirteen year old girl and make her proud of her own path. A story of personal transformation.

[From Global Grind]

How much do you want to bet Dupre picked that class so that she could approach Russell Simmons and get his help? I saw this girl’s 20/20 interview – she’s not stupid and she’s certainly not contrite. She wants to get a career in music but before she can do that she needs to revamp her image. She knows that Simmons can help her with that, and he seems more than willing to. Going to a few yoga classes doesn’t make her a changed person. It took her like 3 days before she was able to get press by dropping Simmons’ name.

Professional skanktress Ashley Dupre caused quite the scene when she planted herself front and center at designer Yigal Azrouël’s Fashion Week show last week. The designer was so incensed by Dupre’s presence that he fired his PR firm for letting her in.

As reported Saturday in the Daily News, Ashley Dupre may be a hooker with a heart of gold, but designer Yigal Azrouël didn’t want her at his show. Azrouël was so upset with Eliot Spitzer’s infamous call girl perching in his Fall/Winter 2009 front row seats, that he fired front-of-house PR company People’s Revolution.

A no-nonsense, late night press release announced the news: “Following the showing of his Fall Winter 2009 Collection, Yigal Azrouël has decided to fire front-of-house PR Company, People’s Revolution, for mismanagement.”

“Yes, I was fired by Yigal Azrouël,” People’s Revolution founder Kelly Cutrone told us Friday night at the Mercedes-Benz fashion week kickoff party. “I didn’t invite her, but I wasn’t going to kick her out or turn her away. We know one another, we’re friends.”

“The City” star and Dupre met back in the days when Dupre was still looking for a publicist — she is currently managed by Susan Blond, Inc. — and the two keep in touch. “If Ashley had shown up at Marc Jacobs’ show,” Cutrone continued, “he would have been a hero. It would have been cutting-edge — but Yigal and she weren’t the best fit.”

[From the New York Daily News]

Clearly it wasn’t all bad for Yigal Azrouël – he got some extra free press for Dupre’s presence. In fact if you search for his name on WENN’s photo site, the Dupre’s image comes up as the thumbnail for the whole event.

Dupre is great at rationalizing her past. Eliot Spitzer’s former hooker told Diane Sawyer that “This wasn’t any different than going on a date with someone you barely knew and hooking up with them,” she reasoned. “The only difference is I can pay my rent…” Classy lady. She also claimed to be terrified that people would find out what she did for a living – though she’s clearly done a good job of exploiting it left and right after the fact.

I don’t blame Yigal Azrouël – I wouldn’t want Ashley Dupre at my event either. On the other hand, his PR people sure did their jobs – he’s competing against a ton of other designers for mainstream press coverage, and he got it. I wouldn’t fire them for that.

Here’s Ashley Dupre, Emma Snowdon-Jones, Lorenzo Martone, Andre Leon Talley, Katie Lee Joel, Fabiola Beracasa and Genevieve Jones, and Yigal Azrouel at his Fashion Week show on Friday. Images thanks to WENN.

Just when the public has started to lose interest in Elliot Spitzer’s hooker after an unconvincing “I was just an average girl who needed money” 20/20 interview, Ashley Dupre has conveniently been named as the other woman in a lawsuit. K.T. Mary Dunphy claims that she met a rich guy online and was promised a life of luxury, but she was left with ruptured breast implants, a miscarriage, no money, and broken dreams. What’s more is that she supposedly saw the guy she thought was her prince charming in bed with Ashley Dupre, and claims she was dumped for Dupre. Name dropping that woman is a great way to get publicity for a questionable lawsuit. Dunphy is suing her cocaine-addicted ex boyfriend for $1.5 million. Maybe she’s hoping for a settlement that would be equivalent to what she would have made if she shared Dupre’s profession:

Call girl Ashley Dupre, who toppled Eliot Spitzer from office, is the “other woman” in a $1.5 million suit filed by a model who says her lawyer boyfriend dumped her for the raven-haired hooker.

In a suit filed in Suffolk County Supreme Court, K.T. Mary Dunphy says her ex-fiancé, Robert Oppenheimer Jr., cheated with Dupre while Dunphy was pregnant in the summer of 2007.

Dunphy told the Daily News she walked in on Oppenheimer having sex with Dupre at his Manhattan apartment.

Dupre denied knowing Oppenheimer, but Dunphy insisted he referred to her by name. She also said she recognized Dupre’s tattoos in photos after the Spitzer scandal.

Dunphy, who is charging Oppenheimer with “emotional distress,” said she got to know Oppenheimer in 2004 through The Millionaire’s Club, an online matchmaking service.

Within months, she said, Oppenheimer flew her to New York and invited her to move in to his home in Southampton.

At first, it was all lovey-dovey as he took Dunphy on lavish trips to places like Barbados, Aruba and Las Vegas.

Dunphy said she soon noticed he “was having ‘mood swings,’” and later discovered he was meeting other women at another Southampton home.

Oppenheimer later told Dunphy he “had a serious cocaine habit and was consorting with prostitutes,” her complaint says.

Dunphy, 41, claims the relationship deteriorated after she slipped on a wet floor at a Southampton house where she’d been swimming. “I injured my foot, and my breast implants ruptured,” she told The News.
“After this incident, [Oppenheimer] continually used cocaine to the extent that he would pass out [at] dinner,” court papers charge.

In the fall of 2007, Dunphy told Oppenheimer she was pregnant with twins. Soon after, she said, he served her with eviction papers. Dunphy said the stress caused her to have a miscarriage.

Around that time, Dunphy told The News, she discovered Oppenheimer, 55, was on vacation in Aruba with Dupre.

A spokeswoman for Dupre said, “She doesn’t know anyone named Robert Oppenheimer and has never been to Aruba.”

Dunphy charges in her suit that Oppenheimer removed the license plates from the car he had given her and turned off the water and power in the house, forcing Dunphy “to apply for food stamps.”

“She had an uncompensated injury, she was harassed and she lost a significant amount of money because he didn’t want her to work,” lawyer Stephen Grossman said.

[From The NY Daily News]

Dupre told Diane Sawyer in her 20/20 interview that she was forced to return to prostitution after a boyfriend dumped her to go back to his wife. She tried to make it sound a lot more innocent than it was. The fact was that she was a call girl before she met the guy, but then she hooked up with him, he paid all her bills and she was able to take a six month break. Dupre was then supposedly surprised to hear that he was really married and when he dumped her she was forced to return to prostitution. It’s possible this Oppenheimer character is the one who forced little old Ashley to sell her body again to make ends meet. He’s not married though. It’s also possible she has nothing to do with this and that this Dunphy woman knows that the best way to publicly humiliate her ex is by adding a person to the mix who is sure to get her story in the papers.

Elliot Spitzer’s hooker Ashley Dupre and her deep thoughts were on 20/20 on Friday night. She came off as fake and superficial and while she did cry throughout the interview it looked like she was acting. She’s a decent actress and there will be people who buy it, but I found her unconvincing to say the least.

The above interview is just a clip, and the rest of the interview is more of the same. Ashley tried to paint herself as a normal girl who just needed the money and maybe by some people’s estimates she succeeded. Here are some highlights.

On how she got through the sex
“You had to be emotionally disconnected from your heart to your head.”

On the fact that she wasn’t a full time hooker
Sawyer reported that Ashley supposedly worked 3 months at a time and would then take six months off “to work at a real estate agency or waitressing, only to return to escort again.” She had a married boyfriend paying her bills for six months, which could explain it.

Whether she was afraid people would find out
“Absolutely, no one knew about that.”

On whether there were things she wouldn’t do
“Absolutely. I’m a very bright girl and I value my health and would do whatever necessary to make sure I was always protected, always…. If I did [feel I was in danger] I would leave.”

On how she got herself prepared to go out and be a prostitute
She had to stop the interview when Sawyer asked her this, but it didn’t seem sincere. Then when they came back she said she “hugged her dog” before she went out.

On if she had the “Pretty Woman” fantasy of getting saved by a client
This was where the real Ashley seemed to come out. She got animated and serious and it was all business for her.

“No. [scowls] I served a purpose. I knew what my purpose was. If I was surprised at their kindness, it’s fake kindness. [looks pissed off]. I mean, it’s time spent together, but it’s still not real. Kind of like having an abusive boyfriend and saying ‘oh but he loves me.’”

On the married boyfriend that gave her a six month reprieve from prostitution
She started crying here, and it looked fake and very put on. Apparently she was living with a guy she met outside her escort job who knew she was a prostitute. She gave up the job for him and it sounded like he was paying for the apartment and all her bills. She supposedly didn’t know he was married, but when he left her she had to go back to prostitution to pay the rent and her credit card debt.

She went back to being a prostitute in December, a month before the scandal
Here she read from her supposed diary from that time and she said it was hard to go back to prostitution after six months off. She said “I don’t know why it was so difficult for me. What if I got sick, what if I got AIDS, what if I got killed? I never planned on going back to work, but I had to.”

When asked why Spitzer was deemed a “difficult” client, as found out in the FBI investigation.
“Legally I’ve been advised not to discuss that.” She also wouldn’t discuss if she saw him more than once. “I don’t feel that I brought him down. [that was] a decision that he made.”

On her half-assed apology to Spitzer’s wife.
Sawyer asked her if she had something to say to Spitzer, but she said “I don’t think I would say it to him. I would say it to his wife. Sorry for your pain.”

The future for Ashley
Ashley went back to live with her mom after the scandal. 20/20 reports that she’s turned down a realty TV show, a million dollar offer to pose in Hustler, and book deals.

She described how she makes sense of it in simple terms, and said she hopes to someday find a husband who is also her best friend, and that she is detached from her hooker persona.

“That was a piece of me back then. I’m no longer that person… I can’t think about that because that was the past.”

Ashley isn’t likely to be charged in connection with the FBI investigation into her agency, according to 20/20.

She seemed like a master manipulator but maybe I’m wrong. There’s something vapid yet cunning about her and it was like she tried to appear contrite but just wasn’t feeling it.

You can watch the whole interview on 20/20′s website.

Disgraced former NY Attorney General Elliot Spitzer’s call girl, 23 year old Ashley Alexandra Dupre, is doing the press rounds and has interviews with People and “20/20.” Dupre’s talk with Diane Sawyer will air on ABC Friday at 10pm. 20/20 bills it as the story of how an “upper middle-class, girl next door got into the profession and the psychological journey she continues to experience.”

Dupre reveals in her interview with People that she didn’t know who Spitzer was when she got paid for sleeping with him. She said he was polite but just wanted to do the deed and didn’t chit chat with her ahead of time.

She’s either trying to get her singing career off the ground, wants the public to see her as a normal person, or a little of both. Her statements are full of cliches about how she was just trying to make ends meet and how she doesn’t see how prostitution is any different than going on a date.

Her descent into tabloid mayhem began the night of Feb. 13, 2008, when Dupré – who had worked as a high-end escort to help pay the bills on and off since 2004 – met a client who turned out to be the Governor of New York.

Dupré claims she had no idea who the man was that night. What she does recall is that “Client 9,” as Spitzer was reportedly known at her escort service (which was shut down in March), “was polite.

“Some guys, they want to have conversations and really get to know each other. With him, it clearly was not like that. It was more of a transaction. Strictly business.”

Casually dressed and with no entourage in tow, Spitzer didn’t strike Dupré as someone important. Besides, “I was there for a purpose – not to wonder who [he] could be.”

FBI Steps In
In fact, she didn’t find out who he was until March when, just days after learning she was mixed up in some sort of FBI investigation, she saw the Spitzer apologizing on TV. “It was surreal,” Dupré says of seeing the client she had met a month before. “I felt like I was sinking.”

As for the former governor, “I think he’s been punished enough.” Asked what she might tell his wife, Silda, who stood at Spitzer’s side when he announced his resignation, Dupré offers, “I’m sorry for your pain.”

In the interview, Dupré also opens up about her troubled past – running away at age 17 into a non-stop life of drinking and partying – and how a girl from the suburbs could fathom becoming a prostitute: “This wasn’t any different than going on a date with someone you barely knew and hooking up with them,” she reasoned. “The only difference is I can pay my rent…

“I’m 23 years old,” she says. “I want to do music, to do fashion, to write books – there’s so many things.” One thing she won’t be doing: selling her body to make ends meet. “No,” she says. “Never again.”

[From People]

It’s crazy to think there’s no difference between dating and hooking up and having sex and getting paid for it. That’s incredibly warped reasoning, but I guess that’s what you might expect to hear from someone who did it for a living. It’s not like she wasn’t out of control before she became an escort. There are plenty of provocative photos of her floating around and she did make that Girls Gone Wild video when she maybe wasn’t even 18 yet.

This woman got her 15 minutes and she’s going to drag it out as long as possible. You can see the fascination with her, but she’s really no different from anyone else in that profession. I’m trying not to judge here and realize that I have a lot of preconceived notions about prostitution that maybe aren’t fair. It’s the world’s oldest profession and there’s a stigma attached to it for a reason. That doesn’t mean that former prostitutes shouldn’t go on to other things in their lives, just that when they try and use the media to their advantage they’re going to be met with skepticism.