One of my absolute worst nightmares is being attacked by a passel of mongooses (I had to look that up to make sure the plural wasn’t mongeese). One mongoose I can handle, but multiple mongooses freak me out. And the more there are, the greater the likelihood of being attacked. Tila Tequila is the closest thing I’ve ever seen to a mongoose in human form. And now there might be more than one of her.

Ashley Dupre, of Eliot Spitzer scandal fame, is trying to become the “next Tila Tequila” according to the New York Post. And while she’s not as mongoose-looking as the original thing, there’s still a feret-ish quality that can be seen from certain angles.

After bringing down Gov. Eliot Spitzer and becoming the most infamous hooker in America, Ashley Dupre is about to stoop even lower than prostitution - reality television. The former high-priced call girl is hungry to become the “next Tila Tequila” with a dating-type reality show that she is now developing with a Los Angeles-based company, E! News reported yesterday.

Dupre, 23, doesn’t yet have a deal to air the show - but she is set to kick her plans into high gear by moving to the Left Coast from the New Jersey mansion where she now lives with her mom and wealthy stepdad. Dupre only gave a coy giggle and said “no comment” when asked about the reality-show plans. Her mother, Carolyn Capalbo, fueled speculation further when she laughed and said: “You’ll have to follow her out to LA.”

The governor-loving good-time girl is reportedly working on her reality dreams with Handprint Entertainment, a management company that reps the likes of Nicole Richie and Pamela Anderson. When asked for comment about reports of their working with the legendary lady of the evening, Handprint’s rep hung up on a reporter twice.

[From the New York Post via the Huffington Post]

Since Ashley’s show is supposed to be a takeoff on Tila Tequila’s show, I’m assuming it will involve both men and women. Otherwise it’d just be another dating show, and I’m assuming they’d compare it to something else. There’s also a rumor out there that she’s done some lesbian stuff in the past.

Ashley had to drop her lawsuit against Girls Gone Wild creator Joe Francis, who is planning on putting out a tape of her clips, even though the now 23-year-old was only 17 at the time. Which apparently is legal in Florida. One of the rumors about the tape is that Dupre performs some sort of sex act on another woman.

The idea of giving this woman a reality show is just madness. As if reality TV could possibly suck more. Nonetheless, I think I’d probably watch it, if only for the novelty factor.

Here’s Tila Tequila outside MTV TRL Studios in Times Square on July 1st. Photographer: Patricia Schlein. Images thanks to WENN.

Elliot Spitzer’s hooker Ashley Alexandra Dupre is suing Joe Francis and his Girls Gone Wild franchise for over $10 million in damages for releasing photo stills from a tape she made in 2003 when she was just 17. In the tape Dupre wears a backwards baseball cap and a bikini. She flashes her boobs for the camera, grabs herself and dances provocatively while guys surrounding her cheer. Dupre was on spring break in Florida and claims that she was given alcohol and “cajoled” into an appearance, although she certainly seemed willing at the time. She is suing for the use of her name and likeness on The Girls Gone Wild websites and promotional material, and according to People Magazine the tape was never released because she was just 17 at the time.

For his part Joe Francis says he’s “amazed” that she’s suing him because they are photos taken with many people present and he didn’t even release the tape since she was underage. He does say that it “doesn’t matter” if she was underage, since she showed false identification and claimed to be older:

“It is incomprehensible that Ms. Dupré could claim she did not give her consent to be filmed by Girls Gone Wild, when in fact we have videotape of her giving consent, while showing her identification,” Francis told Usmagazine.com…

“She’s seeking $10 Million for topless photos taken in front of a room full of people, including two newspapers and multiple crews we had in the room,” he said. “These images were taken in public places and contain no sexual contact. We expect to triumph in this matter and continue to offer the best and hottest girls.”

[From US Magazine]

While Dupre has not made a public appearance since the scandal broke 6 weeks ago, she has profited since the news got out that she was paid over $1,000 an hour for servicing former NY Governor Spitzer. Dupre has ambitions of becoming a pop star, and is said to have received over $200,000 for downloads of her songs.

The NY Daily News reports today that she has a new manager for her music career and is shopping around for a label that will have her. How convenient that she’s getting new press now for suing Girls Gone Wild. Her Myspace (warning: bad automatic music) has received over 10 million views.

I knew it was going to happen, but that doesn’t make it any less disgusting. America’s most famous hooker, Ashley Alexandra Dupre, has been invited by Donald Trump to join the cast of his new MTV reality show. Commence groaning now.

An insider at Donald Trump’s newly announced My Fair Lady-style MTV reality show tells PEOPLE that infamous call girl Ashley Alexander Dupré has been asked to join the cast.

The still-untitled show, produced by Donald Trump Productions (and referred to in some press reports as “Lady or a Tramp”) was picked up by MTV for eight hour-long episodes. Based on a British show called Ladette to Lady, the show will take a group of 15 hard-partying young women and send them off to a boarding school environment where they’ll learn to become more ladylike.

“She’s the perfect candidate,” the show insider says of Dupré, the 22-year-old at the center of the Gov. Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal. The show has not yet heard back from Dupré with any reaction to the offer.

Donald Trump could not immediately be reached for comment.

The Donald has had some experience reforming hard-partying young women in the past, of course. He famously sent Miss USA Tara Conner to rehab and gave her a “second chance” to keep her crown in December of 2006.

[From People]

I hate Donald Trump- and now, I have a whole new reason for my hatred. Since his last few seasons of “The Apprentice” were boring and contrived and nobody watched, he’s looking to include controversial people to the cast of his new show. However, the last thing this stupid little hobag Dupre needs is a reality show. She’s already an attention whore in addition to being a professional whore! What should happen is that she becomes a pariah and fades into obscurity where she belongs. I really hope this show tanks.

Girls Gone Wild founder Joe Francis got out of jail after 11 months and “One of the Greatest Miscarriages of Justice Ever” to the sound of crickets chirping. He was soon back at work rubbing his grubby mitts together at the prospect of employing the hooker behind the Governor Spitzer sex scandal to represent his Girls Gone Wild titty-baring franchise. Francis offered 22 year-old Ashley Dupre a million bucks to tell her story in a non-nude photo spread and video for his company. Then Francis realized he already had footage of a then 18 year-old Ashley partying it up and taking it off during spring break on Miami Beach and he quickly rescinded his offer.

Francis described the four year old footage of Ashley as similar to “finding a winning lottery ticket in the cushions of your couch”

Francis will soon release a special video featuring Dupre, now 22, the alleged high-priced call girl linked to the downfall of Gov. Eliot Spitzer.

“I met her on spring break at the Girls Gone Wild beach house in April 2003,” Francis tells PEOPLE. “She got into the Jacuzzi. … She threw her arms around me. I never made the connection that this was Ashley. But my cameraman had been in touch with her for a while. I didn’t make the connection until really recently. Then it was like: that’s Ashley!”

As Francis told the Associated Press about that Eureka! moment: “It’ll save me a million bucks. It’s kind of like finding a winning lottery ticket in the cushions of your couch.”

[From People.com]

People is predictably tame in their coverage, but Gawker notes that Francis said he got “girl-on-girl action” footage of Ashley with another woman in a hotel room.

The NY Post had these screencaps from GirlsGoneWild.com and at 18, Ashley looked like a dork. She soon progressed from an awkward exhibitionist to a drunken prostitute, though, and the Post had some more photos out at a club last February, clearly blotto and getting groped by various guys.

Gawker has Ashley featured in a music video for rapper Mysterious, who then went on Access Hollywood and The Today show to talk about her and get some free publicity. And US Weekly is set to publish the cheesy modeling photos of Ashley shown below. [via Huffington Post]

Dupre is said to have made $200k from downloads of her songs, and while the Girls Gone Wild offer has been withdrawn she’s also been offered $1 million from Hustler and at least six figures from Georgi Vodka. She better cash in now while she has a chance as this story is quickly fading from the headlines.

The NY Times has an interview and a link to the MySpace page of the woman at the heart of the Elliott Spitzer scandal. Her name was Kristen on the Emperor’s Club Website, but her real name is Ashley Youmans and she’s an aspiring singer who goes by the name Ashley Alexandra Dupré. She’s just 22 years old, and on her myspace she writes about moving all over and leaving an abusive family, being homeless at one point and addicted to drugs. She says music saved her, but it probably wasn’t enough to pay the bills if she was working as an escort:

When I was 17, I left home. It was my decision and I’ve never looked back. Left my hometown. Left a broken family. Left abuse. Left an older brother who had already split. Left and learned what it was like to have everything, and lose it, again and again. Learned what it was like to wake up one day and have the people you care about most gone. 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.

[From Ashley Alexandra Dupré’s MySpace]

In his resignation speech, Spitzer repeatedly referred to the fact that he was busted hiring prostitutes as a “private matter,” but no matter what you think about the morality of his actions or whether it’s grounds for him to leave public office, it’s clear that he had a real problem. The guy had teenage daughters and he was paying thousands of dollars to sleep with young prostitutes. He makes $179,000 a year as governor of New York and was said to have spent $80,000, nearly half his salary, on hookers in the last 10 years. last year.

Actress Julianne Moore, who lives in New York city, talked to People Magazine at an event yesterday, and she summed up a lot of people’s opinions on this matter:

“A f—ing embarrassment” is how Julianne Moore, once a fan of the former attorney general, termed the politico’s involvement in a prostitution ring – for which it is anticipated he will resign on Wednesday.

“I’m really pissed,” the fiery New Yorker, 47, told PEOPLE during Tuesday’s TSE flagship SoHo store opening. “I honestly don’t care where or how people have sex, or with whom, but prostitution is illegal. For someone whose got such a reputation for having a real attitude towards crime, you have to walk the walk. I’m sorry.”

[From People.com]

Many of you are mentioning President Clinton’s impeachment in 1998 as similar to this story, and it has some common themes of infidelity and betrayal of public trust by a high-ranking government official. Clinton lied under oath in his deposition for the Paula Jones case about his relationship with Monica Lewinsky. It’s not analogous to Spitzer’s use of prostitutes in that Clinton’s “crime” was stretching the truth, saying that he thought “sexual relations” meant the strict definition of the term, not oral sex. (Which I know is ridiculous, but let’s just say the President lied in a case that many pundits thought should not have been brought against him while he was in office in the first place.)

Spitzer broke the law multiple times, spending tens of thousands of dollars on prostitutes. While Clinton may have been a sex addict who couldn’t keep it in his pants, and who by some accounts sexually harassed women, he was never convicted of that and for all we know he didn’t pay for sex.

There is definitely one detail that Spitzer and President Clinton’s indiscretions have in common - Monica Lewinsky was also just 22 when she had an affair with a then 49 year-old President Clinton. Elliot Spitzer will be 49 in June.

The sad thing is that both Spitzer and President Clinton are incredible politicians who were renowned for fighting for the common good. Now their accomplishments will always be overshadowed by their sex lives, and their obituaries will even include a mention of the scandals that marred their political careers.