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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.
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.



















































