Escort, hooker, call girl, whore, girfriend... what ever you want to call her, her name is Ashley Dupree, and she is the 22 year old beauty behind the resignation of Gov. Eliot Spitzer.
The New York Times identified "Kristen", the prostitute who caused Gov. Eliot Spitzer of New York to resign, as one Ashley Alexandra Duprée, 22 year-old of Jersey Shore.
“She was a young kid with typical teenage rebellion issues, but we are extremely close now,” Dupree's mother, Carolyn Capalbo, 46, told the New York Times on Wednesday.
Ashley Dupree, the escort the Emperor’s Club called Kristen is described as “an American, petite, very pretty brunette, 5 feet 5 inches, and 105 pounds.” According to the NY Times Dupree was charging $1,000 an hour for her services.
His wife by his side, Eliot Spitzer resigned as governor of New York on Wednesday.
“To every New Yorker and to all those who believed in what I tried to stand for, I sincerely apologize. I look at my time as governor with a sense of what might have been,” said Eliot Spitzer.
His resignation was triggered by a federal affidavit that linked him to a high-class call girl service and according to which he met "Kristen" aka Ashley Dupree and other prostitutes at least times.
More on Ashley Dupree
The young bombshell who has been identified as the former governor Eliot Spitzer's $4,300 date is a Jersey woman who hoped to make it in the big city as a singer, but now worries about paying the rent on her luxury apartment.
The Call Girl and the GovernorAshley Alexandra Dupre is better known as Kristen, the high-priced hooker whose alleged tryst with Spitzer led to his disgrace and resignation.
She is also known as Ashley Youmans, the high school dropout who left her Jersey shore home at the age of 17 to begin her search for fame.
So far her career has been limited to some small-time New York City clubs, a recording on her MySpace page and a leading role in her elementary school play.
"We did the third-grade play together," her childhood pal Bill Coyne told ABC News. "She played Sandy in 'Grease' and opposite I played Danny. We had a lot of fun."
Coyne was surprised that the class beauty became a hooker.
"She is naturally just a sweet, sweet person, kind spirit. I never would have thought she would have been involved in anything like this," Coyne said.
But he's not surprised she became famous.
"I always knew that she was going to be famous because she had this larger than life persona. She's a bombshell," Coyne said.
The Emperors Club VIP escort service also seems to have thought she was a bombshell and had her vitals handy when Spitzer needed reminding who his date was going to be.
The Emperors Club told Spitzer "Kristen" was "American, petite, very pretty brunette, 5 feet 5 inches and 105 pounds," according to a federal complaint.
The description left out that she was an aspiring singer whose MySpace page featured her song "What We Want" with hip-hop lyrics like, "I know what you want, you got what I want. I know what you need. Can you handle me?"
Her online profile also hints at hard times. "What destroys me strengthens me" is the motto next to her photo. She claims she left a "broken home" after enduring "abuse."
In a bluesy mood, she wrote, "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."
At another point she writes defiantly, "But I made it ... I'm still here and I love who I am."
In an Aug. 30 blog posting on MySpace, she wrote: "The past few months have been a roller coaster with so-called friends, lovers, and family ... but it's something you have to deal with and confront in order to move on ..."
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