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How Long Until Ashley Dupre Becomes a Handbag Designer?

November 22, 2008
Wendie
Ashley Alexandra Dupre, Eliot Spitzer
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Because all sex scandal women come out with their own handbag line.  It’s like…a rule. 

Ashley Dupre, the hooker who serviced former NY governor Eliot Spitzer, was on 20/20 last night telling her side of the story.  I’m always suspicious of people who cry without the presence of tears.  She absolutely seemed fake and scripted to me.  I love the way Diane Sawyer looks at her.  She communicates “Wow, you are really fucking stupid” without even saying a word.  Anyway, Dupre says she’s intelligent but she also didn’t know she was screwing the governor of NY.  Because she was busy and didn’t read newspapers.  As a further sign of mental acumen, when the FBI showed up at her apartment and she turned on her TV to see Spitzer’s resignation, she began to “connect the dots.”

But to further support my belief that television is educational, I learned that being a prostitute is not the same thing as being an escort.  Because when you are an escort, you get dinner first.

Some of the best parts of the interview:

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.”

21 CommentsLeave a comment

  • If you miss Beet so much, you can read her on the weekends on her own blog. I think Wendie is doing a great job.

  • Dupre on Prostitution vs. Escort:
    “Prostitution is about sex. An escort is a lot more than that.”
    Apparently!!!!!
    Prostitution = Hugh Grant’s $5.00 hummer.
    Escort = Spitzer’s $10,000.00 hummer.

  • Its alright Ashley, we understand your a whore. Why you continue to be loved by the media is what really baffles me. I think its unfair that other whores don’t get as much exposure as you do! I am calling all whores to protest against this whore!!!!!!!!!!!! YEAH!.

    uh just ignore whatever I just said…

  • I like you too Wendie :) good story!

    I hope that Ashley Dupre just GOES AWAY. We need to stop making hookers into celebrities… ahem Paris Hilton.

  • re; versace

    sorry, but i have to defend wendie, once again. calling her a whore and hoping she dies of aids is unjustifiably mean and uncalled for.

  • I saw this whole thing and this girl is not only dumb, she’s the most insincere interview I’ve seen in a long time. I was actually ashamed of 20/20 for even putting her on the air, and I’m a longtime fan of the show, especially Stossel.

    And Wendie, you’re doing a great job, don’t let the haters stop you.

  • To Ashley’s momma…your daughter is why Roe vs. Wade is on the record books, might ought to have rethought that one. Not the best gene pool to pass on.

  • What makes her timing and interview worse…is that she did a whole US or People mag photo shoot and interview right around the time this was still fresh….can you imagine. Non of her “sexy” photos had the byline under them “I’m sorry for your pain” then.

  • Stop labeling this girl as a whore! She got paid for her services just like a nail tech, salon tech, and everyone else that serves a business service. The sex business is entertain by men who are not having sex with their wife, ease tension and just having a good time. If the wife is no longer sucking their husbands cock or fucking them, it’s the men’s fault if they want to get off and wife doesn’t? Blame the wives for making their husband stray.

  • @ evitlbeater

    “Blame the wives for making their husband stay.”

    yeah, totally. it’s only a woman’s purpose in a relationship to keep her man fully satisfied. are you fucking serious? how do women in 2008 still hold that opinion of female sexuality? this completely baffles me.

  • Why get down on hookers so much? Its a very high paying vareer as long as you are not on the streets doing it. High end escorts make six figure incomes for working part time. And yes, most often it is the woves fault for their men to stray. If not, then there woldn’t be so many hookers in the country. These neglected men keep them employed.

  • I agree with the last two people. I’m so sick of women trashing other women and blaming them when the guy is left alone.

    Until any of you bitches walk a mile in anyones shoes or know why they took a path that didn’t serve their highest good …..put a sock in it
    and watch those three fingers pointed back at yourselves. The only thing your judgemental catty attiudes show is you’re a person who needs to judge…not that you’re better than anyone,so don’t ever kid yourselves you are. You probably all go out and have one night stands and don’t get a cigarette in the morning than you got the nerve to judge other womem. Its you kind of unts who give women a bad name.