Who is Ashley Youmans AKA Ashley Alexandra Dupré AKA Kristen, the Emperor's Club VIP high priced call girl.
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Ashley Alexandra Dupre, the call girl embroiled in the prostitution scandal that forced New Yok Gov. Eliot Spitzer to resign, also had sex with actor Charlie Sheen.
When she was 19, Dupre had sex with Sheen with another hooker.
Apparently Dupre, 22, was already a prostitute in her teens and worked for infamous pimp Jason Itzler, who was jailed in 2006 after pleading guilty to running the 25,000 U.S. dollar a night prostitution ring.
Ironically, it was Spitzer who brought down his business. Itzler said Dupre was a hard-working prostitute who always had an eye for the rich men and made tens of thousands of dollars a month.
Dupre's brother is a drug dealer, the same online publication reports. The day the New York Times broke the news of Spitzer illegal sex with her, brother Kyle Youmans pleaded guilty in a court to dealing heroin.
She posted two songs on the music sharing site Aime Street, "What You Want" and "Move Ya Body," both critically panned. However, it appears that several radio stations across the nation have started airing them.
According to an investigation, Dupre met with Spitzer on Feb. 13 at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington for sex, a meet-up arranged through the international call-girl outfit called the Emperor's Club, where she was employed as a high-priced prostitute.
She was paid 4,300 dollars for the session, one of many that investigators said Spitzer had with women employed by the prostitution ring that operated in several cities worldwide
The day after federal authorities busted the high-end hooker ring that ended disgraced former New York governor Elliott Spitzer political career, the brunette callgirl telephoned her dad in tears to say she was in trouble.
"I was worried for her," William Youmans, father of Ashly Dupree, told the New York Post yesterday.
But during the call Dupre still remained silent about her other life as $4300-an-hour callgirl "Kristen".
"Everyone makes mistakes, and this was a very large mistake," Mr Youmans, a stonemason, said. "I love her tremendously and support her, but I am just in so much shock right now."
Mr Youmans said Dupre lived with him down on the Outer Banks of North Carolina from the age of 17, after she left her mother and stepfather's home in New Jersey, in 2002. But she never adjusted to life in the south.
So after a little less than a year, she moved up to the Big Apple to pursue her dream of becoming a singing star - changing her name from Ashley Youmans to Ashley Alexandra Dupre.
She quickly fell into a fast-paced life of hard partying, expensive tastes and rich men and worked as a cocktail waitress, earning $600-800 a night.
Few who knew her realised she was living a double life until her encounter with Eliot Spitzer came to light.
Dupre is not the only one in her family getting some unwanted publicity. Her brother Kyle Youmans pleaded guilty last week to possession of heroi* with intent to distribute and will be sentenced next month.
Ashly Alexandra Drupré already has banked up to $200,000 in profits from the sex scandal, thanks to curious people who have downloaded her pop songs on the Internet.
More than 300,000 people have listened to Dupré's music on the Web site AmieStreet.com since her name emerged as the prostitute at the center of the Eliot Spitzer sex scandal.
And she could make a lot more money soon: Larry Flynt's Hustler magazine has offered her $1 million to bare all in its pages. Penthouse and porn studio Vivid Video are readying proposals.
Dupré's two songs - "Move Ya Body" and "What We Want" - each cost 98 cents online.
"What We Want" was posted online before her name emerged as Spitzer's prostitute. As dozens of reporters and TV cameras camped outside her apartment building in Manhattan, she then uploaded "Move Ya Body" at 2 a.m. Thursday - cashing in even more on her notoriety.
"Move Ya Body" was the quickest cut ever to hit the site's maximum price of 98 cents per download, said Joshua Boltuch, co-founder of the music Web site, the only place where Dupré's songs can be purchased online.
"It went up to 98 cents in just five hours during the middle of the night," Boltuch said. "That's incredible."
The profits from the downloads could greatly exceed the few thousand dollars that Dupré - who went by the hooker name "Kristen" - earned from her tryst with Spitzer in a Washington hotel room in February.
"Her two songs are by far the most popular on our site since her name came out," Boltuch said.
The price of a song on the site increases with its popularity. Artists collect 70% of a song's sales.
As of Friday evening, 301,098 people had listened to the songs - if they had all bought the songs at 98 cents, Dupré would have made $206,553.
Ashley Alexandra Dupre is in photos everywhere and now she is online as a video vixen. This is the woman that brought the New York state government to its knees with a high priced call girl scandal that allegedly involved client number nine. That person is allegedly soon to be former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer as he is out in disgrace on Monday
But Ashley Dupre is anything but disgraced. In the pop culture dominated news cycle she has emerged from this scandal as the good guy by being the very bad girl for $4,600 a night. Allegedly. She is sought, people want her life story, they want her to strip for photos and they want her to talk about her trysts with the governor.
What a concept. Her buzz should carry through at least a few more days thanks to Spitzer's decision to drag out his resignation until Monday. She certainly could make a major splash then and her interview would draw far more viewers than another "I'm sorry I slept with a whole lot of other women" apology from Spitzer.
Her latest topless photos are now online and she teases America as they wait. There is a PDA video courtesy of Page Six making the rounds as well and that can be found here at the New York Post's online gossip column website. It's really not that much, but as the anticipation builds for the final full frontal from the lady of the night, everything is being examined. More coverage, including links to more photos here.
Ashley Dupre is topless and her photos has now been placed online and on the streets of Gotham thanks to the New York Post. The woman that many people only knew as Kristen is out of hiding and all sorts of information on the former Emperor's Club VIP call girl is now emerging and certainly it seems as if the 22-year old Eliot Spitzer connection is ready to cash in on her newfound fame.
Everyone wants her to pose in the buff. Both Penthouse Magazine and Hustler Magazine are expected to give offers to a girl that is already used to getting thousands of dollars and hour for her services. So how much money is she ready to earn now that she is the most sought after model in the country. The New York Post has this photo on the Friday edition of the newspaper.
This time, instead of using her body for secrecy and lots of dollars, she will be able to use her body for fame and a whole lot more dollars. It doesn't take much with the wall to wall coverage to get her the offers, but just how much will they be worth? Her skimpy bikini photo got it all started and now there are more photos leaking out.
Ashley Alexandra Dupre is very fortunate. She is in a similar position but has pulled off the exact opposite as Monica Lewinsky who once famously said she wanted to earn her "presidential kneepads." She would be later despised by many even though she was just doing what Bill Clinton wanted. Ashley seems to have received more of a pass and soon we will see why. More coverage an links to more photos are here.
Speculation on what is next for Ashley Alexandra Dupre is burning up bandwidth and hours of cable television news time. Speculation hit early after her identity was revealed that the would be pop singer would be given an offer from Playboy magazine. But according to a report from the Associated Press that particular men's magazine is not interested in the highest profile girl from the Emperor's Club VIP.
But there is another magazine that is on record as wanting a call from the model slash singer. Penthouse Magazine spoke with the wire service and they say they would love to have a nice talk with the woman that is at the center of the New York governor scandal and they might even offer her a cover. Terms were not disclosed but the offer appears to be solid.
Ashley will be in high demand for some time but she might want to learn the lessons that some never do that are given this opportunity. This story will cool off within the next few days and her time to strike and make herself into a celebrity is right now. It sounds as if she won't be charged with anything so she should be free and clear to cash in on whatever offers come her way.
She is already online in a skimpy bikini here and her MySpace page is very popular. She is a pretty brunette with full lips and brown eyes and certainly has the assets to make the move to Penthouse cover girl and that might be the boost her career needs. More coverage of the scandal and the photos here and here. This seems like her once in a lifetime shot. Should she take it?
Ashley Alexandra Dupre is ready for prime time after only being known as "Kristen" the woman that allegedly served up "Client Number 9" for the Emperor's Club VIP service. Now she is topic one for every media outlet in America and she is even getting some attention across the world. She says she wants to be a singer but surely it will not be long until America's number one men's magazine comes calling.
Will Kristen - uh- Ashley Dupree be willing to strip for Playboy? The offer has not been yet laid out but is being discussed everywhere as pop culture pundits and entertainment gossips all are joining in with the political crowd and are very curious to see just what the governor was dropping thousands of dollars of cash for.
She looks striking in her released photos so far. There is even one racy photo that was taken from the Emperor's Club website that shows an advertisement that shows the woman topless (the first link is safe) but it is difficult to tell if that is really Ashley Alexandra Dupre. Even if Playboy doesn't offer or they do and she doesn't accept, expect to see much more of this rising star soon.
She is reportedly scheduled for television interviews soon and will likely be getting top dollar just to talk about what her life was like and more importantly, what went down in that hotel room on Valentine's Eve. Her friends area already all over television, with most of them saying they had no idea of her secret double life and they only believed that she was a girl that was working very hard to become a pop star.
The artist formerly known as Kristen has now been identified as Ashley Alexandra Dupre and she is an alleged call girl that took care of Client Number Nine on the night before Valentine's Day. You may have heard of the whole transaction and it didn't really end all that well for the client. But it might for Kristen aka Ashley Alexandra Dupre. Her photos have hit the World Wide Web and she is reportedly ready to do interviews and tell her side of the story.
She is likely looking for a bit of publicity as well as she really wants to be a singer and has a tune blaring right now on her MySpace page. She looks a little bit like Lindsay Lohan here and the sound is a little like Britney Spears and isn't terrible, but she'll need some big breaks to get air time on a consistent basis.
But what can be better than the publicity she is now getting and will be receiving for the next few days. She has posed in a bikini here and that photo has spread like wildfire all over the World Wide Web. She will likely get numerous offers from men's magazines galore to pose however she wishes.
More photos are leaking out from her MySpace as well and she may be ready to take this publicity to the bank. Reports claim that she is already willing to speak with the nightly syndicated show "Extra". New York media gossip website Jossip puts that price at one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) for the interview and that will be leaving her clothes on and just giving a true confessions interview. It all gets very interesting now
With over two million individual plays (it should break three five million by days end, methinks) on her MySpace page, What We Want by Ashley Alexandra Dupré (aka Miss Spitzer) is probably the most listened to song in North America right now. The million dollar question: is the song any good?
Well, it's no Umbrella, but - actually - it's not horrible. Let me put it this way: it stacks up against all the other generic hip-hop flavoured R&B on the radio/iTunes these days. This will be played in every club in New York on Friday night.
Let's break down some of the lyrics. Here's the first verse:
Can you handle me boy? Can you take my hand and carry me boy? Wanna see what you feel? Look in my eyes so I can see if you're for real. Can you ride with me boy? Bonnie and Clyde, baby, die with me boy. Won't really know 'til it go down, baby what would you do if someone tried to take me from you, oh boy? Would you stay right here boo? Would you defend your girl, do whatever she do? Would you stay true if someone tried to take me from you? Oh boy...
Mixed metaphor aside (see what you feel???), it's almost as if she's talking to Eliot Spitzer. So, Mr. Ex-Governor: will you defend your girl? Will you look her in the eyes and tell her you're for real? Shake, Mr. Spitzer, shake.
Estimated date her album hits music stores: May 5, 2008.
The movie Pretty Woman was one of the highest grossing movies of the 1990's and basically put Julia Roberts on the map.
The epic storyline of the fairytale love story between call girl Vivian Ward (played by Julia Roberts) and high profile businessman Edward Lewis (played by Richard Gere) is all too familiar this week as Governor Eliot Spitzer revealed his involvement in a high profile prostitution ring.
The girl in the real-life story is named Ashley Alexandra Dupree and, surprisingly enough, she's an aspiring singer trying to make it in the cut-throat music industry.
Reportedly earning up to $4,000 a night for her "services" ala the Club VIP, the only real difference between Spitzer and Edward Lewis is that Spitzer has a wife and three daughters.
Thus begging the question, is what Eliot Spitzer did wrong on all levels - or only because he was the governor of New York with responsibilities as a husband and father.
Is it okay for any male (or female for that matter) to purchase services from prostitutes and escorts - or only those who are married?
Be careful how you answer...if you're a fan of the movie, you might just be contradicting yourself
Governor Spitzer news regarding his scandal
Eliot Spitzer News page
Eliot Spitzer resigned as Governor of New York yesterday after a sex scandal put an abrupt end to the political career of a rising star who seemed destined for the White House.
Mr Spitzer, a crusading former prosecutor once known as the Sheriff of Wall Street, said that he would “leave public life” two days after he was identified as Client 9 in a $5,500-an-hour international call-girl ring.
He will be replaced on Monday by his deputy, David Paterson, who will be New York’s first black Governor and the first blind one in US history.
Mr Spitzer, who is married with three daughters, emerged from his Fifth Avenue apartment to announce his resignation yesterday.
“I am deeply sorry that I did not live up to what was expected of me,” he told a press conference, with his wife, Silda, at his side.
“I look at my time as Governor with a sense of what might have been . . . There is much more to be done. I cannot allow my private failings to disrupt the people’s work.
“In the past few days I have begun to atone for my private failings with my wife, Silda, my children and my entire family. The remorse I feel will always be with me.”
Mr Spitzer’s lawyer, a former chief of the prosecutor’s public corruption unit, failed in an attempt to use his resignation as a bargaining chip in negotiations with her former bosses.
The Governor was exposed as Client 9 of the Emperor’s Club VIP call-girl ring after he was caught on an FBI telephone tap setting up a tryst with a “American, petite, very pretty brunette” prostitute named Kristen.
She was identified last night as a failed rhythm-and-blues singer born Ashley Youmans but now known as Ashley Alexandra Dupré.
“I just don’t want to be thought of as a monster,” Ms Dupré, 22, born in New Jersey and now living in New York’s Flatiron district, told The New York Times. “This has been a very difficult time. It is complicated.”
On her MySpace page Ms Dupré said that she had left “a broken family” at 17 and had used d...., “been broke and homeless”.
“But I made it,” she adds. “I’m still here and I love who I am.”
Ms Dupré travelled by train from New York to Washington to meet Mr Spitzer in an hotel on the eve of Valentine’s Day. An alleged madam was caught on the phonetap asking “Kristen” whether Client 9 had sought unsafe sex.
The New York Post reported that he had asked her to perform sex on him without a rubber but she had insisted on protection.
Mr Spitzer’s embarrassment was compounded yesterday by a prostitute called Sienna, 22, who told ABC News that he paid her for sex two years ago while he was still state attorney-general, New York’s top law-enforcement official. She said that he tipped her well and “didn’t do anything that wasn’t clean”.
The investigation began when his bank notified authorities of suspicious money transfers to a shell company.
Mr Spitzer allegedly wanted to transfer more than $10,000 to the ring’s front company, QAT Consulting Group, but broke it up into smaller amounts to avoid the bank being required to report it to the Government. The Wall Street Journal said that he made three payments of roughly $5,000 in the spring and summer of 2007.
AN ex-school friend of the callgirl named in New York's saucy scandal which has forced Governor Eliot Spitzer to resign, has defended her good character.
The woman, previously referred to as "Kristen" in federal court documents, has been named as Ashley Dupre, in reports online from the New York Times and the New York Post today.
Dupre, 22, has told of how the scandal has taken an emotional toll on her.
Read the New York Post report here.
And find out what she's into by checking out her MySpace page here.
Dupre is orginally from Jersey Shore and left Monmouth County five years ago.
She is now an aspiring R&B singer living in Manhattan.
Ashley Alexandra Dupre, 22, confirmed that she is the mysterious "Kristen," whom the New York governor allegedly had shipped to Washington, D.C., for action the night before Valentine's Day.
Born Ashley Youmans, she attended high school in Wall Township, N.J., before leaving after her sophomore year and moving to North Carolina, her mother, Carolyn Capalbo, 46, told the paper.
Dupre was a member of a stable of high-priced prostitutes marketed as Emperors Club VIP and allegedly run by a Cliffside Park, N.J., couple from an apartment in the Briarcliff, a co-op overlooking the Hudson River.
Spitzer, who resigned Wednesday, was allegedly a regular customer of the ring.
Joseph Pawlak, who graduated from Wall High School in 2003, said he was good friends with Dupre.
Now a senior at Boise State University in Idaho, Pawlak described her as a "nice, conservative girl" who was part of the popular crowd.
He asked her to a school dance and recalled how his family - his mother, in particular - loved her.
"She was a real nice girl who was polite and friendly and she wasn't a troubled girl or an outsider at all," Pawlak said. "Back in high school, she had her head on straight and she didn't hook up with a lot of guys or anything."
Pawlak said Dupre came from a wealthy family who had a "huge house" in Wall.
"I hung out with her all throughout high school until she vanished," said Pawlak, adding that the two talked for a few months after Dupre left, but lost touch shortly after. "Hearing she got involved in something like this is a shock to me."
Dupre's MySpace page provides a window into her life, chronicling her broken home on the Shore and the start of her music career in New York City. She made stops in North Carolina and Georgia.
"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. ... I have been alone. I have abused drugs. I have been broke and homeless. But, I survived, on my own," she writes.
In an Aug. 30 blog posting Dupre writes, "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."
The page also features a recording of one of her songs, "What We Want."
"I know what you want, you got what I want. I know what you need. Can you handle me?" she sings.
Photos on the site show her at various places, including in a bikini on a boat in St. Tropez.
The number of hits to the page soared by the tens of thousands after the story broke.
Records show that Dupre lives in Manhattan on West 25th Street, in a luxury rental skyscraper called The Chelsea Landmark, where rents start at $3,500 a month for a small studio, neighbors said. The 35-story building opened less than a year ago.
Dupre is expected to be a witness in the case against four people charged with operating the prostitution ring, including Mark Brener and Cecil Suwal, the Cliffside Park couple.
On Wednesday, 23-year-old Suwal, known in the affidavit as "Katie," the alleged madam of the ring, remained in the Metropolitan Correctional Center in lower Manhattan, frightened and unable to pay bail, her lawyer said.
But new details could emerge about the case, said attorney Daniel S. Parker, who expects an indictment to be handed down within the next month.
"Authorities are going to seek an indictment, so at this point, her current status involves waiting," said Parker, who described Suwal as "overwhelmed and distraught."
"Unfortunately, with the nature of this case that captured the governor, some innocent people have been caught up in this as well," he said.
Ashley Dupre to Take Spitzer Fame to Hollywood
By Ross von Metzke
The world now knows the ‘Kristen’ the press references when talking about defamed New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s call girl is actually named Ashley Alexandra Dupre. What the world doesn’t know—but could probably figure out if they thought about it for a minute—is that Dupre has her eye on Hollywood.
According to various reports, the woman Spitzer spent thousands of dollars to sleep with is actually an aspiring singer—in fact, a track called “What We Want” streams on her MySpace page.
According to the New York Post, Dupre even runs her own entertainment company, a venture her lawyer says is designed to further her singing and acting aspirations.
"I am all about my music and my music is all about me,” the budding talent says on her MySpace page. “It flows from what I've been through, what I've seen and how I feel.”
Whether Spitzer will figure into any of her lyrics remains to be seen. The former Governor, who stepped down earlier this week amid wiretap recordings connecting him to a prostitution ring, is alleged to have spent thousands of dollars on sexx with women.
Dupre was just one of the women he’s alleged to have slept with.
Dupre made a brief appearance in court in New York Monday and is said to be eyeing various reality television projects. According to reports, Dupre brought in up to $4,000 a night for her services.
'Kristen's' last words: Her bio page disappears
by the swamp
Kristen," the so-called "high-class" call girl who brought down Eliot Spitzer, was outed this morning by the New York papers.
She's Ashley Alexandra Dupre, a 22-year old runaway from New Jersey and aspiring R&B singer, who, in her own words, has battled homelessness and drug addiction. The New York Times apparently tracked her down after she appeared as a witness Wednesday in the federal prosecution of the Emperor's Club.
The NYT linked to Dupre's MySpace page, which we tired to do as well, but at 11:55 a.m, her page went down, with a message that read the user had canceled her membership. At the time, her page had been viewed almost 500,000 times.
Dupre, who the Times is saying is holed up in her apartment hiding from the media (good luck), has posted a status message on her page that says more than all the scandal-heated commentary you've
read put together: "what destroys me, strengthens me."
Her last blog entry, from last summer, was in its own way, prescient about her involvement with the governor of New York:
Surround yourself around people that are making moves, and doing what "they want and love" with their lives, positive energy...thats what life is all about...living. Because if you dont, misery loves company, they will only try to bring you down with them...but the question is, are you strong enough, to not let that happen?
Its hard to see if you let it get to that point...
...and then from all those answers you have to decide if that person is worthy of being a part of "your" life....because it is your life, your show...you decide who you want the characters to be...not the other way around. Every person is different, every person has their voice...can you recognize your voice, listen to it, and stick up for it??
Dupre's friends are rallying to her defense, admittedly in their own vernacular:
* "All this pressure is gonna turn you into a diamond. shine on."
* "Compassion is free. A lot of people in this world seem to have none. My thoughts are with you, so are my prayers. Hang in there. We are here for you. Take a minute for yourself. Stay driven."
* "ASHLEY, REMEMBER, "THE ONE'S WHO MATTER WILL UNDERSTAND, THE ONE'S WHO DON'T UNDERSTAND DON'T MATTER" PEACE."
* "Whtas good keep your head up sis you know we got your back all day you how we do and after this blows over we gona make a HOT song like we always do!!!!"
More than one commenter on her page noted that Ashley Dupre was going to be a star as a result of the media onlslaught--at least a 15-minute one. The glare will certainly be brighter before it dims. Stay strong, girl.
Ashley Alexandra Dupre Nu.. Photos: Kristen Playboy Pictorial on Deck?
By Jon Shanks
Ashley Alexandra Dupre is ready for prime time after only being known as "Kristen" the woman that allegedly served up "Client Number 9" for the Emperor's Club VIP service. Now she is topic one for every media outlet in America and she is even getting some attention across the world. She says she wants to be a singer but surely it will not be long until America's number one men's magazine comes calling.
Will Kristen - uh- Ashley Dupree be willing to strip for Playboy? The offer has not been yet laid out but is being discussed everywhere as pop culture pundits and entertainment gossips all are joining in with the political crowd and are very curious to see just what the governor was dropping thousands of dollars of cash for.
She looks striking in her released photos so far. There is even one racy photo that was taken from the Emperor's Club website that shows an advertisement that shows the woman topless (the first link is safe) but it is difficult to tell if that is really Ashley Alexandra Dupre. Even if Playboy doesn't offer or they do and she doesn't accept, expect to see much more of this rising star soon.
She is reportedly scheduled for television interviews soon and will likely be getting top dollar just to talk about what her life was like and more importantly, what went down in that hotel room on Valentine's Eve. Her friends area already all over television, with most of them saying they had no idea of her secret double life and they only believed that she was a girl that was working very hard to become a pop star.
The Emperor's Club VIP Photos: A New Call Girl Speaks on Spitzer
By Jon Shanks
Eliot Spitzer still has yet to resign despite what is described as a lot of activity on a website called the Emperor's Club VIP. The women on that website are allegedly high priced call girls and there seems to be a lot of mounting evidence of Spitzer and a girl named Kristen from that website and a nice time they spent together on the night before Valentine's Day in Washington, DC. he was basically caught in a sting, and the police claim to have recorded phone calls all the way down to the amount he spent, which is alleged to be forty-six hundred dollars for just a few hours.
Many feel just awful for his wife Silda Wall Spitzer as she had to do the "Press Conference of Shame". (As opposed to the usual walk of shame that some celebrities do after a night in a hotel when they are caught by the paparazzi). Spitzer has put his wife in an awful position and his career seems like it is over.
The website and the photos of the call girls were eventually removed but there are still different versions online that were grabbed and saved before the purge. Now more digging has brought out another girl and she claims that she also had several flings with the New York Governor. This one is a 22-year old blonde (Kristen was reportedly a brunette) and she says that Spitzer was a good guy for a john and that he was a nice guy that tossed out some pretty handsome tips.
She notes that she did not work for the website in question. This page has plenty of links to the girls from the original website and now notorious Emperor's Club VIP. The new confessions from the unnamed blonde are told to ABC via a phone interview. The girl doesn't give her name but says that Spitzer didn't ask for anything that "wasn't clean".
I guess that is good to know, although she fails to elaborate on her definition of clean. Some are saying that he will resign on Wednesday and if he doesn't it just might be impeachment time, as everyone seems to be calling for his to step aide.
