Ashley Alexandra Dupre Sits Down With Diane Sawyer

NEW YORK — The prostitute at the center of the scandal that brought down former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer has apologized to his wife.

Ashley Alexandra Dupre tells People magazine that the FBI informed her in early March that it was investigating one of her clients. A few days later, she found out which client when she recognized Spitzer on TV _ resigning.

That was March 12, after revelations Spitzer had used Emperors Club VIP, where Dupre worked.

She says she was stricken by the pained expression on Silda Wall Spitzer's face.

"I try not to revisit that place too often, but when I think about his speech, I think of her face, her eyes, the hurt," Dupre said.

Her message to Silda Wall Spitzer: "I'm sorry for your pain."

Dupre, 23, said Spitzer was polite and businesslike when they met. "Some guys, they want to have conversations and really get to know each other. With him, it clearly was not like that," she said. "It was more of a transaction. Strictly business."

Dupre, who was known then as Kristen, said she practiced safe sex with all her clients, including Spitzer. On her attorney's advice, she would not elaborate on their liaison, or say whether Spitzer visited her more than once. She did say that he dressed casually and she did not see his security detail.

Dupre also sat down with Diane Sawyer for an ABC "20/20" segment to be aired Friday. In that interview, ABC said, she describes how an "upper middle-class, girl next door got into the profession and the psychological journey she continues to experience."

Four people have pleaded guilty to running the prostitution operation. Last week, federal prosecutors said they wouldn't bring criminal charges against Spitzer.

Dupre, 23, envisions a future for herself in music, fashion and "writing books" _ but not prostitution. "Never again."

Comments

[smokeystover39]

Fairly hot looking honey, but appearances can be deceiving - think about our little heroine from another perspective: If she had as many sticking out of her as was stuck in her she'd look like a porcupine. Keep the line moving - there's nothing more to see here.

[Ranta]

Dupre could at least dress like a hooker. That outfit looks like something some religious wacko would wear. I was going to watch the program but no way now.

[PaceSetter]

Bush’s Real Problem with Eliot Spitzer

http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/25-bushs-real-problem-with-eliot-spitzer/

On February 14, the Washington Post published an editorial by Spitzer titled, “Predatory Lenders’ Partner in Crime: How the Bush Administration Stopped the States From Stepping In to Help Consumers,” which charged, “Not only did the Bush administration do nothing to protect consumers, it embarked on an aggressive and unprecedented campaign to prevent states from protecting their residents from the very problems to which the federal government was turning a blind eye.”

The editorial appeared the day after Spitzer’s ill-fated rendezvous with the prostitute at the Mayflower Hotel. With that article, some Washington insiders believe, Spitzer signed his own political death warrant.

[MamaBird62]

Spitzer made a lot of enemies in high places over the course of his law enforcement career, that's for sure. He could have done a lot of good as governor of NY. However, none of those enemies, including George Bush, forced him to spend $80K on hookers. The man did himself in.

[PaceSetter]

While Spitzer was paying an ‘escort’ $4,300 in a hotel room in Washington, just down the road, George Bush’s new Federal Reserve Board Chairman, Ben Bernanke, was secretly handing over $200 billion in a tryst with mortgage bank industry speculators.

After the editorial, headlines in the financial press read “Wall Street Declares War on Spitzer” They made clear to Bush’s enforcers at Justice who their number one target should be. And it wasn’t Bin Laden.

Which crime would you rather have prosecuted, the victimless crime or the one for which you, your children and grandchildren will be paying?

[Purcy]

Does anyone care what she said enough to read it or watch it? I think there are so many things that are more important. Come on Diane, do a real story.

[marko77]

What's next for Diane - to interview the pimps?

[littlepuffycloud]

two whores just havin' a little girl talk...

[DavidATolucaLake]

Watching a porn star or prostitute being interviewed is about as interesting as watching paint dry.
There is a reason they dont make their money with their minds.

"Um like, I love to go shopping, tanning and going out to clubs.....­..Oh yeah, I was sexually abused, as a child, but I cant really say how I ended up in the sex business I guess I like sex (giggle giggle).

Yikes.

[DavidATolucaLake]

Whats to reveal?!?
Prostitutes either have limited career choices or dont want to earn less working a real job.

Its not rocket science.

[brooklyncitizen]

Yellow journalism.

[Formeralaskangal]

Dupre reveals how an "upper middle-class, girl next door got into the profession and the psychological journey she continues to experience­."

Hmm, I wonder if Palin will take notes for her book. She and Dupre have a lot in common.

[killmenow]

I just can't believe that an interview with the "hooker" would be relevant to anything. Is this some kind of scoop? Well... I don't think so, but apparently Sawyer thinks it is. How pathetic.

[weatherwaxx]

Okay, I see two made-up-for-TV women who will do anything for a buck.

Remind me--which of 'em is the prostitute?

[Culturemaven]

Who care's what her middle name is? Gotta love the demure dress, though. So respectable! LOL

[jazzblues]

I am sure she must have protested the clothing guys at ABC...I am sure she secretly wanted to show off the clothes she wore when waiting for Spitzer...

Spitzer was a real "M@R@N". A guy whom many thought would go on to be a future presidential candidate.­..what a disgrace..­.

but who cares!!...­I am still sure that Dupre must have so wanted to show America the clothes that she wore with Spitzer...­heheheheh.­..hehehehe­...

[ObamaNation0812]

This is baffling and a freaking waste of everything: can't Diane-lame-reporter do a piece on the refugees in Iraq, or the Sudan wars, or the people struggling to stay afloat and save their homes, or on the people who are doing incredible good deeds in the world, or the destruction and pollution of Hawaiian islands, or how the educational systems can be improved, or how Obama's campaign can be such an inspiration for unity across the country and the world to make the world a better place, or how people are finally waking up to this crisis and learning the beauty and power of a simpler life, or... you get the point.

This is pathetic. I hope it gets pathetic ratings since that is all that they're after. Lord have mercy. What a lame lame existence.

[willwallace]

yeah we get it, you dont want to hear it, but it happened and Spitzer made his bed and should lay in it

[DumbDad]

She's a prostitute. The one I want to see grilled is the self-appointed mansaver who seduced John Edwards. What was HER take? Was she utterly unaware of what she was doing to so many others? Was she on a mission? Does she get away scot free? just too dumb to know

[Cherubim]

Forget what's her name.
Instead watch a video of one of John Edwards' visits
to New Orleans to shine a spotlight on the need to rebuild this devastated area.
Then remember, your money is going to Wall Street devastated by con men and robbers,
and not to New Orleans or other areas of the US devastated by nature:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DaofQCkbA8

[AsISaid]

Great point and perspective on all this crazy stuff