Ashley Dupre Interview: "I Have A Lot Of Depth"

People:

She was the tabloid sensation at the center of the sex scandal that brought down New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer. But in her very first interview, Ashley Alexandra Dupré tells PEOPLE, "I am a normal girl."

"Everyone knows me as 'that girl,' but I'm not just 'that girl,' " the 23-year-old former escort says in the new issue of PEOPLE, on sale Friday. "I have a lot of depth, a lot of layers."

Enduring a media spotlight that included seeing her MySpace photos splashed on front pages "has been really hard," the New Jersey native explains. "But I'm a survivor."

Her descent into tabloid mayhem began the night of Feb. 13, 2008, when Dupré - who had worked as a high-end escort to help pay the bills on and off since 2004 - met a client who turned out to be the Governor of New York.

Dupré claims she had no idea who the man was that night, recalling that he was a "polite" client who didn't want a lot of chit-chat. In fact, she didn't find out who he was until March when, just days after learning she was mixed up in some sort of FBI investigation, she saw the Spitzer apologizing on TV. "It was surreal," Dupré says of seeing the client she had met a month before. "I felt like I was sinking."

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Comments

[CALAVA]

Give her a bad dye job and she looks like Elisabeth Hasselbeck.

[donorman]

She has depth. Bewteen her legs. So don't fall in.
echo...echo... echo..

[JADE2002]

lol!!!

[Aabby]

come on guys!

[saxmaniac]

Sigh. This is what USA is all about today --not making good cars, but making celebs of people you don't want your daughters to grow up to be. My country, 'tis of thee, I weep.

[Scandalouscandice5]

She looks cross eyed.

[vstar]

And beady eyed. I do not get she is soooo beautiful. NOT all that.

[PanFx]

She also has a big, crooked nose. Sorry, she's a dawg.

[Sarahmay57]

Has a lot of "depth", but despite living in the state of NY did not know who Spitzer was?

Not so much.

[functor]

you may not recognize even obama in that situations, I think.

[lizr]

Ask your average 20 something how many local officials they can id.

Why do you think so many votes for Obama and blank votes further down the ticket?

You gee ks are so out of touch its funny, if it wasnt so hur t ful to people you dont even know.

I hope you are REALLY Pr oud of yourselves.

[Sarahmay57]

It is arguable about "who" is out of touch!

But I have no problem with Ashley or prostitution, it was Spitzer who made the bad call.

Just wouldn't describe her as a woman of depth.

[Aabby]

Still...one knows one's own Governer I think.

[floydknight]

I thought she was referring to her throat.

[FirstShirt]

She didn't recognize him in his wig and high heels.

[vippy]

Again, why are we interviewing prostitutes. Sounds like we are setting a bad example and glamourizing them. What exactly can one ask them - think about it.
Spitzer was set up so he is out of range when it came to the bailout that went so wrong.
Yep, and we all fell for it again.

[lizr]

thanks for a larger perspective.

The only framing this story needs is why S pit zer was targe tted.

The rest of you f o ol s are falling for the side show.

[Merckx]

Targeted over and over and over and over.....

[petalpusher]

That certainly is the bigger picture here.

[SilentShout]

Butterface

[Deepblu]

I see similarities

http://thestatecom.typepad.com/let_it_rip/images/2007/08/29/ogre.jpg

[lizr]

Poor kid. I hope they give it a rest after this.

In these economic times no one ought to be judging her.

I hope she gets a music deal and great things happen for her!

Best wishes to you, Ashley.

[jneems]

You are right. In tough economic times we should all turn the other way when our mothers, our daughters and our sisters become prostitutes. After all, there may be a music contract or a book deal to be made.

[lizr]

Econ omics create prostit ution, Sh it for Bra ins..

And what business is it of yours?

[lizr]

try a little com passion.

IT'll get you much further than blind judgment of that which you do not understand.

You're out of your depth.

[CammyV]

She's just a hooker with a heart of gold. A lot of depth? That's a straight-line if I ever heard one.

[darthdarcy]

So where's her book deal, isn't that how it works these days...

[PKSSK]

Interesting how prof prostitutes who serve dem's get national exposure in the media while the one's who serve the repub's (V i t t e r) are hidden or supposedly commit suicide ( W a s h m a d a m e).

[FirstShirt]

Only those prostitutes who serve a man who prosecuted prostitutes and made his rep as a hardliner on crime.

I vote for going after any liar and violator of their oath, republican or democrat.

[gditty]

I'll pay for it......

[hopefulnana]

With penicillin and a lifetime of antivirals.

[fishgirl26]

Depth?? The depth of a shallow puddle maybe. Let's see her life path from showing em' on a GGW tape to a high class hooker....now that qualifies her to do what??? Take the 80K you made off Spitzer and go to college.

[mediamarv]

Not sure that's the kind of "depth" she was talking about..... she is a pro, after all.

[Aurin]

Just like Palin, Dupre can be qualified to be Vice President of the United States.

[DutchExpat2008]

Probably twice as intelligent.

[Badbone]

I just don't think she is that good looking. She's got a strange face. Honestly, just not that good. I'm a computer geek, and I've laid better looking women. And I didn't have to pay 5 large to do it.

How could she justify such prices?

[wm1066]

Ya, I agree. I think her eyes are to close together. she has the face of a bird of prey.

[hopefulnana]

I think it's the "chicken guy" from the Jack in the Box commercial in drag.