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

[Titus Pullo]

"I have a lot of depth"

I'm not going to touch that

[hopefulnana]

If you do, wash your hands.

[jneems]

hopefulnana, you are cracking me up today! LOL

[M4DN3SS]

I think she may have just enough "depth" to be Palin's running mate in 2012.

[BowlingForRevenge]

I'm sorry but that picture of her makes her look like a tranny.
I believe I saw her on Maury!

[moosha]

Sorry, Ash, but women "with a lot of depth" don't justify selling their bodies OR hooking up with total strangers on a first date. Get yourself some morals, sweetie.

[maori]

Yeah, you really sound like an expert on depth with the shallow, suburban moralizing­...

[lizr]

After they spout off you know they are first in line!
probably jea lous because she doesnt work in their econom ic neighb orhood.

[hortonhearsawho]

She take paypal?

[Darthwave]

"I Have A Lot Of Depth" lol... years of prostitution normally does that.

[Aurin]

She says, she was mixed up in "some sort of FBI investigation". Hello!! FBI was investigating a prostitution ring connected to organized crime!! Poor me, Im just a victim...
Once again the girl who gets al the attention and admiration is the one who uses her body and sexuality.
Once again people do not take responsibility for their actions. Both Elliott and Miss Thang.
Prostitution is illegal at this point, so it is not an honest living. But it is after all the oldest profession in the World. I wonder what these girls (and guys) think when they plan their monthly budget?
But its a simple story. Lame boring ugly dude can't get hook up with any girl. Average girl etc....
Im going to vomit....

[lizr]

the kid is 23 yrs old.

I ne ver kn ew such a bun ch of s ex ne gative, m ora lis tic p ur it ans hung out on Huf fpo.

You cr ee ps must never get la id, there is no other reason to be so dow n lo w and nas ty to some one you dont even know.

Get a l if e.

[ofcoursejesusisblack]

Oh please. So prostitution is something to look up to. Right.

[UnderdogSRD]

Is that Elisabeth Hasselbeck with a tan and dark hair?

[mirage2008]

She is SMOKING.

*fap fap fap*

Props to Spitzer. $$$

[Banji81]

Yeah, for a cross eyed person...

[mirage2008]

soooooooooo hot.. :-O

[gadlaw]

Whew, I thought there for a minute 'Change We Can Believe In' wound mean the 'serious Media' worried about issues and doing reports on Health Care and the 50 Million people who don't have it, or about how the Constitution has been degraded and what we can do to fix that. But no - it's back to Whores and Sex Scandals for us! Yah! Thanks Diane Sawyer and big Media for not letting us down! Thanks for upholding the real values that this country stands for.

[faith]

HUFFPO, I AM GETTING WORRIED ABOUT THIS BLOG SITE. YOU CONTINUE TO RUN COVERAGE OF PALIN AND NOW ON SPITZER'S HOOKER? All this does is add credibility to these people. Get serious please.

[Fenianheart]

Why don't people who wish to have multiple partners just stay single?

[EarthToZoey]

Good point.

Or at least choose an open relationship.

[lizr]

because in our f*Ed up country no one can get elected to office unless they are married with the right number of kids.

Because we live with a bunch of imma ture imbe ciles, many of whom are on this thread.

[hopefulnana]

Those of us who are not sociopaths cannot fathom that kind of behavior.

I don't think it has anything to do with relationships, or love, or even or gasms. I think it has to do with power and the thrill of the forbidden. They (regardless of party affiliation) think they are above the rules of society we mere mortals agree to obey.

[lizr]

I think you have a lot of shallow opinions and fling diag noses around easily, but very little ac tual knowledge of that of which you speak, or you wouldnt sound like such a know n othing.

[petalpusher]

I can agree with the second paragraph- in that a lot of the time, people cheat because they just feel entitled. Entitlement has lots to do with it.

[petalpusher]

I agree wholeheartedly. Either stay single, be in an open relationship- but don't decieve someone that you're going to be faithful when you can't or won't.

If there wasn't such a stigma against people who did not marry, and marriage was left to those serious about it, it would solve a lot of problems.

[PlanetKansas]

Mom, Dad, I want you to meet my new fiance, Monica Lewinski.

Mom, Dad, I want you to meet my new fiance, Ashley Dupre.

[sugarmoes]

mom, dad... would you like to visit your son the war criminal in prison?

[hopefulnana]

Cue shower scene music from "Psycho."

[VSamuels]

Both white and both whores, in a society that seems to eager to promote anything that sells, regardless of the consequences of the larger message it sends. But, more pointedly when some here castigate Al Qaeda, do we ever stop and wonder maybe this is what they hate about our society and us, that we promote values abroad, yet promote whores as role models and glorify them to produce profits?

There are alot of fine and dignified young women who are making their mark in America of all stripes and colors, too bad People decided it had to reach into the gutter to find a skunk.

[thelegacymaker]

You SURE she's only 23? She looks more like 33!!!