When Sex Is a Business, You Can't Forget About Demand
Our image of the jet-set call girl is an illusion. The undeniable truth is they aren't the empowered women characterized in movies, music and the American psyche.
Our image of the jet-set call girl is an illusion. The undeniable truth is they aren't the empowered women characterized in movies, music and the American psyche.
Silicon Alley Insider | Peter Kafka | Posted 03.25.2008 | Business
Remember all that money Ashley Alexandra Dupre was going to make? It's disappearing, fast. As we noted before, Ashley has made plenty of money for med...
Huffington Post | Posted 03.21.2008 | Entertainment
Judging by the topless pictures below, Ashley Dupre may have blown her chance at a photo fortune just nine days after skyrocketing to infamy when she ...
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 03.20.2008 | Media
We wrote last week of the Eliot Spitzer scandal side media trend of examining the lives of actual prostitutes and the phenomenon of prostitution in ge...
AP | SOLVEJ SCHOU | Posted 03.18.2008 | Entertainment
**Now with video** Update: Ashley Dupre Nude pictures hit the web Previously; LOS ANGELES — Stop that $1 million check: It turns out the call ...
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 03.18.2008 | Media
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 03.17.2008 | Media
Howard Kurtz had fun this weekend with his fellow newsies on "Reliable Sources" over the ubiquitous Eliot Spitzer sex scandal (and we already noted ho...
Huffington Post | Posted 03.14.2008 | Media
Ashley Alexandra Dupré, the high-priced prostitute at the center of New York Governor Eliot Spitzer's, is also an aspiring singer who appeared in ...
Huffington Post | Posted 03.14.2008 | Politics
Update: Ashley Dupre Nude pictures hit the web Previously: Saturday: Ashley Dupre/Spitzer's "Kristen' has reportedly been given immunity in exchange f...
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 03.14.2008 | Media
When do you go from an aspiring singer to a successful one? Ashley Alexandra Dupré, the high-priced call girl at the center of the scandal that fe...
Larry Miller | Posted 03.14.2008 | Entertainment
Spitzer is still in such deep denial of what he's done, he actually thinks showing his shaken wife might salvage his career.
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 03.14.2008 | Media
I've done pretty well with my media predictions on L'Affaire Eliot Spitzer, but I completely missed one huge and very newsworthy area: The true-life s...
Efe Cakarel and Daniel Debow | Posted 03.14.2008 | Business
Amie Street improves the online music market by providing prices that convey information about quality. Sort of like the Emperor's Club.
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 03.14.2008 | Media
Will Ashley Dupré become a star? Well, really, what other option does she have -- this is on her permanent record, and she'll never, ever escape it. Her only option is to use it, and so far she's in a pretty good position to do so.
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 03.14.2008 | Media
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Joseph Minton Amann and Tom Breuer | Posted 03.14.2008 | Politics
The GOP has such a notorious losing streak when it comes to this stuff that when a Democrat finally falls it's kinda like when Somalia beats Austria in the luge.
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 03.14.2008 | Media
Wow — it's amazing what 24 hours of solid digging will do, especially when you're the media and your target is a not-camera-shy aspiring singer ...
Huff TV | Posted 03.14.2008 | Media
Rachel Sklar was on CNN's "Election Center" hosted by Campbell Brown last night, talking about the new developments in the Eliot Spitzer scandal with ...
Huffington Post | Posted 03.13.2008 | Media
Update: Ashley Dupre Nude pictures hit the web Update: Larry Flynt has offered $1 M should she pose for Hustler ** According to reports, Eliot Spitze...
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 03.13.2008 | Media
Suddenly the steady stream of familiar faces opining on cable have been supplanted by the less-common faces of local reporters called in to provide insight from their years on the beat. So is this the biggest story to come out of Albany in, like, ever?
The Huffington Post | Posted 03.13.2008 | Politics
From the New York Daily News: The Capitol Red Room is jam-packed with reporters, lobbyists, and state staffers for LG David Paterson's first press c...
Blake Fleetwood | Posted 03.13.2008 | Media
Too bad Spitzer was hounded out by the puritanical feeding frenzy of the media mob. This moralistic fanaticism - fueled by the media's relentless ex...
Huffington Post | Posted 03.13.2008 | Life
Since Monday, when the world learned that the Emperors Club used a diamond rating system to price their girls, one thought has flashed through everyon...
Zach Kanin | Posted 03.13.2008 | Politics
Excerpt 1. Spitzer: Can I speak with a prostitute, please? Prostitution Ring: Who is this? Spitzer: Oh shit. (hangs up)
Marc Cooper | Posted 03.13.2008 | Home
The media has turned downright skittish in noting the similarities between Eliot and Bill. Would it somehow be unfair to muddy the Clinton campaign with such uncomfortable associations?
An ABC-TV outlet in Houston, and now the Houston Chronicle,...
The McCain campaign implied on Wednesday that Barack Obama's commitment...
***UPDATED BELOW*** During a CBS interview on Tuesday, John McCain made...
John McCain made a mistake this evening, which as far as...
There is one more John McCain gaffe that...
BERLIN -- On what used to be the East German side of the Brandenburg Gate, Linnea and...
Before the largest crowd of his campaign, Democratic presidential contender Barack...
When Katie Couric told Haaretz that "The glory days of TV news...
BARCELONA, Spain — Christian Bale swept into Barcelona on Wednesday night to attend a...
Sonia Ossorio | Posted 03.25.2008 | Politics