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A Year Later, Spitzer Hooker 'Proud' of Herself

Dupre discusses 'mistakes' in blog

By Evann Gastaldo, Newser Staff

Posted Mar 12, 2009 7:56 AM CDT

(Newser) – Wondering how Ashley Dupre is doing, one year after Eliot Spitzer’s downfall? She'll tell you herself, in lengthy detail, through her blog on Global Grind, the New York Daily News reports. Though she’s “made more mistakes than most people make in a lifetime,” the 23-year-old is “proud of myself for surviving”—and she says she learned a lot.

“I hope that from my story, I can help someone and save them from making the same mistakes and choices that I made,” Dupre writes of her in-the-works autobiography. “I’ve worked so hard to move on and I don't want to relive it. But I know I have to if anything good is going to come out of this.”

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This undated image obtained from a MySpace Web page shows Ashley Dupre, the former call girl for ex-Gov. Eliot Spitzer of New York. (AP Photo, file)

This undated image obtained from a MySpace webpage shows a woman identified as Ashley Alexandra Dupre. (AP Photo)

In this image released by ABC, ABC correspondent Diane Sawyer sits with former call girl Ashley Dupre, left, whose tryst with former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, led to his resignation. (AP Photo/ABC, Heidi Gutman)

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But to look back and see all that I have overcome, and to stand here, and actually still be here at all, that is a huge achievement. I am proud of myself for surviving. - Ashley Dupre

"I've learned a lot about responsibility and how the choices you make can alter the way your life plays out. Some of my decisions were good, some bad, but I accept them as part of what defines me now. - Ashley Dupre

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riffran

Mar 13, 2009 2:56 AM CDT

better be able to fellate the chrome off a trailer hitch for that money...lol......But just to be fair, I think......(not a hundred percent sure) that he was using his own money -vs-tax dollars....maybe

piesmusher

Mar 13, 2009 12:24 AM CDT

THAT!!! for $4,000 a night,, amazing..

paul123

Mar 12, 2009 10:48 PM CDT

Nuts, he was, i believe, using taxpayer money, thus screwing the taxpayer. Now if the money was coming out of his own pocket, then that's another story

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A Year Later, Spitzer Hooker 'Proud' of Herself