Spitzer Moves Into DC Real Estate

NY Post's newest scribe is Ashley Dupre

(NEWSER) - The call girl whose assignations with Eliot Spitzer helped cost him the New York governor's office has a new gig: advice columnist. For the New York Post , of course. In today's debut effort, Ashley Dupre answers a parenting question, then gets into the good stuff.

• "Are there telltale signs a man isn't happy in his marriage?": No actual answer, but some advice: "Ask yourself, when was the last time you did something to make your husband feel loved, special and appreciated?"

Spitzer hooker filmed Spring Break videos in '03

(NEWSER) - The call girl who ended Eliot Spitzer's career started hers on a nude Girls Gone Wild video during a wild Spring Break weekend in 2003, reports the LA Times. Ashley Alexandra Dupré was celebrating her 18th birthday in Miami when she stumbled across the Girls Gone Wild production bus, and made seven videos over several days. More»

22-year-old escort says she's no "monster"

(NEWSER) - At the center of Eliot Spitzer’s fall from grace is 22-year-old Kristen, aka Ashley Alexandra Dupre, a high-priced escort and aspiring R&B singer who left her self-proclaimed "broken family" in New Jersey at age 17 to pursue a musical career in New York. “I just don’t want to be thought of as a monster,” she told the New York Times. More»

Ex-governor will attend premiere of sex scandal documentary

(NEWSER) - The debut of Alex Gibney's untitled Eliot Spitzer documentary this weekend could be kind of awkward—Spitzer's going to be there, and the movie, though sympathetic, doesn't pull any punches when it comes to the Client No. 9 scandal. But Spitzer is embracing it, Politico reports, as a strategic move to shut the door on the call-girl scandal and mount what he now openly admits is an attempt at a political comeback. More»

Governor also dismisses new tell-all by former adviser

(NEWSER) - Eliot Spitzer is back in the spotlight, for better or worse. Last month featured an appearance on the Colbert Ropert, and now comes an interview with Time that portrays him as anxious, maybe even a little desperate, to get back into politics but unsure whether it'll fly. The kicker quote (delivered with "eyes welling up"): "How do you think I feel? ... At one point I stood for something that was important and useful. I was in a place in time where I had a purpose, where it mattered. And then I destroyed it." More»