The New York Times same New York Governor Eliot Spitzer’ $4300 report Wednesday, March 12, as Ashley Alexandra Dupre, twenty-year-old, who first came to New York at 17 to start a career rhythm and blues singer. The note in the court filing that brought down the New York leader “Kristen” is unclear as to whether or not the girl knew exactly who her client was. In the interview Ms. Dupre makes no comment about his relationship with Captain Spitzer.
Dupre was born Ashley R. Youmans but changed name to the right of Ashley Rae Maika DiPietro in 2006, she took her stepmother’s name. Times reporters Serge F. Kovaleski and Ian Urbina said the girl was only referred to as Ashley Alexandra Dupre in the interview. This is also his stage name and the name he uses on his MySpace.com page. Dupre was the product of an abusive and broken home, which is why he left home at 17. He says that he had previously been homeless and had done drugs. It is unclear how long Dupre has worked at the Emperor’s Club V.I.P., a “prosecution” job where his services cost $1,000 an hour. He told Times that these days have been a difficult and complicated time and he did not want to be seen as a “monster”.
Dupre has not yet been charged.
Dupre’s story is not far from the typical whore/call girl story. Rarely is a true story ever as vulgar and glorious as it is in “Pretty Woman,” although Hollywood has never been averse to dressing up the image. Many harlots start from a wrong and present home. Finally, many are homeless. Many have fallen prey to opportunistic sex traffickers, often dealing in sex for drugs, shelter, companionship, and security. Ashley Alexandra Dupre seems to have followed suit as well.
When this writer was in college, he became involved with a young woman’s friend, a third-year art student of some great talent. A friend had completed a two-year course in mechanical engineering but financing further classes became a problem, so he took a job. a mechanic at a local garage. Between working and drinking, my friend soon stopped attending classes. Some of the people attending the meetings used strippers. This is where he met an art student friend.
Student art through college by stripping (also vulgar). A student friend thought it was a beautiful art and he found himself in the courtroom where he worked every time he worked, as long as it didn’t conflict with his work schedule. Pretty soon he was learning a lot of art. Soon the mechanic fell in love with the art student and asked her to move in with him.
He did that.
A friend will come to the bar as this writer act in time and, as usual, people in bars. and the services of a psychiatrist, they would tell us about their girlfriend, a student of art. One day he said to two men in a bar that he had come to drink that his girlfriend kicked him for an hour. He entered, and all bent to hear his story.
Yeah, he told us, he went home for lunch every day. On some days the art student/friend worked the day shift (when his class schedule allowed) and had lunch with the mechanic/friend/friend. But there were days like this. Days like this one would call an art student/girlfriend and say the mechanic/boyfriend is taking his friend ” “home for lunch “. This was a customer code of course. Her “friends” would always leave her “gifts” of $50.
It is apparent how the art of the students balances learning and paying off their books.
He would be an art degree student and would go on to work for an advertising firm in New York, leaving behind a mechanic. It is not uncommon for women who become harlots to be separated from their feelings in order to do this. The friend mentioned being away from his family, but never gave specific reasons. However, it is more likely that the art student was abused at some point in his youth, so that he has no problem using his relationship with his friend to further his goals in a relatively safe atmosphere, using his lunch to keep “friends”. His movements were far from him.
It is unknown what became of the art student once he took an advertising position in New York. It is not surprising that he became a friend of the drinker, caring as he was a student of art. But he readily admits that they have always been just friends. He may or may not have realized that honesty is just another effective defense mechanism.
Although the situation of the art student is not the same as that of Ashley Alexandra Dupre, we probably do not know the similarities. certainly not profitable. It can also be said that the students of art for $5 rocks did not serve the cracks to the people. But in the end, it doesn’t matter what women (and some men) sell themselves, but why.
Source:
Serge F. Kovaleski and Ian Urbina, “Woman at the Center of the Governor’s Fall,” NYTimes.com
