Nov 19, 2008 11:58 pm US/Eastern
Dupre: Sex With Spitzer Was 'Strictly Business'
Notorious Call Girl Finally Breaks Her Silence On The Infamous Tryst Which Cost New York A Sitting Governor
Reporting
Lou Young
WALL TOWNSHIP, N.J. (CBS) ―
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Ashley Alexandra Dupre, the woman at the center of the Eliot Spitzer sex scandal.
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In the new issue of People Magazine, Ashley Alexandra Dupre is still selling her looks even as she tries to say she's sorry.
The former call girl who helped bring down Elliot Spitzer with their sex-for-hire tryst at a Washington D.C. hotel told the magazine she is haunted by the image of the former governor, the man she knew as "George Fox, Client Number 9," appearing on television standing next to his grim-faced wife, Silda.
"... When I think about his speech," she said, "I think of her face … her eyes … the hurt."
She also said she had no idea who Spitzer was until someone called her to a TV set to see the video of that difficult news conference. Spitzer admitted to then undisclosed transgressions she had personal knowledge of. When Spitzer said, "I have acted in a way that violates any sense of right and wrong," Dupre knew what he meant. The high-end call girl remembered him as client.
She said Spitzer "... was polite. Some guys, they want to have conversations and really get to know each other. With him, it clearly was not like that. It was more of a transaction. Strictly business."
But the TV appearance by the governor and his wife indicated it was all a lot more than that. Dupre now has a message for Silda.
"I'm sorry for your pain," the magazine quotes her as saying.
In Wall Township along the Jersey Shore, Ashley is well-known. Only a few years out of high school, she's remembered as "a looker who could've had any guy she wanted," according to one woman who remembers her from a local kick-boxing class.
There was also, though, a certain level of self-involvement and typical teen-aged myopia.
Yvonne Culley of nearby Brielle marveled are her shallowness.
"She said that she didn't watch the news so she didn't even know who he (Spitzer) was. That's amazing to me," Culley said.
People Magazine writer Mark D'Agostino, who interviewed the striking young woman, said she simply drifted into the world of prostitution as a way of paying her bills.
"She didn't think it was that big of a leap from kind of sleeping around and, you know, going on dates or having one night stands," D'Agostino told CBS 2.
Ashley put it this way: "This wasn't any different than going on a date with someone you barely knew and hooking up with them. The only difference is I can pay my rent."
People in her hometown know the quote rings true and some were especially stricken by her description of life avoiding the media glare in the days after Spitzer's resignation.
"I felt like a Bond girl," Dupre said.
Except this is no movie. Wall Township resident Jacquiline Terranova thought a long moment when CBS 2 HD asked how people regard the local girl-gone-bad.
"I think just everyone just kinda thinks the same, you know, that she knew what she was doing and she wanted to do what she was doing," Terranova said.
Sympathy, we asked? A simple answer: No.
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