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CBS:

According to court documents, one of the defendants, Temeka Rachelle Lewis, a booking agent for Emperors Club VIP, spoke with a client (named "Client-3") over the telephone on January 24. Court papers stated that the client said he would make hotel arrangements to meet up with a prostitute nicknamed "Samantha" at a Santa Monica hotel. The club charged $1,500 per hour for Samantha's visit, prosecutors said.

Lewis allegedly told Client-3 that the club wanted a 55 percent deposit for Samantha's visit. According to prosecutors, the club may have been having problems collecting money from Samantha, whom they believed to be abusing drugs.

Samantha met with Client-3 for the sexual encounter, prosecutors said.

NYT:

The Emperor's Club V.I.P. was the high-end escort service involved in Gov. Eliot Spitzer's prostitution scandal. It was shut down by federal law enforcement officials and four people in charge of running it were indicted on federal charges.

The service had 50 prostitutes available for appointments in New York, Washington, Miami, London and Paris, according to the federal charges. The appointments, made by telephone or through an online booking service, cost $1,000 to $5,500 an hour and could be paid for with cash, credit card, wire transfers or money orders.

The ring’s Web site showed pictures of the prostitutes, cropped so faces were not visible, and listed names like Sienna and Christine. The Web site, which was disabled shortly after the arrests were announced, ranked the prostitutes on a scale of one to seven “diamonds.” A three-diamond woman, for example, could command a fee of $1,000 per hour. A seven-diamond woman cost more than $3,000 an hour.

For its most valued clients, the Emperor’s Club offered membership in the elite “Icon Club,” with hourly fees starting at $5,500.-- March 11, 2008

NYT:

Ashley Alexandra Dupré is better known as Kristen, the escort whose rendezvous with Eliot Spitzer at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington on Feb. 13, 2008 led to his disgrace and sudden resignation as governor of New York almost a month later.

The details of the encounter were described in an affidavit filed in federal court along with charges against four people involved in running the escort service, Emperor's Club V.I.P.

A different picture of Ms. Dupré emerges from her MySpace page. She writes of her “odyssey to New York from New Jersey through North Carolina, Miami, D.C., Virginia and Austin, Texas;” public records show that she lived in Belmar, N.J., in 2001, and in North Carolina in 2003. She owns a company, created in 2005, called Pasche New York, which her lawyer said was an entertainment business designed to further her singing career.

Ashley Alexandra Dupré is better known as Kristen, the escort whose rendezvous with Eliot Spitzer at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington on Feb. 13, 2008 led to his disgrace and sudden resignation as governor of New York almost a month later.

The details of the encounter were described in an affidavit filed in federal court along with charges against four people involved in running the escort service, Emperor's Club V.I.P.

A different picture of Ms. Dupré emerges from her MySpace page. She writes of her “odyssey to New York from New Jersey through North Carolina, Miami, D.C., Virginia and Austin, Texas;” public records show that she lived in Belmar, N.J., in 2001, and in North Carolina in 2003. She owns a company, created in 2005, called Pasche New York, which her lawyer said was an entertainment business designed to further her singing career.

In 2006, Ms. Dupré changed her legal name, according to records in Monmouth County Superior Court, from Ashley R. Youmans to Ashley Rae Maika DiPietro, taking her step-father’s surname. In an interview, she referred to herself as Ashley Alexandra Dupré.

The court documents included snippets of conversation, captured on a wiretap, between Ms. Dupré and someone at the escort service following the encounter with Mr. Spitzer. When the woman described complaints other escorts had voiced about Mr. Spitzer, Ms. Dupré responded: "I don't think he's difficult. I mean it's just kind of like, whatever, I'm here for a purpose. I know what my purpose is. I am not a … moron, you know what I mean."

On her MySpace page, Ms. Dupré described her love of music and her ambitions as a singer. In the interview, Ms. Dupré spoke nervously of the repercussions from her unwanted fame. "I just don't want to be thought of as a monster,''' she said. -- March 12, 2008

FoxNews:

When Dupre called her father in tears on March 7, Spitzer had not yet been publicly linked to the Emperors Club VIP escort service. But four alleged organizers had been arrested the day before.

"She was really upset. I was worried for her," Youmans told the Post. "She told me she was in a little bit of trouble."

Dupre, born Ashley Youmans, grew up largely in New Jersey but moved in with her father on North Carolina's Outer Banks at age 17, he said. Feeling out of place, she left after a year to move to New York and pursue her singing ambitions.

NYPost:

Georgi Vodka offered Ashley "six figures" to be the face of a new vodka called "Vodka No. 9," a play on the john code name assigned to Spitzer in federal filings, and experts suggest she could also land a book deal upwards of $1 million, a "Client No. 9" cosmetics line," the tabloid reported today.

Two singles uploaded onto the music site AmieStreet.com have already netted the hooker $200,000 since her identity surfaced Wednesday.

Ashley Rae Maika DiPietro

"Kristen"
The prostitute, Ashley Alexandra Dupré (legal name Ashley Alexandra Dupré and born Ashley Youmans) 22, is a singer in New York City who resides in a luxury rental in Manhattan and whose stage name is Ashley Alexandra Dupré. According to her personal MySpace page (under the name of Dupré) she said,"When I was 17, I left home. It was my decision and I’ve never looked back. [...] I have been broke and homeless. But, I survived, on my own. I am here, in NY because of my music." DiPietro's mother, Carolyn Capalbo, told the New York Times that her daughter "was a young kid with typical teenage rebellion issues, but we are extremely close now.” Capalbo said she was "shell-shocked" when her daughter called to tell her she had been working as a paid companion and presently was speaking with legal authorities. Capalbo was not sure that Dupré knew at the time that her pre-Valentine's Day Washington, D.C., customer was the Governor of New York. "She is a very bright girl who can handle someone like the governor," Capalbo said. "But she also is a 22-year-old, not a 32-year-old or a 42-year-old, and she obviously got involved in something much larger than her.".

my space page

About Ashley Alexandra Dupré I am all about my music, and my music is all about me… It flows from what I’ve been through, what I’ve seen and how I feel. I live in New York and am on top of the world. Been here since 2004 and I love this city, I love my life here. But, my path has not been easy. When I was 17, I left home. It was my decision and I’ve never looked back. Left my hometown. Left a broken family. Left abuse. Left an older brother who had already split. Left and learned what it was like to have everything, and lose it, again and again. Learned what it was like to wake up one day and have the people you care about most gone. I have been alone. I have abused drugs. I have been broke and homeless. But, I survived, on my own. I am here, in NY because of my music. It started when I moved in with a musician during my odyssey to New York. One day, I was in the shower singing “respect.” He and his lead guitarist burst in, had me repeat it and it started. We wrote, rehearsed and toured. After recording a bit with them, I decided to move to Manhattan to pursue my music career. I spent the first two years getting to know the music scene, networking in clubs and connecting with the industry. Now, it’s all about my music. It’s all about expressing me. I can sit here now, and knowingly tell you that life’s hard sometimes. But, I made it. I’m still here and I love who I am. If I never went through the hard times, I would not be able to appreciate the good ones. Cliché, yes, but I know it’s true. I have experienced just how hard it can be. I can honestly tell you to never dwell on the past, but build from it and keep moving forward. Don’t let anyone hold you back or tell you that you can’t…because you can. I didn’t and here I am, just listen to it…. What we Want is my latest track. It’s really about trust, something my past has made very difficult for me to feel. This one was inspired by a guy, who taught me not to confuse my dreams with the sounds of the city…I hope you like it. I created my own profile using nUCLEArcENTURy.COM and you should too!