New York Post
September 3, 2009
By Neel Shah and Jennifer Fermino
The high-paid escort, who notoriously romped with disgraced ex-Gov. Eliot Spitzer, has a
message to New York ladies: You're no better than me!
"Get real and get over yourself," Ashley Dupre bluntly tells all the women out there, who
"just love to judge." Dupre, responding to a front-page Post exclusive about Spitzer
contemplating a return to office, said, she is tired of people looking down on her.
"Let me say this: most girls - to varying degrees, of course - want to be pampered and have
nice shoes, designer handbags and gorgeous clothes," Dupre, 24, writes in a blog post on
hip-hop impresario Russell Simmons's Global Grind website.
"I know many women, who target guys with money and use them to get these things. They toy
with them, flirt, go on dates, have sex and then drop hints about that new dress... or being
short on rent money and the guys deliver it."
Then takes a poke at all the women, who pass judgment on her, but are engaged in "dishonest
relationships" of their own.
"I see this all over New York City. Some women aren't as vindictive, but still dive into
relationships with wealthy guys, who they don't love or even find attractive, but they stay
in it, because they have a nice home, a car and spending money," she wrote. "They would rather
stay in an unfulfilling or loveless relationship, than lose that security."
It's not just Big Apple babes, she rails against. The bad girl, whose family lives in leafy
Wall, NJ, blasted suburban Garden State housewives, who "are strung out on mood stabilizers."
The brunette bombshell had nothing, but kind words to say about Spitzer. "I read the front
page of the NY Post this week and was happy to see that Mr. Spitzer is moving on with his
life and considering getting back into politics," she said.
Spitzer - who stepped down, after he was outed for paying $4,300 for sex with Dupre - has been
in informal discussions about a run for state comptroller or US Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand's seat,
sources told The Post.
"Everyone deserves a second chance," said Dupre. "Me too, right? Well, apparently not." Her
efforts at image rehab have been hampered by her reputation, as "the woman, who brought down
the governor," she said. "Excuse me, people, I didn't call the tabloids, I didn't blow the
whistle and I didn't save 'the dress'", she wrote - a reference to Monica Lewinsky, who saved
a semen-stained blue dress from her encounter with Bill Clinton.
She then goes on to plug a "rough mix of a song, I am working on, that tells a little bit of
my story." In the ballad titled "Inside Out" Dupre sings plaintively, "What, if the world you
knew, got turned upside down and your very truth got turned into doubt?" In another part she
moans, "If I was faithful, if I was true, if I loved no one else, but you, would you forgive
me and stay around?"
In addition to her music Dupre claims, she's working on a book, but don't expect a tell-all!
Despite pleas from book publishers, who begged her to write about "how exciting the life of
a high-priced NYC escort must be", she said, she couldn't bring herself to do it.