“She is a very bright girl who can handle someone like the governor,” Ms. Capalbo said in a telephone interview Wednesday. “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.”

Yes.

On an unrelated note, can I borrow $4k?

http://amiestreet.com/ashleyalexandradupre

http://www.thedailyswarm.com/swarm/elliot-spitzers-hooker-ashley-alexandra-dupree-knows-what-we-want/

and i'll leave this thread alone for a little while now...

Nobody go feeling sorry for her. She broke the law (however wrong that law may be), and was exposed to the world for what a slut she is.

Maybe this could happen to each "sex worker"

What's the most you've ever convinced your company you were worth? By that measure, I'm betting she has sharper skills than you do.

OK, until her body fails and nobody wants her in 5, 10, 15 years....or she gets addicted to coke/heroine/etc in that time.

Go on telling yourself that she's better than me. But you're wrong.

I'd rather make $1 an hour than $4,000 to be able to gladly look at myself in the mirror every morning

@24 wow. you do know that you are frequenting a prostitution-friendly rag, right?

@25 fnarf. i am not selling my body for anything and i think that 1000k is a lot of money. i and millions of other people in the world. are you rich?

i wonder if i have more in common with sex workers than fnarfs.

Considering the alternative for someone with artistic pursuits, but no other marketable skills, $1000/hour is pretty good. And, no, she's not working full-time, but if she had some part-time McJob making $10/hour, well, that's 100 hours of working for the same pay. If she works ONE hour per week, she probably pays her rent and eats. Not bad.

Of course, the Emperor service probably takes half of that, so maybe she has to work two hours per week. Then again, she wasn't paying taxes on any of that ...

it is sad anytime someone young gets caught up in something because they weren't taught better, or because they want to take the easy way.

i see this with kids dreaming of playing professional sports, with musicians around town, with friends who started selling drugs. you hope they make it, or at least make it through (or at the very least don't get caught!).

i don't know the details of this story, but as others have pointed out, she doesn't seem to have a very good plan. and yet other young girls are going to see $4000 hooker and a singer and get the same idea "kristen" got not too long ago.

this doesn't look like a case of feminine empowerment (unless this business was female owned and operated). this just looks like another way rich men can take advantage of poor, young women who don't seem to know what they are doing. at least she is getting more than average.

i still don't think prostitution should be illegal. looking at the bills, certainly the governor was taken advantage of as well and didn't -- in the end -- know what he was doing either. finally, women and men who are 22 years old are mature enough to make these kinds of decisions, and certainly don't need any extra protections from the law. that does not change the fact that it saddens me when they make poor decisions.