Valleywag: Eliot Spitzer

Ashley Alexandra Dupré approves your friend request!

Melissa Gira Grant — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:00:00 PDT

The internet's favorite escort, Ashley Alexandra Dupré, wants to apologize for taking so long to approve your Friend Request on MySpace. "All of my pending friend requests from 3/12 through now were deleted by myspace (if you do not approve them within a certain number of days, they get deleted) so...please please please re-send and you should be approved automatically." We forgive, you, Ms. Dupré — we know you were busy. And shame on you, MySpace, for interfering with a working woman's self-promotion by blocking those friend requests.

Flyover-country cops want Yahoo to pay them to police its Internet "crack house"

Melissa Gira Grant — Fri, 02 May 2008 13:00:00 PDT

There's money to be made in combating the sexual exploitation of children online, if not in the actual exploitation itself. Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning believes internet companies, not taxpayers, ought to be funding the fight. Bruning (pictured here with "Miss Heartland" Rachel Seidel) addressed the Nebraska Crime Commission this week, telling tales of how he created a fake teenage girl to solicit men on webcams to whip it out for an audience they never anticipated — state cops and senators. Says Bruning, "We had state senators about throwing up in their breakfasts, but we wanted to make a point and I think we did." But who will be picking up the check for his educational services? He wants Yahoo, among others, to do so:

I went to Yahoo in 2005 and said you basically set up a crack house with advertising. I asked them to cooperate and they looked at this request coming from Nebraska and refused.

When that line of argument didn't net him results, Bruning turned to one of his attorney-general pals for a little added muscle: none other than popular antivice crusader Eliot Spitzer. "Now it's Nebraska and New York. That's when they got nervous." Bruning claims that when Yahoo asked what he wanted, he replied, "Pay us."

From the looks of the Nebraska State Patrol's program, no one's coughed up but the government. Maybe Bruning can hit up Microsoft for an annual grant to hang out in their new chatrooms pretending to be thirteen-year-old girls all day.

New York media writing "Melissa Gira Grant" over and over in its notebook

Paul Boutin — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 19:59:15 PDT

Yet another Manhattan paper, the alt.weekly The Village Voice, leans heavily on our own sex trade reporter to examine Eliot Spitzer. Voice writer Tristan Taormino argues that by hiring out instead of getting a real mistress, Spitzer was minimizing the impact on his marriage. Part of what you're paying for in a hired girlfriend experience: She won't get drunk and call your wife. Plus, Melissa adds, she won't let you get too crazy over her: "Sex with clients is very different from sex with people I am in a relationship with. I had to cut loose a client who was becoming too close and relying too much on me." Yeah, I had a Web contractor like that once.

Ashley Dupre nude pictures make semantic Web slightly less obscure

Nicholas Carlson — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 09:15:26 PDT

Larry Flynt is willing to pay Ashley Alexandra Dupré — the call girl who had something to do with what's-his-name from New York — $1 million to pose for Hustler. Imagine how much the Orlando Sentinel's website would have made from publishing Dupré's Girls Gone Wild photos back when Britney Spears hadn't yet made her cameo on CBS and Dupre still dominated the news cycle. With the right timing, it would have been bigger than Lindsay Lohan taking it of for New York magazine. But the Sentinel's loss can be your gain, "semantic Web" startups. The newspaper obviously blew it. The reason?

Poor photo-search technology, obviously. If only it had spent millions of dollars laboriously tagging its morgue with metadata! That's exactly the kind of service one semantic Web success, SchemaLogic, provides for the Associated Press. Before, we all wished you'd stop telling us how the Semantic Web was Web 3.0. Now you can make your case with Ashley Dupré nude pictures — and we're all listening.

Ashley Dupre's "Girls Gone Wild" video hits the Web, ruins everything

Nicholas Carlson — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 06:29:30 PDT

It was once such a heartwarming story. New Jersey local girl Ashley Alexandra Dupré goes to the big city, meets a few friends, records a hit song, and makes good. Now, posting the above video to the Web, an alleged rapist will profit off all her hard work, one $29.95 subscription at a time. Must the Internet turn everything tawdry?

CNN's blow-by-blow of Spitzer girl's MySpace and Facebook profiles

Nicholas Carlson — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:20:28 PDT

Mallory Simon works for "the most trusted name in news." But she's working hard to make CNN also the most trusted name in news feeds. Simon gives CNN.com readers every detail of when and how Eliot Spitzer's call girl, Ashley Alexandra Dupré, changed her MySpace and Facebook profiles last week. But at 1,000-plus words, Simon overstays her welcome. Instead of paying writers by the word, why don't we pay them to leave? The 100-word version, below.

Tuesday night — Dupré began deleting connections between friends on Facebook.
Wednesday morning — Timestamps and activity on her Facebook profile shows she was staying up all night cleaning up her profile and responding to critics.
Late Wednesday night — At 3 a.m., there was an entry that she had completed a "thorough profile scrub," leaving only a couple of photos of herself on Facebook and a clip of one of her songs on MySpace. Friends posted on her MySpace page telling her to ignore the media, they would be there for her and to stay strong.
Early Thursday morning — High school classmates created a group on Facebook. At 5 a.m., she confronted the classmates: "Do me a favor and don't try to cash out ... thanks," she wrote on Facebook.
Later Thursday morning — Dupré Facebook status: "Sneaking out the back door," she wrote. The page had received more than 1,100 friend requests on Facebook. Later, she accepts many of them.
By 2:30 p.m. the Facebook and MySpace profiles were gone.
They reappeared Friday.

Ashley Dupre makes $204,000 from Web music sales

Nicholas Carlson — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 16:26:40 PDT

Ashley Alexandra Dupré, the call girl whom Eliot Spitzer knew as "Kristen," sold her song 300,000 times on online music store Amie Street. The site, a Jeff Bezos investment, sold the songs for $0.68 on average, putting Dupré's total around $204,000, the New York Post reports. Update: Amie Street's charts indicate Dupré's songs have been merely listened to 419,718 times, suggesting the Post's numbers might be off a bit. Either way, throw in a $1 million offer from Hustler, an ad campaign for something to be called Vodka #9 and a movie deal, and Dupré stands to make between $2.5 million to $5 million from the Spitzer scandal.

How not to hit on a hooker

Nicholas Carlson — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 15:34:06 PDT

"No worries hang in there...i single if your interested." — Mike Marra, commenter on Ashley Dupré's Facebook wall, indicating why some women might prefer $4,300 dates to old-fashioned romance.

Spitzer girl's Facebook profile is probably fake too, but likewise, do we care?

Nicholas Carlson — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:20:28 PDT

Below, a most thorough impersonation of Eliot Spitzer's call girl turned chanteuse, Ashley Alexandra Dupré on Facebook. Why should MySpace have all the fun?

PageSix.com Spitzer girl video could be its "firecrotch" moment

Nicholas Carlson — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 10:40:00 PDT

Ever since TMZ.com ran its infamous "firecrotch" video — the one in which an oil-heir pal of Paris Hilton slagged Lindsay Lohan — the Time Warner-owned Hollywood gossip site has been on a pageviews tear. TMZ.com slaps News Corp.'s PageSix.com around every which way when it comes to visitor traffic. But TMZ doesn't have video of the walking, talking, leaning sensation that is Ashley Alexandra Dupré, now do they?

Facebook users waste no time making Eliot Spitzer escort groups

Jordan Golson — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 12:20:04 PDT

There are already 13 Facebook groups about Ashley Alexandra Dupre, the object of New York governor Eliot Spitzer's paid-for affections. Some are supportive, some are complimentary, and some are ridiculous. Among the more amusing group names are "Ashley Alexandra Dupre is the next American Idol", "Ashley Alexandra Dupre (Ashley Youmans) was in my Class!" and "I don't care WHO or WHAT she did, Ashley Alexandra Dupre is effin gorgeous!!" And Facebook is worth $15 billion? Just sayin'. See the full list below.

Call girl beats Barenaked Ladies, Radiohead singer

Nicholas Carlson — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:20:26 PDT

Sorry, Thom Yorke. it appears a critically acclaimed career as Radiohead's front man isn't enough to outsell Eliot Spitzer's call girl on the Web. Ashley Alexandra Dupré, also known as "Kristen," considers herself something of an R&B artist. She sells her music on Amie Street, a New York-based music site in which Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos took a personal interest and later had his company invest in. It sets its pricing based on the principles of supply and demand. The more a song sells, the faster its price rises. So when Amie Street flack Zane Groshelle confirmed that Dupré's single, "What We Want" rose to 98 cents "just as quickly if not more quickly" than Barenaked Ladies and Thom Yorke, the market's message is clear: She knows what we want.

Dozens of Spitzer domain names snapped up

Jordan Golson — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 10:00:29 PDT

In a modern-day gold rush, many Eliot Spitzer-related domains have been registered since the news broke about his involvement with pricey escort services. We're not sure how many of these are going to be worth anything in a few months when this is all over — but there's nothing we like more than a good scandal. Some of the best domains: spitzerforvp.com, spitzerisscrewed.com, spitzerperpwalk.com and, of course, spitzerswallows.com. Classy. Get the full list after the jump. (Photo by AP/Stephen Chernin)

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What Slate got wrong about Internet prostitution

Melissa Gira Grant — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 02:35:50 PDT

"Did Eliot Spitzer get caught because he didn't spend enough on prostitutes?" Slate contributor Sudhir Venkatesh deserves credit for reporting that Spitzer's alleged $4,300 date was not premium pricing. But his generalizations are far too broad for such a diverse industry as Web-powered prostitution. Were I his editor, I'd have sent back these redlines:

The Red Light District moving online didn't open up new markets. It gave existing businesses better infrastructure. Online escorting has gotten more sophisticated, but indoor prostitution isn't new. In modern times it has long made up the majority of transactional sex. Even some street-based prostitutes may advertise online and stay in touch with clients using cell phones.
$2,500-$10,000/session rates do exist, but ... A "session" in this case is, on average, at least two hours long, and at most a week. An on-call girlfriend is what's being bought here, not seven days and seven nights of straight sex. $10K for 15 minutes, as Venkatesh claims? Possibly — in a long-term arrangement, where a client is already paying a set monthly fee high enough that an in-office quickie runs at Daddy Warbucks rates.
40 percent of clients don't want to fuck? Oh, come on. It does happen, but it's highly unusual for a regular client to never go all the way.
An escort will wear your ring, but that doesn't make her like a second wife. A client once gave me a wedding ring so I could pretend to be his blushing new bride when we saw one another. It was sweet. But at the end of the night, what do you think? The ring came off.
Physical abuse is not a necessary danger of working as a escort. The biggest fear all prostitutes share isn't their clients. It's rogue law enforcers.

(Back by popular demand, gratuitous photo of San Francisco-based Elise Vanderhof)

Eliot Spitzer's call girl sings, sort of

Nicholas Carlson — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 22:24:24 PDT

Eliot Spitzer's alleged call-girl — Ashley Alexandra Dupré, a.k.a "Kristen" — can sing. Whether she should? Less clear. Here's the single from her MySpace page, "What We Want."

Governor's sex scandal may jump start call girl's singing career

Evelyn Nussenbaum — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:37:50 PDT

New York Governor Eliot Spitzer's downfall could be a good thing for the girl who serviced him. Ashley Alexandra Dupré, known to Spitzer as "Kristen, has put her songs on Amie Street, a startup that prices songs according to their popularity, were free this morning. Now they're up to 37 cents each. It's unlikely they'll hit $5,000 a pop, but it's good to know market forces play as much a role in her future career as in her old one. [SAI]

Alleged Spitzer escort's MySpace page

Nicholas Carlson — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:38:53 PDT

Meet Ashley Alexandra Dupré, the prostitute known as "Kristen" New York governor Eliot Spitzer reportedly visited as Client 9. She's an aspiring R&B singer from Long Island, the New York Times reports. Her MySpace page and photos, below.

How IT helped bust New York's governor

Paul Boutin — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:00:00 PDT

"What really snared Spitzer was a money laundering investigation flagged by suspicious activity reports (SARs) that banks have to file with the Treasury ... The prostitution ring that counted Spitzer as a customer was investigated due to some shady bank accounts, checks and wire transfers with big totals ($39,000, $400,000 and others).

— ZDNet editor in chief Larry Dignan explains SARs in more detail.

Three things you can learn from Client 9

Melissa Gira Grant — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:55:27 PDT

Let's be clear: Today's takedown has nothing to do with stopping prostitution. It's about bringing down the governor of New York. There are three things you need to know before tonight's cocktail-party chatter. Most people will get them wrong — and that's the way the media wants it.

"Christin" won't be found online. Don't bother trolling the Internet Archive for her photo. The way high-end agencies work is the pics on the website aren't the actual girls. Potential clients go in person to a madam after they make a deposit towards the first appointment. They then get to look at a photo book and decide who to hire from there.
There's no such thing as a "$5,500/hour escort." Agency-based prostitutes who command these rates don't turn hourly tricks. These are evening, overnight, and weekend appointments. Spitzer wasn't just "paying her to leave" after a blowjob, he was time-sharing a mistress.
Could it happen to YOU? No. You'll never see a headline, "Prostitution Bust Nets 8 Alpha Geeks." Federal prosecutors, who almost never make prostitution arrests, are using the Emperors Club to take down high-profile clients, just as Spitzer once did himself. Busting a bunch of techies gets nobody nothing. They'd sooner nab the newspaper editors and TV producers who'll rush this story out today before going to their own appointments. If Jimmy Wales had hired, he'd have saved himself a lot of bad publicity.

Blodget to Spitzer: Payback's a bitch!

Nicholas Carlson — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:20:00 PDT

Back in 2002, Eliot Spitzer, then New York's attorney general, published internal emails from Merrill Lynch analyst Henry Blodget . Blodget was shown trashing stocks he had publicly touted. The SEC charged Blodget with fraud and eventually banned him from the securities industry for life. Now Blodget edits Silicon Alley Insider. Look who's publishing now.

Screenshot of Spitzer's call-girl site

Paul Boutin — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 12:41:56 PDT

Emperors Club, the "spokesmodel" agency claimed to be an illegal girlfriend-for-hire service whose clients include New York governor Eliot Spitzer, is "temporarily unavailable." Good thing I hit Print Screen a minute ago.

Spitzer apologizes, kills NYTimes.com

Nicholas Carlson — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 12:28:51 PDT

Here's New York Governor Eliot Spitzer apologizing for, well, no doubt you've heard. The scandal hasn't yet brought down Spitzer, but it did lay NYTimes.com low for a while.