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OK.. I dont' live under a rock but when did this happen??? I am so busy with my work and stuff, I don't see the news anymore...
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?p...CjA&refer=home
wow... so here CNN reveals the pic of the girl and an article
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/03/...ten/index.html
Here are some of her picture...
Even though she looks hot , she def. not worth $4300 ....
BTW, on the side note, at least he has better taste than Bill Clinton!!!! ROFL LOL : D
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?p...CjA&refer=home
March 12 (Bloomberg) -- Eliot Spitzer resigned as governor of New York, brought down by allegations that he patronized a ring of high-priced prostitutes.
Spitzer, who apologized to all New Yorkers, said his resignation is effective at 12 p.m. on March 17. Lieutenant Governor David Paterson, 53, will become the state's 55th governor, serving out the rest of Spitzer's term, which expires Dec. 31, 2010. Paterson, a Democrat like Spitzer, will be the state's first black governor.
``People regardless of their position or power take responsibility for their conduct. I can and will ask no less of myself,'' Spitzer, 48, said today at a Manhattan press conference, accompanied by his wife Silda. ``For this reason, I am resigning.''
The resignation of Spitzer, a former prosecutor who as New York attorney general gained national prominence through cases against the biggest Wall Street securities firms, brings a sudden and humiliating close to a career spent uncovering the failings of others. Cheers erupted from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange when traders heard the news.
In a separate statement, Paterson said today that he was ``saddened by what we have learned over the past several days.''
`Back to Work'
``It is now time for Albany to get back to work as the people of this state expect from us,'' he added.
Spitzer had been governor for less than 15 months. He was elected in 2006 with 69 percent of the vote, the highest plurality ever in a New York gubernatorial race, on a promise to shake up the state's politics.
The beginning of the end of his governorship came with a March 10 article on the New York Times Web site reporting that he was caught on a federal wiretap planning to meet a prostitute in Washington after arranging for her to travel from New York.
The Times, citing a person familiar with the federal investigation, said Spitzer was the individual identified in a federal affidavit as ``Client 9,'' who federal prosecutors said paid $4,300 to have sex with a prostitute named ``Kristen'' in the Mayflower Hotel.
Declining to answer questions, Spitzer, in a dark suit and blue tie, smiled at reporters as he left his Upper East Side apartment this morning with his wife and lawyers Theodore Wells and Michele Hirshman of the law firm Paul Weiss. They headed downtown in a three-car caravan to Spitzer's midtown offices, where he announced his resignation.
Packed Room
Speaking to a packed room with more than 40 television and still cameras along with about 60 reporters, Spitzer said he has begun to ``atone for my private failings.''
``The remorse I feel will always be with me,'' he said. ``I look at my time as governor with a sense of what might have been.''
Political consultant Hank Sheinkopf, strategy director in Spitzer's upset election as state attorney general in 1998, said ``this is an extraordinary story -- the supernova of American politics collapsing in 14 months.''
Federal prosecutors on March 6 announced the arrest of four individuals connected to an international prostitution and money-laundering ring called the ``Emperors Club.''
Spitzer, who apologized to all New Yorkers, said his resignation is effective at 12 p.m. on March 17. Lieutenant Governor David Paterson, 53, will become the state's 55th governor, serving out the rest of Spitzer's term, which expires Dec. 31, 2010. Paterson, a Democrat like Spitzer, will be the state's first black governor.
``People regardless of their position or power take responsibility for their conduct. I can and will ask no less of myself,'' Spitzer, 48, said today at a Manhattan press conference, accompanied by his wife Silda. ``For this reason, I am resigning.''
The resignation of Spitzer, a former prosecutor who as New York attorney general gained national prominence through cases against the biggest Wall Street securities firms, brings a sudden and humiliating close to a career spent uncovering the failings of others. Cheers erupted from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange when traders heard the news.
In a separate statement, Paterson said today that he was ``saddened by what we have learned over the past several days.''
`Back to Work'
``It is now time for Albany to get back to work as the people of this state expect from us,'' he added.
Spitzer had been governor for less than 15 months. He was elected in 2006 with 69 percent of the vote, the highest plurality ever in a New York gubernatorial race, on a promise to shake up the state's politics.
The beginning of the end of his governorship came with a March 10 article on the New York Times Web site reporting that he was caught on a federal wiretap planning to meet a prostitute in Washington after arranging for her to travel from New York.
The Times, citing a person familiar with the federal investigation, said Spitzer was the individual identified in a federal affidavit as ``Client 9,'' who federal prosecutors said paid $4,300 to have sex with a prostitute named ``Kristen'' in the Mayflower Hotel.
Declining to answer questions, Spitzer, in a dark suit and blue tie, smiled at reporters as he left his Upper East Side apartment this morning with his wife and lawyers Theodore Wells and Michele Hirshman of the law firm Paul Weiss. They headed downtown in a three-car caravan to Spitzer's midtown offices, where he announced his resignation.
Packed Room
Speaking to a packed room with more than 40 television and still cameras along with about 60 reporters, Spitzer said he has begun to ``atone for my private failings.''
``The remorse I feel will always be with me,'' he said. ``I look at my time as governor with a sense of what might have been.''
Political consultant Hank Sheinkopf, strategy director in Spitzer's upset election as state attorney general in 1998, said ``this is an extraordinary story -- the supernova of American politics collapsing in 14 months.''
Federal prosecutors on March 6 announced the arrest of four individuals connected to an international prostitution and money-laundering ring called the ``Emperors Club.''
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/03/...ten/index.html
NEW YORK (CNN) -- When the Emperors Club VIP said it was sending Kristen, a call girl it described as a "petite, very pretty brunette, 5 feet 5 inches, and 105 pounds," Client 9 was pleased. "Great, OK, wonderful," he told the escort service's booking agent, according to a federal affidavit.
Client 9, later revealed to be New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, was caught arranging the liaison on a federal wiretap. It was the beginning of the end for him.
For the woman at the heart of the prostitution scandal, it was just another step on what she calls an "odyssey" of degrading abuse and high aspirations.
Court documents reportedly identified Ashley Youmans -- now known as Ashley Alexandra Dupre -- as Kristen, the high-priced prostitute who met with Spitzer at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington on February 13.
Dupre is a 22-year-old would-be singer from New Jersey, the New York Times reported Wednesday.
She has not been charged with any crime.
Dupre made a brief appearance Monday in U.S. Magistrate Court as a witness against four people charged with operating Emperor's Club VIP, the prostitution ring, the Times said.
Spitzer announced his resignation Wednesday as governor of New York, two days after reports of his connection to the Emperors Club VIP emerged. Dupre told the Times she's mostly gone without sleep since the case became public.
"I just don't want to be thought of as a monster," Dupre told the newspaper. She revealed little else in the interview, but her MySpace page offered some insight into her background. Dupre writes that she left home at 17 to begin "my odyssey to New York."
"It was my decision, and I've never looked back," she writes. "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."
In her profile, Dupre says she moved to Manhattan to pursue her music career.
"I am all about my music, and my music is all about me," she writes on her MySpace page. "It flows from what I've been through, what I've seen and how I feel."
The page includes a picture of Dupre with the slogan "what destroys me, strengthens me." It also features a song titled "What we want" recorded by Dupre, with lyrics including "I know what you want, you got what I want, I know what you need, can you handle me?"
On the MySpace page, Dupre lists singers Etta James, Aretha Franklin and Celine Dion, as well as her brother, as her influences.
She also offers some advice for those experiencing hard times.
"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," Dupre writes.
"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."
Her brother, Kyle Youmans, told CNN he would not comment on the case or how his sister earns money, but he said she is "the best sister you could have."
"I'm sticking by my sister, doing everything so she'll be fine," Youmans said. "She'll make it through." The family is "holding together" since the Spitzer scandal became public, he added.
Dupre's mother, Carolyn Capalbo, told the Times that she and her daughter were close, adding that "she obviously got involved in something much larger than her.
Client 9, later revealed to be New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, was caught arranging the liaison on a federal wiretap. It was the beginning of the end for him.
For the woman at the heart of the prostitution scandal, it was just another step on what she calls an "odyssey" of degrading abuse and high aspirations.
Court documents reportedly identified Ashley Youmans -- now known as Ashley Alexandra Dupre -- as Kristen, the high-priced prostitute who met with Spitzer at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington on February 13.
Dupre is a 22-year-old would-be singer from New Jersey, the New York Times reported Wednesday.
She has not been charged with any crime.
Dupre made a brief appearance Monday in U.S. Magistrate Court as a witness against four people charged with operating Emperor's Club VIP, the prostitution ring, the Times said.
Spitzer announced his resignation Wednesday as governor of New York, two days after reports of his connection to the Emperors Club VIP emerged. Dupre told the Times she's mostly gone without sleep since the case became public.
"I just don't want to be thought of as a monster," Dupre told the newspaper. She revealed little else in the interview, but her MySpace page offered some insight into her background. Dupre writes that she left home at 17 to begin "my odyssey to New York."
"It was my decision, and I've never looked back," she writes. "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."
In her profile, Dupre says she moved to Manhattan to pursue her music career.
"I am all about my music, and my music is all about me," she writes on her MySpace page. "It flows from what I've been through, what I've seen and how I feel."
The page includes a picture of Dupre with the slogan "what destroys me, strengthens me." It also features a song titled "What we want" recorded by Dupre, with lyrics including "I know what you want, you got what I want, I know what you need, can you handle me?"
On the MySpace page, Dupre lists singers Etta James, Aretha Franklin and Celine Dion, as well as her brother, as her influences.
She also offers some advice for those experiencing hard times.
"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," Dupre writes.
"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."
Her brother, Kyle Youmans, told CNN he would not comment on the case or how his sister earns money, but he said she is "the best sister you could have."
"I'm sticking by my sister, doing everything so she'll be fine," Youmans said. "She'll make it through." The family is "holding together" since the Spitzer scandal became public, he added.
Dupre's mother, Carolyn Capalbo, told the Times that she and her daughter were close, adding that "she obviously got involved in something much larger than her.
Here are some of her picture...
Even though she looks hot , she def. not worth $4300 ....
BTW, on the side note, at least he has better taste than Bill Clinton!!!! ROFL LOL : D
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