Let's clear this up before my bedtime,please, so that I may get a decent night's sleep. Twenty minutes should be enough time, no? What gives with the early bedtime? I am 12. (Also live in New Jersey)

it is impossible to tell because everyone in jersey's high school picture has been exactly the same for 40 years.

The New York Times article gives her age as 22. Although I guess you could say that if they're concerning themselves with this sort of thing, maybe they're letting certain reporting details slip by the wayside.

On the other hand, they also give her mother's age as 46. If that's correct, then it seems a lot more likely that Ashley is younger than 32.

In her defense, she doesn't look a day over 31. More importantly, does this change reduce the number of diamonds she gets under her picture profile?

she certainly doesnt LOOK 32, but then again, miley cyrus looks 45.

The big hoop earrings support that she was 32 -- that's a very 1994 ghetto-fabulous look.

I know people lie about their age. But the whole going-back-to-high-school thing is taking a bit far. It could also explains why, as in the Post story, "she didn't date the guys in high school. She always liked older guys."

But her mom, lying too? What else is a lie, then?

The age difference can be explained by simple time travel. She's a sophisticated sex robot sent back through time to stop Spitz from becoming President and making Gay Marriage legal. Conservatives from the Future are cut-throat.

@Ummwhat: you're 12 and in NJ! Wanna play Pong?

I knew those chubby fingers (seen in one of the shots where she's throwing a peace sign) did not belong to a 20-something!

Blimey, I should have gone with my superb journalistic instincts on that yesterday!

@allyzay: No, the last yearbook printing was 1985 and it's comprised of big-haired composigloids and guidumbs. We've long since run out of yearbook money.

ouuu, i thought she looked older than 22. I just figured she was not a fan of sun-block.

Her high school roommate was on GMA this morning. He looked 22 ish but he could have been 32 dweebish. The high school yearbook should solve it.

There is this is the Asbury Press (APP.com):

"Wall High School gymnastics coach and former teacher Gerald Basiak of Tinton Falls taught Dupre about 10 years ago when she was in the fifth grade at the Old Mill School in Wall."

A clue: Celine Dion, Whitney Houston and Madonna are in her myspace "Top 8". Do any 22 even know who Celine Dion is?

@belltolls: Holy Crap! I might know her! A hooker from Monmouth County? Ocean County maybe...but Monmouth? Unheard of.

@BalknChain: Yes, I do. Small paddles only.

@belltolls: Gosh. If she was 20 years old and faked being 10 years old, that's even more impressive.

@Ummwhat: I was just in Bonton and Rumson 2 weeks ago, you 'round there? Small paddles? Are you thinking Ping Pong? I meant the antique video game Pong. Cause I'm an old..

Can we put this to vote? And then when her true age is verified, everyone who was incorrect gets publicly shamed in a special post?

I would consider this to be pretty strong evidence debunking the "32" theory:

"Wall High School gymnastics coach and former teacher Gerald Basiak of Tinton Falls, N.J., taught Dupre about 10 years ago when she was in the fifth grade at the Old Mill School in Wall, N.J.

" 'She was a wild kid. Basically, what I remember from her was she had a heart of gold, but she went to the beat of a different drum,' Basiak told the Asbury Park Press Wednesday night. 'She didn't really fit in with the kids, because she went a different way.'

"Basiak said Dupre signed up to be a part of the gymnastics team during her freshman year in 2000."

[www.usatoday.com]

frig! Boonton, still sounds silly

By the way is Seattle the only city with that Google thing? Ryan?

NJ.com has the HS pic as from the 2002 yearbook. I have to find Judge Crater and Amelia Earhart before 10...so case closed.

@TedSez: Did he REALLY describe a hooker as having a heart of gold?

@belltolls: "Wall High School gymnastics coach and former teacher Gerald Basiak of Tinton Falls taught Dupre about 10 years ago when she was in the fifth grade at the Old Mill School in Wall."

She was 12 when she was in the 5th grade? Held back a few years? Got a late start?

I'm on this. Back soon.

can spitzho get a refund?

@SeventiesBush: do you realize how many 12 yr olds loved Titanic?

@Tammany_Fall: Seriously. Could he have given a more cliched character analysis? She "had a heart of gold," but "went to the beat of a different drum." Incredible insight...just incredible.

@BalknChain: Right, Pong! I believe there was a way to make your paddle small. Ya know, for the experts. I could be wrong. Maybe I am confusing it with Breakout? I am old, too. (I'm in Pt. Pleasant. We have zero hookers here, except maybe during the summer.)

@BalknChain: if that's true and this is all just a trick of the pricey yearbook monopolists, how do you explain the upper west side on friday nights?

@FitnessMadeSimple: I heard she also knew when to hold them, and when to fold them.

@The One: Are you doubting the Asbury Park Press?! What else do they have to do except report Springsteen sightings and boardwalk repair. It's not like the NYT or something. They said: "about" 10 years ago, could have benn 11 or 12 years ago. Would have made her 10 or 11. Right age.

@brechtgirl: I think most of us have changed our taste in movies since we were 12.
Although, I still love Willow.

@FitnessMadeSimple: A hooker with a heart of gold - and she does a mean back handspring.

@allyzay: nobody can explain the upper west side, let alone on Friday nights@Ummwhat: oh wonderful, we're only like 90 miles apart,see you in a few hours. Pong had a paddle adjustment feature? huh, must've been the newer version. Ooh, I'm meeting a fellow commenter in Philly tomorrow!

I have no opinion about her age -- I think she's older, but not by 10 years -- but her entire story doesn't add up, maybe?

Her brother said they grew up in a blue-collar Shore town (Beachwood) so how did she end up in grade school at Wall, which is really far away? She moved closer to Wall in high school, but that was 2000, way after the fifth grade.

Also, apparently between 2000 and 2003 she lived in a McMansion and one of her friends in high school describes her as a wealthy kid (which is not so much in her self-reported bio of having nothing).

Also, if she was a freshman in 2000, and she left in her sophomore year, and she (according to her mother and her brother and the Times) left in 2003 for North Carolina -- how is 2003 her "sophomore year" if 2000 was her "freshman" year?

Everything's off by just a year or two. It is strange.

@BalknChain: You're on. I will hook up my console. Bring the star. It's MINE! (I have nothing to offer you, should you win, except the honor and glory of beating the former Miss Pong Jersey Shore 1982.)

@FitnessMadeSimple: I suppose when you ask a PE teacher for a quote, you shouldn't expect much. He had also added that when the going gets tough, the tough get going, and that there's no I in team, but for some reason those jewels of wisdom were edited out.

@Tammany_Fall: @jamriner:

Haha...both hilarious. Thank you for those :)

There is an Ashley Youmans in Belmar who is 32-33 years old depending on which database you check. However, the mother of this Ashley, the woman who has been quoted the last few days, one Carolyn Unknown Birth Name Youmans Dupre Capalbo, has a lot of records attesting to the fact that she is only 46 herself making it very unlikely her daughter is 32.

@belltolls: Whoa! Calm down. I was just pointing out that a 12-y.o. 5th grader is unusual.

She clearly has a "what destroys me strengthens me" attitude to aging. What's next? Don't tell us she wasn't really a virgin, either!

@PandoraSpocks: You're on the case. I love it!

Surprised the crazy Justice Dept lawyers didn't leak her vetted age in their kinda ridiculous indictment marginalia. The Rep JoD guys probably cracked up every day they crafted this shit:

I found the solution in her MySpace comment column, which, incidentally, is way more fun than this, so tata!

"What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly."

@wretched_of_the_mirth: I wish I was in high school just so I could make my yearbook quote:

"What destroys me strengthens me."
-Ashley Dupre

@Ummwhat: Back to the star thing huh? I'll tell you what it means and how to earn one yourself. You have t

@Ummwhat: and then yo

@Ummwhat: but don't ever s

@Ummwhat: And never, ever wear yellow during the full moon in Mongolia while drinking Yak milk and walking like an Egyptian or you will be eaten by a death worm. It was just on Destination Truth.

@Ummwhat: Hah! Like Blakeley, I love tracking down the facts.

@The One: Oh no, I was drafting an abstract on a court case while was I doing that. The legal document turned out funny as shit, though.

@PandoraSpocks: But not impossible, right? A teenage mother, maybe. Carolyn Capalbo's father is 82.

Any Jersey girl currently 32 would have waaaaay bigger h.s. yearbook hair. Somewhere around 1999 or so guidette hair went from big-as-hell to super-flat. I am 32 and even preppy girls in my class somehow rocked bigness in their hair. She may not be 22 but I doubt 32.

@FitnessMadeSimple: Well, if you're still in middle school, try "positive energy will attract positive energy." (Ashley Noyoudaman)

@PandoraSpocks: People describes her as a rich, pretty cheerleader. She sounds like she kind of lied about her life.

[www.people.com],,20184189,00.html

"Bevin Doherty, who knew Ashley on the Pop Warner cheerleading squad in middle school, tells PEOPLE that, in contrast to statements Ashley made on her MySpace page about her home life, Ashley lived with her mom.

"Her mom would pick her up from cheering in middle school in a Jaguar," says Doherty, who like others, assumed Ashley was wealthy. By high school, she was wearing designer clothes."

Also, she went to the Dawson's Creek high school in the Outer Banks when she went to North Carolina.

[mhs.dare.k12.nc.us]

@SeventiesBush: well yeah, but it doesn't mean they don't remember who Celine Dion is