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In America, when two adults have consensual sex, and the circumstances are just right, they give birth to a vibrant media subeconomy, and this is the continuing miracle of the story of disgraced Gov. Eliot Spitzer and admired prostitute Ashley Kristen Alexandra Nina Vanetta DiPietro Dupre. There is money, attention and even political opportunity swirling around Dupre, so of course Mayor Michael Bloomberg is on the scene, along with Laura Schlessinger. Here is a roundup of all the new and exciting things about "that whore chick:"
- New York magazine said Dupre is rich based on this formula: her songs cost $1, they have been downloaded 2 million times and Dupre gets to keep 70 percent of the profit. But it looks to me like the song has around 200,000 listens, not 2 million (see bottom left corner of this page). Also, you can listen to a song without buying it, and that's what the vast majority of people are probably doing.
- The real money, of course, is in Playboy and Penthouse nudie pic deals and in a book contract, as noted in the same New York mag post.
- Now that Spitzer is gone, Bloomberg is getting all excited about becoming the first Robot Governor of New York even though he JUST PROMISED US ALL he would stop doing things like this. But he probably doesn't want to be a rich white technocrat running against a blind, black, relatively poor emergency governor, so he secretly prays Andrew Cuomo will destroy new Gov. David Paterson in the primary.
- The public will soon callously toss aside Dupre, just as it did the high-priced Brazilian hooker who was once on the cover of the Daily News but just got deported and nobody cared.
- Fake psychologist Laura Schlessinger said spurned hottie Silda Spitzer has "responsibility for mistreating her man."
- The Eliot Spitzer story leaked, eventually to the Times, when people started asking why the Feds' chief corruption guy was so interested in this whole prostitution case.
- It has been reported that Spitzer knew he was in trouble starting Friday, but he did not start looking for a public relations firm until Tuesday. At that point, even the flithy flacks (or at least one filthy flack) wouldn't touch him.
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The fact that whores get rich off of whoring is what makes them whores.
Can we just try to be kind?
Amie Street uses an algorithm to determine song prices based on demand. The price for a track starts at zero when a song is uploaded onto the site. It then rises according to the increased demand and purchase of the song. The maximum price any song will rise to is 98ยข.
The guys who started Amie are recent Brown graduates who have some backing from Amazon. It is not actually Ashley who changed the price.
@surfbeavernsb: No, sleeping with people for money is what makes them whores. Whores that take advantage of the subsequent publicity as the result of said whoring make them opportunistic whores.
@Helman: Indeed. In her immortal words:
"Will that person be an asset to your life...(will that person have value): doesn't have to be financial, i am talking respect, courage, and umm RESPECT."
Which, when sung loud enough in the shower = redemption.
@Helman: Indeed. In her immortal words:
"Will that person be an asset to your life...(will that person have value): doesn't have to be financial, i am talking respect, courage, and umm RESPECT."
Which, in turn, belted out loud enough... umm = REDEMPTION.
At this point, we have:
~abused
~went to North Carolina to escape abuse
~wanted to be a singer
~probably 22, but may, in fact, be 32
~sought largest paycheck possible, given circumstances
Very exciting from a tabloid perspective, but frankly it sounds like rent was more important than fame in this case. We'll all keep staring, but from a Gawker perspective, nothing to see here.
Meh, she's just an enterprising gal partaking of the world's oldest profession.
The wife is attractive. Hopefully, she'll get a divorce and a book deal.
@dandles: More than attractive: the complete package, baby.
Can't wait for Silda to cover "I Will Survive" and beat this youngish upstart down in an internet download cat-fight.
I have the strangest tastes in pornography.
Once again, I am drunk, horny, and waaaay short of cash.
Damn.
Someone told me the NYT was so proud of their big scoop: A reporter somehow persuaded a whore to sell herself out on Page One for the big bucks. So, let's see here... doesn't that make Pinch a pimp?
her stepdad's a successful dentist and her mom's a kook. those two things are fact. ergo, she's just a standard jersey girl selling her fake tan/boobs/teeth for cash/attention/love
@MyCubeHas3Sides: Umm..methinks there might be some bargains out there...at least 24 multi-diamond whores looking for work...
"In America, when two adults have consensual sex, and the circumstances are just right, they give birth to a vibrant media subeconomy..."
That's the best thing I've read in a long time.
Why do people assume the hooker thing itself is such a big deal to Silda? She knew who he was: a dervish, a large roadpaving vehicle, looney, egotistical, brilliant. The aggressive character easily crosses the line to reckless, thoughtless conduct. At the same time, no one can seriously compare this sort of ethical lapse with the malfeasance he spent most of his career prosecuting. It's disappointing, but hardly makes the man a moral failure.
Silda's not delighted, but why should it crush her that Eliot wacked out on a few occasions and hired hookers? The loss of all their other hopes would weigh on her more than her personal betrayal.
Besides, that scrawny chest. (Kidding. I have smart gay friends who find him sexy and they can't all be wrong.)
@TheLorax: Oh! That's what the checks and balances stuff is about, so we can elect twits with poor impulse control!
@TheLorax:
"...I have smart gay friends who find [Spitzer] sexy and they can't all be wrong. ..."
Help me out, here. What can the above sentence possibly mean?
That some of your stupid gay friends who find Seltzer unattractive must necessarily be right?
It's a big world.
I suppose that, out there, somewhere, there are gay men who do in fact fetishize dweebish, thwarted, heterosexual desire.
I imagine these are gay men who prowl craigslist for hook-ups with "STRAIGHT MARRIED MANAGERIAL TYPES WITH PANIC DISORDER LOOKING FOR NO-STRINGS FUN."
It's moronic to blame Mrs. Spitzer. She probably did all she could to satisfy him and it just wasn't enough so he went to a pro. I'm so sorry for her. I'm sure she did her best but my god, look at Ashley. Look at those shots on the boat. How can Spitzer's wife compete with that, and the sexual game Ashley MUST have too to make what she does? She would have taken a lot more big chunks of his money if not caught. Somebody on TV said that Ashley told a girlfriend that she thought it was cute how Spitzer just babbled like a teenager near the end.
It's Spitzer's fault but Ashley just used what God gave her in order to have a decent life, and she earned it. She has three diamonds so she has been doing it, and she's not just beautiful but obviously very good at what she does in the bedroom and must have pleasured a lot of men. She already made thousands of dollars a night for her company and sexual pleasure. Soon she will probably be a multi millionaire after she tells the world about her part in destroying a govenor in bed and out. She already lives high, soon she will be set in luxury for life.
Britney made millions for her act, but Ashley's even better and the real deal in the sex arena.
@Hamud: It was a ridiculous statement, though not intended in the way you guess. What I meant was that his brain is part of the attraction for two extra-smart friends of mine. I respect these two friends and if they find him sexy, probably he is somewhat sexy. That's all! I can't get past the skinny chest. I don't know what my straight or dumb friends think because I haven't discussed the matter with them. Ha. I hope that answers your question and clears up misunderstanding. Clearly, I need writing lessons.
@In Other News...: Good point. I stand corrected.
@wretched_of_the_mirth: Hmmm...you know, that makes me think...if Spitz wrote a memoir about this whole thing, what would it be called?
Ready? Aaaaaaaaand GO!
Chicks and Balances: Tales of Luv as a New York Guv (and Other Sultry Stories)
@In Other News...: Or savvy business people . . .
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