I downed a glass of champagne, did an enormous line and offered one to Ashley. She shook her head, and I offered it to her again. She leaned forward and did it. She was only 19 and couldn't even drink legally!

Her faced scrunched up as the powder shot through her sinuses. We dashed out the door, giggling as we burst onto the sidewalk. We jumped in the limo, and Ashley screamed, "Pump this bitch up!"

...One night, Victoria - sorry, Ashley - and I found ourselves alone in the loft. Ashley jumped up on the couch with the empty bottle of Taittinger we'd just polished off in two minutes flat and started singing along to Mary J. Blige's "No More Drama."

All of a sudden, she froze. "Oh, my God, it's Nas' birthday! I almost forgot!"

...We jumped in a cab and were at Select in two minutes. Ashley gave the magic word to the 500-pound doorman, and the velvet ropes parted like the Red Sea.

The owner came over and set us up at the table next to Nas and his then-girlfriend, Kellis. Wow, so there was Nas. I was excited, but Ashley was absolutely giddy...

"Ash, let's buy Nas a bottle of champagne for his birthday."

The waitress delivered our birthday present to Nas' table with our best wishes. Nas looked up, and then motioned for us to come over to his table.

Ashley put on her game face.

It's hard to imagine many people riveted by these stories, unless maybe they were converted into a TV movie. But if the book somehow manages to sell, maybe Dupre can turn around one of the haters in New York publishing who say her tell-all would never sell.

[Post]

• Christian Bale is set to get a "caution" about his alleged assault on his Mom and sister in London, but only if he admits guilt first. Comedian Russell Brand: "In England, we have such good manners that if someone says something impolite, the police will get involved. Christian Bale, I believe whilst in a restaurant, rolled his eyes at the lighting. That is an offense punishable by five years in prison in the United Kingdom."
• Bill and Hillary Clinton said they aren't going to David "Obama" Geffen's stupid party at the Democratic convention, and Geffen said they weren't invited anyway, mumbling something about what the fatties would do to his catering bill. [P6]
• In between macking sessions with boyfriend Justin Bartha, Ashley Olsen consumed two Bloody Mary's and "a little bit" of spaghetti. In other words, a balanced diet. [P6]
• Someone is domain squatting AshleyDupre.com. But that's not the Spitzer hooker's real name, and she's probably not about to try to explain to some court how she established ownership over the pseudonym, so... Point to the domain squatter! [R&M]
• I had never heard that Lindsay Lohan's 14-year-old sister Ali got breast implants until Lindsay blogged a heated denial. [People]
• Jennifer Aniston's rebound rebound rebound man is said to be Matt Felker, a model. Meanwhile, John Mayer and Pete Wentz are hanging out more.
• Paris Hilton denied that she's dumped Benji Madden for the CEO of MySpace. [The Awful Truth]
• Because America will never tire of brutal torture on the part of insane, gung-ho law enforcement authorities, drunk driver and enemy of military training Keifer Sutherland would like to make a movie based on 24. [OK!]
• Tori Spelling says she'd still like to be in the 90210 spinoff, and implies she only dropped out because of the timing of her kid. [OK!]

[A producer involved in deal talks] said Dupre has expressed an interest in journalism and lounge singing.

"She also has a strong desire to give to a charity," he said. "She's very analytical. She wants to help people. She sees herself as a kind of Dr. Phil."

She does know even top psychologists max around five HUNDRED dollars an hour, right?

[Post]

• Alterna-socialite Arden Wohl was arrested for writing "Ralphy Lipshits" on the front of a Ralph Lauren boutique in lipstick. That's a variation on the designer's real name of "Ralph Lipschitz" and a dumb thing to do while wearing a headband (which, face it, she almost certainly was), which is probably the clue that allowed police to track Wohl down after she made her drawing. Oh, she also stole some miniature American flags. [P6]
• Ex-Eliot Spitzer hooker Ashley Alexandra Dupre goes to the Waverly Inn because it's classy. (No one tries to touch or talk to her there, they strictly ogle.) [P6]
• Leonardo DiCaprio, who campaigned against wasteful junk mail, on account of the environment, is now sending out wasteful junk mail mail pitches, on account of the environment. [P6]
• Jennifer Aniston got upset because boyfriend John Mayer's ex Jessica Simpson sent very well-written love letters, and Mayer still saves them. Or not, because the not-at-all-clingy actress is denying the whole thing. [P6]
• In an upcoming video for Madonna's tour, Britney Spears will pretend to be a screaming, hair-pulling crazy person, while Madonna will pretend to be a randy bisexual with a thing for Spears. An acting tour de force, in other words. [Sun]

It's been a good run, but when we give a television show to a prostitute who looks to a fake bisexual MySpace star (whose own reality show involves eating bugs pig vaginae and fetish costume parties) as some sort of career aspiration, I think it's about time we packed it in. I don't care where you go, you just can't stay here. I for one will be poking around old English manors looking for Narnia.

• The daughter of former Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, Courtenay, is dating the heiress to the Johnson & Johnson fortune, Casey. Semel used to date Lindsay Lohan, Johnson used to date a dude, until he was "snatched" away by her aunt. [P6]
• Guy Ritchie was seen repeatedly drinking alone in his pub, listening to a folk guitarist, so everyone assumed his divorce with Madonna was about to finally happen. There was something about her kissing Gwyneth Paltrow. Then the pop starlet issued a big massive denial of the divorce, and her affair with A-Rod, and everything. No one's really sure whether to believe her.
• Eliot Spitzer hooker Ashley Alexandra Dupre is no longer suing Girls Gone Wild founder Joe Francis for distributing racy footage shot when she was 17. It is time to "focus on the positive" ways to exploit being a famous call girl. [Post]
• A former staffer for celebrity TV chef Rachael Ray said he was harassed for being anorexic. OK, so I suppose there is at least one bad reason to decline to eat Rachael Ray's food. [Post]
• Once-pregnant transexual man Thomas Beatie gave birth to a healthy baby girl without a c-section. [ABC News]
• There are threats of a Friends movie. Sex And The City is, of course, responsible for this travesty. [P6]

• Ashley Dupre, call girl to former Gov. Eliot Spitzer, thanked her MySpace fans "for taking the time to send me a bit of strength and inspiration... your words have touched me." She thanked her detractors for making "me push myself and want it even more." [MySpace]
• Corey Feldman fought with old buddy and fellow child star Corey Haim on a reality show, and it emerged both had been molested at kids. Feldman felt the need to clarify that pop singer Michael Jackson was not the molester.
• A handwriting expert is suing Bryant Gumbel for allegedly smearing him on HBO's Real Sports. [Post]
• British singer Boy George really wanted to put on a special show for the New York sanitation workers with whom he performed community service, but he was denied a visa to enter the country, on account of an upcoming trial for allegedly imprisoning a male escort. [Post]
• British author Ian McEwan said he despises "Islamism" because it oppresses gays and women. [Times]
• Michelle Williams, mother of deceased actor Heath Ledger's child, is worried Ledger's mother and father will blow through the money in his estate before the child is 18 and able to claim any. [P6]
• Clearly trying to seed a sequel to his 1986 laugh riot The Money Pit, actor Tom Hanks keeps insisting his mansion in Sun Valley was poorly constructed. His latest appeal for legal intervention was rejected by a California court Friday. [P6]
• The 13-year-old daughter of billionaire Revlon chief Ron Perelman asked for a protection order against her mom and Perelman's ex-wife Patricia Duff. [Post]
• Singer Stevie Nicks said everyone should buy records and in turn save the music business and in turn "bring peace to our earth." [R&M]

Prosecutors have records of Spitzer's transactions, phone records and taped conversations with Emperors Club, and are confident they need little more to nail him on charges that could include violating prostitution laws and money laundering, sources said... Spitzer had to resign his office after the Feds caught him on tape making arrangements for a "date" with Dupre at a hotel in Washington, DC, on Feb. 13.

So the Feds are carefully lining up witnesses even though they already had Spitzer on tape, drove him from elected office and screwed up his marriage. Excellent: The goal here should be to drag this out as long as possible, and to ruin the maximum number of lives.

[Post, AP]

“No one in the real estate world will, pardon my French, give a shit about the prostitutes... Guys in our industry, if he started attending real estate board functions, they’d get a kick out of it,” said the consultant. “We live in this sort of perverted, celebrity-driven world.”

Centerfolds just a few floors down from his desk.

Sounds like a supportive environment. What could possibly go wrong?

[Observer]

But the whole thing runs off the rails at the end, and the non-Spitzer Spitzer gets away with it, and no one gets to publish or gawk at pictures downloaded from MySpace. Instead the governor is permitted to keep his sex life private and his wife is left with both her dignity and independent political ambition intact. WTF? This is a detective show. I was implicitly promised the cheap thrill of watching imaginary justice visited upon make-believe criminals committing victimless crimes. Boo!

Here's a brief look at this alternate Spitzer reality. The guy who plays the governor has Spitzer's look down, although he's a bit young and has too much hair. Would-be Dupre is "Chanelle" in the courtroom scene — she doesn't look much like Jersey girl Dupre, and she's Brazilian or something so the governor just has her deported in the end.

TV Squad has a review of the whole episode.

A club called Headquarters New York is giving you a perfect excuse to do what you've been dreaming of since this whole scandal broke:

The club, located on West 38th Street, will hold an "Ashley Dupre Look-alike Contest" tonight at 10 p.m. So, if you're feeling like a girl gone wild — or a guy gone wild for that matter — we'd like to see a drag version of the infamous call girl who felled Eliot Spitzer - anyway, the point is, show up at Headquarters tonight.

[Urbanite]

So we know what Scott Storch will be doing tonight.

But she lied about her age and pretended to be in the proper frame of mind to give consent, so maybe Team Francis scores some points in Dupre's $10 million suit against Girls Gone Wild for releasing the video under her name and without permission, and under false pretenses. I'm not sure. In fact, a supercomputer somewhere is probably furiously trying to calculate how the moral high ground is altered by this tipsy future hooker's videotaped and misleading consent, given five years ago, to be in a cheap, flash-your-tits DVD produced by a guy who would later go to jail in connection with a case against him for allegedly making racy videos of underaged girls.

In the meantime, enjoy the brief video below, in which Jersey girl Dupre takes on a southern accent picked up in North Carolina, where she went to high school, and uses the assumed name Amber Arpaio to declare she is ready to Go Wild.

By the way, Girls Gone Wild appears to have retained public relations firm 5WPR to disseminate this video. The firm excluded tips@gawker.com from its distribution list. We're kind of hurt. Was it something we said? Everything we said? Awesome! Anyway, pro tip: This is not how you spell "permission," although we're guessing Joe Francis did not catch the slip:

HERE IT IS- ASHLEY/ KRISTEN IN HER OWN WORDS-GIVING PERMISSON TO BE VIDEO-TAPED BY GGW

Dupré's lawsuit claims Francis promoted the new videos by saying she was "doing a lot of hot lesbian acts," which she says is false. The suit also accuses Francis of trying to get the public to believe Dupré "is performing sexual acts'' in the videos. Not true again, she says...

"Defendants created the false impression that [Dupré] has endorsed and/or approves of the graphic, sexual content, including lesbian acts, contained in the video, which in reality she does not," the suit says.

Dupre is also not happy that Francis registered ashleydupre.net. She is also arguing that, when she encountered Francis at 17, she was both too young and too drunk to consent to the video. Obviously! Within a few short years she was already making much wiser and healthier decisions about how to live her life.

[Miami Herald, People]

The second hooker-informant also told investigators Spitzer was fond of using sex toys to enhance his own pleasure, the sources said.

"The full portrait of Mr. Spitzer's sexual interests has yet to be told," one source said.

...[The second hooker] expanded on the portrait of Spitzer's sexual fetishes in graphic detail, the sources said, also divulging that he had a penchant for props.

"Using sex toys to enhance his own pleasure," "props" — this basically means butt plugs, or something along those lines, right? This is a very important question, please speculate wildly in the comments.

Also, apparently GOP dirty trickster Roger Stone was totally right about another Spitzer kink, this one EVEN MORE OUTLANDISH:

Sources said the second hooker also noted that Spitzer liked to keep his socks on during sex - a claim previously made by Republican political operative Roger Stone.

Next up from the tabs, a step by step guide to what Spitzer was into during foreplay and other angles to this story that make everyone uncomfortable.

Also, between the above front-page headline and the inside headline — "'TWO ON ONE' VS. SPITZER" — it doesn't seem like the Post really brought its hooker-scandal A-game to this one. There are sex toys involved, after all.

[Post]

She describes herself as "Andy Warhol's Number One Publicity Protege," and she has parlayed her connection with the pop artist into a successful career. She worked at Interview Magazine and CBS Records before founding her own firm, and today she's one of the city's go-to agencies for celebrities. She even helped take Usher "to another level"! So there's that. There's no doubt she's much more likely to help launch Dupre on her own career than to serve as a solid grey corporate well between her and the media, a role Eliot Spitzer's own chosen PR firm is well suited to play.

Also, as Emily Gould discovered, Susan Blond has wild hair. And she's had her web domain name snatched by incompetent rival superflack Ronn [sic] Torossian, putting her in bad company.

We have an email in to SBI to find out what they plan to do for Dupre, and we'll let you know if we hear back.

• Is 30 Rock the new Saturday Night Live? Tina Fey, SNL alum and 30 Rock creator, is talking about bringing onto the show that whore chick Ashley Dupre and also that less-insane-by-the-day singer Britney Spears. Alec Baldwin and Tracy Morgan don't bring enough crazy to the party? Really?
• Spears is also looking at hosting the Kids' Choice Awards at the end of the month. So many things could go wrong, and it would be so awesome, on some sick and twisted level, if they did. [OK!]
• But Spears won't have a meltdown, because she's on the right track, and you can tell because she now has good teeth. Or at least good teeth products. From a dentist and everything! [Popsugar]
• Puppy-and-kitten-hating monster Paris Hilton adopted another victim from a thoughtless animal shelter on Long Island. The doomed creature is a West Highland terrier. Former dog-sitter: "Last time I watched her dog, she forgot I had it and assumed it was lost." [MSNBC, second item]
• Diva model Tyra Banks is going to quit America's Next Top Model or maybe stab photographer Jay Manuel instead. She is lethal. [OK!]
• Scientology's inner-city ambassador Kimora Lee Simmons filed for divorce from her husband, hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons, now that she's reportedly knocked up by her boyfriend. She wants the kids, and for Russell only to be able to visit with "security personnel" present, since he's the one who is crazy. [People]
• Yes, Kylie Minogue, gay techo laureate, is coming to the U.S. with her new album, but it's only for stupid TV appearances, no concerts. On the bright side, who's to say she won't show up at a club or two? [Queerty]
• Comedian Robin Williams is hilariously improvising his latest divorce. This one lasted nearly 20 years; she had been nanny to his child. That guy is so wacky. [SF Chronicle]
• Gossip Girl dude Chace Crawford is no longer dating American Idol fameball Carrie Underwood. Possibly because he's too, uh, "close" to this guy from 'N Sync. [Perez]
• Hills star Heidi Montag wants look-alikes to work as models during a launch party for her fashion line. Must effectively hate on Lauren Conrad during the tryout. [Us]

Incidentally, the former Governor could learn from the experience of David Mellor, a cabinet minister in the UK's Conservative government of the early 1990s. When an affair was revealed in the tabloids, Mellor's image was saved by one anecdote. His cunning publicist claimed Mellor had sex with his lover while wearing the "strip" of his beloved soccer club, Chelsea. That fact turned a sleazy adulterer into a man of the people, and Mellor survived. Spitzer, now fixed in the public's mind as an arrogant plutocrat who demands unsafe sex at $5,000 an hour, is in even more dire need of a humanizing detail. Unfortunately, the only clothing he made a habit of retaining, according to one former madame, were his black socks. Not the same. And his publicist doesn't appear to have the same shamelessness as Max Clifford, the Machiavellian genius of media manipulation in the UK who saved Mellor.

Despite giving the generation a stupid name (The Look At Me's), Newsweek concedes that obsession with documentation isn't entirely a generational phenomenon. But the Internet does qualitatively change our view of recording life. MySpace and camera phones document things that would previously remain secret or temporary.

If Ashley Alexandra Dupré were in the same scandal ten years ago, the call girl wouldn't have been so well-documented and wouldn't have stolen the news cycle from her client Eliot Spitzer. She wouldn't have felt like just another hot girl. But seeing her MySpace page (which was no more packed with self-promotion than the average teen I know) evaporates some of the mystique. So, thanks to the superdocumented life of Gen Y, everyone's prefabricated for their rise to fame. Like Ashley, we won't even have to do something new.

• If you missed the prior leaked stills in the Post or Orlando Sentinel, Girls Gone Wild's video of Eliot Spitzer hooker Ashley Dupre may contain some revelations; otherwise you'll feel like you've already seen it. The video is excerpted by the Post here and for sale here.
• Obviously, someone has already stolen the door number off the room where Spitzer allegedly did his whoring. [Times]
• Old people are often caught whoring because they don't understand technology and the internet. Young people are often caught whoring because they understand the internet too well and post pictures of themselves whoring. [Times]
• The Times investigated whether federal agents were overzealous in their prosecution of Spitzer and found that, yes, they probably had to go after a governor whose banks reported suspicious activity and who was very obviously whoring. But they so didn't have to include juicy sex details in their affidavit for the news media to find. [Times]
• Because Gov. David Paterson was kind of cheap about conducting his affairs, he will be a more fiscally responsible governor. [Times]

• The Times cast a wide net to gather reaction to all the recent kinky governor action going on with Eliot Spitzer and his whores, David Paterson and his mistresses and Jim McGreevey and his driver and his wife. A male escort said we're cheapening politics and keeping otherwise brillitant johns from running for office. A homeless man said something on a cardboard sign, and the newspaper was amused but criticized his syntax. [NYT]
• In the same story, the Times pointed out that adultery is actually illegal in New York. So why isn't Paterson gone yet?
• Paterson is so not worried about that supposedly dirty tape of him talking to one of his mistresses. [Post video]
• Playgirl, assuming this is really the porn magazine's blog, would like to cut a deal with Spitzer. Somehow I doubt it will involve as many digits as his whore's deal. [Playgirl]
• DC's Mayflower Hotel is basically the Grand Central of whoring and debauchery, having hosted not only Spitzer and his hooker but also JFK's mistress, Clinton hookup Monica Lewinsky and former mayor Marion Barry and his crack pipe. "We are in the business of selling rooms... And the escort services are in the business of keeping our guests happy." [NYT]
• Spitzer hooker Ashley Dupre may turn against two of her lesser pimps and rat them out in court. [Post]

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WHICH IS WHICH?

[Ashley Dupre pics via Us]

• Georgi Vodka, the blogger Vodka of choice, is willing to pay in the low six figures for her to be their next "butt girl." Low six figures might be all right for a regular call girl, but we're talking about a high-class call girl here, one who could inspire her very own scotch ad campaign.
  
• Hustler is also offering her $1 million for a shoot. Hopefully Eliot Spitzer can take solace in her career and our first blind and philandering governor. Larry Flynt would demand that she go fully nude for the shoot, of course. But don't worry about payment! "By most accounts," says Silicon Alley Insider, "Larry is a trustworthy pornographer."
  
• Girls Gone Wild wants to give her $1 million to do a photo spread and go on tour. But they may rescind that offer (which didn't even involve any going wild, according to reformed good guy Joe Francis) now that they've realized that they have "'a week's worth" of video of Ashley celebrating her 18th birthday, which she did on the big bus," according to TMZ.

Times editors said the photographs were published because they have inherent news value — readers always want to know what the people they are reading about look like. "We cropped the photograph of her in a bikini so as to meet our standards for taste, and ran it in conjunction with another photograph, where she is clothed," Ms. Rudoren said.

She added: "Part of the reason we ran both pictures was to provide as complete a portrait as possible; only showing the bikini picture might have given an overly sexy impression, for example; only using the other picture might have given a distorted sense of youthful innocence. We linked to the MySpace page so readers could get more information and listen to her song; we frequently provide links to MySpace or other sites."

Leave the good pictures to us! (And the Post!) [weak pic above via the NYT]