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Ashley Dupre On Tiger Woods' Babes: "At Least I Kept My Mouth Shut"
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Jen Chung
Published Dec 4, 2009
Modified Dec 4, 2009
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Ashley Dupre, aka Kristen, Governor Spitzer's pricey escort, is weighing in on Tiger Woods' growing posse of alleged mistresses. She text messaged with the Post, complaining, "Here you have all these girls accepting gifts, money, trips from Tiger in exchange for sex -- all the while knowing he is married... And now they all can't wait to tell their stories in exchange for even more money from the tabloids? And I was the hooker? At least I kept my mouth shut."
Of course, this is a reprise of her argument from September—when she fired back at women who judge her for her past as a high-class call girl and said some women "still dive into relationships with wealthy guys who they don't love or even find attractive, but they stay in it because they have a nice home, a car and spending money."
In her text messages with the Post, Dupre adds, "I'm often referred to as the 'woman who brought down the governor' -- excuse me, people, I didn't call the tabloids. I didn't blow the whistle, and I didn't save 'the dress'"—referring to Monica Lewinsky—"I did nothing to shine a light on my indiscretions or to 'out' anyone else." Well, she was doing something illegal, but that's beyond the point.
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Jen Chung is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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