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Whore Comes The Bride: Spitzer's Hooker Is Knocked Up
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Jen Chung
Published Aug 17, 2012
Modified Aug 17, 2012
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Four years and five months ago, the world met Ashley Dupre, better known as the high-class escort that Governor Eliot Spitzer was seeing, though Spitzer knew her as "Kristen." Now, she's pregnant—and getting married to the NJ guy who was married when they were dating.
The Post's Page Six reports, "Dupre is seven months pregnant, Page Six can exclusively reveal, and engaged to be married to New Jersey asphalt scion Thomas 'TJ' Earle." Dupre said, "On the record, yes, I can confirm I’m almost seven months... I can’t tell you when the wedding date is just yet."
Of course, a few month after being unmasked at Spitzer's hooker, Dupre, owner of what some have called the most beautiful vagina in the world, was spotted entering a hotel with the very married Earle. Earle's lawyer said at the time, "TJ has accepted full responsibility - he's not blaming anyone else...TJ never said he was set up. He does not feel used by Ashley one bit," and now his lawyer says, "TJ and his wife divorced over a year ago. They divorced amicably. She has moved on, and he has moved on.... There’s nothing scandalous. No one’s running around. [Ashley] is pregnant, and [TJ and Ashley] are planning on getting married."
The FBI infamously noted how Spitzer paid $4300 for Dupre's services over two hours (the take was split between Dupre and the agency). The booker said Client 9/Spitzer could be "difficult" suggesting he "would ask you to do things that, like, you might not think were safe - you know - I mean that ... very basic things." To which Dupre replied, "I have a way of dealing with that ... I'd be like listen dude, you really want the sex?"
In 2009, Dupre blasted women who criticized her for being a prostitute, "I see this all over New York City. Some women aren't as vindictive, but 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...I know many women who target guys with money and use them to get these things. They toy with them, flirt, go on dates, have sex and then drop hints about that new dress at the store down the street or being short on rent money - and the guys deliver it. This is a dishonest relationship."
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Jen Chung is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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