Call girl tells paper she’s not a ‘monster’
Published 10:34 pm Wednesday, March 12, 2008
NEW YORK — New details emerged Wednesday about the call girl at the center of the prostitution scandal engulfing New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, with a New York Times report identifying her as Ashley Alexandra Dupre, 22, an aspiring musician from Manhattan.
“I just don’t want to be thought of as a monster,” Dupre told the Times. “This has been a very difficult time. It’s complicated.”
Dupre’s MySpace page provides a window into her life as she went from a broken home in New Jersey to a music career in the city.
“I have been alone. I have abused drugs. I have been broke and homeless. But, I survived, on my own. I am here, in NY because of my music,” she wrote.
Dupre describes her favorite musical artists as Etta James, Aretha Franklin, Celine Dion, Christina Aguilera and Frank Sinatra, among many others.
Her Web site boasts a recording of a song, “What We Want.” “I know what you want, you got what I want. I know what you need. Can you handle me?” she sings.
