At the time, she was a struggling singer who drifted into a “Girls Gone†Wild video and other escapades before the Spitzer scandal vaulted her to national notoriety.
“I had a lot of fun doing these pictures. You’re naked and you’re in front of a bunch of guys, good-looking guys, too. Manly men.â€
Dupre, who looks fit in the sizzling eight-page pictorial, confesses she’s ashamed of her call-girl career.
“Some people call me the girl who brought down the governor of New York, but in reality, he brought me down.
I was an escort. As much as I wish I could make that go away, I can’t.
I watched my dreams of a singing career flash before my eyes. I saw the hurt in his wife’s eyes. I felt as if I had jumped off a building. I couldn’t breathe. I was dead.â€
Before the Playboy shoot, the only benefit to come Ashley’s way out of the scandal was a writing gig with The New York Post. She gives sex and dating advice.
“I love sex and I’m very good at it, but I’m saving that. That’s for my future boyfriend from now on. And it will be fabulous.â€
I wonder if any of the advice includes banging a politician?
What better way to end March than with Michael Steeleanswering questions about an RNC member’s expenses-paid $2,000 night at a Los Angeles bondage club.
Earlier in the month, Kevin Garn, Republican majority leader of the Utah state senate, admitted that he once skinny dipped with a 15-year-old girl and paid her $150,000 to keep quiet, and California State Senator and Republican family-values defender Roy Ashburnwas arrested for driving drunk in a state-owned vehicle after leaving a gay nightclub with a new companion.
After studying the 58 scandals over the past 20 years involving all politicians or major candidates for city mayor and above—many involved crimes, others just allegations, but all wound up as tabloid fodder—some conclusions can be reached.
• The number sex scandals has increased dramatically over the past few decades, thanks to technology, new press standards and a post-Clinton belief that everything is fair game.
• Republicans have more scandals (32 to 26), but Democrats have bigger ones, based on our methodology (13 out of the top 20).
• Democrats tend to have more problems with harassment, staffers and underage girls; Republicans tend to have more problems with prostitutes, hypocrisy and underage boys.
Here’s the Top 20 Political Scandals:
#1, Philip Giordano
Party: Republican
Position: Mayor (Waterbury, Conn.)
Scandal Broke: July 26, 2001
To the applause of spectators, former Waterbury, Connecticut, mayor, lawyer and ex-Marine Philip Giordano was convicted of sexually abusing two preteen girls—just 8- and 10-years-old at the time. Giordano claimed innocence: “I did not do anything criminal.” Giordano was sentenced to 37 years behind bars in June 2003.
#2, Bill Clinton (Jones scandal)
Democrat
Governor/Presidential Candidate
May 6, 1992
Bill Clinton hits our list three times. By our methodology, the Paula Jones scandal rated the worst: Unlike Gennifer Flowers or Monica Lewinsky, Clinton’s alleged advances on Jones, when he was governor of Arkansas and she was working for the Arkansas Industrial Development Commission, were not consensual. Jones sued Clinton in 1994, setting up a historic case. The Supreme Court ruled that sitting presidents could not wait until the end of their term to respond to litigation regarding their private actions. And it was Clinton’s testimony related to Jones that set up his Lewinsky-driven impeachment. He later settled with Jones for $850,000.
#3, Mel Reynolds
Democrat
U.S. Representative
August 12, 1994
When allegations surfaced he’d had sex with a teenager, Reynolds called the justice system “racist,” and claimed police did not investigate months earlier when Reynolds alleged the woman was trying to extort him. Reynolds maintained he’d only fantasized with the young woman over the phone. The jury didn’t buy it. He was convicted of criminal sexual assault and other charges in August 1995. He resigned shortly thereafter and was sentenced to five years in prison.
#4, Robert Packwood
Republican
U.S. Senator
November 22, 1992
Packwood was an advocate of women’s rights, a pro-choice Republican who had stood behind the Equal Rights Amendment and hired women to top positions in his office. But in 1992 The Washington Post published an article airing the grievances of 10 women, mainly former staffers, who said he had made unwanted and aggressive sexual advances starting in 1969. A Senate inquiry in 1995 found “substantial evidence” Packwood had abused his power, leading to his resignation.
#5, Roosevelt Dobbins
Democrat
State Assemblyman (Arkansas)
August 10, 2005
A 17-year-old girl stopped by Dobbins’ house one afternoon to use his computer to fill out a college entrance exam. They had been close—she considered Dobbins a “mentor,” according to the Arkansas-Democrat Gazette—but it went further that day. While he gave her $20 before she left, perhaps to keep quiet—the girl went home and immediately called the police. Dobbins pleaded guilty to misdemeanor harassment, and was sentenced to one year probation.
#6, Brock Adams
Democrat
U.S. Senator
March 1, 1992
For two decades, Adams used drugs and alcohol as aids in sexual abuse of female employees, according to eight anonymous women who cooperated in a 1992 Seattle Times article. Despite the anonymity, all eight signed statements confirming the veracity of their stories. One woman told paper, “I have no doubt he drugged me. I have no doubt he raped me.” Officials were more circumspect: Adams was never charged, but he served just one term in the Senate, choosing not to run in the 1992 election.
#7, Gary Becker
Democrat
Mayor (Racine, Wisc.)
January 16, 2009
Becker was arrested after meeting with an undercover agent posing as a 14-year-old girl, after they had communicated online and agreed to meet at a local mall. Becker pleaded guilty to second-degree sexual assault of a child and child enticement-sexual contact.
During sentencing it came out that Becker had an affair with a former secretary and used city funds for a rendezvous. He got three years in prison for the sexual-assault charges—a relatively light punishment considering the maximum 45 years he faced.
#8, John Edwards
Democrat
Former senator/presidential candidate
October 10, 2007
The squeaky clean presidential candidate’s image took a 180-degree turn when the National Enquirer improbably broke the story of the senator’s affair with campaign videographer Rielle Hunter, which happened while his wife was battling cancer. One illegitimate child, a tell-all book, countless ruined reputations, and a lawsuit later, the scandal is still making headlines, complete with an as-yet-not-public sex tape.
#9, Mark Foley
Republican
U.S. Representative
September 28, 2006
When a concerned congressional page received a series of emails from Foley asking his age, what he wanted for his birthday and a photo, he wrote to a staffer, “Maybe it is just me being paranoid, but seriously. This freaked me out.” ABC News released salacious and inappropriate virtual messages between Foley and a string of male pages, while more of Foley’s former pages came forward with stories of the congressman’s unsolicited virtual advances.
#10, Larry Craig
Republican
U.S. Senator
June 11, 2007
Craig was arrested by an undercover officer during a sting operation to investigate misconduct in a men’s restroom at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. Craig sat in the stall next to the officer and began touching his right foot to the officer’s left foot. He then waved his hand beneath the stall barrier, all part of an alleged ritual at the airport in which men pick up men for encounters. According to the official report, during his police interview, Craig gave the officer his business card identifying him as a U.S. senator and said, “What do you think about that?” Apparently, not much as the investigation continued and Craig later pleaded guilty to misdemeanor disorderly conduct.
Democrat
U.S. Senator
October 17, 1992
Inouye’s misadventures in sex scandal-land began when Hawaii State Senator Rick Reed played on television a secretly recorded tape of Inouye’s hairdresser saying he forced her to have sex with him in 1975. The hairdresser recalled a visit to the senator’s apartment where he grabbed her, took off her clothes, and forced himself on her. Inouye, however, denied the charges. “I’m not suggesting that she is lying,” Inouye said, according to an Associated Press article. “She’s put on the spot like this and I don’t know why she’s saying these things.” The hairdresser said she didn’t consider the incident rape and demanded the ad pulled. Inouye’s political career survived.
#12, Bill Clinton (Lewinsky scandal)
Democrat
President
January 1998
The cigar, the stained dress, all the sordid details—the Monica Lewinsky-Bill Clinton affair remains the biggest sex scandal to ever hit Washington. Newsweek portrayed Lewinsky as an attention-hungry, driven, and slightly delusional young intern who would hang about the Oval Office, eager to catch glimpses of Clinton. Lewinsky and Clinton’s relationship was detailed in recorded phone conversations Lewinsky had with friend Linda Tripp. Clinton, of course, survived impeachment on related perjury charges and, with a faithful Hillary, went on to reclaim his public reputation. Lewinsky evaporated from the public eye, and in 2006 earned a master’s degree from the London School of Economics.
Republican
U.S. Senator
June 16, 2009
Ensign called for Bill Clinton’s head in 1998, but said he had no plans to resign when he admitted to an extramarital affair last summer. Between December 2007 and August 2008, Ensign carried on a relationship with one of his female campaign staffers, who happened to be married to an employee in his Senate office. He remains under investigation for allegedly trying to find lobbying work for that mistress’s husband.
#15, Eric Massa
Democrat
U.S. Representative
March 5, 2008
Numerous male staffers claimed that Massa groped and harassed them, and Massa quickly resigned as soon as the the scandal broke. In an interview with Glenn Beck, he said, “not only did I grope [a staffer], I tickled him until he couldn’t breathe.” Further investigation found that Tickle-Me-Eric’s touchy reputation dates back to his days in the Navy.
#16, Jim Gibbons (Scandal 1)
Republican
U.S. Representative
October 13, 2006
In 2006, a Las Vegas cocktail waitress accused Gibbons of sexual assault in a parking garage. Gibbons has claimed innocence. In his version, he was trying to catch the woman when she fell, but his press office later released misleading information about the incident, and police inexplicably waited a day to talk to Gibbons. The waitress, a single mother, has not pressed criminal charges, though a civil suit is pending. He was elected Nevada’s governor, setting the stage for another sex scandal (see number 49).
#17, Tim Mahoney
Democrat
U.S. Representative
October 13, 2008
Mahoney seemed to forget his campaign motto, “Faith and Family—Where I Stand,” during his affair with a former staffer. Mahoney got his job after Mark Foley resigned in disgrace, but drew just as much negative coverage after his attempt to cover up his secret love interest, including an agreement to pay her $121,000 to keep quiet. Mahoney was also heard threatening to fire her on the tape of a profanity-laced call. He did not resign, but lost his seat in 2008.
Republican
Governor (South Carolina)
June 24, 2009
When Sanford was a U.S. representative more than a decade ago, he called for Bill Clinton to resign and voted for three of the four articles of Clinton’s impeachment. As governor of South Carolina in 2009, he admitted carrying on an affair with a woman in Buenos Aires. Sanford made the announcement after a week-long jaunt to Argentina, during which he remained incognito and had his staff tell media outlets that he was hiking the Appalachian Trail.
#20, Sam Adams
Democrat
Mayor (Portland, Ore.)
January 19, 2009
Portland Mayor Sam Adams admitted having sexual relations with a teenage staffer in 2005, but during his mayoral campaign he denied any contact. Beau Breedlove, the teenage staffer, was a legislative intern who turned 18 in June 2005, the same year Adams took office. “In the past, I’ve characterized my relationship with Beau Breedlove as purely non-sexual and that is not true,” Adams told Willamette Week. “I want to publicly acknowledge I made a mistake and apologize for it.” Breedlove told the Oregonian days after the scandal broke that Adams kissed him twice before he turned 18, adding that he “never felt like a victim.”
Spitzer resigned his position as governor back in March after it was unveiled he was part of a prostitution ring called the Emperors Club.
Garcia’s statement reads “after a thorough investigation, this office has uncovered no evidence of misuse of public or campaign funds. In light of the policy of the Department of Justice with respect to prostitution offenses and the longstanding practice of this office, as well as Mr. Spitzer’s acceptance of responsibility for his conduct, we have concluded that the public interest would not be further advanced by filing criminal charges in this matter.”
Mark Brener, the leader of the Emperors Club pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges after prosecutors said his services charged between $1,000 and $5,500 an hour for trysts in New York; Los Angeles, California; Miami, Florida; London, England; and Paris, France. Police seized more than $1 million in cash from Brener’s apartment at the time of his arrest.
Days after Ashley Dupre, the Eliot Spitzer call girl, dropped her $10 million dollar law suit against Girls Gone Wild founder Joe Francis a new sex tape emerges.
In response to questions on why she abruptly dropped her multi-million dollar suit which claimed GGW induced her into exposing her breasts while being filmed when she was only 17, her lawyer released this statement:
“Ms. Dupre wants to eliminate all negativity from her life and focus on the positive. She has prospects for many exciting new projects and is looking forward to starting a new chapter.”
Well it looks like that new chapter is going to involve a barrage of explicit videos starting with this newly released sex tape.
Joe Francis was “very surprised and in fact amazed” when he was told about the suit filed by Ashley Dupre, ex-New York Governor Eliot Spitzer’s former call girl.
Dupre, 22, filed suit Monday seeking $10 million from Francis and his company, Girls Gone Wild, for misuse of her name and image for profit.
Francis had publicly offered Dupre a $1 million deal for a Girls Gone Wild photo shoot and tour but while he was haggling with her lawyers, the GGW tapes of Dupre from 2003 surfaced and the deal was called off.
“She refused this offer and in fact if she’d like to reconsider, we’d be happy to discuss. She should keep in mind, it’s considerably more than the Governor of New York paid her, and our activities aren’t illegal.â€
Asked in March about reports Dupre was underage during the GGW shoot, Francis said, “It doesn’t matter.”
Well… obviously it did matter… that will be the ace in her pocket in court.
source: Joe Francis “Amazed” That Ashley Dupre’s Suing Him [us weekly]
Now let’s meet Ashley’s pimp Jason Itzler, the self proclaimed “King of all Pimps“.
Seriously, Jason shouldn’t try to act so humble, he’s still a heavy promoter via his MySpace. He proclaims being the king of all pimps and even has Ashley’s music playing in the background.
NY Confidential was a New York escort service that operated from late 2003 until January 2005, when it was raided and the owner arrested. The case was heavily publicized in the New York yellow press.
The agency was founded by Jason Itzler (born 1967 as Jason Sylk), who previously had gone bankrupt with phone sex and webcam porn businesses. After an attempt to smuggle Ecstasy into the U.S. from Amsterdam in the late 1990s, he received a 5 year sentence and was paroled after having served 17 months. He started the agency while still under parole, subsequently living a heavy-spending lifestyle and promoting himself as “King of all Pimps”.
In January 2007, after a plea bargain, Itzler was sentenced to a year and a half to three years in prison for money laundering and attempted promotion of prostitution.
Former New York Govenor Eliot Spitzer has been linked to ANOTHER call girl ring! According to a new report, Spitzer regularly patronized Wicked Models headed by busty blonde, Kristin “Billie” Davis.
The ex-governor regularly patronized Wicked Models, the Manhattan-based operation taken down Tuesday, according to financial documents and other evidence unearthed in a yearlong prostitution in vestigation, law-enforcement sources said.
The revelation comes three weeks after Spitzer was outed as “Client-9″ in a separate federal hooker probe involving the New Jersey-based Emperors Club VIP.
At the center of the new ring is Kristin “Billie” Davis, a busty bottle blonde who hails from a rough-and-tumble California trailer park. She has a reputation for hard-partying, shameless self-promotion and a rumored 10,000-name-long client list.
Davis’ alleged multimillion-dollar empire was smashed by city vice cops as she made plans to skip town. Prosecutors say she netted some $2 million last year by pimping out ladies of the night for as much as $1,000 an hour through four Web sites.
They noted she has openly boasted of total earnings of $6 million, and has been in operation since at least 2004.
Davis, 32, pleaded not guilty to money laundering and promoting prostitution in Manhattan Supreme Court yesterday and was held on $2-million bail. She faces 15 years in prison if convicted of running the ring, which also allegedly operated the Madison La A’mour and New York Body Miracle agencies.
Guess how Ashley spent her big day? We can exclusively reveal the first shots of the call girl’s romping week of X-rated shoots with Girls Gone Wild. The above stills are the first to surface from her raunchy video debut, Spring Break 2005: Anything Goes.
I guess if you are destined to go the path of trashy — nothing or no one can stop you.
A former driver and aide of New Jersey ex-governor Jim McGreevey has come forward to dispute the claim from Dina McGreevey, that she was a victim in the whole scandal… she was a part of it.
The aide, Theodore Pedersen, said today that he had three-way sexual trysts with the former governor and his wife before he took office, and that the couple even had a nickname for the weekly romps, from 1999 to 2001, that typically began with dinner at T.G.I. Friday’s and ended with a threesome at McGreevey’s condo in Woodbridge.
They called them “Friday Night Specials,” according to Pedersen.
Pedersen described the encounters during an interview with The Star-Ledger. He said he wanted to refute the innocent image that Matos McGreevey has projected – both during the couple’s ongoing divorce battle and in interviews she gave after New York Gov.
He said he was also incensed by her portrayal of herself as an unsuspecting wife in her book: “Silent Partner: A Memoir of My Marriage.”
“I wanted to get this out now because it was so offensive to me that she goes on television playing the victim,” Pedersen said. “She’s trying to make this a payday for herself. She should have told the truth about the three of us.”
Pedersen did not say if he was gay or bisexual and only described having contact with Matos McGreevey during the trysts. He also said he never knew for sure if McGreevey was gay.
(from left – Dina Matos McGreevey, Governor Elect James E. McGreevey and aids Kellie Drakeford and Theodore Pedersen)
He also said the threesome quickly became more than just a Friday night thing and he would regularly join the couple on trips.
“He liked watching me, and she would watch me while she was [performing sex acts] with Jim. In my opinion, me being a part of their sexual relationship enhanced it for both of them.
It’s frustrating to hear her call Gov. Spitzer a hypocrite while she’s out there being as dishonest as anyone could be about her own life.”
Charlie Sheen is a reformed man these days, but back in the day…he enjoyed the pleasure of several prostitutes, one of which was Ashley Dupre — the same woman that was involved with Eliot Spitzer.
Now, the former pimp for that prostitute who got it on with soon to be ex-New York governor Eliot Spitzer is claiming that she hooked up with Sheen a few years ago.
Ashley Dupre was only 19 when she reportedly did the nasty with Sheen, costing him up to $20,000 a session.
source: I Hooked Up With Charlie Sheen, Says Hooker In New York Governor Row [page six]
The question I’ve been asking since New York governor Eliot Spitzer got caught with a $5000 an hour hooker has been, What in the hell could a woman do in an hour that’d be worth $5000? And how hot would she have to be?
Would I hit it? Sure. For $500 an hour? Let alone $5000? Hell no.
Background info:
She left a broken home on the Jersey Shore at 17 and came to New York City to work the nightclubs as a rhythm and blues singer. Now, at 22, she is the unwitting, and as yet unseen, star of the seamy drama that is the downfall of Gov. Eliot Spitzer of New York.
Kristen, the prostitute described in a federal affidavit as having had a rendezvous with Mr. Spitzer on Feb. 13 at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, has spent the last few days in her ninth-floor apartment in the Flatiron district of Manhattan. On Monday, she made a brief appearance in federal court, where a lawyer was appointed to represent her. She is expected to be a witness in the case against four people charged with operating a prostitution ring called the Emperor’s Club V.I.P.
In a series of telephone interviews on Tuesday night, she said she had slept very little over the past week, with all the stress of the case. “I just don’t want to be thought of as a monster,†the woman said as she told the tiniest tidbits of her story.
She has not been charged. The lawyer appointed to represent her, Don D. Buchwald, told a magistrate judge in court on Monday that she had been subpoenaed to testify in a grand jury investigation. Asked to swear that she had accurately filled out and signed a financial affidavit, she responded affirmatively.
On the Web page is a recording of what she describes as her latest track, “What We Want,†a hip-hop-inflected rhythm-and-blues tune that asks, “Can you handle me, boy?†and uses some dated slang, calling someone her “boo.â€
“I know what you want, you got what I want,†she sings in the chorus. “I know what you need. Can you handle me?â€
Her MySpace biography says she started singing professionally after a musician she was living with heard her singing the Aretha Franklin hit “Respect†in the shower and burst into the bathroom with his lead guitarist. She says she toured and recorded with them, then moved to Manhattan in 2004 and “spent the first two years getting to know the music scene, networking in clubs and connecting with the industry. “Now it’s all about my music, it’s all about expressing me.â€
In the affidavit, the woman the Emperor’s Club called Kristen is described as “an American, petite, very pretty brunette, 5 feet 5 inches, and 105 pounds.†She apparently was booked at about $1,000 an hour, placing her in the middle of the seven-diamond scale by which the prostitutes were paid up to $4,300 an hour.
“She is a very bright girl who can handle someone like the governor,†Ms. Capalbo said. “But she also is a 22-year-old, not a 32-year-old or a 42-year-old, and she obviously got involved in something much larger than her.â€
Yeah, no joke.
Source: For an Aspiring Singer, a Harsher Spotlight [NYT]
Eliot will have plenty of time to keep his bitches in line. The Spitzer prostitution ring has forced the Democrat to resign his post as governor. The announcement came today after getting caught with his pants down in a sex scandal involving hookers. A plea deal with the prosecutors is still in the works.
On Monday Lt. Gov. David Paterson will take Spitzer’s place. This will mark New York’s first black and legally blind governor. Thanks to Eliot’s penchant for expensive call girls, banks noticed the frequent and large cash transfers that were reported to the IRS and in turn the case began. Wiretaps then led to the surveillance which confirmed his liaisons with a whore named Kristen. The photo of Spitzer’s hooker below sums up what over $4,000 can by you in New York.
This is the best that money can buy? A 24 year old who likes fine wine and very high heels? You can get that at my local Gucci store for free.
Source: Spitzer resigns, capping stunning fall [MSNBC]
New York Governor Elliot Spitzer is “involved” in a prostitution ring. Details are still sketchy.
Gov. Eliot Spitzer has informed his most senior administration officials that he had been involved in a prostitution ring, an administration official said this morning. Mr. Spitzer, who was huddled with his top aides inside his Fifth Avenue apartment early this afternoon, had hours earlier abruptly canceled his scheduled public events for the day. He had scheduled an announcement for 2:15 this afternoon after inquiries from the Times. But his appearance was delayed by at least 45 minutes.
Mr. Spitzer, a first-term Democrat who pledged to bring ethics reform and end the often seamy ways of Albany, is married with three children.
Just last week, federal prosecutors arrested four people in connection with an expensive prostitution operation. Administration officials would not say that this was the ring with which the governor had become involved. But a person with knowledge of the governor’s role said that the person believes the governor is one of the men identified as clients in court papers.
The governor’s travel records show that he was in Washington in mid-February. One of the clients described in court papers arranged to meet with a prostitute who was part of the ring, the Emperors Club VIP on the night of Feb. 13. Mr. Spitzer appeared on a CNBC television show at 7 a.m. the next morning. Later in the morning, he testified before a Congressional committee.
Aside from a general sense that chief executive officers ought to obey the laws they’re charged with enforcing and that married men ought to be faithful to their wives, I really don’t care much about this story. The interesting angle, really, is the hypocrisy bit:
Spitzer has built his political legacy on rooting out corruption, including several headline-making battles with Wall Street while serving as attorney general. He stormed into the governor’s office in 2006 with a historic share of the vote, vowing to continue his no-nonsense approach to fixing one of the nation’s worst governments.
Time magazine had named him “Crusader of the Year” when he was attorney general and the tabloids proclaimed him “Eliot Ness.”
But his stint as governor has been marred by several problems, including an unpopular plan to grant driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants and a plot by his aides to smear Spitzer’s main Republican nemesis.
Spitzer had been expected to testify to the state Public Integrity Commission he had created to answer for his role in the scandal, in which his aides are accused of misusing state police to compile travel records to embarrass Senate Republican leader Joseph Bruno.
Having only cursory knowledge of the two scandals, the misuse of the powers of office to harass a political opponent strikes me as more problematic than patronizing prostitutes.
More commentary will follow if the story develops into something more interesting.
Other reax:
Marc Ambinder notes “Spitzer is a Clinton superdelegate.”
Flip Bidot entitles his post “From Troopergate To Shtupergate”
Steve Benen: “[I]t’s hard to believe brilliant people in positions of responsibility could be this stupid and this self-destructive. And yet, here we are.”
Jon Henke wonders if it isn’t time to change the laws.
Sean Hackbarth: “The man who demagogued his way to the governor’s mansion on the backs of Wall Street firms ends up in deep doo-doo.”
Will Bunch: “WNBC-TV says prosecutors have text messages from Spitzer(no link yet). On MSNBC, there’s also talk that this prostitution ring is linked to a probe of the Gambino crime family — still, just wow.”
Bob Owens: “It remains to be seen what political impact this breaking development will have, but all snark aside, my thoughts and prayers go out to his daughters—I think they are teenagers—and his wife.”
UPDATE: Various reports have Spitzer resigning. Headline changed accordingly. Developing.
CNBC reports that, “If Eliot Spitzer resigns, he would be succeeded by Lt. Governor David A. Paterson, who would become New York’s first African American governor and the first who is legally blind.”
UPDATE:Fox’s report on Spitzer’s resignation, “Sources: Spitzer to Resign Following Reports of ‘Involvement’ With Prostitution Ring, Faces Indictment,” is the most cited. Thus far, however, no confirmation. His presser was oblique:
Gov. Eliot Spitzer, accused in news reports of being involved in a prostitution ring, apologized to his family and the public on Monday at a hastily called news conference. He did not elaborate on the story.
With his wife at his side, Spitzer told reporters that he “acted in a way that violates my obligations to my family.” “I have disappointed and failed to live up to the standard I expected of myself,” he said. “I must now dedicate some time to regain the trust of my family.”
The “private matter” bit is straight out of Bill Clinton’s playbook.
“It is incomprehensible that Ms. Dupré could claim she did not give her consent to be filmed by Girls Gone Wild, when in fact we have videotape of her giving consent, while showing her identification”
NY Confidential was a New York escort service that operated from late 2003 until January 2005, when it was raided and the owner arrested. The case was heavily publicized in the New York yellow press.
The ex-governor regularly patronized Wicked Models, the Manhattan-based operation taken down Tuesday, according to financial documents and other evidence unearthed in a yearlong prostitution in vestigation, law-enforcement sources said.
She left a broken home on the Jersey Shore at 17 and came to New York City to work the nightclubs as a rhythm and blues singer. Now, at 22, she is the unwitting, and as yet unseen, star of the seamy drama that is the downfall of Gov. Eliot Spitzer of New York.
