Washington, Apr 23 (ANI): Ashley Dupre, the infamous call girl who led to former New York governor Eliot Spitzer’s downfall, has said that the politician should run for office again.
Spitzer had to resign from his office after it was exposed that he met for over two hours with Dupre- the 1,000dollars-an-hour call girl and current Playboy cover girl.
But now, Dupre wants that Spitzer should be given a second chance to run for office.
“Let him run and let the people decide. Give him a fair shot. Everyone deserves a shot, right?” Fox News quoted her as saying.
However, she won’t be voting for her former trick.
“I take responsibility for being involved in it in some way. [But Silda] married a scumbag. He’s the one that made an agreement with her and made a promise, and he broke that promise,” she said.
Dupre also said she felt sorry for the long line of mistresses that have come forward in the Tiger Woods and Jesse James infidelity scandals.
“These girls are coming forward and I don’t think they understand the impact that its having, … for themselves and their future.
Its really hard to break that title [of mistress]. It effects not only them, but their family,” she said. (ANI)
High-priced hooker’s mum dismayed over ex-NY Guv Spitzer’s comeback moves
New York, Sep.2 (ANI): The mother of the high-priced hooker who famously serviced former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer has expressed dismay over reports that he may consider running for office again less than two years after the sordid sex scandal.
“Only in America,” Ashley Dupre’s mom, Carolyn Capalbo, told The New York Post.
While Spitzer is discussing the possibility of a run next year, Dupre-who was 22 when the self-described “steamroller” of Albany paid to play with her-is struggling to get back on her feet, said Capalbo.
“I really can’t blame him, but at the same time, my daughter’s having a rough go,” she said at the beach, near her home in Wall. “I can imagine she’s not happy about it.”
“He has more credibility than a 22-year-old,” Ashley’s mom said in disbelief.
Capalbo said her daughter had turned down lucrative offers to make a buck off of the scandal, including posing for nude magazines.
Less than 18 months after he left Albany in a prostitution scandal, Spitzer has held informal discussions in recent weeks about the possibility of making a bid for state comptroller or the US Senate seat currently held by Kirsten Gillibrand, sources said.
The hooker-happy Democrat has also discussed his own halfway-decent poll numbers in recent surveys, which have shown him more popular than Gov. Paterson, whose own numbers have tanked.
“He”s weighing it,” said one source.
But Spitzer hasn”t shown any interest in campaigning for the office he briefly held, sources said.
The sources stressed that Spitzer, who also served two terms as state attorney general before his landslide election as governor in 2006, has not engaged in any active discussions with political consultants.
Reached at his father”s real-estate firm, where he has been working since he resigned as governor last spring, Spitzer declined comment.
But a source close to him insisted, “It”s not true,” and two other close associates also insisted he was not interested in running for office again and was looking at a range of other options.
Spitzer quit in disgrace in March 2008 after he was unmasked in Manhattan federal court as “Client 9″ in a prostitution bust involving a major call-girl ring. He was revealed to have paid 4,300 dollars for a romp with escort Ashley Dupre, then 22. (ANI)