Ashley Alexandra Dupré
When her parents divorced, Dupré moved to Wall Township, New Jersey with her mother, Carolyn Capalbo, and her stepfather, Mike DiPietro, an oral surgeon.
[7] In 2004, at the age of 19, Dupré moved to New York City in pursuit of a music career, and worked as a waitress at a dance club called Viscaya in the Chelsea district.
[8] Jason Itzler, who ran a New York escort service called NY Confidential from 2003 to 2005, met Dupré while she was working as a cocktail waitress at the Hotel Gansevoort in 2004.
NY Confidential was shut down and Itzler sent to prison by Spitzer's New York State Attorney General's office in 2005.
She maintains that she was concerned about her ability to pay her rent after the man she was living with left following her discovery that he had fathered two children.
"[2] Her mother, Carolyn Capalbo, told the newspaper that her daughter "was a young kid with typical teenage rebellion issues, but we are extremely close now."
"[2] On the day the story broke, she posted a message to her MySpace page that said "Yeah, I did it"; it was later changed to read, "Thank you for your support, it means a lot to me.
[18] Dupré remained in seclusion in the days after her role in the scandal became public, and became the subject of increasingly intense media coverage.
[21] On March 19, the soft porn website Girls Gone Wild featured teasers of Dupré, shot in Miami Beach, Florida in 2003 before she had turned 18.
"[23] Dupré's attorney, Don Buchwald, argued in an e-mail to Girls Gone Wild, "It was because she was underage that [Francis] sent her home on a Greyhound bus back to North Carolina.
"[27] On April 28, 2008, Dupré filed suit against Francis and two of his companies alleging their exploitation of Dupré's name and image, seeking US$10 million in punitive damages,[28] but in July of that year she decided to drop the suit after Francis released footage showing her agreeing to be filmed.
[32] In January 2010, Dupré appeared on The Howard Stern Show, where she discussed incidents ranging from her situation as a rape victim to how she preoccupied her mind when engaged in intercourse with men she was not attracted to.
[34] On March 15, 2008, Dupré was granted immunity from prosecution by the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York for her role in the Spitzer scandal, in order to testify at court hearings related to the Emperors Club VIP prostitution ring.
[2][39] In 2005, she formed a company named Pasche New York, an entertainment business intended to promote her music career.
[47] Dupré appeared on 20/20 on Friday, November 21, 2008, where she was interviewed by Diane Sawyer about her feelings about being an "escort," and the emotional effect it had upon her when the encounter with Spitzer was made public.
