Ashley Dupre: From prostitute-to-politicians to, uh, paid journalist

So today in front of a Manhattan office skyscraper on East 42d Street, a mob of paparazzi was hanging in front.

Naturally, a reporter needed to know the stalkee's identity.

"A journalist," one piped up.

Wow! A journalist in the news, said another journalist discreetly slipping her dangling press tags inside a black overcoat.

“Which one?” she slyly inquired.

“Ashley Dupre!!”

Yup, that’s ex-Democrat Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s former paid-steady, now a new, also paid advice columnist for the N.Y. Post.

She was being interviewed on a morning TV show in case who knows maybe bipartisan sex talk might sell more copies of the newspaper founded by Alexander Hamilton 208 years ago back before the word "shame" went out of style in America.

A funny thing: When she emerged, Ashley even, sort of, kind of, looked like a reporter gal — the long black overcoat, the black shoes that were almost sensible. Only a tan gave her away. Reporters are never tanned. More like sallow, wan and pasty.

"Sure, she's made some mistakes," the Post says right up front without revealing precisely how much $,$$$ Dupre got paid for said mistakes with Client No. 9 and others.

"But now Ashley Dupre, the former escort who brought down Gov. Eliot Spitzer, is sharing what she's learned in her new sex, love and relationship column." 

Think this will help Rupert Murdoch's N.Y. tabloid?

In Ashley's debut column, J. Marshall in the East Village asks for the telltale signs that a man is unhappy in marriage.

Dupre's analysis points out that girlfriends tend to be more attentive to their partner before nuptials.

But once they become wives, the nightie turns into a sweatshirt and the pressured female tends to focus instead on other things like the children, leaving the once primary, still primal male feeling, well, secondary.

"Guys are so easy to please and I don't just mean sexually," Dupre opines.

She offers advice on how to make your fella feel special at home so he doesn't, you know, go looking for happy endings elsewhere.

Speaking of elsewhere, Dupre weighs in to the Post on America's current top -- or bottom -- serial philanderer:

Here you have all these girls accepting gifts, money, trips from Tiger in exchange for sex — all the while knowing he is married. And now they all can’t wait to tell their stories in exchange for even more money from the tabloids? And I was the hooker? At least I kept my mouth shut.

Until now anyway.

-- Geraldine Baum

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Photos: AFP / Getty Images (Before: Dupre with her big sunglasses but without her press credentials); N.Y. Post (After: Dupre as an unbottoned-up journalist).

Comments

[JRG]

Great stuff! True journalism.....well, maybe not, but interesting to hear what a man expert has to say....ha!

[shiner]

I'd give up fifty bucks for it.

[MikeOHara]

I'm not sure she's a journalist--I doubt she writes well, or at all--but she knows a lot about men and their perversions.

[TruthTeller]

Oh come on!!!!!!

This is true mainstream journalism. Who really thinks that "journalists" of today are any different than Hearst's people. Stories are written & published in keeping with what the newsroom, the editors and corporate wants to hear & see. NOT THE TRUTH. Salacious stories & political hit pieces are the norm. Boring, anti-Democratic Party explanations of the real world are spiked.

Read the LA Weekly for the closest that one can find in REAL journalism.

[Get Real]

Having the bimbo is a kick in the stomachs of real working women, and wives who have to put up with their mens crap and sluts who profit. Shame on the media, get some real deserving folks with some personality!!!!!

[brettstrodamus]

Well it's finally happened. Journalists are whores, just like politicians, developers, mortgage brokers, corporate ladder-climbers, cops, lawyers, and priests.

[Robert R.]

Good for the NY Post. Always a good time there...she is right though on many issues...especially how the women change after marriage. My first wife's most favorite phrase to me was, "you are married to me know...I am the boss and I run the show..." Well that one lasted three months and one daughter whom I love dearly.

[Dean Corso]

As long as they have spell-check, she's a PERFECT for for the New York Post, our country's leading sensationalisitc tabloid for the mentally-challenged, we-need-a-picture-of-big-breasted-bimbo readers. Nothing like incidious whores, sex, and scandals to sell papers. Who better to grace the printed toilet paper of such a fine periodical than a prostitute like Ashley Dupre! Congratulations Ashley, you have finally found your true call girl, umm calling, that is.

[Richard P]

US "Journalists", as a community (albeit with exceptions), continue to support mass murder by the US in Asia. Dupree is clearly a step up from the bulk of the pack.

[J. Silver]

I notice a lot of TV whores playing journalist and lawyer. Why not a real one.