Eliot Spitzer has fallen from grace and resigned as governor of New York. He was outed as being embroiled in using the services of high-priced call girls from the prostitution ring the Emperors Club, in particular with a girl called Kristen. Kristen has now been identified as Ashley Dupre. What of her now?
While the mighty have fallen, Ashley Dupre seems now to be soaring into the limelight and may well be coming into the riches that she must have been dreaming of. Magazines are lining up to make lucrative offers, some of which she will probably take up.
At 22, Ashley Dupre appears to have come from a broken home, which she left at age 17. Her singing in the shower so impressed her then musician boyfriend that she started touring and singing professionally. Yet clearly she had not quite made a success of her musical career, and somehow joined the ranks at the Emperors Club.
Is she any different from thousands of her age, who think anything goes to make a living? In America moral values are not what they used to be. Everyone can define his or her own morality.
Dupre says she does not want to be thought of as a monster. Yet will she redeem herself, or will she seize the opportunity to reap the riches that are awaiting her, justifying her decision within her own self-defined moral values?
What should be her just deserts?
Ashley Dupre
BWE panelists Paul F. Tompkins and Jessica St. Clair act out Governor Spitzer's resignation speech
...the way it should've been.
While the mighty have fallen, Ashley Dupre seems now to be soaring into the limelight and may well be coming into the riches that she must have been dreaming of. Magazines are lining up to make lucrative offers, some of which she will probably take up.
At 22, Ashley Dupre appears to have come from a broken home, which she left at age 17. Her singing in the shower so impressed her then musician boyfriend that she started touring and singing professionally. Yet clearly she had not quite made a success of her musical career, and somehow joined the ranks at the Emperors Club.
Is she any different from thousands of her age, who think anything goes to make a living? In America moral values are not what they used to be. Everyone can define his or her own morality.
Dupre says she does not want to be thought of as a monster. Yet will she redeem herself, or will she seize the opportunity to reap the riches that are awaiting her, justifying her decision within her own self-defined moral values?
What should be her just deserts?
Ashley Dupre
BWE panelists Paul F. Tompkins and Jessica St. Clair act out Governor Spitzer's resignation speech
...the way it should've been.
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