Ashley Alexandra “Kristen” Dupré: Her Mama Must Be Proud
That’s the way Ashley Alexandra “Kristen” Dupré will be remembered. Not as a young woman with potential, as are all of our young women. No, she’s now known as the $4,300-an-hour ho who brought down the Governor of New York.
Many in our entertainment intelligentsia consider prostitution a victimless crime, thus Ashley Alexandra “Kristen” Dupré’s activities are going to be her ticket to fame and fortune. She’s probably already received many offers from agents who know they can sell her name, face, “voice” and body. They know there will be interested parties waiting to exploit her newfound fame, or infamy depending how you look at it.
As usual with this generation, it’s all about her. On her MySpace page she wrote,
I am all about my music, and my music is all about me…. It flows from what I’ve been through, what I’ve seen and how I feel. I live in New York and am on top of the world.
Well, if she could make it there, she can make it anywhere.
Ashley Alexandra “Kristen” Dupré alludes to a broken home and abuse. If true, that is tragic. However, there are many other people who have survived broken homes and not turned to breaking the law. Prostitution IS against the law.
Granted, unlike Eliot Spitzer who gleefully put people in jail as New York’s attorney general and has no sympathy coming his way from the public, Ashley Alexandra “Kristen” Dupré may give community service a new name and will come out of this a rich woman. She may get a book deal, recording contract, or a modeling gig. She probably won’t be earning $4,300-an-hour, but she will be able to work, for the most part, standing up.
Personally, I’m hoping her name becomes a noun.
At some point, as a society we must stop showering praise and riches on people whose activities would have reaped much scorn in days gone by. Sure, we’re more “open-minded” and “progressive” today, and in this case, women wouldn’t be prostitutes if not for the John’s who bought their goods. But as this plays out, there is a political component that has yet to begin to unravel. You see, Ashley Alexandra “Kristen” Dupré helped bring down an obnoxious, arrogant, yet powerful Democrat.
Many news organizations exercised the ultimate restraint in not mentioning Eliot Spitzer’s party affiliation. Unlike Republican Senator David Vitter or Republican Congressman Mark Foley, whose exploits were used as a successful campaign theme and some credit for the recent Democrat takeover of the House and Senate, the mainstream media doesn’t want the Spitzer Scandal to have legs.
The problem is it does.
While Monica Lewinsky has faded into obscurity, thus allowing the American people to move on from all that we remember of the good ol’ Clinton years, Ashley Alexandra “Kristen” Dupré will milk her notoriety as long as she can, along with an eager entertainment industry. Every time we see her face, many of us will be reminded that the only reason we even know she exists is that she screwed the Governor of New York.
Ashley Alexandra “Kristen” Dupré’s mama can’t be proud of this moment. Maybe she is; you never know. But in our copycat society where oral sex a few years ago became cool, becoming a high-priced call girl may end up being a new road to fame. Ashley Alexandra “Kristen” Dupré didn’t work alone. Eliot Spitzer was probably not the only well-known client to frequent the service.
But before this is all over, there may well be a few more Ashley Alexandra “Kristen” Dupré’s. We will all look like saps trying to tell our kids crime doesn’t pay, while they reply it does… for upwards of five grand an hour.
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Bob Parks is a member/writer for the National Advisory Council of Project 21, and VP of Marketing and Media Relations/Staff Writer for the New Media Alliance, Inc. | More from Bob Parks
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