Ashley Alexandra Dupre

Ashley Alexandra Dupre (born April 30, 1985) was known as "Kristen," the prostitute who slept with New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer. Spitzer paid $4,300 for 2 1/2 hours with the 5-foot-5, 105-pound brunette. Find pics, videos, and articles... [more]

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Ashley Dupre: ‘I Wanted Unconditional Love’(VIDEO)

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Ashley Alexandra Dupré, the ex-call girl who was at the center of Eliot Spitzer’s resignation as New York governor, says she has made many mistakes, and that she fell into prostitution because she couldn’t find unconditional love.

“You don’t mean to make those choices, but you’re put in a situation and, you know, you have an opportunity to do it,” Dupré, 23, told Diane Sawyer in an interview airing Nov. 21 on 20/20.

Born Ashley Youmans, Dupré is a high-school dropout who grew up in Belmar, NJ. She ignited a media frenzy in March 2008, when news first surfaced of her involvement with then-Gov. Spitzer.

Ashley, an aspiring singer who left a broken home at age 17, fell into prostitution after stints as a waitress and bartender. After the scandal erupted, Dupre revealed on her MySpace page that she had once abused drugs and been homeless in the past, and suggested she had been abused as a child.

Dupré’s brother, Kyle Youmans, ran away from home when he was a teen, and her mother, Caroline Capalbo, 46, divorced Ashley’s biological father when she was a child. As a teenager, Dupré says she was confused about her relationships with men.

“I think by not having my father and my brother around, I felt like I missed something,” says Ashley. “To have a certain level of respect for yourself, how to carry yourself. Have that father that, you know, if I’m dating a guy and he can’t stand him, you know, stick up for me and say, ‘What are you doing?’ The unconditional love feeling…I just couldn’t find it.”

After moving to Manhattan at age 19, Dupre worked as a cocktail waitress at a strip club, and said she “got involved with the wrong crowd” and started abusing drugs, using “cocaine, ecstasy, pot and vodka [and] alcohol” on a regular basis.

When Dupré began working as an escort, she said she never did the work steadily, and that no one knew what she was doing. She’d make cash for three months at a time, then take six months off, going to work at a real estate agency or waitressing, only to go back to escort again.

Dupré uses the word “escort” to describe the work she used to do, and prefers to not be called a prostitute. “I think that prostitution is only about sex, whereas an escort is more…it’s time spent…And most of the time you go in and you’re just someone to talk to.”

Ashley received $4,300 for a two-hour session with Spitzer on Feb. 13, 2008–the encounter that led to his highly publicized downfall. Spitzer, 49, resigned as governor on March 12, two days after reports surfaced that he had been caught on a federal wiretap arranging to meet a prostitute [Dupre] at a Washington hotel.

Spitzer, a high-profile prosecutor who was considered a crusader against government corruption, had been governor for only 16 months. He was a longtime client of the Emperors Club VIP, an exclusive escort service where Ashley had worked for several years.

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