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Ashley Dupre, the Mashup American Idol

March 15th, 2008 at 8:52 pm » Comments (0)

Billboard speculates about Ashley Dupre’s potential stardom. The Wall Street Journal goes gah-gah over the Ashley Dupre mashups. (You can watch plenty of them right here.) Slate roamed the blogosphere and gave us a link feast. Gawker gawked in retrospect of what a week it was, with Client 9 unmasked as Eliot […]



Eliot Spitzer’s Escort: “I just don’t want to be thought of as a monster”

March 12th, 2008 at 7:57 pm » Comments (0)

The New York Times reveals the bio and the photographs of the escort of Eliot Spitzer, the infamous Client Number 9,

Kristen, described in a federal affidavit as having a Feb. 13 rendezvous with Mr. Spitzer at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, has spent the last few days in her ninth-floor rental in an upscale apartment […]



Eliot Spitzer Resigns: “I have begun to atone for my private failings”

March 12th, 2008 at 12:22 pm » Comments (0)

Ending the resignation speculation which became the resignation countdown….
Gov. Eliot Spitzer, reeling from revelations that he had been a client of a prostitution ring, announced his resignation today, becoming the first governor of New York to be forced from office in nearly a century.
Mr. Spitzer, appearing somber and with his wife at his side, said […]