Uh oh, Joe Francis! The lawyer for Governor Spitzer's call girl says she was only 17 when she made a Girls Gone Wild video a few years ago. Apparently Ashley Alexandra Dupre (known to Spitzer as "Kristen") only turned 18 a month after the video was shot. Lawyer Don Buchwald wrote in an e-mail Dupre was kicked off the GGW bus "because she was underage...It would be outrageous at the very least to play the video of an underage female on the Internet."
But Francis isn't worried; he says that the tape was made after she turned 18 and added, "The lawyers looked at the tape, and said since there is no sexual contact; it doesn't matter if she was underage. It will be released." Hey, what about the girl-on-girl action? One thing: The Palm Beach Post has a file photo of her during the GGW tour, apparently from March 2003 - when she was 17.
As for Dupre's actual legal problems, she may testify against two more prostitution rings. Besides the Emperors Club VIP where she met Spitzer, she also worked at New York Confidential as "Victoria" under notorious and self-proclaimed "King of All Pimps" Jason Itzler. When Itzler was arrested, she joined CFO Clark Krimer (who she dated) at his new prostitution ring, Velvet Traces. A Velvet Traces booker told the Post that Dupre, an aspiring singer, can really sing.
And one of the people running the Emperors Club VIP ring, 23-year-old Cecil Suwal, was released on bail earlier this week. Once a cross-country runner at NJ's Blair Academy, Suwal became involved with 62-year-old Mark Brener; he ran the business, she dealt with the money, oversaw the website and "brooded about her clients' satisfaction and her employees' reliability".
