Yesterday the world witnessed Gov. Eliot Spitzer, 48, falling from his high horse when he publicly announced his resignation.
I tried to watch the news and comprehend everything that was going on–ugh! This is what I got:
Apparently Gov. Spitzer was part a prostitution ring as a client on the website, Emperor’s Club VIP, which of course has now been taken down; he was known as “Client #9.”
Here is a little about the website:
If a customer had the money, Emperors’ Club VIP had the women. For the right price, the New York escort service flew prostitutes to Beverly Hills, London, Miami, Washington and/or Paris. Clients had the choice to pay with whatever form of payment they thought might protect their privacy. That could possibly be where Spitzer screwed up. He didn’t read the agreement clearly to know all the ends and outs of the possible payment structures–he made incremental cash payments to the company; but, he could have paid their other offshore companies–who knows at this point whether it would have helped. The FBI has so much dirt on this company and all of its “face” companies too–they wiretapped and recorded all of their text messages and phone calls that EVERYTHING was figured out.
Bargain prostitutes started at $1000 an hour. Seven-diamond women cost $3100 an hour. In recruiting employees for the club, it promoted the possibility that women could become an “icon” — an elite prostitute available to the most loyal clients for a minimum of $5500 an hour.
The prosecutors in this case said that The Emperors’ Club turned over millions of dollars in the past four years by supplying call girls to an untold number of wealthy clients like Gov. Spitzer. Other involved high profile names may be caught and announced later in time.
To help with the investigation of this case, prosecutors have brought forward one of the website’s prostitutes, Kristen, also known to customers as Ashley Alexandrea Dupre, Ashley Rae Maika DiPietro or Ashley R. Youmans. On Monday, she made a brief appearance in federal court as a witness in the case against four people charged with operating the prostitution ring.
Ashley, 22, had an illegal liaison with Gov. Eliot Spitzer on February 13, 2008 at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington D.C. She apparently was booked at about $1,000-an-hour, placing her in the middle of the seven-diamond scale.
Ashley told reporters that she does not want people to think that she is a monster. She claims that the case is too complicated to really understand all the details, according to The New York Times.
She has not been charged.
Here’s so more pics of some of the other girls that were available:
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