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Henry Blodget's Love/Hate Relationship with Eliot Spitzer
United by ignominy, former Wall Street analyst Henry Blodget has forgiven Eliot Spitzer, the prosecutor who cost him his job. And he's getting softer on him by the day.
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By Owen ThomasComment by Bring It On: Why is Blodget suddenly getting so much coverage? He has been writing articles from time to time for Crain's and... 8 Responses | Other threads
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The Changing Face of Disgrace
What do the instant comebacks of Martha Stewart, Henry Blodget, and Eliot Spitzer tell us? There's no longer anything to be ashamed of in failure. And that's cheery news for anyone who's been laid off.
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By Owen ThomasComment by Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith: You know, I cannot dislike Stewart. She was castigated publicly in a way that her male counterparts rarely are, and... 2 Responses | Other threads
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Ashley Alexandra Dupré approves your friend request!
The internet's favorite escort, Ashley Alexandra Dupré, wants to apologize for taking so long to approve your Friend Request on MySpace. "All of my pending friend requests from 3/12 through now were deleted by myspace (if you do not approve them within a certain number of days, they get deleted) so...please please please re-send and you should be approved automatically." We forgive, you, Ms. Dupré — we know you were busy. And shame on you, MySpace, for interfering with a working woman's self-promotion by blocking those friend requests. -
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Flyover-country cops want Yahoo to pay them to police its Internet "crack house"
There's money to be made in combating the sexual exploitation of children online, if not in the actual exploitation itself. Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning believes internet companies, not taxpayers, ought to be funding the fight. Bruning (pictured here with "Miss Heartland" Rachel Seidel) addressed the Nebraska Crime Commission this week, telling tales of how he created a fake teenage girl to solicit men on webcams to whip it out for an audience they never anticipated — state cops and senators. Says Bruning, "We had state senators about throwing up in their breakfasts, but we wanted to make a point and I think we did." But who will be picking up the check for his educational services? He wants Yahoo, among others, to do so: More »
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Comment by jgonzz: So what you are saying is that Jon Bruning spent tax payers money and used State Of Nebraska equipment to... more » | Other threads
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hooker drama
New York media writing "Melissa Gira Grant" over and over in its notebook
Yet another Manhattan paper, the alt.weekly The Village Voice, leans heavily on our own sex trade reporter to examine Eliot Spitzer. Voice writer Tristan Taormino argues that by hiring out instead of getting a real mistress, Spitzer was minimizing the impact on his marriage. Part of what you're paying for in a hired girlfriend experience: She won't get drunk and call your wife. Plus, Melissa adds, she won't let you get too crazy over her: "Sex with clients is very different from sex with people I am in a relationship with. I had to cut loose a client who was becoming too close and relying too much on me." Yeah, I had a Web contractor like that once.
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By Paul BoutinComment by Blackjack: @random_play: Most people dot the i's with dollar signs. more » | Other threads
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Ashley Dupre nude pictures make semantic Web slightly less obscure
Larry Flynt is willing to pay Ashley Alexandra Dupré — the call girl who had something to do with what's-his-name from New York — $1 million to pose for Hustler. Imagine how much the Orlando Sentinel's website would have made from publishing Dupré's Girls Gone Wild photos back when Britney Spears hadn't yet made her cameo on CBS and Dupre still dominated the news cycle. With the right timing, it would have been bigger than Lindsay Lohan taking it of for New York magazine. But the Sentinel's loss can be your gain, "semantic Web" startups. The newspaper obviously blew it. The reason? More » -
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Ashley Dupre's "Girls Gone Wild" video hits the Web, ruins everything
It was once such a heartwarming story. New Jersey local girl Ashley Alexandra Dupré goes to the big city, meets a few friends, records a hit song, and makes good. Now, posting the above video to the Web, an alleged rapist will profit off all her hard work, one $29.95 subscription at a time. Must the Internet turn everything tawdry? -
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CNN's blow-by-blow of Spitzer girl's MySpace and Facebook profiles
Mallory Simon works for "the most trusted name in news." But she's working hard to make CNN also the most trusted name in news feeds. Simon gives CNN.com readers every detail of when and how Eliot Spitzer's call girl, Ashley Alexandra Dupré, changed her MySpace and Facebook profiles last week. But at 1,000-plus words, Simon overstays her welcome. Instead of paying writers by the word, why don't we pay them to leave? The 100-word version, below. More »
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Comment by Eac_o_System: The more attention Ashley Dupre gets... the less le-way Eliot Spitzer can get to extract revenge... good for her. more » | Other threads
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Ashley Dupre makes $204,000 from Web music sales
Ashley Alexandra Dupré, the call girl whom Eliot Spitzer knew as "Kristen," sold her song 300,000 times on online music store Amie Street. The site, a Jeff Bezos investment, sold the songs for $0.68 on average, putting Dupré's total around $204,000, the New York Post reports. Update: Amie Street's charts indicate Dupré's songs have been merely listened to 419,718 times, suggesting the Post's numbers might be off a bit. Either way, throw in a $1 million offer from Hustler, an ad campaign for something to be called Vodka #9 and a movie deal, and Dupré stands to make between $2.5 million to $5 million from the Spitzer scandal.
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Comment by jinglejam: Bet this doesn't count the amount she's raked in from ringtones either. She's selling on phonesherpa.com/ashleydupre unfortunately there's no download... more » | Other threads
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How not to hit on a hooker
"No worries hang in there...i single if your interested." — Mike Marra, commenter on Ashley Dupré's Facebook wall, indicating why some women might prefer $4,300 dates to old-fashioned romance. -
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Spitzer girl's Facebook profile is probably fake too, but likewise, do we care?
Below, a most thorough impersonation of Eliot Spitzer's call girl turned chanteuse, Ashley Alexandra Dupré on Facebook. Why should MySpace have all the fun? More » -
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PageSix.com Spitzer girl video could be its "firecrotch" moment
Ever since TMZ.com ran its infamous "firecrotch" video — the one in which an oil-heir pal of Paris Hilton slagged Lindsay Lohan — the Time Warner-owned Hollywood gossip site has been on a pageviews tear. TMZ.com slaps News Corp.'s PageSix.com around every which way when it comes to visitor traffic. But TMZ doesn't have video of the walking, talking, leaning sensation that is Ashley Alexandra Dupré, now do they? -
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Facebook users waste no time making Eliot Spitzer escort groups
There are already 13 Facebook groups about Ashley Alexandra Dupre, the object of New York governor Eliot Spitzer's paid-for affections. Some are supportive, some are complimentary, and some are ridiculous. Among the more amusing group names are "Ashley Alexandra Dupre is the next American Idol", "Ashley Alexandra Dupre (Ashley Youmans) was in my Class!" and "I don't care WHO or WHAT she did, Ashley Alexandra Dupre is effin gorgeous!!" And Facebook is worth $15 billion? Just sayin'. See the full list below. More » -
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Call girl beats Barenaked Ladies, Radiohead singer
Sorry, Thom Yorke. it appears a critically acclaimed career as Radiohead's front man isn't enough to outsell Eliot Spitzer's call girl on the Web. Ashley Alexandra Dupré, also known as "Kristen," considers herself something of an R&B artist. She sells her music on Amie Street, a New York-based music site in which Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos took a personal interest and later had his company invest in. It sets its pricing based on the principles of supply and demand. The more a song sells, the faster its price rises. So when Amie Street flack Zane Groshelle confirmed that Dupré's single, "What We Want" rose to 98 cents "just as quickly if not more quickly" than Barenaked Ladies and Thom Yorke, the market's message is clear: She knows what we want.
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Comment by Alaska Miller: when is her 15 minutes going to be over? is she going to replace diablo cody as a working gal's... more » | Other threads
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Dozens of Spitzer domain names snapped up
In a modern-day gold rush, many Eliot Spitzer-related domains have been registered since the news broke about his involvement with pricey escort services. We're not sure how many of these are going to be worth anything in a few months when this is all over — but there's nothing we like more than a good scandal. Some of the best domains: spitzerforvp.com, spitzerisscrewed.com, spitzerperpwalk.com and, of course, spitzerswallows.com. Classy. Get the full list after the jump. (Photo by AP/Stephen Chernin) More »
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Comment by wallywag: How did you pull up that list of registered domains? I'm curious :) more » | Other threads
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department of corrections
What Slate got wrong about Internet prostitution
"Did Eliot Spitzer get caught because he didn't spend enough on prostitutes?" Slate contributor Sudhir Venkatesh deserves credit for reporting that Spitzer's alleged $4,300 date was not premium pricing. But his generalizations are far too broad for such a diverse industry as Web-powered prostitution. Were I his editor, I'd have sent back these redlines: More »
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Comment by Lilyseymour: Paul... that just depends on where you're advertising. Valley is unique to many escorts located on the west coast but... more » | Other threads
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Eliot Spitzer's call girl sings, sort of
Eliot Spitzer's alleged call-girl — Ashley Alexandra Dupré, a.k.a "Kristen" — can sing. Whether she should? Less clear. Here's the single from her MySpace page, "What We Want." -
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Governor's sex scandal may jump start call girl's singing career
New York Governor Eliot Spitzer's downfall could be a good thing for the girl who serviced him. Ashley Alexandra Dupré, known to Spitzer as "Kristen, has put her songs on Amie Street, a startup that prices songs according to their popularity, were free this morning. Now they're up to 37 cents each. It's unlikely they'll hit $5,000 a pop, but it's good to know market forces play as much a role in her future career as in her old one. [SAI]
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Comment by yawnster: first she overcharges for her company, and now she overcharges for her music.. man...talk bout getting doubleshafted. more » | Other threads
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your privacy is an illusion
Alleged Spitzer escort's MySpace page
Meet Ashley Alexandra Dupré, the prostitute known as "Kristen" New York governor Eliot Spitzer reportedly visited as Client 9. She's an aspiring R&B singer from Long Island, the New York Times reports. Her MySpace page and photos, below. More »
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Comment by Lilyseymour: My hopes is that the media will start portraying us in a negative light... there are "many" educated escorts on... more » | Other threads
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How IT helped bust New York's governor
"What really snared Spitzer was a money laundering investigation flagged by suspicious activity reports (SARs) that banks have to file with the Treasury ... The prostitution ring that counted Spitzer as a customer was investigated due to some shady bank accounts, checks and wire transfers with big totals ($39,000, $400,000 and others).
— ZDNet editor in chief Larry Dignan explains SARs in more detail.
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By Paul BoutinComment by inkhead: SAR are required to be filed by the bank for every single day transaction of $10k. In addition if you... more » | Other threads
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Three things you can learn from Client 9
Let's be clear: Today's takedown has nothing to do with stopping prostitution. It's about bringing down the governor of New York. There are three things you need to know before tonight's cocktail-party chatter. Most people will get them wrong — and that's the way the media wants it. More » -
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Blodget to Spitzer: Payback's a bitch!
Back in 2002, Eliot Spitzer, then New York's attorney general, published internal emails from Merrill Lynch analyst Henry Blodget . Blodget was shown trashing stocks he had publicly touted. The SEC charged Blodget with fraud and eventually banned him from the securities industry for life. Now Blodget edits Silicon Alley Insider. Look who's publishing now.
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Comment by paulrocks: Be they a preacher or a pol -- just another scandal of the self-righteous. more » | Other threads
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Screenshot of Spitzer's call-girl site
Emperors Club, the "spokesmodel" agency claimed to be an illegal girlfriend-for-hire service whose clients include New York governor Eliot Spitzer, is "temporarily unavailable." Good thing I hit Print Screen a minute ago.
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By Paul BoutinComment by Dweezil: @QADude: No, Rachel is definitely hotter than Alicia. more » | Other threads
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Spitzer apologizes, kills NYTimes.com
Here's New York Governor Eliot Spitzer apologizing for, well, no doubt you've heard. The scandal hasn't yet brought down Spitzer, but it did lay NYTimes.com low for a while.
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Comment by hmfic: Since it is a heterosexual scandal, I knew there had to be a "D" after his name. more » | Other threads
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