I Make Love Out Of Nothing At All

Posted on March 13, 2008 by Luke Ford

I came home from a long night at the LA Press Club and find a crowd growing in my cam chat room.

Due to popular demand, I sing Air Supply’s "Making Love out of Nothing at all" and then dance the disco chicken before going to bed.

It was a big hit.

User YourMoralLeader entered the room.
YourMoralLeader:  welcome

RonJeremy:  hi Luke
RonJeremy:  I’m a big fan of yours
RonJeremy:  you have some similarities to me
LukeFordsAntiPornCrusader:  How are you?
YourMoralLeader:  good, u?
LukeFordsAntiPornCrusader:  good……..thanks. I have up to the usual: spreading cheer and incurable diseases.
AirSupplyLuva:  Hey there
AirSupplyLuva:  Why so glum?
AirSupplyLuva:  And serious.
LindaRonstandtsVoice:  Dude, who are you listening to?
LindaRonstandtsVoice:  Dude, why do you look so down?

AirSupplyLuva:  Ah, I saw a bit of a smile there.
LindaRonstandtsVoice:  Where’s your ever present smile? How are you going to charm the ladies with that smile?>
AirSupplyLuva:  Is that Moral or Oral Leader?
YourMoralLeader:  yo
LindaRonstandtsVoice:  Luke………….Levi………………………………….respond, belch………sing……………grunt……..sing………
LindaRonstandtsVoice:  HOw are you?
YourMoralLeader:  good, workin, listening to dennis prager
AirSupplyLuva:  Ah… There’s that famous smile
LindaRonstandtsVoice:  Is he the voice of West Hollywood?
RonJeremy:  Luke please confirm that your site is staying exactly as is
AirSupplyLuva:  And look he has teeth too.
YourMoralLeader:  yes, is
RonJeremy:  with the only difference being the moral leader title
LindaRonstandtsVoice:  He does have teeth.
YourMoralLeader:  not even that will change
AirSupplyLuva:  Do you know that from personal experience Linda?
AirSupplyLuva:  I mean that he has teeth.
RonJeremy:  why did SW tell you to change that
YourMoralLeader:  he did not, it was only a joke from the spitzer speech
User guest104 left the room.
YourMoralLeader:  do you guys need a song?
AirSupplyLuva:  Yes we do. Please sing for us oh Moral Leader.
YourMoralLeader:  which one?
AirSupplyLuva:  AIR SUPPLY PLEASE
LindaRonstandtsVoice:  Do people in Australia sing before they throw bumerrangs?
LindaRonstandtsVoice:  Yes…………..AIR SUPPLY…………..
YourMoralLeader:  yes
LindaRonstandtsVoice:  I second that.
User guest111 changed their name to Matt.
Matt:  hi Luke
LindaRonstandtsVoice:  Luke……………………………
AirSupplyLuva:  Lost in Love… Please
AirSupplyLuva:  Oooo… he is so excited.
LindaRonstandtsVoice:  Is that the famous Matt who runs the bakery on 4th street?
User maven left the room.
LindaRonstandtsVoice:  yes
AirSupplyLuva:  I am.
Matt:  Luke, what’s up
LindaRonstandtsVoice:  You should have been a rock star!
AirSupplyLuva:  Chazan you are not.
AirSupplyLuva:  LOL
AirSupplyLuva:  I feel hungry
Matt:  better then avshalom katz could do
LindaRonstandtsVoice:  With a voice like that……………you could put Pavorotti out of business!
AirSupplyLuva:  A successor to David Hung, of American Idol infamy.
YourMoralLeader:  yo dude
YourMoralLeader:  matt
Matt:  are you gonig to the jconnect party on purim
AirSupplyLuva:   Now you look 11 years old.
YourMoralLeader:  too expensive
LindaRonstandtsVoice:  The jconnect party is bogus Matt.
Matt:  what’s bogus about it?
AirSupplyLuva:  Aish is where it’s at guys.
LindaRonstandtsVoice:  Same people as last year; just as boring.
AirSupplyLuva:  Or Ba Ba Sally.
Matt:  Linda, I guess you didn’t get laid as a result of gonig ot that party last year
AirSupplyLuva:  Or Ram Das’ place.
guest112:  Rock dog
AirSupplyLuva:  He dances too.
AirSupplyLuva:  Dude, we have no lives.
LindaRonstandtsVoice:  ohhhhhhhhh………..yes
guest112:  I don’t like to mince words but you shouldn’t sing. HA!
AirSupplyLuva:  Yes please.
LindaRonstandtsVoice:  This definitely makes him our moral leader
Matt:  linda, what’s your real name
Matt:  do you know me by the way
LindaRonstandtsVoice:  I am nameless…………
guest112:  He is drunk or in love
YourMoralLeader:  I luve you guys!
LindaRonstandtsVoice:  This morning, a lady asked me, "may I have your name?" So, I gave it to her….

Matt:  Linda, if a guest porn star shows up to the jocnnect, will that entice you to go
LindaRonstandtsVoice:  Naw…………..
AirSupplyLuva:  A guest starlet???
Matt:  make luke can lighten up the party with his connection and bring in a guest
LindaRonstandtsVoice:  I need more than that……..
AirSupplyLuva:  Some YULA girl in drag
LindaRonstandtsVoice:  That would work. If it’s one of luke’s porn babes, I’ll go.
Matt:  or the theme of a nudist colony
LindaRonstandtsVoice:  I like a YULA girl……….
Matt:  everyone there nude
Matt:  in the story of purim everyone was nude in achashveyrosh’s palace
AirSupplyLuva:  We could play hide the hamentashin
LindaRonstandtsVoice:  lol
AirSupplyLuva:  I mean hamen tush en
Matt:  don’t hide the popy seed ones
guest112:  Love is a strange nd curious thing….makes you crazy and sing like a mad man
Matt:  of the plain ones
LindaRonstandtsVoice:  Luke, have you been bathing your spirit in legalisms on Shabbos lately?
Matt:  humantasin look very much like vaginas
AirSupplyLuva:  You’re not a mikva boy are you Luke?
LindaRonstandtsVoice:  Or am I justified by faith alone?
AirSupplyLuva:  LOL Matt
AirSupplyLuva:  Very funny, you are right

LindaRonstandtsVoice:  Luke, ever done an aborigine?
YourMoralLeader:  no
guest112:  So you know other music? What is an aborginne? Is it dirty?
LindaRonstandtsVoice:  Does that make your feel deprived?
AirSupplyLuva:  I  hear they have a chabad rabbi in aborgine land.
AirSupplyLuva:  Don’t we all.
AirSupplyLuva:  Blow my digireedu.
guest112:  Oh wait I knew that and you have never had some woobla(sp?)? What is your vice
AirSupplyLuva:  I don’t know how to spell.
guest112:  Why Are you so giddy then?
Matt:  Luke when will you start gonig back to Yicc, Chabad and BJ?
AirSupplyLuva:  He’s sitting on Hamen’s nose.
Matt:  you need to take a stand and show up to all of them  and show them whose boss
LindaRonstandtsVoice:  Luke, what language do indigenous people of Australia speak?
Matt:  they speak Aw-See
AirSupplyLuva:  Google that Linda.
YourMoralLeader:  Matt, when they let me in
AirSupplyLuva:  Our moral leader’s mind is far too precious.
Matt:  they won’t just let you in
Matt:  you have to take charge
Matt:  you got to force your way in
YourMoralLeader:  how?
YourMoralLeader:  with my big bad blog?
AirSupplyLuva:  Forcing is never a good idea.
Matt:  your blog is accurate and only means well
AirSupplyLuva:  Our leader is a peaceful man.
LindaRonstandtsVoice:  Matt, who is the prettiest chick in the hood? You have been there for a long time.
Matt:  if these people running the shows are pussys that’s their problem, not yours
AirSupplyLuva:  Rebbitzin…
YourMoralLeader:  I’m a lover not a fighter
AirSupplyLuva:  That’s my man
LindaRonstandtsVoice:  Like Rodney Dangerfied?
LindaRonstandtsVoice:  Your Moral LeaderI’m Luke Ford and I want to be Your Moral Leader. Watch me wrap tefillin, study Torah and engineer sweeping moral change. I write the website Lukeford.net.
AirSupplyLuva:  Is sweeping moral change allowed on Shabbat?
AirSupplyLuva:  sweeping is one of the malachas
YourMoralLeader:  no it is not
YourMoralLeader:  just be
AirSupplyLuva:  How about oogaling? Is that allowed on Shabbat?
YourMoralLeader:  yes discretely
AirSupplyLuva:  What about if there’s a machitza involved?
AirSupplyLuva:  At kiddush though?
YourMoralLeader:  ok if discrete
AirSupplyLuva:  What about before saying kiddush at kiddush?
AirSupplyLuva:  So do you have any opinions on the Spitzer affair?
AirSupplyLuva:  ML is enjoying himself.
YourMoralLeader:  yeah, it’s hilarious
AirSupplyLuva:  Have a Good Shabbos Luke?
YourMoralLeader:  and u too
AirSupplyLuva:  Any future plans for that beard? Trimming perhaps?
AirSupplyLuva:  A little manicuring never hurt.
AirSupplyLuva:  I trim.
AirSupplyLuva:  Perplexed?

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Emperor’s Club VIP

Posted on March 13, 2008 by Luke Ford

From the Huffington Post:

Another prostitute who advertised online, is named Kristen and fits the physical description has denied she is the Kristen who met Spitzer on February 13. Meet the real Kristen here*

Eliot Spitzer announced he was involved with an alleged prostitution ring called the Emperors Club VIP (as was Britain’s Duke of Westminster) and resigned. For pictures of the girls (who cost up to $31,000 a day, and are also priced in Euros and Pounds) scroll down.

Last week The Smoking Gun posted papers about the international prostitution ring being busted, as they were last Thursday. The high-priced call girls were rated in diamonds on the club’s website:

An international call girl ring that solicited wealthy male clients via a web site that rated its hookers on a scale of diamonds (and charged accordingly) has been busted by federal agents. The operators of the New York-based Emperors Club were named in a felony complaint unsealed today in U.S. District Court in Manhattan.

The New York Times wrote about the bust.

Federal authorities arrested four people Thursday on charges of running an online prostitution ring that serviced clients in New York, Paris and other cities and took in more than $1 million in profits over four years.

The ring, known as the Emperor’s Club V.I.P., had 50 prostitutes available for appointments in New York, Washington, Miami, London and Paris, according to a complaint unsealed on Thursday in Federal District Court in Manhattan. The appointments, made by telephone or through an online booking service, cost $1,000 to $5,500 [scroll down for fee page] an hour and could be paid for with cash, credit card, wire transfers or money orders, the complaint said.

The New York Sun reports how managerial challenges hindered operations, although Spitzer’s wire transfers brought it down:

Several phone numbers associated with Emperors Club have been under surveillance by the FBI, which intercepted more than 5,000 telephone calls and text messages during the investigation, according to court documents.

Excerpts of those intercepted calls, provided in court documents, offer a window onto some of the managerial challenges that confronted the four defendants who allegedly managed the operation. In them, the managers discuss how some of the Emperor Club prostitutes had difficulty taking imprints of their clients’ American Express cards, making it difficult to charge them. Prostitutes weren’t always punctual in arriving at their engagements. There were scheduling conflicts to resolve caused by the photo shoots of the women who modeled during the day. And clients called in wanting to know what they should tell their accountants about the expenses they were racking up with the Emperors Club.

The website for Emperor’s Club, since taken down, said this:

Emperors’ Club vip is the most preferred international social introduction service for those accustomed to excellence. Introducing the most impressive models to leading gentleman of the world is our expertise. We specialize in introductions of: fashion models, pageant winners and exquisite students, graduates and women of successful careers (finance, art, media etc…) to gentlemen of exceptional standards. When seeking an evening date, a weekend travel companion, or a friend to accompany you during your next business / social function our models are perfect preference.

We act for a select group of educated, refined and successful international clients who give their best in all they do and who, in return, only wish to receive the best. Catering to clients who will not compromise in any area of their life…

Our meticulous standards of beauty, intelligence and charm ensure that you always encounter the quality you’ve come to expect in a woman, when with an Emperors’ Club vip model. Each of our companions is a product of an exceptionally fine background and a success in her right. All rendezvous are individually crafted to suit the needs of your specific occasion. Note that each model has place in her schedule for a select number of appointments per month, so your date will be a special one for both of you.

Our goal is to make life more peaceful, balanced, beautiful and meaningful. We honor commitment to our clients as we covet long-term relationships of trust and mutual benefit. Experience for yourself a service of obvious distinction…

"Maya" has 7 diamonds, Emperors Club VIP’s top ranking:

Here is the page for "Drew," who had hourly rates:

Here is the page for "Anais," a "model, actress, dancer, superstar…"

"Brenda":

A page of the portfolio, although "Kristen" is not listed:

"Lola" is 19:

"Mackenzie":

"Patricia":

"Candace":

"Marina" is a dancer:

"Savannah":

"Alana":

"Evelyn" worked from Beijing:

"Samantha":

"Renee":

"Julia":

The ladies went for as much as $31,000 per day for a "seven diamond" rated girl.

Screengrab of the fees (and package rates):

More screengrabs here at Wonkette, and links, plus see the Kristen conversation NYMag.com highlighted last week.

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Eliot Spitzer Jokes

Posted on March 13, 2008 by Luke Ford

From the AP:

New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer became the butt of jokes faster than, well, faster than it would take a prostitute to ride Amtrak from New York to Washington.

"I sat next to the guy three times and I didn’t pick up on any of this," said Comedy Central’s Stephen Colbert, "and I usually have excellent whore-dar."

"It’s just mind-blowing that he spent $4,300 on a hooker," said New York comic Lisa Landry. "It just shows how high the cost of living is in New York. That same hooker would cost $50 in Newark."

"They’re talking about impeaching Eliot Spitzer if he doesn’t step down," David Letterman said, "and I’m thinking, ‘Whoa, a Democrat being impeached for extramarital sex. Well, happy days are here again!"

For the second day in a row, Spitzer was the topic of Letterman’s top-10 list. This time, it was "messages left on Eliot Spitzer’s answering machine."

No. 1: "It’s Arnold Schwarzenegger. Thanks. I’m no longer America’s creepiest governor."

Spitzer, accused of being the prostitution ring’s so-called Client 9, was Topic 1 again with late-night comics Tuesday. "Not surprisingly, clients 1 through 8 were Charlie Sheen," NBC’s "Late Night" host Conan O’Brien cracked.

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Anderson Cooper Stunned By Cost Of Hookers These Days

Posted on March 13, 2008 by Luke Ford

I love it how TV news people always pretend to above sexual sin and pretend to have no knowledge of porn and prostitutes and wild illicit sex.

Gawker nails it:

Coquettish Anderson Cooper of CNN sat down with a former pimp, who gently walked the delicate anchor through the process of making money as a high-priced hooker, and left Cooper floored over how much money can be made as a prostitute. The pimp told Cooper exactly how fun whoring can be for all involved, how high-class prostitution is not nearly as exploitive as low-rent sex, and how there’s not much difference between $1,000-per-hour call girls vs. $4,000 per-hour call girls. When the discussion turned to money, the Coop got a little flustered: "That’s a lot of money for, fuh… for an hour — uh, it surprised me." Anderson, everyone understands you have a job to do. There’s no need to be embarrassed just because it sounds like you already knew something about hooker pricing. After all, it’s not like you’re keeping some big sexual secret from the world.

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Los Angeles Jewish Mother/Daughter Killed In Car Crash In Israel

Posted on March 13, 2008 by Luke Ford

From Haaretz:

Devorah Levenberg and her daughter Aliza, 2, were not wearing seat belts when the car in which they were traveling crashed head-on into another vehicle.

The Levenbergs – Devorah, her husband Moshe, and Aliza – hitched a ride Friday morning from their home in Neveh Yaakov to central Jerusalem. The driver apparently took a curve on Uzi Narkiss Bridge, which connects Neveh Yaakov and Pisgat Ze’ev with Highway 1, too quickly, and slammed head-on into a car in the opposite lane.

Devorah and Aliza, who were sitting in the back seat, sustained massive injuries and died shortly after impact. Moshe Levenberg and the driver sustained moderate injuries.

"The mother and daughter died immediately," Zohar Lomar, a Magen David Adom paramedic who arrived at the scene, said.

"The father, whose injuries were moderate, was fully conscious the entire time. He spoke with us and didn’t stop asking about his wife and daughter. We told him they were being treated by another MDA team. We tried to ask him what had happened, but he didn’t remember anything about the accident," Lomar said.

I’m told  the husband learned in Yeshiva Bais Yisroel in Jerusalem. She went to Bais Yaakov LA. The young couple lived in Neve Yaakov.

The Jewish Journal reported March 7:

Los Angeles Rabbi Yisroel Adelman, owner of La Brea Kosher Market near Hancock Park, lost his only daughter in a car accident in Jerusalem on Friday.

Devorah Levenberg (neé Adelman) and her one-year-old daughter Aliza were killed instantly in a head-on collision in the Pisgat Ze’ev neighborhood in Jerusalem.

Her husband, Moshe, was taken to Hadassah Ein Karem hospital in critical condition. The driver of the car, who was giving the family a ride, was in moderate condition at Sha’arei Zedek hospital.

The funeral was held in Jerusalem Friday afternoon, as it is a Jerusalem custom to hold funerals the day of death. The Adelmans, who reside in Hancock Park, have asked the community to refrain from visiting for shiva on motzei Shabbat, or Saturday night.

Shiva will be held 331 N. Vista Ave; shacharis will be Sunday morning at 7:50, Monday – Thursday 6:15. The family will be resting from 2-4. Condolence emails can be sent to [email protected].

From TheYeshivaWorld.com:

(Click HERE for photos) Just one day after the shooting attack in Yeshivas Mercaz Harav, Hatzolah Israel members were called to another tragic scene this morning on “Uzi Narkis Blvd.” next to Pisgat Zeev in Northern Jerusalem.
 
A Frum driver that was giving a young Frum American Family a ride, collided head on with another car. Tragically, the 23 year old Mother and her 1 year old daughter were R”L pronounced dead at the scene from the extent of their injuries.
 
The driver and his passenger, who is the husband and father of the 2 victims, were also badly injured.
 
The Father was taken by Magen David Adom to Haddassah Ein Karem hospital, in very serious condition. At last report, he was unconscious with head and chest wounds, and was not informed yet of his tragic losses. (TEHILLIM: Moshe ben Faiga)

The driver was evacuated to Shaarei Zedek hospital in moderate to serious condition with chest and head wounds.
 
Moshe Weissmandl, one of the first Hatzolah Israel volunteers on the scene, tells YWN: “as the teams were trying to resuscitate the baby, and the other victims were being prepared for transport, I leaned over into the car to turn off the engine and heard the cars stereo that was playing all the while. The words on the tape as I turned off the engine, were Mashiach Ben David”………….

UPDATE 9:22AM EST: The Levaya of Devora Levenberg (Aidelman, maiden name) A”H from Los Angeles and her 1-year-old daughter, took place this afternoon at 3:15PM at Har HaMenuchos in Yerushalayim.

Hatzolah posts to TheYeshivaWorld.com: "The father was sitting amongst the wreckage, his daughter 2 feet to his left with cpr in progress, and his wife also undergoing cpr, two feet to his right…and kept on asking me, hows my daughter aliza..how is my wife."

Well posts to TheYeshivaWorld.com:

For those of you who were don’t know Devorah…
I went to school with her for twelve years. She was a grade below me, but we were always together as a school for events, assemblies and productions. She was beatiful inside and out. She was always with a smile. As I think about her now, in elementary school, highschool etc, in virtually every image, she is smiling. She was not just friendly, but she reached out to people as well. At school events, I felt like instead of being part of the center of the action, she would search out the girl who was standing off to the side, and introduce herself, talk to her, and make her feel included. She was part of almost every chesed organization in school, and voluteered for school events. Her decorum was incredibly refined. She knew how to have fun with her friends, enjoy school, but was never “loud”. Her midos were beautiful, as was she. Her kind and giving mannerisms must be hereditary…
Her father owns THE kosher grocery store in LA, and because of his boundless generosity literally hundreds of families are able to put food on their tables for shabbos and Yom Tov. A lot of these families are not desperate enough to qualify for other aid programs within the community, and he lets people buy on credit in his store, which gets many many families through Yom Tov etc. The amount of Chesed he and his wife do is remarkable. He is truely a pillar of the community.
My heart breaks for her parents, because on some level, I actually have a concept of what it is they lost. For the family- there really are no words, nothing that will or can make the pain better, so I won’t even try. All I have to say it is that on some level we all lost. We lost the ability to have someone we know who we can point to and say “be like her.”
To her brothers:
Keep your big sister’s memory alive, and never forget what you lost. May her good qualities inspire you to do chesed in her memory and give her neshama an aliyah. I’m so sorry for you…
May she be a melitz yoshor for all of us, and may she be reunited with her family when mashiach comes. Hamakom yenachem eschem be’soch she’ar aveilei tzion veyerushalayim.

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Hooker’s Booker A Church-Going Honor Student

Posted on March 13, 2008 by Luke Ford

From the New York Daily News:

1997 University of Virginia yearbook pic of Temeka Lewis, who booked Gov. Spitzer's tryst with 'Kristen' of Emperors Club VIP. Egan-Chin/News

1997 University of Virginia yearbook pic of Temeka Lewis, who booked Gov. Spitzer’s tryst with ‘Kristen’ of Emperors Club VIP.

The hooker booker accused of sending a high-priced prostitute to Gov. Spitzer‘s hotel room was a church-going honor student who graduated from a prestigious school.

Temeka Lewis‘ tragic fall into a life of sleaze has left her family heartbroken.

"Her mother is just all broken up," Lewis’ 79-year-old uncle said Wednesday at the family’s home in Harrisonburg, Va.

"She’s just too clean," said the uncle, who asked not to be named. "Even when she does the dishes, she puts on gloves. It just don’t make any sense."

"No one in the community can believe that this could happen to her. I can’t remember her even getting a driving ticket.

"There just ain’t nobody down here can believe it."

Only 11 years ago, Lewis graduated from the University of Virginia with a bachelor’s degree in English language and literature, a school spokesman said.

"She was an honor student all her life; she’s from a good church-going family," her uncle said. "It’s just unbelievable."

Lewis, 32, was one of two bookers for expensive sex ring the Emperors Club VIP – and took Spitzer’s call the day before Valentine’s Day, authorities said.

In a conversation taped by the feds, Lewis set up the Washington tryst between Spitzer and "Kristen," a hooker Lewis described as "an American, petite, very pretty brunette, 5-feet-5 inches and 105 pounds."

"Great, okay, wonderful," Spitzer said, according to court papers that identified him as "Client 9."

Spitzer told Lewis he’d leave his hotel room door unlocked so Kristen could get inside. He also haggled over money with Lewis, settling on a $4,300 payment, according to the court papers.

Two steamy hours after Kristen – identified yesterday as 22-year-old Ashley Alexandra Dupré – walked into the Mayflower Hotel, she called Lewis to say her "date" was over. Spitzer left Kristen with the cash, the room for the night, cab fare and whatever she wanted from the minibar.

"Kristen said that she liked him and she did not think it was difficult," the affidavit said.

Lewis then told Kristen that Spitzer had a reputation with other girls. She said, "He would ask you to do things that, like, you might not think were safe – I mean … very basic things."

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Ashley Alexandra Dupre’s Friends Rush To Her Defense

Posted on March 13, 2008 by Luke Ford

From the New York Daily News:

Ashley Alexandra Dupre MySpace.com

Ashley Alexandra Dupre

As the brunette beauty who toppled Eliot Spitzer remained holed up in her apartment, friends said there were no signs the young woman peddled her own flesh.

"She’s a sweet person," Logan, a Queens rapper told the Daily News. "She’s a good person. She’s friendly. She’s outgoing."

Logan met Ashley Alexandra Dupré, 22, about three years ago and only knew the Jersey Shore runaway as an aspiring musician. He had no clue she was also "Kristen," whom Spitzer allegedly paid $4,300 for sex at the luxury Mayflower Hotel in Washington.

The 32-year-old Queens rapper said Dupré was stunning and kind. He also claimed she had pipes like Mariah Carey.

"One day we were out eating," he recalled. "And she saved the food just to give it to a homeless guy on the way home."

Logan appeared on the Today Show Thursday morning with another hip-hop pal, Mysterious. Both said they met Dupré through a music producer and collaborated with Dupré in the studio. The Queens men declined to give their full names.

"You know we got your back," Mysterious told the News after the television spot. "You’re our little sister."

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Ashley Alexandra Dupre Is No Monster

Posted on March 13, 2008 by Luke Ford

I can’t resist this story.

It’s too delicious.

From the conservative National Post of Canada:

UPDATE 12:37 p.m.: The Daily News reports some nice people were on the Today Show coming to Ms. Dupre’s (or is it DiPietro?) defence:

"She’s a sweet person," Logan, a Queens rapper told the Daily News. "She’s a good person. She’s friendly. She’s outgoing."

"One day we were out eating," he recalled. "And she saved the food just to give it to a homeless guy on the way home."

Logan appeared on the Today Show Thursday morning with another hip-hop pal, Mysterious. Both said they met Dupré through a music producer and collaborated with Dupré in the studio. The Queens men declined to give their full names.

 Ah, that’s sweet. Ashley, meanwhile, is reportedly still holed up in her apartment.

UPDATE: 11:31 a.m.: What have we got? A governor saying sorry on the TV (see a breakdown of his speech here) and then quitting, a singing alleged prostitute who may or may not have been the girl who was ordered and delivered to a Washington D.C. hotel room, a timeline on how America’s paper of record discovered the whole deal, a legal system run amok (according to our own Terry Corcoran), a political wife who stands as a martyr for the suffering of all other political wives, newsmen who are shocked, SHOCKED, at the lucrative sex trade, and by the way a federal investigation that travelled from suspicious bank transactions and morphed into a prostitution ring bust.

We’re learning more about the little darling, Ms. Ashley Alexandra Dupré (link to her, still public, MySpace page) all the time. Gawker has a nice pile of links, including a high school picture from the New York Daily News (right), a modelling portfolio, and more pictures show up all the time. Also, her music has been upgraded in price, but you can still buy those two tracks for a low-low $1.96… which with each track running around three minutes, you’d have to download that song 505 times, worth 25 hours or so of singing, to make up the hourly rate she was alleged to have been paid as part of the Emperors Club VIP ring.

People says that when they reached her court appointed lawyer, Don D. Buchwald, he told them:

"We cannot and do not confirm that Ashley is Kristen."

"I promise when we are in the position to make a statement we’ll get that to everyone at the same time," he said.

 But as the Daily News found at her old high school, the verdict has been read, and the story is told:

Former classmates at Wall High School in Wall Township, N.J., which Dupré attended until her sophomore year, said she had a "bad reputation."

"She was one of those girls," said Allison Scisco, 23, of Neptune, N.J. "You hear things, and it’s the way she carried herself."

Another ex-classmate, who asked not to be named, said, "She definitely got around. It wasn’t even boyfriends, she just got around."

But Chris Minardi, 23, of Wall, said he used to drink with Dupré. "I thought she always had a good personality, and she was a gorgeous, gorgeous girl. She was definitely flirty," he said. "We all can’t believe it down here that someone from here brought down the governor of New York."

 

UPDATE 10:30 a.m.: This is one weird Internet-driven scandal, for one Ashley/Kristen? isn’t running from the web hordes, she seems to be running to them. Think of your favourite recent sex scandals, the Miss America’s, the American Idol contestant, most of them pull down their sites, unplug the phone and retreat.

Not this lady.

She claims on her website to be all about the music, and as our Ampersand colleague Mark Medley writes: "With almost two million individual plays on her MySpace page, What We Want by Ashley Alexandra Dupré (aka the alleged Miss Spitzer) is probably the most listened to song in North America right now … it’s no Umbrella, but — actually — it’s not horrible."

Clones of her profile have popped up on MySpace and Facebook, but the original keeps chugging along.  

Leaving her site up opens her up to this kind of abuse from commenters galore:

Chris: March 13, 2008 7:41 AM — HA! You are f***ng smooooking. Repeat after me CHA CHING. Baby you are going to make a windfall of cash. You deserve it for f***ing an ugly rat like Spitzer. Remember what destroys you makes you stronger. I love you.

Mark: March 13, 2008 7:29 AM — Bad decision by Spiyzer , but hell of a good choice in hookaz.

Lang: March 12, 2008 4:35 PM — What makes you worth $4000 a night?

Ken: March 12, 2008 4:59 PM — No, you didn’t take down a sitting governor. He did that himself. What you and people of your craft do is remove the beauty, love, and sacredness from a God-sanctioned act and inject death. NEVER forget the brokeness of his wife and daughters!!!

Ms Rebecca: March 12, 2008 4:57 PM — I think it would b a good idea 4 u 2 set your profile 2 private 2 avoid nasty peeps if u know what I mean..Just looking out..

In reality, the best outcome might be something like what happened to Divine Brown (not the Canadian soul singer), the prostitute caught servicing Hugh Grant in the pre-Internet boom days of 1995. She recently spoke to the U.K.’s Daily Mail telling them she’s made her million, raised her kids and basically feels the best thing that ever happened to her was getting busted servicing the actor on the side of the road.

The Nation’s Lauren Berlant happens to think this is bad news for the nation’s real favourite past-time:

“I feel sorry for everyone in Spitzer’s nimbus, but I feel really sorry for sex. Once again it has appeared in public, as it usually does, as a bad thing that people do to people. Sometimes, too often, it is. But realism about sexuality, about what it could be, deserves better. It deserves comedy too–not romance, and not, so inevitably, more stories about tragedy and scandal.”

 

Update 8:14 p.m.: The New York Times is reporting that the woman at the centre of Spitzer hooker scandal is an aspiring singer who lives in Manhattan.

In a series of telephone interviews on Tuesday night, she said she had slept very little over the past week, with all the stress of the case.

“I just don’t want to be thought of as a monster,” the woman said as she told the tiniest tidbits of her story.

Born Ashley Youmans but now known as Ashley Alexandra Dupré, she spoke softly and with good humor as she added with significant understatement: “This has been a very difficult time. It is complicated.”

Her MySpace page is available.

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I’m A Disgrace

Posted on March 13, 2008 by Luke Ford

From my live cam chat:

guest5:  he has not changed his clothes since yesterday
RACKoRIBS:  slept in them evidently
guest5:  frankly he looks a mess
guest5:  oi vey
guest5:  he is letting us down
RACKoRIBS:  its only 9:25 in the morning there
guest5:  no excuses please
RACKoRIBS:  ya, your righrt
guest5:  would you let your mother see you like that?
RACKoRIBS:  i would, cause i don’t give a s**t
guest5:  well you are not jewish
RACKoRIBS:  no, i am not
guest5:  it would bring shame on the family
guest6:  hello from ireland
RACKoRIBS:  shame shame on you moral leader
RACKoRIBS:  should get cleaned up
guest5:  he is not fit to lead
guest5:  I am sorry about this man
guest5:  he brings shame on us all
RACKoRIBS:  so is your video on the google top 100 today?
YourMoralLeader:  yep!
YourMoralLeader:  got a ton of hits
YourMoralLeader:  please bow down to me
RACKoRIBS:  where is the link..i don’t bow down
guest5:  you are a disgrace
YourMoralLeader:  google her name and then search "luke"
guest5:  peddling your trash here
guest5:  oi vey

A teacher emails: "Hey man, it turns out your website is blocked by the filter at lausd.  Mazel tov!!!!!  I know this is a big mark of success for you.  Congratulations.  Keep up the good work."

est58:  But why live in a room and chat all day and night when you could be home?
User guest81 left the room.
RussianDragon:  he is home on cam
RussianDragon:  i think
YourMoralLeader:  online is my home
RussianDragon:  will you still be online in the future
guest58:  Oh I see you are an intravert
YourMoralLeader:  i’m about to leave for LA press club awards,
YourMoralLeader:  wanna beat traffic
YourMoralLeader:  will hang in starbucks for three hours
nicolletista:  how many will you win?
DiscoDuck:  what do you do on Shabbat?
guest58:  What type of press do you do in L.A.?
YourMoralLeader:  blog
guest58:  I would hope you would clean up before you go.
YourMoralLeader:  i’ll let you guys check me over before i leave
nicolletista:  all right luca
guest58:  That would be good
guest58:  Do they give awards for blogging?
RussianDragon:  ok bye luke
DiscoDuck:  what do you do on Shabbat?
YourMoralLeader:  go to shul
YourMoralLeader:  i misspoke, it is just a party, not awards
RussianDragon:  are you a rebel without a shul
YourMoralLeader:  no longer
guest58:  Party is a good way to meet people
RussianDragon:  wow
RussianDragon:  good on you
DiscoDuck:  with this time you have do you learn during the week
YourMoralLeader:  yes
YourMoralLeader:  i learn torah regualrly
DiscoDuck:  sounds good
RussianDragon:  do you speak hebrew very well?
YourMoralLeader:  no
DiscoDuck:  which email can I send the shul review to?
YourMoralLeader:  [email protected] you are the best!
YourMoralLeader:  together we can make a better world
YourMoralLeader:  tikkun olam
DiscoDuck:  that is true
DiscoDuck:  I see the biggest problem today with Judaism is inter-fighting
LukeFordsHairPiece:  YLM, do you speak Pig Latin very well?
LukeFordsHairPiece:  Discoduck…….you mean….intra-fighting……..as we are all in the same boat, thought some of us are closer to the latrine than others.
YourMoralLeader:  i think it’s apathy
YourMoralLeader:  yes
YourMoralLeader:  fighting means you care
DiscoDuck:  where will it be published on your blog?
DiscoDuck:  in fighting has always been a problem for the Jewish people
DiscoDuck:  the answer to bring moshiach is right there and yet we can’t all get along
DiscoDuck:  besides doing mitzvot what are you going to do to bring moshiach yml?
DiscoDuck:  I’m not getting audio
guest58:  He is doing a commercial
guest58:  There is no audio alot of the time
guest58:  He did this yesterday
DiscoDuck:  Especially with the scruffy beard I could see him dancing with Cunin at the Chabad Telethon
guest58:  hey HairPiece, how is it that the YML is answering questions but I dont see him on his key board?
User guest85 entered the room.
guest58:  Is the guy on the screen the same as the guy in red letters?
DiscoDuck:  no that is his evil twin
LukeFordsHairPiece:  His moral leadership types in his stead…………..
LukeFordsHairPiece:  YLM is a master delegater; his next-door neighbor belches for him.
guest58:  Something is very strange
DiscoDuck:  his braided arm pit hair?
DiscoDuck:  or food particles in his beard?
LukeFordsHairPiece:  He keeps fit by having the owner of his hovel eat all the fattening foods he would like to
guest58:  I dont think he looks very fit
LukeFordsHairPiece:  His rabbi reads his siddur for him.
DiscoDuck:  have him do a bmi for you guest 58
guest58:  His rabbi must answer his blogs also
LukeFordsHairPiece:  His gentile neighbors eat all of his treif.
guest58:  what is a bmi?
DiscoDuck:  body mass index
DiscoDuck:  get out of your cave once in a while
guest58:  oh Lord help me
LukeFordsHairPiece:  When he passes gas, he blames the nearest dog.
guest58:  Which in CA has been eaten by now
DiscoDuck:  doesn’t it smell like rose petals?

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How Long Till The Jewish Journal Hires Ashley Alexandra Dupre As Their New Calendar Girl?

Posted on March 13, 2008 by Luke Ford

Surely Ashley could produce on this high a level? I believe.

After all the press, controversial pastor John Hagee, as notorious for his incendiary remarks as for his Israel support, was quite boring.

The most scintillating aspect of Stephen S. Wise Temple’s "Forum on Critical Values" dialogue between Rabbi David Woznica and Pastor Hagee last night was the press release.

It said:

Hagee is the founder and Senior Pastor of Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, Texas, a non-denominational evangelical church with more than 19,000 active members; he has traveled to Israel 23 times and has met with every Prime Minister since Menachem Begin; John Hagee Ministries has given more than $10 million to bring Soviet Jews from the former Soviet Union to Israel.

At the talk, little else surfaced.

Hagee softened some of his pithier statements, such as "I believe that Hurricane Katrina was, in fact, the judgment of God against the city of New Orleans,” with maundering rationale and suggested misunderstanding.

The packed synagogue of mostly Reform Jews loved him anyway. Especially when he said Jerusalem should belong to Jews and only Jews, undivided. But when asked, he said he wouldn’t cause a public stir if for their safety, the Jews decided to divide Jerusalem anyway.

However, I was surprised to learn that after speaking at the Knesset in September 2005, it was Benjamin Netanyahu who inspired Hagee to unify the many Christian groups loosely supporting Israel, which prompted Hagee to create "Christians United for Israel."

Here are the verbal highlights from a night that sounded more like a bible recitation than a discussion:

"I’d rather talk to G-d for 30 seconds than to George [W.] Bush all night."

"Granting forgiveness without demanding a change in conduct is to make the grace of G-d an accomplice to evil."

"Jesus, who was a reform rabbi…"

On Jews bringing the bible to the world:
"We, as Christians have a bible mandate to help you. If we have benefited from Jewish spiritual things, than we have an obligation to help Jews with material things."

On he and his rabbi friend:
"When we’re standing in the streets of Jerusalem together and the Messiah comes, one of us has a great theological adjustment to make."

On the Crusaders:
"They were thieves, liars, robbers and rapists."

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