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[quote=MARRIE,275899]According to the court papers, the Emperors Club nonetheless netted more than $1m over three years, of which $400,000 was kept by about 50 prostitutes.

As comedians guffawed at the spectacle of Mr Clean caught up in such a sordid enterprise, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton suddenly found themselves pushed off the front pages by Ashley Alexandra Dupré, a curvaceous 22-year-old wannabe singer from New Jersey, who turned out to be the prostitute at the heart of the story.

Using the name “Kristen”, she allegedly serviced the governor during a visit to Washington on February 13 this year. It is not yet known whether she knew his real identity at the time.

The money she earned from that brief encounter pales by comparison with the sums now being offered to her. Dupré, whose real name is Ashley Youmans, was estimated yesterday to have made $200,000 in the last four days from internet downloads of two of her songs.

Hustler magazine has offered her $1m to pose nude; a pornographic film studio has offered her another $1m to star in a film and a leading vodka company has reportedly offered her a six-figure sum to promote a new brand called “Vodka No 9”.

Yet not even a hoard of saucy Dupré photographs unearthed by the New York Post on Friday could distract Wall Street lawyers and bankers from intriguing anomalies in the small print of the prosecution case against Spitzer, who announced his resignation as governor on Wednesday and will formally yield power to his deputy, David Paterson, tomorrow. Paterson will become both the first African-American and first partially blind governor of New York.

While there was little sympathy, there were plenty of questions about how a handful of outwardly innocuous payments from his bank account came to trigger a federal investigation into his sexual activities.

“The movement of the amounts of cash required to pay prostitutes, even high-priced prostitutes over a long period of time, does not commonly generate a full-scale investigation,” noted Alan Dershowitz, the Harvard law professor and former member of OJ Simpson’s legal team. Others on Wall Street were wondering whether Spitzer’s financial dealings had been singled out for scrutiny as revenge for his past prosecutions.

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