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03/14/2008: "And In The Role Of Weekend Eye Candy, Miss Ashley Dupre ..."

Here at the Home Office, the SCMO staff works long and hard (insert giggle here) to find just the right girl to serve as our weekend eye candy. We feel we have a sacred obligation to you, our loyal visitors, to find only the best of the best to get you through the long weekend. Plus, it's easily the most popular day of the MarlinBlog week, and we want to keep up the traffic.

Some weeks it can be very hard to find someone who is both visually appealing and topically relevant. This, of course, isn't one of those times. Unless you've been living under a rock, you know there's only one person who could possibly serve as our queen for the weekend - Ashley Dupre, the mysterious callgirl "Kristen" whose dalliances - at $5,000 a "pop" (insert another giggle) with New York governor Eliot Spitzer led to his resignation earlier this week. Now, I don't know if she's worth 5K a night, but I wouldn't be embarrassed to be seen with her. But Ashley - those glasses scream "Jersey Girl" ...

I'm sure it's been an interesting week for Ms Dupre, and equally interesting to watch how the news cycle enveloped her and made her as much a part of the story as the governor himself. Part of that I'm sure is the whole "Pretty Woman" parallel people want to draw - young, attractive woman; tough upbringing; doin' what she's gotta do to get by ... she must be another "hooker with a heart of gold" just like Julia Roberts was! Frankly, we have no real idea, since our only insight into Ashley has been her MySpace page. The evolution of that page, from simple front for a burgeoning music career to the fifth-most searched topic on Google, is almost as interesting as the main story itself.

It remains to be seen if we'll even remember the name Ashley Dupre in a month. Will she be like Donna Rice, Gary Hart's mistress who is little more than the answer to a trivia question? Or will she thrive like Vanessa Williams, the disgraced Miss America who overcame the scrutiny to have a successful career as a singer and actress. Only time ... and the media ... will tell ...

Replies: 2 Comments

On Tuesday, March 18th, client 10 said:

I'm a foreigner, so the term "Jersey Girl" is unfamiliar to me.

Has it any connection to Cap'n Fred Archer (rumored by many to be the ultimate Jersey "boy&quot ?

On Tuesday, March 18th, Ravelling TAngler said:

maybe it means like a "sweater girl" rather than a girl from the great state of Jersey ?

"sweater girl":- when was the last time you saw that phrase ? a pairing of words older than half the people who use this site !