

What to do when your prostitution income dries up and the music career you hoped for plateaus after selling MP3 downloads to a few curious listeners? Find other means of income, natch. So here’s Ashley Alexander Dupre, Eliot Spitzer’s former call girl, looking for her next big pay day with Joe Francis, launching a $10 million suit against the Girls Gone Wild chief for marketing his video footage of the then 17-year-old, even though, as she claims, she wasn’t old enough to legally sign a contract granting him permission.
It’s unlikely she’ll ever see anything close to $10 million. Francis has the funds to string this lawsuit through the courts and drain whatever cash Dupre might have saved up. That, and he loves this kind of publicity, so it’s in his best interest to keep this scandal going.
That said, we imagine Dupre will end up getting a few bucks, if not via settlement, then through a revenue sharing arrangement with the video Francis plans to sell. Either way, it’d still be significantly more than what she earned back in Miami Beach in ‘03 when she was filmed:


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