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Spotted
cityfile · 12/18/09 10:00AMAshley Dupre leaving WB11's studios on East 42nd Street looking very business-like ... Ashley Olsen smoking a cigarette outside Sant Ambroeus with a friend ... Alicia Keys exiting the Christian Louboutin store on Horatio Street with Swizz Beatz and her bodyguard ... Kate Hudson leaving her townhouse ... Famke Janssen taking her dog for a walk ... Robert Downey Jr. arriving at ABC's Times Square studios ... Hugh Jackman walking on Canal Street ... Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz leaving a grocery store yesterday ... Amanda Seyfried filming scenes for Letters to Juliet near Battery Park ... and Sarah Jessica Parker getting into a car outside Morandi after having lunch there yesterday.
Jake & Anne Get Linked; Demi Goes on Defense
cityfile · 12/18/09 08:05AM
• Jake Gyllenhaal just split up with Reese Witherspoon. Has he already moved on with Anne Hathaway? That's what the National Enquirer is suggesting. So it could be true, but it could also be totally made up. [ShowbizSpy]
• In other Anne Hathaway news, it turns out the guy who crashed his bike into the car she was sitting in earlier this week was a paparazzo. [AP]
• Demi Moore posted a pic of herself to Twitter—it was an outtake from a recent Harper's Bazaar photo shoot—and fellow Twitter users unleashed their wrath, suggesting the photos had been Photoshopped and telling her she looked old. "I'm 47. How am I supposed to look?" she responded. This actually makes us feel a bit bad for Demi, which isn't something that happens very often. [Us]
• "Snooki" (Nicole Polizzi) from MTV's Jersey Shore has been fired from her receptionist job for taking time off to go to LA to promote the show. (She's not too broken up about it. She got to hang out with Kristin Cavallari while she was there, so it was totally worth it.) In other Snooki news, the guy who punched her in the face on the show, a scene MTV censored, says he's sorry. [NYDN, Us]
Tabloid Sex Journalism Ethics Battle Is Most Ridiculous Current Battle
Hamilton Nolan · 12/17/09 04:35PMIs the Daily News in Bed with Madam Kristin Davis?
cityfile · 12/17/09 11:30AMOn Tuesday, the New York Daily News took the New York Post to task over its new "sex, love and relationship" columnist Ashley Dupre, calling the ex-hooker's advice "useless" and bemoaning the fact Post editors have insisted on giving Dupre a "16th minute of fame." But the Daily News is a friend to publicity-seeking former sex workers, too! Look no further than Kristin Davis, the madam who claims she provided escorts to former Gov. Eliot Spitzer. Over the past 11 months, the News has mentioned Davis in no fewer than 16 articles, many of which link to her website and plug her self-published paperback book. (Just yesterday, she earned a mention when the Daily News' Gatecrasher column interviewed Davis about her plans to run against Spitzer for state comptroller in the event he decides to run himself.) It's almost like the paper has Davis on speed dial, doesn't it?
Spotted
cityfile · 12/16/09 10:18AMMary-Kate Olsen walking downtown with her mom after a little shopping expedition ... "Advice columnist" Ashley Dupre going into an office building near Gramercy Park with an unidentified man ... Amanda Seyfried carrying a handful of holiday gifts in the East Village ... Michelle Williams crossing the street with her daughter Matilda ... Hugh Jackman leaving his apartment building ... Matthew Broderick walking with son James in the Village ... Fergie leaving ABC studios ... Sarah Jessica Parker leaving a hair salon in the meatpacking district ... Tracy Morgan filming scenes for 30 Rock in the West Village ... and Rihanna shopping with one of her friends.
The Daily News Shares a Few Excellent Ideas with the Post
cityfile · 12/15/09 01:45PMNot surprisingly, the Daily News isn't all that impressed with the New York Post's newest columnist, ex-hooker—and now singer and crisis management expert—Ashley Dupre. After dismissing the column as "useless," Joanna Molloy shares a few (great!) ideas on what the Post could cook up as an encore: "Bernie Madoff could write a what-not-to-do with your money column; we could get travel tips from Salvatore (Sammy Bull) Gravano; Sen. Larry Craig could advise on how to meet new people; Mel Gibson could give lessons on tolerance and Lindsay Lohan, on sobriety." [NYDN]
Okay Sorry But the Daily News Cannot Abide This Dumb Whore Columnist
Hamilton Nolan · 12/15/09 12:10PMCourtney Love Loses Custody of Her Daughter, Again
Maureen O'Connor · 12/15/09 06:17AMGawker.TV: The Five Best Videos Ever of the Day
Whitney Jefferson · 12/14/09 04:00PMBarbara Walters Shows Her Passive Aggressive Side to Ashley Dupre
Kirk · 12/14/09 01:08PMLindsay's Little Lie; Ashley Dupre's New Gig
cityfile · 12/14/09 07:46AM
• Remember last week when Lindsay Lohan announced that she'd "saved" a bunch of kids in India from becoming victims of child trafficking? Yea, well, it seems she wasn't even in the country yet when that happened, at least according to according to a leading social activist in New Delhi, who has since filed a complaint with the BBC, which was filming Lohan's efforts for a documentary. In any event, LiLo must be totally, like, spent from saving the world: She returned to the U.S over the weekend after spending less than a week there. [Telegraph, People]
• In other LiLo news, the Lohan family website is now selling some of her secondhand clothes. If you'd like to buy Lindsay's hideous wardrobe from back in her Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen days, you're in luck. [P6]
• The New York Post has added an esteemed new columnist to its roster! Ashley Dupre is the paper's new love, sex, and relationship columnist. In her first column, Dupre answers questions about a rebellious teen, how to tell if one's husband is unhappy, whether or not to share your "number," and also offers up some Christmas gift ideas. There's even a video to go with it in which Dupre is dressed up like a naughty schoolgirl. [NYP]
Spitzer Rumors Revived
cityfile · 12/10/09 10:23AMRemember back in September when the Post reported that Eliot Spitzer was thinking about getting back into politics and running for state comptroller? The ex-governor denied it, but the Post has a fresh story today about Spitzer's plans, and is now reporting that the disgraced governor is now "strongly considering" mounting a campaign for comptroller and "wants to run if he can." You can, Mr. Spitzer! Ashley Dupre has already blessed your return to politics. What else could you ask for? [NYP]
Ashley Dupre Cannot Stop Talking to Tabloids About Prostitution
Hamilton Nolan · 12/04/09 09:35AMAshley Sees a Double Standard
cityfile · 12/04/09 09:32AMBecause when it comes to massive sex scandals, there is no greater authority on managing your 15 minutes of fame and profiting off your notoriety (or not!), the Post asked Ashley Dupre what she thought of the Tiger Woods saga. "Here you have all these girls accepting gifts, money, trips from Tiger in exchange for sex—all the while knowing he is married," she responded to the paper via text message. "And now they all can't wait to tell their stories in exchange for even more money from the tabloids? And I was the hooker? At least I kept my mouth shut." [NYP]
Maureen O'Connor · 11/11/09 03:51AM
Ashley Dupre Breaks Out the Blue Eyes This Weekend
cityfile · 10/30/09 02:00AMWe weren't able to find out what Eliot Spitzer is dressing up as for Halloween, but Ashley Dupre came through in a big way when she posted pics of one of three looks she'll be rocking this weekend to her Twitter account. (She'll be a sailor on Friday night, a cat for brunch on Saturday, and a vampire on Saturday night.) Ashley would like you to know she isn't wearing any make-up in these photos, and that it took her an hour to get the contact lenses in. But her efforts paid off nicely, didn't they? Two bigger pics of New York's most famous ex-call girl turned recording artist looking her freakiest are below.
Rosie O'Donnell Is Simply Irresistible
cityfile · 10/28/09 06:11AM
• Rosie O'Donnell told Howard Stern yesterday that she "had a chance to romance" Angelina Jolie back when they were both single and they talked on the phone a few times, but they never ended going out for dinner as planned, alas. She also says Petra Nemcova once sent her "love signals" when the model was a guest on Rosie's talk show, but she didn't capitalize on that opportunity either. Rosie has a new satellite radio show launching next week, so don't be surprised if more of these missed love connections surface in the coming days. [NYDN, CM]
• In other creepy celebrity sex news, a new book by controversial biographer Andrew Morton claims that Angelina Jolie slept with her mother's live-in boyfriend when she was 16 years old. And a second Jolie tell-all, to be published on December 1, claims Angie once contemplated suicide, has a history of heroin use, and, when it comes to her relationship with Brad Pitt, has "successfully manipulated the public into believing a glamorous fairytale that bears little resemblance to the reality of the pair's life together." [DM, Us]
• Ashley Dupre popped by Scores last Saturday night. She didn't strip, but she did make out with her new boyfriend PJ all night, so patrons of the strip club didn't go home totally empty-handed. [P6]
Actors Clean Up at Emmys; Mischa Gets Even Messier
cityfile · 09/21/09 06:03AM
• 30 Rock and Mad Men took home Emmys last night for outstanding comedy series and outstanding drama series, respectively. (Surprise, surprise.) Alec Baldwin won for outstanding actor in a comedy series; Breaking Bad's Bryan Cranston won for outstanding actor in a drama series; Glenn Close won for best actress in a drama series for Damages; and The United States of Tara's Toni Collette took home the award for best actress in a comedy series. Other winners included Lost's Michael Emerson, 24's Cherry Jones, Grey Gardens' Jessica Lange, Pushing Daisies' Kristin Chenoweth, and Two and a Half Men's Jon Cryer. The catchphrase of the night was "pulling a Kanye," naturally. [People, Us]
• Mischa Barton just isn't a morning person... or perhaps she's having dental issues again. A source from her CW show, The Beautiful Life, says she's often so out of it in the mornings that she holds up filming, and she'll stare into her coffee for minutes on end, mumbling, "Who will fix my coffee? I need someone to fix my coffee." [P6]
• Courtney Love lost it when a bathroom intruder caught her with her pants down at the T magazine party at the Standard the other night. Love supposedly screamed that the man had attacked her and tried to have him ejected. "I never wanted to see Courtney Love on the toilet," says the unlucky guy. "It wasn't a pretty sight. I just wanted to get out of there." [P6]