When you're a hooker, what does a salacious affair with a married, holier-than-thou governor whose last name makes unoriginal bloggers giddy with glee get you? Prison? A hefty fine? A case of the poon-scratchies? If you're a regular lady of the night, all of those outcomes are possible. But when you're Ashley Dupre, you also get your very own reality dating show! Yes, Hollywood is apparently following in the footsteps of – well, everyone – and jumping into bed with a high-priced call girl who overcharges for inevitably crappy hand jobs. (Producers, take note.) Upon hearing the news, potential contestants everywhere quickly formed a line and searched for fluffers when they assumed "try outs" for "dating show" meant something else entirely.

MySpace's most popular escort, Ashley Alexandra Dupré, doesn't look like a sort-of bisexual reality star — not yet. "They're talking to MTV about Ashley being the next Tila Tequila," claimed a source supposedly close to the reality TV producers who aim to squeeze a few more minutes of fame out of the woman who's been shamefully credited with former New York governor Eliot Spitzer's downfall. So a reality show about prostitution? One's already been running online, recorded at the panopticonically perfect Prague brothel Big Sister, where clients get sex for free if they'll allow their sessions with escorts to be part of the show.

Well after the Eliot Spitzer scandal has subsided and bronzed call girl Ashley Dupré no longer makes headlines, she's dropped her case against Girls Gone Wild's entrepreneurial ex-con Joe Francis over the online release of a video characteristic of Francis's oeuvre. We can only hope the young Dupré, pictured here in her high school yearbook, walked away with not just a settlement up front but points on the back end. Sadly, the market cap on her performance can have only been diminished by the wait — I can imagine a band manager-type, buoyed by well-bankrolled rap videos, holding out for mainstream money.

The internet's favorite escort, Ashley Alexandra Dupré, wants to apologize for taking so long to approve your Friend Request on MySpace. "All of my pending friend requests from 3/12 through now were deleted by myspace (if you do not approve them within a certain number of days, they get deleted) so...please please please re-send and you should be approved automatically." We forgive, you, Ms. Dupré — we know you were busy. And shame on you, MySpace, for interfering with a working woman's self-promotion by blocking those friend requests.

• The messy divorce case between Peter Cook and Christie Brinkley has just gotten messier. Days after a judge ruled that the trial would be kept open, it was revealed that Cook handed over $300,000 to Diana Bianchi, the 20-year-old girl he cheated on Brinkley with, in exchange for a promise that she wouldn't sue him for sexual harassment or discuss the affair. Of course, the cash won't prevent her from speaking out in court if she's called to testify. [NYP]

With her singing career on hold and her mom as basically her only friend, Ashley Dupre should have no problem setting aside some time on July 21st to catch HBO's new documentary on Heidi Fleiss. Given the direction her life is headed, Ashley's story could very well turn into the sequel.

The Daily News was thoughtful enough to send a couple of reporters and a photographer yesterday to prowl the Jersey Shore for Ashley Alexandra Dupre (or, perhaps more likely, Ashley tipped them off to her presence, still hoping that keeping her name in the news will land her that record deal she's still looking for). In any event, Ashley and her mom—who, to be honest, looks a bit like a hooker herself—soaked up the sun in Sea Girt, NJ; Ashley showed off the "the curves that wiped out former Gov. Eliot Spitzer's career" as well as her famous tattoo, "tutela valui," which at least according to the language experts here and here, may very well be jibberish in Latin. Touchingly, she and her mom wore matching Gucci sunglasses, news that must come as a major disappointment to Tom Ford, her eyewear designer of choice just a few weeks ago.

It's not breaking news that boinking a politician can really boost a call girl's career, but Eliot Spitzer's speed dial favorite Ashley Dupre is sure milking her fifteen minutes for all they're worth (and, apparently, they're worth a lot). Ashley, aka "Kristen," has gone from cokehead hooker to pop star and potential Penthouse pet in under a week, and it was only a matter of time before Girls Gone Wild parolee Joe Francis dug his grubby claws into her newfound fame. After recently offering Dupre $1 million to ride along on one of his pervy bus tours and getting denied, the annoyingly clever Francis dipped into his sticky archives and managed to dig out five-year old footage of none other than Ashley herself. To see how Ashley partied at 17, check out our clip, via TMZ, after the jump.

A tipster points out that horndogs Googling for "ashley dupre naked" get, as their first result, this search engine optimization page from the Huffington Post. It has a zillion search terms and three big ads on it, but no Ashley in the buff as promised. Not even a witty op-ed post. At least if you search for "ashley dupre photos" or "ashley dupre pictures" and click the Valleywag link atop the page, we deliver.