Spitzer hooker crashes New York fashion show

Ashley Alexandra Dupre, the $1,000-a-night hooker favoured by Eliot Spitzer, who as a result of their liaison was forced to resign as Governor of New York in March last year, appears to be enjoying her new-found position as a fixture on the Manhattan social circuit. Others, however, are not.

On Friday, she tipped up at the Israeli designer Yigal Azrouel's catwalk show, part of New York's Fashion Week, planting herself in one of the front-row seats to a blaze of photographers' flashbulbs. Fearing his reputation was not greatly enhanced by her presence, and in an understandable fit of pique, Azroeul promptly sacked the PR company, People's Revolution, who arranged the event.

Kelly Cutrone, the founder of People's Revolution, insists Dupre's presence at the event was none of her doing. "I didn't invite her, but I wasn't going to kick her out or turn her away. We know one another, we're friends. If Ashley had shown up at Marc Jacobs's show, he would have been a hero [about it]. It would have been cutting-edge - but Yigal and she weren't the best fit."

Spitzer himself, who since stepping down as governor has attempted to forge a career as a journalist, writing for the online magazine Slate, will no doubt take this news of his former plaything in his stride. He has far bigger things to worry about: as reported here, the madam who set him up with 23-year-old Dupre, Kirstin Davis, has just published her memoirs, The Manhattan Madam: Sex, Drugs, Scandal and Greed Inside America's Most Successful Prostitution Ring, an account of the disgraced governor's favourite brothel.
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