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A man who answered the phone at her mother’s home in New Jersey and identified himself as Dupre’s brother told the Associated Press he had no idea why Dupre would agree to be interviewed in the scandal. “She’s just trying to get through this,” he said. “We are all trying to be supportive of her.” Dupre’s MySpace page provides a window into her life as she went from a broken home in New Jersey to a music career in the city. “I have been alone,” she wrote. “I have abused drugs. I have been broke and homeless. But, I survived, on my own.

I am here, in NY because of my music.” In an Aug. 30 blog posting on MySpace, she wrote: “The past few months have been a roller coaster with so called friends, lovers, and family … but its something you have to deal with and confront in order to move on …” “What destroys me strengthens me” is the slogan next to a photograph of her.

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NEW YORK — The offers are already coming for the woman at the center of the Eliot Spitzer call-girl scandal. She’s wanted on the pages of Penthouse. The magazine has been trying to reach out to 22-year-old Ashley Alexandra Dupre, but has not succeeded.

Penthouse Magazine Group president and publisher Diane Silberstein says Penthouse would “love to have her in the magazine” and would consider offering her a cover shot. Dupre has been identified in news reports as the prostitute whose hotel-room tryst with the New York governor led to his resignation Wednesday. Silberstein says the aspiring musician sounds like she’s very interesting and talented and has a great story to tell. She adds that the magazine would make a photo shoot worth her while.

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