Since it is beginning to look like no blogger in this nation can be taken seriously unless he or she posts at least twice about John Eliot and Kristen, and all I've done is pass along a joke, I'll throw my take into the mix. My take is this: her lawyer is full of crap.
Don D. Buchwald, the lawyer for the hooker who was shagging New York john and soon-to-be ex-governor Eliot Spitzer, is screaming bloody murder at the media for exposing the 22-year-old harlot to the "public glare" without her consent by printing or posting her photos. Buchwald says his client, Ashley Rae Maika DiPietro, aka Ashley Alexandra Dupre fka Ashley Youmans, alias "Kristen", did not consent to the use of her photos by newspapers and magazines and websites, and that the use of those photos may be a violation of federal copyright laws. He also claimed that she is not a public figure and threatened to take steps "to protect Ms. Dupre from any unwarranted exploitation of her name, picture, voice or likeness for purposes of profit."
He's wrong, and unless he's an idiot, he knows he's wrong. His client is Monica Lewinsky, Deborah Harry and Tila Tequila all rolled into one persona, and her business ventures as a rented piece of ass brought down arguably the most powerful governor in the United States. She's also a key witness in an ongoing criminal proceeding against the former governor and who-knows-who-else. That makes her a very public figure, and pretty much any picture with her likeness is newsworthy. The more salacious, the more newsworthy. He's got no case. There's my take.
My favorite take on the subject comes from gawker, which reproduced the New York Post's cover from Friday and noted:
From moral outrage to "here is a picture of a topless hooker" in three days. Kudos, New York Post. A grateful nation salutes you.
That's funny stuff. If your curiosity about the governor's call girl is still unsatiated, here's a link to some raw video footage of her playing a bit part in some rap video. It amused me because (i) Depeche Mode has been sampled for a rap song; and (ii) the governor's call girl walks like a dude.
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