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THE prostitute at the centre of the sex scandal that forced the resignation of Eliot Spitzer as Governor of New York is a 22-year-old aspiring blues singer who comes from a broken home,has abused drugs and is now worried about how she'll pay the rent on her apartment.
Ashley Alexandra Dupre,known to Mr Spitzer as the $US1000-an-hour hooker "Kristen",is also the prosecution's key witness in the case against four people accused of operating the Emperors Club VIP prostitution ring.
Her real identity emerged after Mr Spitzer yesterday resigned the governorship he won in a landslide 18 months ago,a victory many believed had set up the former Wall Street crime buster for a tilt at the White House in the years ahead.
Now Spitzer's political career is over and the ambitions of the man once dubbed "Mr Clean" and the "Eliot Ness of the 21st century" are limited.
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