MIAMI (AFP) — The call girl who brought down New York governor Eliot Spitzer has filed a 10 million dollar lawsuit against the producers of the popular "Girls Gone Wild" videos, her lawyer said Tuesday.
Ashley Alejandra Dupre, 22, is suing Joseph Francis, the founder of the video series, for illegally using her name and footage of her baring her breasts taken in Miami Beach in March 2003.
Dupre became famous as the call girl named "Kristen" Spitzer favored at the Emperors Club VIP agency, a prostitution racket he visited regularly where he was known as "Client 9." Spitzer resigned in mid-March soon after the scandal broke.
Dupre allegedly met with a "Girls Gone Wild" film team on March 13, 2003 at a Miami Beach hotel while on vacation. The complaint claims that she was 17 at the time.
"They offered plaintiff alcoholic drinks," reads the complaint filed by Dupre's attorney, Richard Wolfe. "After plaintiff became drunk, they induced her into exposing her breasts while being filmed. While drunk, plaintiff was told to sign a 'release.'"
Dupre "did not understand the magnitude of her actions nor that her image and likeness would be displayed in videos and DVDs produced and distributed by defendants," the complaint reads.
Francis claims that it was all legal because Dupre was 18 at the time.
On a website, Francis said that after the Spitzer scandal broke he offered Dupre a one million dollar contract to film videos and to promote "Girl Gone Wild" videos, but then withdrew his offer when he discovered the Miami Beach images in his video archive.
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