Spitzer's Prostitute's Songs Heavily Downloaded, She Made over $200K in downloads this weekend alone.
Hooker's an online hit - to tune of $200G
BY JONATHAN LEMIRE
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Saturday, March 15th 2008, 12:01 AM
Ashley Alexandra Drupré already has banked up to $200,000 in profits from the sex scandal, thanks to curious people who have downloaded her pop songs on the Internet.
More than 300,000 people have listened to Dupré's music on the Web site AmieStreet.com since her name emerged as the prostitute at the center of the Eliot Spitzer sex scandal.
And she could make a lot more money soon: Larry Flynt's Hustler magazine has offered her $1 million to bare all in its pages. Penthouse and porn studio Vivid Video are readying proposals.
Nudie mags Hustler and Penthouse are looking
to offer big bucks for Ashley Dupre to appear naked in
their publications.
Dupré's two songs - "Move Ya Body" and "What We Want" - each cost 98 cents online.
"What We Want" was posted online before her name emerged as Spitzer's prostitute. As dozens of reporters and TV cameras camped outside her apartment building in Manhattan, she then uploaded "Move Ya Body" at 2 a.m. Thursday - cashing in even more on her notoriety.
"Move Ya Body" was the quickest cut ever to hit the site's maximum price of 98 cents per download, said Joshua Boltuch, co-founder of the music Web site, the only place where Dupré's songs can be purchased online.
"It went up to 98 cents in just five hours during the middle of the night," Boltuch said. "That's incredible."
The profits from the downloads could greatly exceed the few thousand dollars that Dupré - who went by the hooker name "Kristen" - earned from her tryst with Spitzer in a Washington hotel room in February.
"Her two songs are by far the most popular on our site since her name came out," Boltuch said.
The price of a song on the site increases with its popularity. Artists collect 70% of a song's sales.
As of Friday evening, 301,098 people had listened to the songs - if they had all bought the songs at 98 cents, Dupré would have made $206,553.
jlemire@nydailynews.com
Hooker's an online hit - to tune of $200G
BY JONATHAN LEMIRE
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Saturday, March 15th 2008, 12:01 AM
Ashley Alexandra Drupré already has banked up to $200,000 in profits from the sex scandal, thanks to curious people who have downloaded her pop songs on the Internet.
More than 300,000 people have listened to Dupré's music on the Web site AmieStreet.com since her name emerged as the prostitute at the center of the Eliot Spitzer sex scandal.
And she could make a lot more money soon: Larry Flynt's Hustler magazine has offered her $1 million to bare all in its pages. Penthouse and porn studio Vivid Video are readying proposals.
Nudie mags Hustler and Penthouse are looking
to offer big bucks for Ashley Dupre to appear naked in
their publications.
Dupré's two songs - "Move Ya Body" and "What We Want" - each cost 98 cents online.
"What We Want" was posted online before her name emerged as Spitzer's prostitute. As dozens of reporters and TV cameras camped outside her apartment building in Manhattan, she then uploaded "Move Ya Body" at 2 a.m. Thursday - cashing in even more on her notoriety.
"Move Ya Body" was the quickest cut ever to hit the site's maximum price of 98 cents per download, said Joshua Boltuch, co-founder of the music Web site, the only place where Dupré's songs can be purchased online.
"It went up to 98 cents in just five hours during the middle of the night," Boltuch said. "That's incredible."
The profits from the downloads could greatly exceed the few thousand dollars that Dupré - who went by the hooker name "Kristen" - earned from her tryst with Spitzer in a Washington hotel room in February.
"Her two songs are by far the most popular on our site since her name came out," Boltuch said.
The price of a song on the site increases with its popularity. Artists collect 70% of a song's sales.
As of Friday evening, 301,098 people had listened to the songs - if they had all bought the songs at 98 cents, Dupré would have made $206,553.
jlemire@nydailynews.com
