Alix Earles stepmom owns reckless past, from Spitzer escort scandal to affair with influencers dad

Ashley Dupré isn’t running from her "reckless" past anymore.Alix Earle’s stepmother opened up about the choices that once made her tabloid fodder, including her connection to the Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal and her affair with the influencer’s married father.Alix, 25, shot to fame on TikTok and has built a massive following by sharing her life online – including, at times, the complicated family history that played out in the tabloids when she was a child.Ashley was thrust into the national spotlight in 2008 when she was identified as an escort connected to then-New York Gov.

Eliot Spitzer in the prostitution scandal that preceded his resignation."At 19, while working as a cocktail waitress, a man approached me and told me I could make $1,000 an hour going on dates with high-profile men," she wrote in an essay for Elle."My first answer was no, but I kept his card.

Eventually, I made the call.I could spend paragraphs explaining why.

I was young.I wanted money and independence.

I’d spent years operating in survival mode and had become very good at compartmentalizing.But ultimately, I made the call.

It was my decision."ALIX EARLE SPOTTED DANCING WITH TOM BRADY IN ST.BARTS: WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT THE SOCIAL MEDIA SENSATIONAshley Dupré, Alix Earle’s stepmother, opened up about the "reckless" choices that made her tabloid fodder nearly two decades ago.

(Getty Images)According to Ashley, she managed the work for two years without anyone knowing."Then, when I was 22, the FBI knocked on my door and showed me a photograph of a man I had seen," she explained."I didn’t know who he was.

When they told me he was the governor of New York, I couldn’t begin to understand what was about to happen."What followed was a level of attention Ashley said she never could have anticipated."Soon, my stage name and face were on the front page of The New York Post.There was an almost ridiculous irony to it," she recalled.

"I had come to New York City wanting to be no...