The Daily Swarm

AP:

As of Thursday evening, the songs had been listened to by some 200,000. Downloads were selling for 98 cents each, though “What We Want” had previously been selling for less than 20 cents. That song was also making it onto the nation’s radio airwaves.

“After the first play, a lot of the reaction was negative,” said Sharon Dastur, program director of New York’s Z100 (WHTZ-FM). “But after the second play, it became, ‘Play that song again,’ and ‘Hey, that song’s not bad.”

Dupre also made an appearance in a video by the rapper Mysterious, director Jonathan Ehlers told Los Angeles, California, TV station KCAL on Tuesday. In the video, Dupre is cast as the girlfriend of Mysterious, at one point making a vulgar hand gesture while lip-synching lyrics that include an expletive.

Gawker:

Nightclub impresario Steve Lewis was out late at a club, and his friends kept talking about how they were friends with Eliot Spitzer’s famous hooker, Ashley Dupre. One of them was even supposedly furiously text messaging with Dupre right in front of Lewis, and told Lewis that, before getting busted, the hooker took “vacations by private jet,” “roll[ed] with P. Diddy’s crew” and “was shacked up with someone else famous this past summer.” She was always talking about her music career, and traveling to various cities to “work on my music” or meet up with a mysterious “partner.”

Billboard:

“As an A&R [person] I wouldn’t be interested in her music solely because of… Spitzer. But people do say any publicity is good publicity and her recent headlines would help get her some exposure. She has a platform; its just a matter of spinning off negative and making it positive.

Part of being good [at] A&R is knowing where the talent is, regardless of background. If the music is good, it’s enough for me to keep my ears open and follow the story. Who knows, maybe a year from now she’ll be in a completely different place.”