Eliot Spitzer‘s high-priced hooker better learn to grab the cash – fast.
“Girls Gone Wild” honcho Joe Francis yesterday offered $1 million for Ashley Alexandra Dupre to appear nude in a video and magazine spread – but then quickly rescinded the deal after realizing he already had steamy footage of the hot-to-trot call girl in action when she was 18.
“She spent a week on the bus, where she engaged in girl-girl action and got nude,” Francis told The Post, adding, “I actually think she had a sexual relationship with a cameraman.”
Francis said the “Girls Gone Wild” crew caught up with Dupre during spring break in Miami Beach in 2003 after she had been tossed out of her hotel room following a fight with a friend.
“We noticed her wandering around, asked her what was wrong, and invited her aboard the bus,” he said.
“I personally remember Ashley. She was really at her peak back then. I’m glad I got to her before Spitzer – she looked a lot better at 18.”
In the end, the crew shot seven tapes of Dupre – who is now 22 – but had to send her home to North Carolina after they caught her drinking.
“We had to cut her loose because we found her drinking beer on the bus and realized she was only 18. So I bought her a Greyhound ticket back home,” Francis said.
The sultan of spring break said his staff was going over the tapes and trying to figure out what to do with the clearly valuable footage – whether to make a video compilation, or include in the company’s soon-to-be-released magazine, or both.
The discovery of the tapes in the “Girls Gone Wild” archives made Francis’ earlier offer of $1 million to appear in a nude video and pose for a non-nude spread in the magazine.
The offer came on the heels of Larry Flynt’s offer of $1 million for a nude spread in Hustler. Flynt’s spokeswoman, Kristine Coman, said yesterday that his offer still stands, although he is unwilling to go any higher.
Dupre’s lawyer, Don Buchwald, said he had passed every offer he had received on to his client.
“We are getting many e-mails from all over the place,” he said. “Any information we get is forwarded on to her, and she will make the appropriate determination when she is ready.”
With time passing since her stunning role in bringing Spitzer down, Dupre’s moment in the limelight appears to be fading, and experts say she had better act fast if she wants to cash in on her hot nights with the ex-governor.
“At this moment, the window may be almost closed and it will slam shut if there are any other interesting names among the other clients,” said attorney Kathleen Mullin, who represents one of the other hookers stung in the federal investigation of the Emperors Club VIP escort service. “Her moment may have come and gone.””””””