Super hooker Ashley Dupre takes on king of teenage exploitation

Ashley Alexandra Dupre, 22, the call girl linked to the downfall of former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer sued the founder of the “Girls Gone Wild” series Joe Francis, on Monday for $10 million, claiming he exploited her image and name to advertise the racy videos. Well Ashley moved on from taking down the govenor to now taking on the king of teenage exploitation.  Sort of a call girl super hooker hero.

Francis, 35, has built a soft porn empire filming and marketing videos of young women exposing their breasts and being shown in other sexually provocative situations, often at public events such as Mardi Gras or spring break beach locales.

Francis made a public $1 million offer for Dupre to appear in a “Girls Gone Wild” video and go on a promotional tour, then quickly took back the offer after he realized he already had footage of Dupre. Francis said in March that Dupre spent a week on a “Girls Gone Wild” bus and made seven full-length tapes after signing release papers. He also said he bought her a bus ticket home to North Carolina.

Ashley was filmed on spring break in 2003 for “Girls Gone Wild” in Miami Beach. She contends in the lawsuit that she was only 17 and too young and too drunk to sign legally binding contracts. Miami attorney Richard C. Wolfe who  filed the lawsuit in federal court in Miami says Dupre, “did not understand the magnitude of her actions, nor that her image and likeness would be displayed in videos and DVDs.”

The lawsuit filed  names as defendants “Girls Gone Wild” founder Joe Francis, two of his companies and a man purportedly involved in creation of two Internet sites that the lawsuit contends improperly use Dupre’s image to sell DVDs and other products.

Francis said he was surprised by the lawsuit and said in a statement:

“It is incomprehensible that Ms. Dupre could claim she did not give her consent to be filmed by Girls Gone Wild, when in fact we have videotape of her giving consent, while showing her identification.”

He said the photos were taken “in front of a room full of people, including two newspapers and multiple crews we had in the room.” Francis also said he would be happy to discuss the $1 million offer with her again.

Sleezy Francis is no stranger to legal problems in Florida. He spent a year in jail and was released in March after pleading no contest to child abuse and prostitution charges for filming underage girls in the Panhandle beach town of Panama City. Four women who claim they were 17 or younger when filmed have filed lawsuits there against Francis.

Francis also faces federal tax evasion charges in California. Prosecutors say companies controlled by Francis claimed more than $20 million in phony deductions in 2002 and 2003 and that Francis used offshore accounts to conceal income.

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