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ALBANY, N.Y. - On Saturday night, Gov. Eliot Spitzer was at the annual Gridiron Club dinner in Washington, where President Bush serenaded reporters with a funny song about leaving office. By then the governor knew full well he could be leaving first.
A day earlier, federal prosecutors had told the governor he had been snared in a prostitution operation, according to senior Spitzer aides who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter.
He initially kept it to himself, so when his aides’ cell phones went crazy with a New York Times reporter’s calls the night of the dinner, they didn’t know why. Neither Spitzer nor the reporter let on.
So began a days-long political drama that ended Wednesday with Spitzer’s resignation. Still to come are decisions on whether the stunning indiscretions by the hard-charging, crusading ex-prosecutor will lead to criminal charges or disbarment.
Aides said the first person Spitzer told about the allegations was his wife, Silda. He told her Sunday in their Manhattan home; his state police driver had taken him there after bad weather canceled his flight.
After several excruciating hours, the couple told their three daughters, the aides said. By Sunday evening Spitzer had called top advisers, personal friends and loyalists. The little band huddled in the apartment until midnight.

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Associated Press - March 12, 2008 8:13 PM ET
NEW YORK (AP) - New details are emerging about the call girl at the center of the prostitution scandal engulfing New York’s governor.
A newspaper report identifies her as a 22-year-old aspiring musician from Manhattan. The New York Times reports the real name of the prostitute — identified as “Kristen” in court papers — is Ashley Alexandra Dupre.
Authorities allege that Governor Eliot Spitzer paid more than $4,000 for her services.
New York attorney Don Buchwald confirms that he represents Dupre, the same woman in the Times story, but that’s all he’ll say.
Dupre briefly spoke to the Times about the Spitzer scandal. She told the paper she doesn’t “want to be thought of as a monster.” She says, “This has been a very difficult time. It’s complicated.”
Dupre declined to comment when asked by the Times when she first met Spitzer and how many times they had been together.
Copyright 2008 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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