Are those sunny days at the beach soon coming to an end for Ashley Dupre, the infamous Eliot Spitzer call girl? The man accused of running the escort service that hooked (no pun intended) up Ashley with the former New York governor and led to one of the biggest sex scandals in New York History will plead guilty in court this week, and it looks like the Feds are throwing the book at him. Others have already pleaded guilty. Could Dupre be next?
Lawyer Murray Richman confirmed to the New York Post that Mark Brener, 62, Ashley’s "Emperors Club V.I.P." pimp, will plead guilty on Thursday in federal court in Manhattan as part of a plea deal. But the U.S. Attorney's Office isn’t cutting him much slack. He’s reportedly looking at up to 30 months in jail on money-laundering and prostitution-conspiracy charges.
Cecil “Katie” Suwal, 23, who was Brener’s girlfriend and worked as his call-girl booker, pleaded guilty last week in a plea deal that includes a 21 to 27 month jail sentence. Brener ran the call girl ring with Suwal out of his New Jersey apartment. Suwal had no prior criminal record. In that regard, the sentence is considered stiff.
Hooker bookers Tanya Hollander, andTemeka Rachelle Lewis have also pleaded guilty or are in plea talks. Lewis was reportedly the booker who arranged the date between “Kristen, “the name Dupre used, and a man identified in court papers as "Client-9," who later turned out to be Spitzer. The Feds tracked Spitzer to Washington where he met up with Dupre on Feb. 13. Spitzer resigned in March.
Dupre has reportedly cooperated with prosecutors from the start, but the Post reports that the Feds have such a strong case against all of the parties, including Spitzer, that they have been driving hard plea deals. Everyone so far has gotten jail time. The evidence is said to include phone records and taped conversations. The feds are particularly interested in determining where Spitzer got the money to pay for his trysts, which reportedly costs more than $1,000 an hour.
Dupre is the smallest fish in the bunch and is not known to have had any role in running the operation. But given the fact that everyone so far has received jail time, it would seem that she would be heading to the slammer as well, although her sentence shouldn’t be nearly as stiff, and may be limited to probation. The would-be singer has kept out of the public eye since her arrest, although she has been spotted in public more recently. Over the weekend, she and her mother spent some quality time at a New Jersey beach.
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