The New Nation - Internet Edition

AFP, New York

A week ago, she was just a call girl and aspiring singer. But throw the governor of New York onto her client list and Ashley Alexandra Dupre has become an overnight star and budding millionaire.

Media reports said Dupre has already earned nearly a million dollars thanks to Internet downloads of her two songs since the news broke of her escapades with governor Eliot Spitzer that led to his downfall. Her songs "Move Ya Body" and "What We Want" have been bought by two million people and downloaded from the site www.amiestreet.com, the website said.

Dupre gets 70 per cent of the 98-cent cost of each song.

On Friday, the first song stood at number three on the site's "buzzing" list, and the second was number five on the most popular list.

And although she seems to have gone into hiding, Dupre was also reportedly in talks to pose naked for magazines such as Penthouse and Hustler, according to several US newspapers.

"She'll probably take that opportunity, especially because she wants to have a music career," Jean M. Twenge, author of "Generation Me", told the online magazine amNewYork.

"Let's face it. It could help. In some ways it's realistic."

The young woman sings in an R'n'B style, with a hint of Beyonce. And although she has not signed with any record label, her page on the social networking site MySpace says she has been influenced by singers such as Etta James, Aretha Franklin and Whitney Houston.

On Friday she had some 1,798 "friends" on the site, and dozens of others had left messages of support and congratulations.

Spitzer resigned Wednesday after he was outed as a client of an exclusive prostitution ring. Dupre was revealed as the call girl known as Kristen with whom he had arranged a tryst in a Washington hotel.

"Wow Ash, you have been getting radio play all over NY," said one of the posts on Dupre's MySpace page. "You became a star in just one night," added another.