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On The TODAY Show Monday, former New York governor Eliot Spitzer, who resigned from office last year after becoming embroiled in a call-girl scandal that rocked the nation, spoke of his regret over the “excruciating pain” he caused his family, and why he opposes the bail-out.

“This is something that has caused excruciating pain to [my wife] and my daughters,” the 49-year-old Spitzer said in a interview with Matt Lauer this morning. “It’s something that I carry with me every day because of the pain I’ve caused. And so I’ve tried to balance: The obligation to speak is vast, but also the pain to my family has been enormous.”

Eliot Spitzer’s landed a new gig.

Beginning early next year, the disgraced former Governor of New York will demonstrate his expertise on government regulation and finance as a columnist with Slate.com.

“He’s going to be doing a regular thing,” Slate Group editor-in-chief Jacob Weisberg tells the New York Observer.

Spitzer watched his career crumble last March after being caught in a $1,000 per-hour sex scandal with then-22-year-old call girl Ashley Dupre.

Ashley Alexandra Dupre, the 23-year-old high-priced call girl behind former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer’s humiliating fall from grace (and his resignation from office), is telling her side of the story for the first time on the pages of this week’s edition of PEOPLE Magazine, on newsstands Wednesday.

Check Out Some Highlights From Ashley’s Interview With PEOPLE

The former prostitute will reveal more about her tryst with the former governor during an interview with ABC correspondent Diane Sawyer that will air on 20/20 this Friday, Nov. 21, 2008 at 10:00 p.m. EDT.

Ashley Dupre, the 22-year-old Jersey Girl who made headlines when she was revealed as Eliot Spitzer’s by-the-hour semen receptacle last Spring, will sit down for a tell-all interview with Diane Sawyer on 20/20 this Friday, Nov. 21.

The aspiring pop star is expected to dish on the details of her paid liaisons with the disgraced former New York governor.

(This is an Official Brain Bleach Moment) Spitzer hooker Ashley Alexandra Dupre isn’t the only one in the New York Governor Sex Scandal auctioning off her naughty bits to the highest bidder. Shamed former Gov. Eliot Spitzer has been also received a $1 million job offer: this one is an opportunity to pose nude in all of his aging balding glory in an upcoming issue of Playgirl Magazine. (No, they weren’t kidding.)

Playgirl posted this Open Letter to Eliot on it’s Official Website on Wednesday:

Dear Eliot,

Seriously—get in touch with us. We’re ready to make you a very attractive offer. Someone get Spitzer on the line: Playgirl needs him naked, now.

One year behind bars and Joe Francis hasn’t learned a thing. The Girls Gone Wild founder has vowed to release a special edition GGW video featuring Ashley Alexandra Dupre, the twenty-two year old Jersey Shore-born guidette accused of boinking former New York governor Eliot Spitzer. In 2003, Ashley “performed” at the Girls Gone Wild House in Miami, Florida. No one got the “Spitzer Treatment,” but “there’s full nudity,” Joe says of the tapes. There’s just one little problem, the footage was shot when the hooker was just seventeen.

“We are getting pressure from her lawyer. As soon as we withdrew the million dollar offer, he is just mad because her price has dropped. Even if she was 17, we could still release it. There’s no sexual contact. There’s only nudity.”

“She probably hates me. But now we are going to capitalize on it by putting it on girlsgonewild.com.”

(Does anyone else fail to see anything spectacular about this girl’s looks? Pretty? Yes. America’s Next Top Model? That would be a no. She looks like brunette from Long Island or Atlantic City. )

Release of the video has been delayed while attorneys for Ashley try to proof that she was a minor, and therefore unable to sign any legally-binding contracts consenting to the video’s release. But Good Ole Joe remains confident, assuring his Ash’s adorning fans that her naughty footage will be online “in the next couple of days.”

When asked if he would date Ashley: “Absolutely not,” he said. “You think I would follow Spitzer?”

Exposed as a whore and rejected by Joe Francis? Looks like Ashley just hit a new low. That guy would seriously sleep with a sheep!

Fresh out of the clink, Girls Gone Wild founder Joe Francis has rescinded his $1 million offer to Eliot Spitzer’s human cum dumpster Ashley Alexandra Dupré to participate in the 2008 Girls Gone Wild Spring Break Tour and his upcoming GGW Magazine. It appears the Governor’s Favorite Good Time Gal already went Wild back in 2003. Joe says he spent a week shooting naughty footage of the then eighteen year old Ashley while she was in Miami celebrating her birthday.

“We just did a database search and her name popped up. She was pretty wild,” Joe says.

“I met her on spring break at the Girls Gone Wild beach house in April 2003. She got into the Jacuzzi. … She threw her arms around me. I never made the connection that this was Ashley. But my cameraman had been in touch with her for a while. I didn’t make the connection until really recently. Then it was like: that’s Ashley!”

“I’ve got it all. Topless, her nude in the shower, making out with girls,” he continued. “She rode the Girls Gone Wild bus for a week.”

Joe says he will release a special Girls Gone Wild video edition featuring Ashley sometime in the next few weeks. And all GGW hoebags, the aspiring singer won’t see a damn dime from the sale of the video. Why do these dumb chicks keep making this douchbag rich?

ASHLEY ALEXANDRA DUPRE GIRLS GONE WILD-CLICK HERE FOR UPDATE!

Add another gig to Ashley Dupre’s growing arsenal of multi-million job offers. After being propositioned for a $1 million photo spread in men’s skin mag Hustler, Girls Gone Wild-founding scumbag Joe Francis has jumped aboard the HO-Train, offering Eliot Spitzer’s “lady of the night” $1 million for pose for his new Girls Gone Wild Magazine, as well as join GWG on new national tour.

The cast of SNL has a ball with this week’s Eliot Spiter Sex Scandal on Saturday Night Live.

New York governor Eliot Spitzer’s singing slutbag, Ashley Alexandra Dupre, shared her goodies in similar fashion in a date with actor Charlie Sheen two years ago.

Before earning top dollar as an “Elite Escort” with The Emperor’s Club Escort Service in New York City, Ashley clocked thousands of dollars each month as working Jason Itzler’s now defunct NY Confidential Escort Service. Jason claims Ashley was one of several pros he sent to work over Three and a Half Men star Charlie Sheen in 2006.

The New York Daily News reports:

It was near the end of Itzler’s run atop his escort service, with $2,000-an-hour working girls such as Natalia McLennan – and, he claimed, Ashley Dupré. Itzler claimed Dupré was “Victoria” – one of the women dressed as cheerleaders whom he sent to actor Charlie Sheen for a night of role playing that hit the gossip pages two years ago.