The call-girl who brought down the Governor of New York moved yesterday to use her new-found celebrity to boost her flagging singing career.

Ashley Alexandra Dupré, a struggling singer, uploaded a new track to Amie Street, an online music-seller, hours after she was exposed as the prostitute Kristen talking on tape about the disgraced Eliot Spitzer.

Ms Dupré apparently hopes to cash in on her notoriety with sales of her CD Unspoken Words. At about midnight local time on Wednesday she logged on to the website to upload Move Ya Body, a second track from the album. Move Ya Body and the first track, Can You Handle Me, Boy?, quickly surged to the site’s maximum price of 98 cents (49p), based on popular demand. Before the news broke, Can You Handle Me, Boy? had been selling at 9 cents. “This is definitely the most traffic we have had,” Joshua Boltuch, a spokesman, told The Times. He said that the demand- driven prices of her songs had risen just as fast as or faster than major artists selling through the site.

More than four million people viewed Ms Dupré’s MySpace page before it was taken down yesterday, and hundreds of thousands downloaded her songs from there.

Penthouse magazine said it would consider offering her a cover shot. Diane Silberstein, the publisher, said that Penthouse would make a photo shoot “worth her while”. Ms Dupré, a 22-year-old former child gymnast, was exposed by The New York Times as the “American, petite, very pretty brunette” prostitute called Kristen caught on a phone-tap talking about a tryst with Mr Spitzer in the Mayflower Hotel, Washington, on the eve of Valentine’s Day.

School friends where she grew up in New Jersey described her as the class beauty. “She never dated anyone in our school. She was never slutty. She would date older guys,” a 22-year-old woman identified only as Stephanie told the New York Post. “I thought she always had a good personality, and she was a gorgeous, gorgeous girl,” Chris Minardi, 23, told the New York Daily News. Bill Coyne, who played Danny to her Sandy in a school production of Grease, said: “She is naturally just a sweet, sweet person; kind spirit.”

Carolyn Capalbo, Ms Dupré’s mother, told The New York Times that she was “shell-shocked” when her daughter called to tell her that she had been working as an escort and had got into trouble with the law. “She is a very bright girl who can handle someone like the governor,” Ms Capalbo said. “But she also is a 22-year-old, not a 32-year-old or a 42-year-old, and she got involved in something much larger than her.”

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