"You might as well show off what you have before you don't have it any more!" - Ashley Alexandra Dupre

With those words, the then-teenager who allegedly became "Kristen," New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer's high-priced prostitute, told a Palm Beach Post reporter why she was flaunting her now famous assets for the cameras of Girls Gone Wild.

The place: Miami Beach's Chesterfield Hotel.
The time: A sweaty afternoon in mid-March 2003.
The star: Ashley Alexandra Dupre, 17, introducing herself as the newest Girls Gone Wild star, "Amber." She said she was 21, from New Jersey and recently worked as a waitress in North Carolina.

She was already turning heads.

Ashley Alexandra Dupre, or "Amber," with the Girls Gone Wild gang.

During many hours of drunken revelry at a hotel filmed by Girls Gone Wild, Ashley Dupre photos and video - replete with topless antics and suggestive dancing - were captured for one of the tapes that made Joe Francis a multi-millionaire.

And a man facing up to 10 years in federal prison and many more than that in the fiery pits of hell, but that's a subject for another time.

Earlier this week, Girls Gone Wild offered her $1 million to pose in her birthday suit. Then the seedy company discovered it didn't have to shell out the money: Its archives contained 5-year-old footage and pictures of Ashley Dupre.

But even for the producers and cameramen who traveled across America with the single goal of finding drunk girls willing to lift up their shirts, "Amber" took the party to a place where even Girls Gone Wild won't go.

Ashley Dupre hopped on a table in the middle of a hotel lobby crammed with frat boys and launched into a raunchy strip-tease. That's when the camera crew packed up and returned to their monster bus to leave town.

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