From CNN:

The call girl involved in the sex scandal with former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer filed a lawsuit Monday suing the founder of the “Girls Gone Wild” video series for more than $10 million. In the complaint filed in Miami, Florida, Ashley Alexandra Dupre says she was vacationing in Miami Beach when she was [...]

For her senior thesis, Yale student Aliza Shvarts presented “a documentation of a nine-month process during which she artificially inseminated herself ‘as often as possible’ while periodically taking abortifacient drugs to induce miscarriages.” On display is plastic sheeting smeared with the uterine blood and tissue from her various miscarriages and a video of herself miscarrying [...]

Spitzer is back in the news. Apparently, he has been linked to another prostitution ring called Wicked Models. And another girl named “Kristen”.

Kristen Davis
According to the New York Post:
The ex-governor regularly patronized Wicked Models, the Manhattan-based operation taken down Tuesday, according to financial documents and other evidence unearthed in a year-long prostitution investigation.

At the center [...]

McDonald’s Worker Screams And Runs Away From Little People
Ethan Wade, a McDonald’s customer, has filed a complaint and retained a lawyer after he said that a restaurant employee screamed and ran away from him because he is a little person.

Wade said, “Young lady had her back turned to the counter and when she turned around [...]

Oooh, mama!
Having offered Ashley Alexandra Dupré one million U.S. dollars to do a Girls Gone Wild shoot, Joe Francis has now rescinded the offer once he found out that she’s already in the GGW archives!

Source: Hollywood Today (and many others):
“Girls Gone Wild” founder Joe Francis called off a deal to pay Ashley Dupré $1 million [...]

Kinky!
Gov. Paterson admits to sex with other woman for years; Wife Was No Angel Either!
Eliot Spitzer’s successor and New York state’s new governor, David Paterson, told the Daily News that he and his wife had extramarital affairs. In a stunning revelation, both Paterson, 53, and his wife, Michelle, 46, acknowledged in a joint interview they [...]

Mills bags £24.3 million from McCartney

From the Daily Mail:
She was less than four minutes into the rant when everyone started to pray for another gagging order. Surely Heather Mills couldn’t drag out much longer a simple statement to convey her joy that the case was over and that she was more than £24million richer? Oh [...]

I’ll buy that for 2 dollars!
We don’t normally do economic or financial news stories here at Odd Culture, but this one is a doozy. Remember when you read this story that Bear Stearns was trading around the $80 per share range only a few weeks ago:
J.P. Morgan to Buy Bear Stearns:
J.P. Morgan Chase agreed to [...]

Here’s a Pic of Ashley Alexandra Dupre (Ashley Youmans/Kristen) from her high school yearbook, courtesy of Rankun.

Gawker has a gallery set up, too, with a few extra photos you might not have seen. This one is interesting:

It’s her mom, brother, and I’m guessing, grandfather.
The Wall Street Journal talks about “The Entrapment of Eliot” :
There [...]

Detroit Mayor Kilpatrick
With all the hullabaloo concerning New York Governor Eliot Spitzer (due to resign on Monday), don’t forget the minor scandal involving Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick.
Background:
Christine Beatty was Mayor Kilpatrick’s chief of staff. She was also having an affair with him.

Christine Beatty, former Chief of Staff. Huh, huh - “staff”
In 2003, they fired Deputy [...]