The Top 10 Everything of 2008

2. Ashley Alexandra Dupré

You probably know her as Kristen, the same way Eliot Spitzer came to be known as Client 9. Both the call girl and her famous customer, New York's now-former governor, were outed during an investigation into a prostitution ring called the Emperors Club. Although the feds arrested four Emperors Club employees and Spitzer swiftly resigned in March amid the scandal, neither he nor Dupré ended up being charged with any crimes. Dupré, 23, got immunity, 9 million hits on her MySpace page and plenty of media attention. In November, the New Jersey native chatted about the perils of prostitution with Diane Sawyer, and told People she didn't know her client was an elected official until she saw him apologizing on TV.

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