Ashley Dupre from the Spitzer scandal, voluntarily dropped her $10 million dollar Federal lawsuit against, Girls Gone Wild creator, Joe Francis.
Dupre said that the Girls Gone Wild producers approached her to appear in videos while she was a vacationing 17-year-old at spring break in 2003 Miami Beach.
She says that they gave her alcoholic beverages and had her sign a binding contract to do the videos. Women are shown exposing their breasts and posing provocatively in party locations like spring break and Mardi Gras in the videos.
Francis has said “the truth invariably comes out, as I knew it would in this case. I am happy to, once again, be completely vindicated.”
The Girls Gone Wild creator also stated that Dupre was on the “Girls Gone Wild” bus making seven full length films in a week.
According to Fox News, “Shortly after the lawsuit was filed, Francis released a video where Dupre appears covered by a terry cloth towel and gives her name as Amber Arpaio. An unseen questioner asks if she is 18 and if the footage can be used on “Girls Gone Wild.” She says yes to both questions.”
A New Jersey driver’s license with the name Amber Arpaio and a fake birth date making her appear 20-something can also be seen in the video.
Ashley Dupre became an overnight celebrity in March when news leaked out that she had been a high priced call-girl in the Emperor’s Club VIP prostitution ring that involved then NY Gov. Eliot Spitzer.
After the Spitzer scandal, Joe Francis, made a public $1 million dollar offer to Dupre to appear in a video and go on a promotional tour. However, he took back the offer after realizing he already had footage of her.
For further updates and information please visit Fox News.com.
Tamika M. Murray blogs for PJ’s and A Movie, Stop and Stare Photos, and Blogcritics.
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Signing a one dollar contract should NOT mean that a future one million dollar offer FROM THE SAME COMPANY can then be rescinded after it has been offered. The prior one dollar contract MUST have a warning stating that future celebrity hood will result in the person orginally filmed LOSING any FUTURE compensation offers from the same company. This MUST BE FULLY EXPLAINED TO THE PERSON AT THE TIME THEY SIGN THE ONE DOLLAR CONTRACT.
These one dollar waivers are meant to be used to give the production company leeway to use the image of that person based on that persons recognizability at that moment in time. If however the release is ABUSED to basically shunt that person from ever being offered a contract by that same company because they already have prior footage of that person, then that MUST BE FULLY EXPLAINED to the signer at the time they sign the contract.
In essence, Ashley Dupre´ was competing with her herself without ever being told that any future offers from this same company would be voided because they already had her on tape.
Another issue is the use of her image under her new name of Ashley Dupre SHOULD NOT be allowed. If they want to use the footage, they MUST USE the name that she signed under, Amber Apraio.
I think the lawyers should have proceeded on those two points. As it stands now, it may be harder for production companies to get low cost waivers because of how Ashley’s one million dollar offer was taken off the table after it was offered, all because of a prior one dollar contract.
Ashley, get BETTER lawyers.
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