Book deal, movie deal, Penthouse spread, and a few hundred thousand downloads of her song. She’s living at the moment in a building where the apartments have marble ceilings and the studio rents start at $3,500.
Maybe she won’t have to move out after all.
Dupre had also posted two songs at the music sharing site Aime Street, which allows musicians to earn a 70 percent cut of download fees, which are determined by their popularity. The songs, “What You Want” and “Move Ya Body” are dance-pop tunes a la Britney Spears.
On “What We Want,” she sings: “I know what you need/ Can you handle me?”
As of Thursday evening, the songs had been listened to by some 200,000. Downloads were selling for 98 cents each, though “What We Want” had previously been selling for less than 20 cents. That song was also making it onto the nation’s radio airwaves.
“After the first play, a lot of the reaction was negative,” said Sharon Dastur, program director of New York’s Z100 (WHTZ-FM). “But after the second play, it became, `Play that song again,’ and `Hey, that song’s not bad.”
Ace asks a good question: Given the filthy lucre at stake for any high-end call girl willing to dish dirt on famous johns, why don’t more do it? Some sort of (im)moral code within the profession that you simply don’t, er, “kiss” and tell? That’s a mighty powerful code, if so, considering the amounts at stake and the fact that these women got into the business to make big money in the first place. Or is it simply a matter of proof?
I’ve been meaning to link this all day. Stick with it; the end’s the best part.
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