Wall Street Folly

The cute hooker who took down now-former Governor Eliot "Client 9" Spitzer sure seems to get around.  According to the New York Post over the weekend, Ashley Dupres also hangs out with short seller billionaire (and big Spitzer contributor) Jim Chanos who runs hedge fund Kynikos Associates.  They met at a nightclub several years ago and since then she’s often been invited to his babe filled  Hamptons parties.  She seems to know him well enough to call him "Uncle Jim".  (Uncle Jim???  nudge-nudge-wink-wink!).  The 50 year old Chanos, divorced in November 1996,  says he didn’t know that she was a hooker. The NY Post shows her (pictured, on the right) in Chanos’ Hamptons kitchen….

"I know her. She’s a nice
person," Chanos said by phone from the Bahamas late Friday night. "She
is one of many young ladies I have spent time with around town. I have had her
to my home [in the Hamptons], but I never dated her and I never introduced her
to Eliot Spitzer. I had no idea she was a high-priced call girl."

During a clambake last summer, Chanos – who
is also on the board of Manhattan’s elite Browning School – introduced Dupre to
other partygoers as his house-sitter.

"She was the type of girl at my
clambakes that my housekeeper said, while everyone was out on the beach
partying, she was in the kitchen helping her with the dishes," he said.
"She’s got her heart in the right place, but maybe not her head."

One club promoter, who asked her name not
be published, said Chanos often invited pretty young women he met in nightclubs
to his Hamptons home.

"He’s a nice guy, a gentleman. Pretty
girls would come to his table and he gave them a glass of champagne and invite
them to the Hamptons," the woman said.

"Does he know [Dupre]? I’m sure. She’s a party girl who dances on tables
every single night. She’s young, she’s got a lot of energy, and every single
promoter would call her because she always brought hot girls."

Chanos admitted that having such deep pockets had its benefits.

"When you’re a Wall Street guy and you go out to clubs, young girls have a
tendency to find you," he said.

Eliot’s Gal A Shared Asset – New York Post

Tags: Eliot Spitzer, Hamptons, Hedge funds, Hookers, Jim Chanos, Politics