Well you knew that she would pop up soon enough. The young woman who allegedly had a rendezvous in Washington with the soon-to-be-ex governor of NY is not named "Kristen," as she's described in the federal affidavit, but Ashley Alexandra Dupré (born Ashley Youmans). The NYT has been talking to her in spurts since Tuesday night. “I just don’t want to be thought of as a monster,” the 22-year-old Youmans said, noting that she hasn't gotten much sleep over the past week. “This has been a very difficult time. It is complicated.” We learn that she left a broken home on the Jersey Shore at 17 (natch) and came to NY to work the nightclubs as a rhythm and blues singer. She has not been charged.

Ms. Dupre said on by telephone Tuesday night that she was worried about how she would pay her rent since the man she was living with “walked out on me” after she discovered he had fathered two children. She said she was considering working at a friend’s restaurant or, once her apartment lease expires, moving back in with her family in New Jersey “to relax.” She did not say when she had started working for Emperor’s Club, or how often she had liaisons arranged through the ring. Asked when she met Governor Spitzer and how many times they had seen each other, Ms. Dupre said she had no comment.

You can catch her on MySpace. She writes of her “odyssey to New York from New Jersey through North Carolina, Miami, D.C., Virginia and Austin, Texas.” Music is her first love. "If I never went through the hard times, I would not be able to appreciate the good ones. Cliché, yes, but I know it’s true," she writes.