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"Kristen," the high-priced prostitute whom New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer is believed to have hired, has been identified by the New York Times as Ashley Alexandra Dupre, a 22-year-old aspiring musician and native of New Jersey.

Dupre, who was born Ashley Youmans, now lives in the Flatiron district of Manhattan, the Times reports. She appeared in court Monday as a witness against the four people charged in the alleged prostitution ring known as the Emperors Club V.I.P.

Dupre grew up in New Jersey, before moving to North Carolina in her teens, her mother told the New York Times.

Her mother, who didn't know her daughter was an escort until she called her last week, told the Times she doesn't think her daughter knew who Spitzer was at the time of the incident.

“She is a very bright girl who can handle someone like the governor,” Carolyn Capalbo, 46, told the newspaper. "But she also is a 22-year-old not a 32-year-old or a 42-year-old and she obviously got involved in something much larger than her.”

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Noice. Very noice. Not worth $5000 an hour or destroying your life over. But very, very, noice.