Ashley Dupre Explains The Difference Between an Escort & Prostitute

Watch the interview tonight on "20/20" at 10 p.m. ET

Here's the awkward, yet brief exchange that ends the clip:

Diane Sawyer: Any difference in your mind? [Between an escort & prostitute]

Ashley Dupre: Yes, I think that prostitution is only about sex...where as an escort is more...it's time spent... it's a lot more than that.

Watch the clip on ABC's website.

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Let me tell you something, this bitch is whore whether she likes it or not. She gets paid to let men stick their cocks in her pussy. That means she's a whore. End of story. And let me tell you something else. Ashley Dupre comes to Los Angeles and her rate is going to drop by about 75%. No man in Los Angeles wants to pay top dollar to fuck some Jersey Yenta. Men in Los Angeles pay so that they DON'T have to fuck girls like this. But congratulations, Ashley Dupre, because until they day you die, you will always be known as That Whore Who Fucked Eliot Spitzer. That's all you will ever be. Good job. I'm sure you're very proud of yourself. That's quite a lot you did with your life; let a gap-toothed politicin fuck you without a condom.

Friday, November 21st, 2008 @ 4:26pm
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"More time spent?" So that makes you a dial-up "friend" he
fucks?

Just because he spends more money, that doesn't mean you're not a whore like the tricks on the street or in the legal brothels.

Frost
Friday, November 21st, 2008 @ 4:42pm
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I'll accept that there is a difference between a prostitute and an escort. I don't know how she explained it herself as I didn't watch the clip. An escort would be more like a companion or more than just sex. Whatever differences one may think there are it doesn't really matter. The fact is both have sex for money and that is what some find objectionable.

mud hen
Friday, November 21st, 2008 @ 4:46pm
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There's no difference between an escort or a prostitute, or between a prostitute and all the hot women who marry ugly or old rich guys.

People just need to get over it, has always happened and always will. As long as guys want pussy and women want money, you won't get rid of prostitution.

McPerv
Friday, November 21st, 2008 @ 4:55pm
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But the escorts, like, have deep conversation and, like, go to dinner with them and some junk!

Frost
Friday, November 21st, 2008 @ 4:56pm
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Yeah, what a joke. I'm sure if they took away the sex part, they'd still get hired.

McPerv
Friday, November 21st, 2008 @ 5:36pm
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And that's the sad part of it.

Frost
Friday, November 21st, 2008 @ 5:53pm
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So fuck it and just legalize it!

But then this country can't even create an Over-site committee to watch the likes of AIG, so what makes me think that wouldn't be an absolute disaster and fodder for the Puritans.

JTchicago
Sunday, November 23rd, 2008 @ 4:07pm
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That girl is a fucking cunt. That said I'd hit it, but I'd probably pay about a grand to hit it.

Friday, November 21st, 2008 @ 5:35pm
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one grand?! dude!! you have no idea what kind of shit is out there, do you?

Moe
Friday, November 21st, 2008 @ 5:38pm
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No shit, for $500 or less you can get someone who is a Perfect 10.

McPerv
Friday, November 21st, 2008 @ 5:45pm
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You're a whore, darlin'.

Her answer is just splitting hairs. Sure, escorts are slightly different from prosties in how the evening goes. But they're both there for the same purpose.

Some Guy
Friday, November 21st, 2008 @ 5:57pm
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A Whore sucks cock for Money, an Escort sucks cock for Money, whats the difference?

Friday, November 21st, 2008 @ 7:48pm
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An escort sucks cock 'with class'

Aisha P
Friday, November 21st, 2008 @ 8:00pm
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I guess it just doesn't matter what she tries to explain. Everybody thinks she is a prostitute.

Friday, November 21st, 2008 @ 9:11pm
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I'm watching this now and she's making me fukking sic. Between the trying to work up tears ("wait a minute, I'm about to cry" and the constant sniffling, even though she's got that stupid smile on) and the avoidance of all the hard questions (some on honey, did you really think you were coming on here just to talk about high school), "legally I can't answer that question", I'm feeling nothing but disgust for her. "I was only 19 at the time." (She started in the "industry".) "I was only 22 at the time." (She was doing Spitzer.) "I'm only 23." (What the hell are you thinking??)

Oh good for her, she managed to pull a tear out. Finally, only took 20 minutes of sniffling.

And you are a prostitute, even if you don't want to say it on national TV.

Friday, November 21st, 2008 @ 11:35pm
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Go Home And Get Ya Fucking Shinebox (Uncertified Bastard)
That girl is a fucking cunt. That said I'd hit it, but I'd probably pay about a grand to hit it.

And THAT is the difference between a prostitue and an escort. About $950. Either way, it's still money for sex.

Friday, November 21st, 2008 @ 11:39pm
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O, be some other name!
What's in a name? That which we call an escort
By any other name would smell as foul.
So Ashley would, were she not escort call'd,

john
Friday, November 21st, 2008 @ 11:50pm
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And:

"And be these juggling fiends no more believed,
That palter with us in a double sense;"

john
Friday, November 21st, 2008 @ 11:54pm
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I feel bad for her, but it's probably just because I think she's hot. I do think there is a difference between an escort and a prostitute, but it's along the same lines as a panini sandwich and a grilled cheese sandwich. People are just willing to pay more for one than the other.

ACE
Saturday, November 22nd, 2008 @ 1:25am
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Is there a difference between Prostitute and Porn Star?

Money talks in this culture and (these type of) girls will sell their souls for a quick buck or shot at a sugga-daddy. 79% or the stars in said porn field are women followed by another 60ish% of internet girls doing soft to hard-core on personal websites.

I cant feel 'bad' for her as it was her decision to do what she does. Much like the football player who 30 years later comes back busted and broken and demands recompense from the organization he cut a deal with when he was hot, blows his wad on chicks, booze, cars, and houses' never thinking (or saving for) what the future holds, let alone if he'll get his hip broken in the next game.

O'jays; Money, Money, Money.

JTchicago
Sunday, November 23rd, 2008 @ 4:21pm
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'Ashley Dupre Opens Up to Diane Sawyer'. Darn! It wasn't what I was expecting. I thought ABC was finally going all out lesbo. Ratings, baby, ratings!

Saturday, November 22nd, 2008 @ 11:40am
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What was most fucked up about the interview was the cutting back and forth between Dupre and Diane Sawyer, who were sitting across from one another. Shots of Dupre were close and clear, shots of Sawyer were far away and blurred. Was retarded. Shit, Diane, we know you're not 22 years old, get over it.

McPerv
Saturday, November 22nd, 2008 @ 2:37pm
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madams teach call girls that "prostitutes" are minorities. thats why she's spewing that.

Saturday, November 22nd, 2008 @ 7:36pm
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i understand the difference. whats the problem? why is there even an arguement. yes they're both whores either way but clearly there is a difference

the kitten
Saturday, November 22nd, 2008 @ 9:16pm
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the problem is that CLEARLY there is no difference.

"High Class" big money white escorts go raw dog with black men while off duty (forfree) on the regular. even this streetwalker, so who's fooling
who?

Saturday, November 22nd, 2008 @ 10:01pm
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What about the whole girlfriend experience that some prostitutes have? Would that automatically make them considered escorts.
Prostitutes have sex for money.
That's exactly what she did.

Nancy
Monday, November 24th, 2008 @ 5:36pm
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