Alix Earle’s stepmom Ashley Dupré has a scandalous past that involves the social media star’s father, Thomas “TJ” Earle, and former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer. At a young age, Dupré joined a luxury escort service called Emperor’s Club VIP, per Seventeen. In 2008, one of her clients was Spitzer. At the time, Dupré had no idea he was the governor, but after news broke of Spitzer’s involvement with Dupré, he resigned, and Dupré’s life was thrown into the spotlight. In 2008, she told ABC, “If it wasn’t me, it would have been someone else. I was doing my job. I don’t feel that I brought him [Spitzer] down.” However, this would not be the last time Dupré would find herself at the center of controversy.
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Not long after the Spitzer scandal, Dupré was at the center of headlines after the media discovered that she was involved in an affair with Thomas, per the New York Post. At the time, Thomas was married to Alix’s mother, Alisa Earle, but had been having an affair with Dupré for months. In 2008, the businessman revealed he was “ashamed” of his actions. Thomas’ attorney, Mitchell Ansell, shared, “TJ has accepted full responsibility — he’s not blaming anyone else.” Eventually, Thomas divorced Alisa and married Dupré in 2013, but has time healed all wounds, or is Alix’s family broken?
