Mere months after making headlines for the Spitzer scandal, 23-year-old Ashley Dupré found herself back in the headlines for yet another scandalous relationship. This time, it wasn’t with a powerful politician but married New Jersey construction magnate Thomas “JT” Earle, father of future social media sensation Alix Earle. As the New York Post reported, Earle had been having an affair with Dupré. “TJ made a grave mistake,” his lawyer, Mitchell Ansell, told the Post. “TJ has accepted full responsibility — he’s not blaming anyone else.”
Despite that public mea culpa, the affair didn’t end. Earle eventually divorced his wife, and in 2012, Dupré revealed that she and Earle were engaged — and the couple were expecting a child. “On the record, yes, I can confirm I’m almost seven months,” Dupre told Page Six. “I can’t tell you when the wedding date is just yet.” They welcomed a daughter, Izabel Jagger, and got married in 2013. They subsequently had another daughter, Penelope.
In 2015, Dupre took to Instagram to announce that she was shutting down her boutique, Femme by Ashley, in order to be a stay-at-home mom. “But as my children get older I realize that I can always reopen Femme, but I will not get another chance to raise and enjoy my children,” she wrote. “So I have made the difficult decision to close Femme and focus my time on Izabel and Penelope.”
