Belmar Babe linked to Spitzer

NEW YORK (WABC) -- The New York Times has identified the girl known as "Kristen" at the center of the Eliot Spitzer sex scandal.
Kristen is one of the girls Spitzer allegedly spent thousands of dollars for as a client of a prostitution ring.
The newspaper reports that she was born Ashley Youmans, but is now known as Ashley Alexandra Dupre. She left a broken home in Belmar, New Jersey, at age 17 and came to New York City to try and break into the nightclub scene as a rhythm and blues singer, according to the paper.
Now 22, she has spent the last few days in her ninth-floor rental in an upscale apartment building in the Flatiron district.