Ashley Dupre, Eliot Spitzer's former call girl, strips down for Playboy

(BY Lia Eustachewich; N.Y. Daily News) - Ashley Dupre has gone from call girl to cover girl.

Dupre, former NY governor Eliot Spitzer's one-time call girl, graces the cover of the May issue of Playboy magazine. The issue hits newsstands April 16.

"I had a lot of fun doing these pictures," Dupre said of her photoshoot. "You're naked and you're in front of a bunch of guys - good-looking guys, too, manly men."

The steamy 8-page pictorial features Dupre in her birthday suit - but also offers an exclusive glimpse into her early days as an escort and life post-Spitzer sex scandal.

"I was at a club one night, and a rich older guy said to me, 'I'll give you a thousand dollars if you come home with me,'" she said of her first experience being paid for sex. "I was like, wow, a thousand dollars sounds good. But I was scared."

But she said she's not proud of her career as a call girl.

"Some people call me the girl who brought down the governor of New York, but in reality he brought me down," she said. "I was an escort. As much as I wish I could make that go away, I can't."