Unintended dividends

So this is what $4,300 gets you? John F. Kennedy set the gold standard for extramarital affairs. The story of Gov. Eliot Spitzer's extramarital affair now moves to 'Kristen', outed as Ashley Alexandra Dupre, formerly Ashley Youmans. Photos taken from her myspace page have been fodder for nearly every news outlet with a Web presence. During all of this, at least one person has written in her defense. But in the final analysis, for at least one aspiring singer with a previously nonexistent budget, $4,300 has bought a lot of publicity.