Meet Ashley Alexandra Dupre

But she's so much more. The Times gets a great deal of its biographical data from Dupré's MySpace page, which is really quite something.

The objects of sex scandals once hid in shadows; for most of 1998, much of what we knew about Monica Lewinsky was second- or thirdhand, not from the source. We're in a different time now, of course.

Thanks to social networking, Ashley Alexandra Dupré comes to us a woman in full.

Excerpts from her MySpace bio:

When I was 17, I left home. It was my decision and I've never looked back. Left my hometown. Left a broken family. Left abuse. Left an older brother who had already split. Left and learned what it was like to have everything, and lose it, again and again. Learned what it was like to wake up one day and have the people you care about most gone. I have been alone. I have abused drugs. I have been broke and homeless. But, I survived, on my own. I am here, in NY because of my music.

And what about that music? Here's a link toher band's page. For 39 cents, you can buy Dupré's song "What We Want."

The lyrics go, in part: "Look in my eyes so I can see if you're for real / Can you ride with me boy?"

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