Alix Earle’s stepmom, Ashley Dupré, garnered her own attention in the public eye after a 2008 sex scandal with a former New York governor.
Dupré, who worked for luxury escort service Emperor’s Club VIP, made national news after having relations with former New York governor Eliot Spitzer. Spitzer ended up resigning from his position one week after the government learned of his involvement with the escort service via a wiretap investigation.
Alongside her incident with Spitzer in 2008, Dupré made news once again after she started having an affair with Alix’s dad, Thomas “TJ” Earle. (TJ was married to Alisa Earle at the time. The pair share daughters Alix and Ashtin Earle.)
“I remember the day very clearly. Paparazzi had shown up at my house and my mom quickly got me and my sister out of the house [and] over to my cousins. I didn’t know they were paparazzi,” Alix shared in her September 2023 interview on the “Call Her Daddy” podcast, adding that it felt like her “world crashed down in that moment.”
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TJ went on to tie the knot with Dupré in 2013. They went on to welcome three children together: Izabel, Penelope and Thomas.
Keep scrolling to learn more about Alix’s stepmom:
Ashley Dupre Was Involved in a Sex Scandal With the Former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer
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Dupré — who was an escort worker for Emperor’s Club VIP when she was only 22 — made headlines after being involved in a sex scandal with Spitzer. He ended up resigning from his position and his wife divorced him the following year.
“He looked familiar. But I was 22 years old, I didn’t, I wasn’t reading the papers, I was so involved in my life and I was so selfish and caught up in my life and I didn’t know who he was,” she explained in a 2008 interview with ABC News. “And I was whoever they wanted me to be, and he was whoever he wanted to be.”
After garnering so much public attention and receiving offers for reality shows and photoshoots, Dupré continued to appear on talk shows, do some modeling and started an advice column for the New York Post called “Ask Ashley.”
Ashley Dupre Is Married to Alix’s Father, Thomas ‘TJ’ Earle
The same year as her scandal with Spitzer, Dupré began having an affair with Alix’s father, TJ, who was then-married to Alisa.
“My dad had an affair with someone who was well-known for her job having sexual relations with high-class people and one of them was even the governor of New York,” Alix shared on the “Call Her Daddy” podcast in September 2023. “She was very well known from that and in turn, my dad’s affair became a very public situation.”
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Dupré ended up marrying TJ in October 2013 while they were on a trip to Paris.
“My dad was driving us to school in the morning … and he turns around in the car,” Alix recalled on “Call Her Daddy.” “He’s like, ‘Hey. So you know how Ashley and I took a trip to Paris last week?’ And we were like, ‘Yeah.’ And he’s like, ‘So, you know, we got married.’”
Ashley Dupre Is a Mother to 3 Biological Children
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TJ and Dupré went on to welcome Izabel, Penelope and Thomas in 2012, 2015 and 2017, respectively. Alix has a close relationship with her half-siblings — and even dedicated one of her Dancing With the Stars’ dances to her sister Izabel.
“I went to visit her in the hospital, and I had this overwhelming feeling,” Alix exclusively told E! News in October 2025. “I wanted to look out for her, I wanted to protect her. Suddenly, that became more important than the other emotions I was feeling and dealing with. It really helped me to mature and really helped bring our family back together. It was our second chance at our family.”
Alix noted that while she’s Izabel’s “big sister” that Izabel has kind of been like a big sister that she never had because “she’s taught [her] so much.”
“It’s hard to replicate and hard to find, so I just give her so much credit for that,” she gushed.
Ashley Dupre Became Close With Her Stepchildren
Although Alix and Ashtin were not thrilled after their dad’s affair and welcoming Dupré into the family, they eventually started to become more of a blended family.
“It’s normal for me to have my dad, my mom and my stepmom all going on the same trips. Whatever’s happened in the past, we’ve all gotten past it as a family,” Alix told Elle in an August 2023 interview.
Alix shared that she had become “super close” with Dupré.
“One time, I was overwhelmed about something of mine and I called my dad,” she recalled to Elle. “He was like, ‘You should really talk to Ashley about this. She has dealt with this before, stuff in the media.’ It’s brought us closer because she’s able to guide me through it.”
Ashley Dupre Became an Influencer
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Dupré continues to share her life as a mom and wife on social media where she has amassed 327.2K followers on TikTok and 31K on Instagram.
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In one of her pinned videos that has over 1M views, Dupré shows a gift that Alix gave Izabel when she was younger.
“For one of Izabel’s birthdays. She was super young, Alix made this for her. She took all of these little sticks and she glued them all together to make a box,” she said in the TikTok video in February 2024. “Inside that box were these [cards]. There are 10 pieces.”
Dupré explained that each of the notes contained “words of wisdom or advice” for Izabel including “stay adorable, stay loveable, learn to share and don’t be scared to make friends, be nice to everyone, love your friends and family, be the best that you can be in all that you do, be thankful for what you have, be yourself and don’t be afraid, be a great friend and become a leader.