Sideshow: Spitzer's playmate aims to be a pop star

Now that her career as

Eliot Spitzer

's favorite date has been blown, what on earth can

Ashley Alexandra Dupré

do for a living?

Don't fret: According to Billboard, Ashley, known to Spitzer - and the world - as Kristen, actually has "aspirations." She wants to be a pop star.

And she's already got an edge. "She has a platform," an A&R consultant tells Billboard.com. "It's just a matter of spinning off negative and making it positive." (Read: She's already world-famous - albeit as a prostitute.)

Ashley, 22, is in demand: As of yesterday morning, her MyFace page had logged 6.2 mil profile views and her tune "What We Want" (What? Why, more Ashley, of course) had 711,334 plays.

The New York Times says two tunes Ashley posted on the priced-by-demand site AmieStreet.com have had a gazillion hits, which pushed their price from free to the max of 98 cents per listen.

So is Ashley the next Britney Spears? The newest Pink? Barbra Streisand reborn?

"I think her song is absolutely terrible," says Capitol Records senior A&R director Chris Anokute. "If people are interested in signing her, then they shouldn't be in the music business." Ouch!

Ashley, who has also done some acting in New York rapper

Mysterious

' video "Pop Off," could always model: Both Penthouse and Hustler want her to pose for (artistic) nude layouts.

"She's young. She's pretty. She's a model," says Hustler boss Larry Flynt about her qualifications.

A cardiologist and a radiologist who were sued for negligence by

John Ritter

's widow and children after the actor's death were cleared yesterday by a jury in Glendale, Calif.

Jurors found that the radiologist, who told Ritter two years before the actor's death that he had calcification in three coronary arteries, had advised the 8 Simple Rules star to consult other doctors and aggressively seek treatment. Ritter did not do so. He died Sept. 11, 2003, of a torn aorta.

Lindsay Lohan

is freaking out over the state of her finances, says In Touch Weekly. Seems LiLo's source of income has dried up after a string of box-office duds ('member

I Know Who Killed Me?

). The mag says LiLo's extravagant spending habits don't help either: Over the last 12 months, she's spent $315,000 on two rehab stays; more than $1 mil on hotels (including $2,700 a night at the Chateau Marmont, where she lived for a spell); not to mention $70,000 on tan-in-a-bottle products.

So what's LiLo's ingenious plan to increase her income? Leggings.

You heard me. She's going to start her own line of leggings.