The Earle family patriarch is finally laying this ghost to rest, speaking with a sense of accountability and regret that shows genuine growth. He's framing this as closure—not drama—for his daughter Alix's sake.
Sources close to the family say Alisa Earle, Alix's mother from whom he divorced in 2009, has zero interest in revisiting those painful years. The reconciliation talk is one-sided at best.
The Ashley Dupré-Eliot Spitzer scandal broke in March 2008 when the New York Governor resigned after tabloids revealed his involvement with the call girl. Alix Earle's father divorced from Alisa Earle shortly thereafter, per Page Six reporting from September 4, 2026.
Some confessions come eighteen years too late to heal anything but a guilty conscience. The Earl family wreckage is ancient history—Alix has built her own empire since then and doesn't need daddy's redemption arc.
The patriarch of the Earle family is finally ready to talk about the elephant in the room that's been stomping around for nearly two decades—and he's not mincing words about who deserves the blame. Alix Earle's father spoke exclusively to Page Six, detailing the messy aftermath of his 2008 affair with Ashley Dupré, the woman whose relationship with New York Governor Eliot Spitzer brought down one of the most powerful men in American politics and shattered a family in its orbit.
"All my fault," he reportedly told the outlet, taking full responsibility for the scandal that led to his divorce from Alisa Earle, Alix's mother. The admission comes nearly eighteen years after tabloids first exposed Dupré's involvement with Spitzer, which ultimately forced both their hands—Spitzer resigned as governor in March 2008 while Dupré became an overnight media sensation under the moniker "Empire State Girl." What the public didn't know at the time was that Earle's father had been entangled in his own web of infidelity, and when it unraveled publicly alongside the Spitzer mess, there was nowhere left to hide.
The timing couldn't have been worse for Alix, who was still a teenager navigating her formative years while her family imploded on front pages nationwide. Dupré herself later acknowledged that she crossed paths with several powerful married men during her escorting days, and Earle's father appears to be among them. The resulting divorce from Alisa was reportedly acrimonious enough to leave lasting scars—not just on the adults involved, but on their daughter, who has only recently begun building a public life as an influencer and media personality with Netflix projects and brand partnerships.
Sources close to the family tell me that Alisa Earle has zero interest in revisiting those dark days. She's moved on entirely, and any talk of reconciliation or forgiveness between her and her ex-husband appears to be purely his narrative—not hers. "She's not reading this, she's not commenting, and she definitely isn't forgiving," one insider noted, speaking on condition of anonymity because the situation remains sensitive despite its age.
For Alix's part, she's managed to transform what could have been a permanent stain into career fuel. Her rise through social media and entertainment has been documented extensively—she even has projects with Netflix under her belt. But family history has a way of resurfacing when you least expect it, and this particular ghost apparently needed to be exorcised by someone before Alix's story could move forward completely clean.
