NYC- Long before she met Eliot Spitzer in Room 871 of the Mayflower Hotel, Ashley Alexandra Dupré saw the places that a shapely body could take her, according to people who say they knew her when.

“She got fake breasts when she was 19 years old,” claims one guy who knew Dupré — then known as Ashley Youmans — growing up in Jersey. He recalls her liking guys in Cadillacs and guys who had houses at the Shore.

“She latched on to us and would hang at our beach house,” recalls the same pal, who says he made out with her, but nothing more. “Eventually, though, I had a falling-out with her over her friends. She’d invite these big guido-looking guys, who would come over and start fights with my friends. Once, we had to get five cops to break up a brawl her friends had started.”

Someone who claims to have met her a few years later on the Manhattan club scene remembers that “she often sat with the big spenders.” One girlfriend had no idea Dupré was turning tricks, but knew “she was sleeping with married men who had children. She tried to be discreet, and wouldn’t divulge sexual details until after they had broken up. She thought every relationship was more serious than it was.”

Dupré has since acknowledged that one of her married boyfriends was paying for her pad. But one party pal remembers, “She’d always just say her family was loaded. She wouldn’t say how or why.”

Another Jersey guy claims that she was flashing “mad money” during a drug binge the weekend before the Spitzer scandal broke. “We were doing coke all night,” the guy writes in an e-mail to Steppin’ Out magazine’s Chaunce Hayden. “Actually, she bought some s— from some dude there, and she pulled out a bunch of $100 bills.”

Dupré’s lawyer, Don D. Buchwald, did not respond by deadline to a request for comment.

Meanwhile, word is that Penthouse has the edge over Hustler if Dupré poses for a skin mag. “You might recall Penthouse also pulled out all the stops when it came to the Vanessa Williams photos many years ago, and she’s not doing too bad these days,” says Hayden. “But nobody has ever moved on from Hustler to do anything but hard-core porn.”