Television

Stop that $1 million check: It turns out the call girl linked to Eliot Spitzer had already shed her clothes for Girls Gone Wild as an 18-year-old while partying in Miami, the video company's founder said Tuesday.

Joe Francis had reached out to Ashley Alexandra Dupre, now 22, with an offer of $1 million to appear in a non-nude spread for his company's new magazine, plus a chance to join the Girls Gone Wild tour bus, his company announced Tuesday.

But Francis said someone had a revelation at the Tuesday morning staff meeting: Did anyone think to check the archives?

They did, he said — and there she was.

"It'll save me a million bucks," Francis told The Associated Press on Tuesday.

Francis said at that point, his offer was off the table.

Employees got to work on pulling the footage and planned to offer it all on the Web site — with a $30 monthly subscription.

According to a Girls Gone Wild press release, Dupre visited Miami in 2003 to celebrate her 18th birthday. After fighting with a friend and getting thrown out of her hotel, Dupre found a nearby Girls Gone Wild bus, the company said.

She signed legal papers and spent a full week on the bus.