70-463: DiPietro is an English surname of Italian origin. Notable people with the surname include: Ashley DiPietro (born 1985), American prostitute connected to the Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal Bob DiPietro (1927–2012), American baseball player David DiPietro (born 1960), American politician Joseph A. DiPietro (born 1951), President of
140-608: A Girls Gone Wild video. Arpaio also sued Girls Gone Wild founder Joe Francis . Dupré began singing professionally when Jerry Cooper, a musician she was living with, heard her singing the Aretha Franklin version of the song " Respect " in the shower. "She had this huge voice for such a little girl," Cooper told MTV , "and so I just kind of went in and said, 'Hey, come upstairs when you're done with this, and let's work on some songs.'" According to Dupré, she then toured and recorded with Cooper's band, networking with people in
210-471: A wiretap after his bank had filed a suspicious activity report regarding money transfers by Spitzer to a front company operated by the escort service. Caught on the FBI's wiretap was Dupré's response to the booker's mention of other escorts' difficulties with Spitzer. "I don't think he's difficult," said Dupré. "I mean it's just kind of like, whatever, I'm here for a purpose. I know what my purpose is. I am not
280-610: A Greyhound bus back to North Carolina. It would be outrageous at the very least to play the video of an underage female on the Internet." On April 28, 2008, Dupré filed suit against Francis and two of his companies alleging their exploitation of Dupré's name and image, seeking US$ 10 million in punitive damages, but in July of that year she decided to drop the suit after Francis released footage showing her agreeing to be filmed. In December 2009, Dupré started writing an advice column in
350-621: A borough near the Jersey Shore . Her father, William Youmans, owned a landscaping business and also worked as a salesman of surfing accessories. When her parents divorced, Dupré moved to Wall Township, New Jersey with her mother, Carolyn Capalbo, and her stepfather, Mike DiPietro, an oral surgeon . There, she attended Old Mill (elementary) School and Wall High School until her sophomore year, when she moved to Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina , to live with her father. On her MySpace page, Dupré described leaving home at age 17 to escape
420-447: A broken family and abuse. Although, her aunt, Barbara Youmans of Seaside Heights , denies that Dupré had a difficult childhood. "She never had a bad life when she was growing up. She had the best of everything: bicycles, clothing, O'Neill surf boards. ... She was always dressed to kill and got everything she wanted." She also has stated her brother ran away at 15. In 2004, at the age of 19, Dupré moved to New York City in pursuit of
490-421: A competitive threat to its new Myspace Videos service, the site in late 2005 banned embedded YouTube videos from user profiles, which was widely protested by Myspace users, prompting the site to lift the ban shortly after. There were a variety of environments in which users could access Myspace content on their mobile phones. In early 2006, mobile phone provider Helio released a series of mobile phones utilizing
560-576: A day. A year later, it was registering 320,000 users a day, and had overtaken Yahoo! to become the most visited website in the United States. ComScore said that a key driver of the site's success in the US was high "engagement levels", with the average MySpace user viewing over 660 pages a month. In January 2006, Fox announced plans to launch a UK version of MySpace. During 2006, MySpace launched localized versions in 11 countries across Europe, Asia and
630-623: A distribution outlet for Fox studio content and missed the US$ 1 billion mark in total revenues. This resulted in DeWolfe and Anderson gradually losing their status within Murdoch's inner circle of executives, as well as DeWolfe's mentor Peter Chernin , president and COO of News Corporation, departing the company in June 2009. Former AOL executive Jonathan Miller, who joined News Corporation in charge of
700-420: A full DVD of Dupré footage from company archives. "All nude images of Ms. Dupre were taken in public places and contain no sexual contact," said Francis. "In Florida, where Ms. Dupre was filmed, the law allows even women under the age of 18 to be filmed nude with their consent." Dupré's attorney, Don Buchwald, argued in an e-mail to Girls Gone Wild, "It was because she was underage that [Francis] sent her home on
770-427: A higher price for the website, and the purchase was seen as a good investment at the time. Within a year, MySpace had tripled in value from its purchase price. News Corporation saw the purchase as a way to capitalize on Internet advertising and drive traffic to other News Corporation properties. After the acquisition, MySpace continued its exponential growth. In January 2006, the site was signing up 200,000 new users
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#1732793595309840-542: A monster," Dupré told the newspaper. "This has been a very difficult time. It's complicated." On the day the story broke, she posted a message to her MySpace page that said "Yeah, I did it"; it was later changed to read, "Thank you for your support, it means a lot to me." Dupré uploaded a second song to the Amie Street online music store around 2 a.m. on March 13. On March 14, New York City radio station Z100 played one Dupré song. Dupré remained in seclusion in
910-543: A music career, and worked as a waitress at a dance club called Viscaya in the Chelsea district. She also worked at the clubs Pink Elephant and Retox. Jason Itzler , who ran a New York escort service called NY Confidential from 2003 to 2005, met Dupré while she was working as a cocktail waitress at the Hotel Gansevoort in 2004. Dupré began working for him on the side, using the alias Victoria. NY Confidential
980-548: A new redesign was announced, with no date given, making Myspace more visual and apparently optimized for tablets. The redesign was publicly released on January 15, 2013; by April 2013 (and presumably before), users were able to transfer to the new Myspace redesign. In June 2013, the redesign deleted all previous blogs, angering many users, and destroying information that would have been useful history in later years. VP, Business Development 2006–2009 VP Communications & Policy 2006–2007 Since early 2006, Myspace has offered
1050-425: A new site design on a limited scale, with plans to switch all interested users to the new site in late November. Chief executive Mike Jones said the site was no longer competing with Facebook as a general social networking site; instead, it would be music-oriented and would target younger people. Jones believed most younger users would continue to use the site after the redesign, though older users might not. The goal of
1120-529: A read-only mode of sorts, as no new articles have been published since early 2022, but media uploads seem to be working now. MySpace's official account has also sparked some new activity. However, most images on the site still seem to be broken, and existing songs also cannot be played. The terms of service of Myspace have not been changed by Viant. The privacy policy was last revised on 24 June 2024. From YouTube 's founding in 2005, Myspace users could embed YouTube videos in their profiles. Considering this
1190-402: A recommendation engine for new users that suggests games, music and videos based on their previous search habits. The security on Myspace was also enhanced, with the criticism of Facebook , to make it a safer site. The security of Myspace enables users to choose if the content could be viewed for "friends only", "18 and older" or "everyone". In October 2010, Myspace introduced a beta version of
1260-579: A service known as Myspace Mobile to access and edit one's profile and communicate with and view the profiles of other members. Additionally, UIEvolution and Myspace developed a mobile version of Myspace for a wider range of carriers, including AT&T , Vodafone and Rogers Wireless . In August 2006, Myspace began offering classified ads, a service which grew by 33 percent during the following year. It previously had an instant messaging tool called MySpace IM . Myspace used an implementation of Telligent Community for its forum system. Shortly after Myspace
1330-508: A space. The logo change was announced on October 8, 2010, and appeared on the site on November 11. In the same month, Myspace integrated with Facebook Connect – calling it "Mash Up with Facebook" in an announcement widely seen as the final act of acknowledging Facebook's domination of social networking. In January 2011, it was announced that the Myspace staff would be reduced by 47%. User adoption continued to decrease. In September 2012,
1400-446: A team of programmers and resources provided by eUniverse. It was during this early period in June 2003, just prior to the birth of MySpace, that Jeffrey Edell was brought on as chairman of parent company Intermix Media. The first MySpace users were eUniverse employees. The company held contests to see who could sign up the most users. eUniverse used its 20 million users and e-mail subscribers to breathe life into MySpace and move it to
1470-503: A way to get users back. However, this may have backfired, as users generally disliked tweaks and changes on Facebook. In March 2011, market research figures released by Comscore suggested that Myspace had lost 10 million users between January and February 2011, and had fallen from 95 million to 63 million unique users in the previous 12 months. Myspace registered its sharpest audience declines in February 2011, as traffic fell 44% from
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#17327935953091540-462: A year earlier to 37.7 million U.S. visitors. Advertisers were reported as unwilling to commit to long-term deals with the site. In late February 2011, News Corporation officially put the site up for sale for an estimated $ 50–200 million. Losses from the last quarter of 2010 were $ 156 million, over double the previous year, which dragged down the otherwise strong results of News Corporation. The deadline for bids, May 31, 2011, passed without any above
1610-466: A … moron, you know what I mean." On March 6, federal authorities arrested four individuals involved with Emperors Club VIP, charging them under federal prostitution and money laundering laws. Initial news reports and court documents did not identify the agency's clients or call girls by name, referring to Spitzer as "Client 9" and to Dupré as "Kristen". On March 10, The New York Times identified Spitzer as "Client 9." Two days later on March 12,
1680-457: Is a social networking service based in the United States. Launched on August 1, 2003, it was the first social network to reach a global audience and had a significant influence on technology, pop culture and music. It also played a critical role in the early growth of companies like YouTube and created a developer platform that launched companies such as Zynga , RockYou , and Photobucket , among others, to success. From 2005 to 2009, Myspace
1750-599: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Ashley DiPietro Ashley Rae Maika DiPietro (born Ashley Youmans ; April 30, 1985), better known by the stage name Ashley Alexandra Dupré , is a former call girl . She gained fame in 2008 for her role as "Kristen" in the Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal , which led to the resignation of Eliot Spitzer as governor of New York . Dupré spent her early childhood years in Beachwood, New Jersey ,
1820-519: The New York Post called "Ask Ashley". Her last column appeared in May 2012. In January 2010, Dupré appeared on The Howard Stern Show , where she discussed incidents ranging from her situation as a rape victim to how she preoccupied her mind when engaged in intercourse with men she was not attracted to. She posed nude for the May 2010 issue of Playboy magazine. On March 15, 2008, Dupré
1890-584: The Times identified Dupré as "Kristen." Her mother, Carolyn Capalbo, told the newspaper that her daughter "was a young kid with typical teenage rebellion issues, but we are extremely close now." Capalbo said she was "shell-shocked" when her daughter called to tell her she had been working as a prostitute . Dupré's only public comment was a brief interview with The New York Times for the March 12 story that revealed her identity. "I just don't want to be thought of as
1960-614: The soft porn website Girls Gone Wild featured teasers of Dupré, shot in Miami Beach, Florida in 2003 before she had turned 18. Dupré presented the company the drivers license of a New Jersey woman named Amber Arpaio, claiming it was Dupré's own. Company founder Joe Francis —who served a year in jail for a conviction of child abuse and prostitution involving filming two underaged girls in Panama City, Florida, in 2003 who had represented themselves as adults —prepared to release
2030-413: The surname DiPietro . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=DiPietro&oldid=1189457255 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description
2100-530: The "MySpace Dragon Hoard". Since early 2022, music upload and playback have been disabled on the website. On May 16, 2007, Myspace partnered with news publications National Geographic, the New York Times and Reuters to provide professional visual contents on its social-networking Web site. On June 27, 2007, Myspace launched MySpaceTV. On August 8, 2007, Myspace partnered with satire publication The Onion to provide audio, video and print content to
2170-539: The $ 900 million three-year advertisement deal with Google, while being a short-term cash windfall, was a handicap in the long run, as it required MySpace to place even more ads on its already heavily advertised space, which made the site slow, more difficult to use and less flexible. MySpace could not experiment with its own site without forfeiting revenue, while Facebook was rolling out a new, clean site design. MySpace CEO Chris DeWolfe reported that he had to push back against Fox Interactive Media's sales team, who monetized
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2240-589: The Americas, including MySpace China with Solstice. At the time, Travis Katz , senior vice-president for international operations, reported that 30 million of the site's 90 million users were coming from outside of the United States. The 100 millionth MySpace account was created on August 9, 2006, in the Netherlands. That same month, MySpace signed a landmark advertising deal with Google that guaranteed MySpace $ 900 million over three years, over 55% more than
2310-517: The Google deal. The remaining 50% came from display advertising sold by MySpace's in-house sales team. In November 2006, Myspace announced a 50-50 joint venture with Softbank to launch the site in Japan. In mid-2007, MySpace was the largest social-networking site in every European country where it had created a local presence. By July 2007, Nielsen//NetRatings reported the company's "active reach", or
2380-867: The University of Tennessee Joe DiPietro (born 1961), American playwright and author Luisa DiPietro (born 1954), American academic scientist Michael DiPietro (born 1999), Canadian junior ice hockey goaltender Paul DiPietro (born 1970), Canadian-born Swiss professional ice hockey player Rebecca DiPietro (born 1979), American model and former professional wrestling personality Rick DiPietro (born 1981), American ice hockey goalie Rocky Dipietro (born 1956), Canadian Football League player Santo DiPietro (1934–2016), American politician Tory DiPietro (born 1983), creator of "The Heart of Los Angeles" historical landmark, 3rd St. Tunnel Downtown LA See also [ edit ] di Pietro [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with
2450-716: The climb up—and signal to flee when it's time to get out." The volatility of social networks was exemplified in 2006, when Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal launched an investigation into children's exposure to pornography on MySpace. The resulting media frenzy and the site's lack of an effective spam filter gave the site a reputation as a "vortex of perversion". Around that time, specialized social media companies such as Twitter formed and began targeting users on MySpace, while Facebook rolled out communication tools that were seen as safe in comparison to MySpace. In addition, MySpace had particular problems with vandalism, phishing, malware, and spam, which it failed to curtail, making
2520-574: The company for approximately $ 35 million. On February 11, 2016, it was announced that Myspace and its parent company had been purchased by Time Inc. for $ 87 million. On January 31, 2018, Time Inc. was in turn purchased by Meredith Corporation , and later that year, on November 4, 2019, Meredith spun off Myspace and its original holding company (Viant Technology Holding Inc.) and sold it to Viant Technology LLC. In August 2003, several eUniverse employees with Friendster accounts saw potential in its social networking features. The group decided to mimic
2590-498: The days after her role in the scandal became public, and became the subject of increasingly intense media coverage. The Village Voice called her "the most famous hooker in America",. By March 18, Dupré's profile on MySpace had received over 9 million page views. Dupré was reportedly offered US$ 1 million by Hustler magazine to pose nude, and received offers from Penthouse magazine and Vivid Entertainment . On March 19,
2660-545: The departure of key personnel (Myspace's COO, SVP of engineering, and SVP of strategy) to form a startup. Furthermore, the opening of extravagant new offices around the world was questioned, as Facebook did not have similarly expensive expansion plans but still attracted international users at a rapid rate. The changes to MySpace's executive ranks were followed in June 2009 by a layoff of 37.5% of its workforce (including 30% of its U.S. employees), reducing employees from 1,600 to 1,000. In 2009, MySpace implemented site redesigns as
2730-473: The digital media business, was in the job for three weeks when he shuffled MySpace's executive team in April 2009. MySpace president Tom Anderson stepped down while Chris DeWolfe was replaced as CEO by former Facebook COO Owen Van Natta . A meeting at News Corporation over the direction of MySpace in March 2009 was reportedly the catalyst for that management shakeup, with the Google search deal about to expire and
2800-460: The emergence of Facebook did little to diminish MySpace's popularity; at the time, Facebook was targeted only at college students. At its peak, when News Corporation attempted to merge it with Yahoo! in 2007, Myspace was valued at $ 12 billion and had more than 300 million registered users. On April 19, 2008, Facebook overtook MySpace in Alexa rankings. In May 2009, Facebook surpassed MySpace in
2870-561: The encounter with Spitzer was made public. On July 10, 2011, VH1 premiered Famous Food , a reality series featuring seven celebrities. Dupré came in third; first and second were given a partnership stake in the Lemon Basket. In 2013, Dupré married New Jersey construction magnate Thomas "TJ" Earle, the father of social media influencer Alix Earle . MySpace Myspace (formerly stylized as MySpace ; also myspace ; and sometimes my␣ , with an elongated open box symbol )
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2940-421: The first 10 characters of the password converted to lowercase and stored without a cryptographic salt ). The exact data breach date is unknown, but analysis of the data suggests it was exposed around eight years before being made public, around mid-2008 to early 2009. In March 2019, Myspace lost all content before 2016 after a faulty server migration. As of October 5, 2024, Myspace has still been placed in
3010-419: The head of the pack of social networking websites. A key architect was tech expert Toan Nguyen, who helped stabilize the platform when Greenspan asked him to join the team. Co-founder and CTO Aber Whitcomb played an integral role in software architecture, utilizing the then-superior development speed of ColdFusion over other dynamic database driven server-side languages of the time. Despite having over ten times
3080-499: The man she was living with left following her discovery that he had fathered two children. On February 13, 2008, Dupré travelled by Amtrak from New York Penn Station to Washington, D.C. , for an assignation at the Mayflower Hotel with New York Governor Eliot Spitzer . The arrangements had been made by phone between Spitzer and a booker at Emperors Club VIP , and were monitored by federal investigators who had initiated
3150-483: The more popular features of the website. Within 10 days, the first version of MySpace was ready for launch, implemented using ColdFusion . A complete infrastructure of finance, human resources, technical expertise, bandwidth , and server capacity was available for the site. The project was overseen by Brad Greenspan (eUniverse's founder, chairman and CEO), who managed Chris DeWolfe (MySpace's starting CEO), Josh Berman, Tom Anderson (MySpace's starting president), and
3220-401: The music industry. In 2005, she formed a company named Pasche New York, an entertainment business intended to promote her music career. In the summer of 2006, she made an appearance in a music video for the song "Pop Off", performed by rapper Mysterious. Shortly after The New York Times published their profile of Dupré, her single "Move Ya Body" set a record for how fast it commanded
3290-465: The number of developers, Friendster , which was developed in JavaServer Pages (jsp), could not keep up with the speed of development of MySpace and cfm . For example, users could customize the background, look and feel of pages on MySpace. The MySpace.com domain was originally owned by YourZ.com, Inc., intended until 2002 for use as an online data storage and sharing site. By late 2003, it
3360-421: The number of unique U.S. visitors. From that point, Myspace saw a consistent loss of membership. There are several suggested explanations for its decline, including the fact that it stuck to a "portal strategy" of building an audience around entertainment and music, whereas Facebook and Twitter continually added new features to improve the social networking experience. A former MySpace executive suggested that
3430-500: The option to access the service in different regional versions. The alternative regional versions present automated content according to locality (e.g., UK users see other UK users as "Cool New People", and UK-oriented events and adverts, etc.), offer local languages other than English, or accommodate the regional differences in spelling and conventions in the English-speaking world (e.g., United States: "favorites", mm/dd/yyyy;
3500-615: The percentage of the population that visited the site, was anywhere from 10 to 15 times higher in Spain, France and Germany than for runner-up Facebook; in the United Kingdom, MySpace led Facebook by two-to-one in terms of reach. On November 1, 2007, MySpace and Bebo joined the Google-led OpenSocial alliance , which already included Friendster, Hi5 , LinkedIn , Plaxo , Ning , and Six Apart . The alliance's goal
3570-610: The price News Corporation had paid to acquire the business. In exchange, Google received exclusive rights to provide Web search results and sponsored links on MySpace. When the deal was signed, Google chairman Eric Schmidt said, "When we looked at what was growing on the Web, all our internal metrics pointed to [MySpace] [...] It's important to move Google to where users are, and that is where user-generated content is." By October 2006, MySpace had grown from generating $ 1 million in revenue per month to $ 30 million per month, half of which came from
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#17327935953093640-458: The production company Reveille Productions (responsible for the TV shows The Office and The Biggest Loser ) to create a reality dating show based on the theme that everyone has skeletons in their closet . Dupré appeared on 20/20 on Friday, November 21, 2008, where she was interviewed by Diane Sawyer about her feelings about being an "escort," and the emotional effect it had upon her when
3710-399: The property before MySpace and its parent company eUniverse (now renamed Intermix Media ) were bought. In July 2005, in one of the company's first major Internet purchases, News Corporation purchased MySpace for US$ 580 million. At the time of the acquisition, the company was seeing 16 million monthly users and was growing exponentially. News Corporation had beat out Viacom by offering
3780-473: The redesign was to increase the number of Myspace users and the time they spent on the site. BTIG (.com) analyst Richard Greenfield said, "Most investors have written off MySpace now," and was unsure whether the changes would help the company recover. In November 2010, Myspace changed its logo to coincide with the new site design. The word "my" appears in the Helvetica font, followed by a symbol representing
3850-426: The reserve price of $ 100 million being submitted. It has been said that the decline in users during the most recent quarter deterred several potential suitors. On June 29, 2011, Myspace announced in an email to label partners and press that it had been acquired by Specific Media for an undisclosed sum, which was rumored to be as low as $ 35 million. CNN reported that the site sold for $ 35 million, and noted that it
3920-526: The same number of visitors, but somewhat more global users than MySpace. In May 2009, Facebook surpassed Myspace in its number of unique U.S. visitors. Since then, the number of Myspace users has declined steadily despite several redesigns. By 2019, the number of monthly visitors to the site had dropped to seven million. In June 2009, Myspace employed approximately 1,600 people. In June 2011, Specific Media Group and Justin Timberlake jointly purchased
3990-446: The site seem inhospitable. These have been cited as factors why users, who as teenagers were MySpace's strongest audience in 2006 and 2007, had been migrating to Facebook, which started strongly with the 18-to-24 group (mostly college students) and has been much more successful than MySpace at attracting older users. News Corporation chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch was said to be frustrated that MySpace never met expectations as
4060-472: The site without regard to user experience. In 2012, Katz described how News Corporation had put significant pressure on MySpace to "focus on near-term monetization, as opposed to thinking about long-term product strategy," while Facebook focused user engagement over revenue. Danah Boyd , a senior researcher at Microsoft Research , noted of social networking websites that "companies might serially rise, fall, and disappear, as influential peers pull others in on
4130-641: The site. On October 22, 2007, Myspace launched its first original web series, Roommates , which intended to give its users a television-like experience with the interactive benefits of the Internet. On February 27, 2008, TMZ launched its web channel on MySpaceTV. On April 21, 2008, Myspace signed a deal with Byron Allen 's Entertainment Studios that brought programming such as the syndicated series Comics Unleashed with Byron Allen , Entertainers with Byron Allen , Beautiful Homes and Great Estates , and Designer Fashions & Runways to MySpaceTV. On March 10, 2010, Myspace added new features including
4200-654: The site. In late 2007, the site launched The MySpace Transmissions , a series of live-in-studio recordings by well-known artists. On March 18, 2019, it was revealed that Myspace had lost all of its user content from launch until 2015 in a botched server migration with no backup. Over 50 million songs and 12 years' worth of content were permanently lost. In April 2019, the Internet Archive recovered 490,000 MP3s "using unknown means by an anonymous academic study conducted between 2008 and 2010". The songs, which were uploaded between 2008 and 2010, are collectively known as
4270-596: The top price on the music-download site AmieStreet.com , reaching the site's maximum of US$ 0.98 per download in five hours. Another single, "What We Want", was played more than 3 million times on the Internet after the scandal erupted. While some speculated that she may have earned as much as US$ 300,000–1.4 million from download sales of her singles on Amie Street, others estimated her earnings at as low as US$ 13,720. Dupré's music came to be featured in mash up YouTube videos, blending her tracks with those of established artists. On July 7, 2008, E! reported that Dupré
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#17327935953094340-503: Was "far less than the $ 580 million News Corp. paid for Myspace in 2005." Murdoch went on to call the Myspace purchase a "huge mistake", and Time magazine compared it to Time Warner 's 2000 purchase of AOL , which saw a conglomerate trying to stay ahead of the competition. Many former executives have gone on to further success after departing Myspace. On February 11, 2016, it was announced that Myspace and its parent company had been bought by Time Inc. On January 31, 2018, Time Inc.
4410-407: Was engaged in talks about a proposed reality show with Handprint Entertainment, the same firm that managed the reality television careers of Nicole Richie and Pamela Anderson , and that she was considering a move from New York to Los Angeles . One of the concepts reportedly being considered was a dating program similar to A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila . Dupré will reportedly be working with
4480-689: Was granted immunity from prosecution by the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York for her role in the Spitzer scandal , in order to testify at court hearings related to the Emperors Club VIP prostitution ring. In July 2008, a woman named Amber Arpaio filed a federal lawsuit against Dupré for defamation and invasion of privacy , claiming Dupré used her lost driver's license to appear on
4550-517: Was in turn purchased by Meredith Corporation , who went on to sell a number of Time Inc.'s assets, including (as it announced on November 4, 2019) selling its equity in Viant , the parent company of Specific Media, back to Viant Technology Holding Inc. In May 2016, the data for almost 360 million Myspace accounts was offered on the "Real Deal" dark market website, which included email addresses, usernames, and weakly encrypted passwords ( SHA1 hashes of
4620-504: Was shut down and Itzler sent to prison by Spitzer's New York State Attorney General 's office in 2005. In 2006, Dupré changed her legal name from Youmans to her stepfather's name of DiPietro, stating that she regarded him as "the only father I have known." By 2008, Dupré was living in a ninth-floor apartment in the Flatiron District of Manhattan. She maintains that she was concerned about her ability to pay her rent after
4690-591: Was sold to News Corporation in 2005, the website launched a record label called MySpace Records , with JD Mangosing as CEO, in an effort to discover unknown talent on Myspace Music, a service onto which artists can upload songs, EPs and full-length albums. As of June 2014, over 53 million songs had been uploaded to the site by 14.2 million artists. Artists including My Chemical Romance , Nicki Minaj , Lily Allen , Taylor Swift , Lady Gaga , and Katy Perry gained fame and recognition through Myspace. As of 2010 over eight million artists had been discovered by users through
4760-433: Was the largest social networking site in the world. In July 2005, Myspace was acquired by News Corporation for $ 580 million; in June 2006, it surpassed Yahoo and Google to become the most visited website in the United States. During the 2008 fiscal year, it generated $ 800 million in revenue. At its peak in April 2008, Myspace had 115 million monthly visitors; by that time, the recently emergent Facebook had about
4830-501: Was to promote a common set of standards for software developers to write programs for social networks. Google had been unsuccessful in building its own social networking site Orkut in the American market, and was using the alliance to present a counterweight to Facebook. By late 2007 and into 2008, MySpace was considered the leading social networking site, and consistently beat out its main competitor Facebook in traffic. Initially,
4900-761: Was transitioned from a file storage service to a social networking site. A friend who also worked in the data storage business reminded DeWolfe that he had earlier bought the MySpace.com domain. DeWolfe suggested they charge a fee for the basic MySpace service. However, Greenspan nixed the idea, believing that keeping the site free was necessary to make it a successful community. MySpace quickly gained popularity among teenagers and young adults. In February 2005, DeWolfe held talks with Mark Zuckerberg over acquiring Facebook , but rejected Zuckerberg's offer to sell Facebook to him for $ 75 million. Some employees of MySpace, including DeWolfe and Berman, were able to purchase equity in
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