rancis offered Spitzer ho Ashley Dupre $1 million to tour with his ladies and front a GGW DVD and publication.

Los Angeles - Just fresh out of prison, Girls Gone Wild founder Joe Francis initially wanted to pay Ashley Alexandra Dupre $1 million to host his 2008 Girls Gone Wild Spring Break Tour and pose for his new GGW magazine.

But Joe Francis  wisely withdrew that costly offer when someone tipped him off to the fact Ashley Alexandra Dupre appeared in a 2003 “Girls Gone Wild” Spring Break production aboard the “GGW” bus during an entire week in Miami celebrating her 18th birthday.

“We just did a database search and her name popped up. She was pretty wild,” Joe says.

“I met her on spring break at the Girls Gone Wild beach house in April 2003. She got into the Jacuzzi. … She threw her arms around me. I never made the connection that this was Ashley. But my cameraman had been in touch with her for a while. I didn’t make the connection until really recently. Then it was like: that’s Ashley!”

Joe says he will release a special Girls Gone Wild video edition featuring Ashley sometime in the next few weeks.