An insider at Donald Trump’s newly announced My Fair Lady-style MTV reality says that infamous call girl Ashley Alexander Dupré has been asked to join the cast.

The still-untitled show, produced by Donald Trump Productions (and referred to in some press reports as “Lady or a Tramp”) was picked up by MTV for eight hour-long episodes. Based on a British show called Ladette to Lady, the show will take a group of 15 hard-partying young women and send them off to a boarding school environment where they’ll learn to become more ladylike.

“She’s the perfect candidate,” the show insider says of Dupré, the 22-year-old at the center of the Gov. Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal. The show has not yet heard back from Dupré with any reaction to the offer.

Donald Trump could not immediately be reached for comment.

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Tycoon Donald Trump is suing a Las Vegas-based company for illegally using the name of his Miss U.S.A. beauty pageant to promote their own Senorita Mexico U.S.A. contest.

The property mogul-turned-reality TV star is furious the organizers of the Latin pageant have deliberately attempted to associate their event with his world-famous Miss U.S.A. brand, after the Senorita Mexico owners posted photographs of Trump’s other beauty contests – including pictures of the businessman himself – on their website.

Trump’s Miss Universe firm, which runs the Miss U.S.A. contests, filed suit last week against Adan S. Perez, Luz S. Bolivar and The Miss Mexico Organization LLC citing copyright and trademark infringement, unfair competition and false designation of origin or sponsorship.

But the legal battle is not new – Trump has been fighting Perez and Bolivar since 2005, when he demanded they cease and desist using trademarks similar to his own organization’s. According to legal papers, obtained by website TMZ.com, Trump is now also claiming compensation for common law trademark infringement and trademark dilution and disparagement.

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Donald Trump has backed under fire Heather Mills to be a hit as a Miss USA pageant judge.

Sir. Paul McCartney’s ex-wife will try and salvage her image in the U.S by judging the beauty show, which is being hosted by Donnie and Marie Osmond.

Trump, who produces the pageant, has shrugged off the controversy surrounding Mills divorce settlement with the Beatles legend.

“She’s been through a lot. She has great courage and you have to respect her – she’s been through the wringer.”

The pageant will air live on NBC from the Hollywood Resort and Casino in Las Vegas on April 11.

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Kiss rocker Gene Simmons has been given the axe from Donald Trump in Celebrity Apprentice. Trump fired the rock star after Gene took over as project manager for the women’s team and failed to help them win the weekly challenge.

When The Donald fired Simmons, Gene said that he respected his decision, but he blasted the female team and told them that they stood no chance of winning the competition.

“In their present form the ladies don’t stand a popcorn fart chance of even shining the guys’ shoes,” he snorted.

In the weekly challenge, the two teams were told to come up with a way of marketing Kodak’s Easy Share printer and to make a presentation selling it to the general public.

The men’s team spilled a cup of coffee onto their computer and lost all of their artwork, but still came out on top.

Oh, and why wouldn’t he? I mean of course he has an opinion!

Trump shared his thoughts on Britney Spears, “This is Anna Nicole Smith all over again! Someone needs to help her.” Trump says Britney performed in his casinos years ago and he has been shocked by her down-ward spiral, “Five years ago every teenager wanted to be just like her. She was so incredible, the cleanest and so beautiful, she was the ultimate teen and everybody just worshiped her. To see what’s unfolding, being carried out in a stretcher in an ambulance, not even knowing where she was, it’s just really very sad.”

He goes on to say Britney’s ex-husband Kevin Federline is “a fantastic guy” and tells THE INSIDER Kevin started to wear suits because of his own influence, “I used to say terrible things about Kevin, but I saw him being interviewed once and he said his all time hero was Donald Trump. That’s why he started wearing suits. So I actually think he is a fantastic guy and a wonderful husband.”

What’s the answer to Britney’s troubles? “I don’t know what the parents can do at this point, or what the parents should have done before this ever happened, but if she met a great guy who would really take care of her that probably would be the greatest thing that could happen to Britney, if she met somebody that really loved her and really wanted to take care of her.”

Trump shares his own strict parenting policy, “No drinking, no drugs, no smoking!” Did the Trump children ever break the rules? “They never did, there would have been severe punishment.”

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The Donald is back! After a nine-month hiatus and some star-power infusion, The Apprentice returns tonight with Donald Trump taking in celebrities under his wing in a much-anticipated new season. One person who won’t be watching is his nemesis, Rosie O’Donnell.

“I think not,” she says sternly while responding to reader mail in a video blog.

That’s just a bluff, though, Donald believes.

“She’ll be watching,” he says on The Morning Show with Mike and Juliet after being shown the video. “She won’t say that she’s watching, but she’ll watch it.”

The 61-year-old mogul came to blows with the opinionated ex-talk-show host after she chastised him for pardoning the former hard-partying Miss USA, Tara Conner. Their feud played out in the media early last year, but Donald says that’s just because they were egged on to do so.

“I’m here to talk about The Apprentice and you show this unattractive woman on the television and you say you think I play it up too much!” he laughs.

Talk did turn to the reality show, in which such stars as Gene Simmons, Stephen Baldwin and Olympic gold medalist Nadia Comaneci will compete. Also among cast — season one bad girl Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth, who, after undergoing breast enhancements, has “aged beautifully.”

“Omarosa changed a little bit,” Donald says coyly. “She got a little heavier. She’s fuller.”

Helping him in the boardroom will be his business-savvy children, Ivanka and Donald Jr., who made Donald a grandfather last year with the birth of his daughter, Kai Madison. Being a grandfather isn’t that much different than being a father for Donald — his son Barron, 21 months, is just a year older than Kai.

“Barron is one of the youngest uncles in the world — he’s like one month older,” he jokes. “Barron is Uncle Barron. Right now, neither can speak. You put these little babies together and it’s like one of those things. I always think of uncles — they were 70! They were old. Barron is on the young side.”

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So by now you’ve probably heard that Donald Trump gave a waiter a $10,000 tip on a $89.00 bill! Well apparently, Mr. Trump wasn’t even in town when this happened. He claims is the restaurant trying to give themselves publicity!

“This was done by the stupid restaurant to get publicity. It’s not my signature.”  says Donald.