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Social media influencer, Ashley Grayson gets jail term for attempted murder

A Texas social media influencer has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for a murder-for-hire plot in which she attempted to pay $60,000 to kill three people, including a rival and an online critic.

Ashley Grayson, 35, operated a successful online business from her home in Dallas, where she marketed herself as a bestselling author, an eight-figure business coach, course creator, and philanthropist, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Tennessee.
In 2022, Grayson contacted a friend in Memphis and invited her to fly to Dallas to discuss a “business opportunity.” During this meeting, she offered the friend and her husband $20,000 per hit to murder three individuals: her ex-boyfriend, a rival who ran a similar online business in Mississippi, and a Texas woman who had made negative posts about her on social media.
“This was a 21st-century crime where online feuds and senseless rivalries bled into the real world,” said acting U.S. Attorney Reagan Fondren.
“The defendant attempted to hire someone to murder a woman over disputes that occurred exclusively on the internet.”
The Memphis couple pretended to agree to the scheme but instead turned the information over to the police. They provided a video of Grayson in which she offered an additional $5,000 to have the Mississippi woman killed within the week.
 Later, they sent Grayson a video showing police lights from an unrelated incident, claiming they had tried to carry out the murder but were caught.
During a subsequent meeting, Grayson gave the couple $10,000 for their “attempt.”
Grayson was convicted of murder-for-hire and received a maximum sentence of 120 months in prison. Because it was a federal case, she will not be eligible for parole. Her husband was acquitted of any involvement in the plot.

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