Ashley Grayson, a 35-year-old social media influencer from Dallas, Texas, has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for a murder-for-hire plot.
Grayson, known for promoting her online business as a bestselling course creator and philanthropist, orchestrated the scheme in 2022.
She invited a Memphis couple to Dallas under the guise of a business opportunity, offering them $20,000 for each of three intended targets.
The targets included a business rival, a former boyfriend, and a woman who had criticized her on social media.
The couple pretended to carry out the plan, even fabricating evidence of an attempt, and received $10,000 from Grayson. However, they reported the scheme to law enforcement, leading to an FBI investigation.
The three included Grayson’s ex, as well as a bitter rival who ran a similar online business in Mississippi.
She also asked them to k!ll a Texas woman who made negative social media posts about her online, prosecutors said.
“This was a 21st-century crime where online feuds and senseless rivalries bled into the real world,” acting US Attorney Reagan Fondren said.
“The defendant tried to hire someone to murder a woman over things that happened exclusively on the internet.”
The Memphis couple pretended to agree to the deal but instead gave police a video of Grayson saying she would pay them an extra $5,000 to carry out the muřder of the Mississippi woman within the week.
The couple later sent Grayson a video of police lights from an unrelated incident, claiming they tried to carry out the muřder but got caught. They later met with Grayson and were given $10,000 for their “attempt,” prosecutors said.
Grayson was found guilty of muřder-for-hire and given the maximum sentence of 120 months in prison. She will not be eligible for parole because it was a federal case.
Her husband was earlier acquitted of any involvement.
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