Texas influencer Ashley Grayson has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for attempting to hire someone to murder three people – including a business rival and someone who badgered her on social media. New York Post Informed.
According to a press release from U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of TennesseeGrayson, 35, rose to fame on social media for his online business and courses teaching others how to monetize their skills.
Acting U.S. Attorney Reagan Fondren announced on Monday, November 18, that Grayson had been found guilty of conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire.
The press release revealed that in September 2022, Grayson offered to pay a Memphis-based couple to kill three targets: his ex-boyfriend, a woman who had criticized him on social media, and someone with a similar business model. Mississippi woman. Grayson believed Grayson had created the fake profile to disparage her work online.
The Tennessee US Attorney’s Office reported that “Grayson valued each of these murders at no less than $20,000.” During a recorded video call with the Memphis couple, Grayson expressed readiness to target the Mississippi woman and offered an additional $5,000 if the murder was carried out within a week.
Using photographs of police cars from an unrelated incident, the pair falsely claimed that they had attempted a murder-for-hire. He demanded half of the agreed payment and traveled to Dallas to meet Grayson and her husband, eventually receiving $10,000 for his fabricated “effort”.
In July 2023, a grand jury in the Western District of Tennessee indicted Grayson and her husband, Joshua Grayson, on one count of “use of an interstate facility in the commission of a murder for hire,” according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office. , On October 31, 2024, United States District Court Judge Thomas L. Parker sentenced Grayson to the maximum sentence of 120 months in prison.
“This was a twenty-first century crime where online fights and senseless rivalries spilled over into the real world,” said Fondren, quoted in the press release. “The defendant tried to hire someone to murder a woman specifically because of things that were happening on the Internet.”
He added, “Fortunately, no one was physically injured in this case, but the victim and her family still felt serious and emotional impacts as a result of the defendant’s actions. The proactive response of the investigating agencies and our prosecutors further Stopped it from happening more.” From the commission of a serious crime.”
