‘She Was a Fraud’: Ashley Grayson Sentenced to 10 Years In Prison After Being Found Guilty In Failed Murder-for-Hire Plot; Social Media Reacts

An online course coach who gained popularity online and on social media has been sentenced to a decade behind bars for a murder-for-hire scheme. On Thursday, Ashley Grayson was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison and three years of supervised release after being convicted of one count of use of interstate commerce facilities in the commission of murder-for-hire. Social media influencer and entrepreneur Ashley Massengill Grayson was found guilty in federal court for hiring a contract killer to murder someone. (Photo: Instagram/@itsashely_graysona/SayCheeseTwitter) Grayson and her husband, Joshua, were criminally indicted in July 2023 for the plot. Federal prosecutors alleged that the Mississippi-based couple contacted a contract killer in Tennessee between August and September 2022 and paid that individual to murder a person identified in the federal indictment as “D.H.” That individual was not harmed. A jury found Grayson guilty in March. Her husband was cleared of wrongdoing. She’ll serve out her sentence at a federal prison in Fort Worth, Texas. Grayson earned widespread popularity after reportedly making $1 million less than an hour after launching her online business, Digital Course Recipe, in 2021, through which she taught people to turn their passions into a profitable online course. What furthered...