Social media influencer sentenced to 10-years in prison for trying to pay pal $60K to mu?der three people including rival and an online critic

An American social media influencer, who runs an online business has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison following her conviction in a muřder-for-hire plot.

Ashley Grayson, 35, ran a popular internet business from her home in Dallas, touting herself as a bestseller, an eight-figure business coach, course creator, and philanthropist, according to the US Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Tennessee.

In 2022, she contacted a friend in Memphis and asked her to fly to Dallas to discuss a “business opportunity” for the pal and her husband to k!ll three people for $20,000 per hit, Fox 4 News reported.

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.