Texas Social Media Star Snags 10-Year Sentence for Murder Plot

35-year-old Ashley Grayson, an online business owner, popular influencer, and social media star from Dallas, Texas, was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for plotting a murder-for-hire on 3 people.

Grayson was furious over critical comments and posts online that shined a negative light on her. She was so fed up that she contacted a former co-worker and invited her and her husband to Dallas to discuss a "business opportunity."

The couple traveled to Dallas from Memphis the following month to meet with Grayson where she offered them $20,000 each to murder her former boyfriend, along with a Southaven woman who she believed made fake accounts to harass her online, and a woman from Texas who had recently criticized her online.

Fortunately, no one was killed or injured. The couple she hired to kill her enemies sent her an unrelated photo of police lights to make her think they had unsuccessfully attempted to carry out her wishes and then essentially played her for money, never actually killing anyone.

Her time in federal prison will be a far cry from the glitz and glamour she's grown accustomed to. Grayson was sentenced to the maximum term allowed for murder-for-hire and will serve 120 months in prison.

A statement to Fox News from the acting U.S. Attorney Reagan Fondren gets to the meat and bones of it all:

"This was a twenty-first-century crime where online feuds and senseless rivalries bled into the real world. The defendant tried to hire someone to murder a woman over things that happened exclusively on the internet."

Be careful on the internet, friends. You never know what a negative comment could lead to.

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