[lorraine]

www.tmz.com/2008/05/03/wwe-diva-fingered-in-escort-ring/

There's mention within the story that another Ashley Massaro exists, and this is a case of mistaken identity, but the only pictures that popped up on a Google search are of WWE's Ashley. Maybe your Google-fu is stronger than mine.

[Mr. Dashbee]

I like how more evidence is apparently out there linking her to it. (I don't remember where, check 411mania), and she's still denying it.

If only I had $25k lying around, I could find out the truth for sure.

[bdbdbd]

The "evidence" is an archive.org site with literally nothing on it but the name, price, and a home location saying New York.
web.archive.org/web/20070516135923/www.bellamodels.com/escorts/AshleyMassaro.79.htm

[Andy]

As fun as it is to think she used to be a hooker, what fuckin' moron would be a listed callable criminal under their actual name?

[Lucky]

Her real name was used for the front company. A service that connects men with "famous" women. She was basically advertising a booking fee. Paris Hilton getting paid to attend parties. Of course it appears to be a cover for an escort service but none of that was public and advertised. I mean, it was obviously advertised in some way to get their clients, but the point is that having her name on the website means nothing. You still have to do the cop work to expose the prostitution service, and if they didn't have anything directly linking Ashley to prostitution it wouldn't matter that she was listed in their cover service. At worst they'd question her and presuming they had no evidence and she didn't confess she'd walk away. As she may anyway because I haven't actually read anything that says she's being charged.

Plus, they were trading off of who they actually are. That's the point. They're not streetwalkers, they're women you've seen in magazines and porn. Women you've lusted over and would recognize. And now you have the opportunity to... spend time with them. So going by anything other than your stage name would kill the value.


bd2, the evidence is basically just what they have. The reports are saying that the Vegas model excuse is clearly BS given time lines and NY connections. The common excuse that "why would she do that when she has a WWE contract?" has been shot down by the information that it was pre-WWE. Noone has retracted the story and Rolling Stone has issued a public statement supporting it and making clear that they were the ones who reported it as WWE Ashley and not some other Ashley Massaro, which is usually pretty good evidence that they're comfortable with the validity of their information and that the person denying it is just covering their asses. Otherwise Ashley's lawyers would have sent a message to Rolling Stone about the other Ashley, they would have freaked out, fact checked, and pulled the story. And its been said that her name comes from information the FBI has about HER directly and not just the company. They monitored her email. So it seems pretty clear now that Ashley is in fact a whore. Its not that more evidence has come out, just that the media has gotten hold of enough info to make it pretty clear that Ashley's denial and the "other Ashley" story sound pretty flimsy.

[bdbdbd]

These chicks names, either real or most famous stage one, are their most bankable assets. If you backtrack the archive.org link and see all the women listed, she's in some pretty famous company as far as who else was booked through them.*

*Allegedly

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I'm just surprised that nobody has commented yet on the double entendre of the TMZ.com url at the top of this thread. And also on the irony of how it's probably true, based on the report.

[Outback Frito Pendejo]

May 7, 2008 8:18:25 GMT -5 @maravane said:

I'm just surprised that nobody has commented yet on the double entendre of the TMZ.com url at the top of this thread. And also on the irony of how it's probably true, based on the report.

I am shocked, shocked!....OK, maybe I'm not.

[gobshite]

As I said over at OO, it wouldnt suprise me if this was how she met Vince. And that he's now stickin it to her, which explains the playboy deal when she'd already been in playboy, the contract, and the ability to just leave to go on survivor.

If the FBI do have her emails, it'd be awesome if this was true.

[jetskid48]

Id say the chances of that are around 0%.


Main proof being she was a Diva Search contestant, not just some random hire, that won it...so thats seems like a much more realistic way that he met her...and the playboy stuff can easily be explained as another winner getting the cover after Christy before her, especially considering a new Diva poses practically every year.



That being said, I'd bet its her and that she at least was a little apart of this operation. FBI doesn't usually screw up this stuff and def doesn't go public with their knowledge of things unless they have done their research. If this were just TMZ and other stupid sites, I'd have my suspicions, but if the FBI is truely invovled, I'd say there has to be some truth to everything.

[Lucky]

Yeah, it seem silly to work up a theory how Vince is a client and was blackmailed into giving her a job and perks. Wow wrestling fans seem to have a hard time accepting that people they dislike are liked by others. She was hired in a public contest. She was popular and well liked (comparatively speaking). She's also a woman whose family are wrestlers and already had some involvement in the business. They throw women at Playboy every year. Ashley was willing and CLEARLY had/has fans. The idea that Vince not only hired her because she was blackmailing him but manipulated Hugh Hefner and Survivor? Maybe Playboy and Survivor just... you know... wanted her.

And as far as WWE "allowing" her to go on Survivor? Seriouslly? It was huge advertising for WWE. Why wouldn't WWE allow that? Its not as if losing Ashley for a period of time destroys their WM plans. If she had made it far on that show she would have done more for WWE than she ever did on their programs. And when she came back she would have had a fanbase and celebrity status she didn't have before and which is probably separate from the WWE one. It didn't work out that way but WWE would take that gamble any day. They had a chance to make the next popular Diva through zero work.

I don't doubt Vince doesn't give a shit personally that he's employing a former whore. He's never been the most moral of men it seems. Although public opinion may force his hand, but who knows?

If anything I'd half expect them to make it a character aspect and parody Elliot Spitzer or someone.