Farrah Ashline: Media Whore?
The more we learn about GirlsGoingOut.com and the iffy career of its founder, Farrah Ashline, the more we understand why she gave up prostitution for the far less disease-ridden business of just taking people's money without providing anything in return. It's hard to feel anymoresorry for someone who's already paid $60 to find people to watch Sex and the City with, but perhaps the women taken in by the glorious promise that was GirlsGoingOut.com ("A place where women could get together, away from the daily stresses of life, and simply have fun!") deserve some extra measure of pity for being hoodwinked by a woman so clearly unreliable as Farrah Ashline. Shouldn't they have been able to tell something was up when the "testimonials" on the stock photo-rriffic site appear to consist of every email Farrah 's ever received? We especially like this endorsement:
As I look over the statistics for visits to Web sites I've designed for several of the programs we offer I notice that I've received over 450 visits in September from http: //www.girlsgoingout.com/wnews.php I've looked at your page and couldn't find any link, perhaps the link was on an earlier newsletter this month. . . If you have any idea how/why one/several of my sites were mentioned I'd enjoy hearing about it. You have a very interesting Web site.
But we find the scare quote on this one a little alarming:
Hello, I am the Dad of Farrah Ashline, and I frequent the website GirlsGoingOut.Com: The Best Events Site For Women with pure pride and personal delight that this is "my" daughter doing such a wonderful thing.
Seriously, Farrah sounds like superbad news. (She's getting sued in Virginia small claims court and appears to have skipped out on her rent at least once.) No wonder her dad wants some ironic distance.
Let this be a lesson: If you're going to pay for company, at least get some sex out of it.
UPDATE: The rent thing may have been her not returning a security deposit, not her skipping out on rent. Really, how could we have possibly thought that?
Testimonials [GirlsGoingOut.com]