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I started working on a story about a scandal in the ballet world my name is Alice Rob and I'm a
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contributing writer for Vanity Fair it was a business story about a ballet company that turned into a murder
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investigation so in 2016 Ashley married a much older man together they made a plan and to
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start a new Ballet Company Ashley's Dream was to create a ballet company that would be a home for
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dancers who were unconventional she didn't want a cookie cutter company she wanted girls that were tall girls that
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were short you know I am taller so I thought that this would be a great fit for me I don't know the Doug could spell
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ballet before he met Ashley but you know when you love somebody what do you want
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to do you want to make her happy Ashley was 24 and Doug was 54 they knew each other for approximately 13 days before
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they got married Ashley was sending photographs of herself to Doug constantly she was you know a bikini
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model at some point and she knew how to work it she knew how to use it his major concern is how's he going
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to introduce Ashley to Eva I felt like Ashley was taking my dad away from me Ashley wants to win total affection she
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wants to be number one she she would go through periods where she was just raging at Doug she flip-flops between
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he's a great guy who everybody knew him as or he's evil good or evil good or evil good or evil she goes to live with
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her mother and effectively cuts off all communication with Doug he's begging her
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to talk about things give him another chance meanwhile she accused him of trying to poison Her She's accused him
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publicly of murder attempted murder was Doug Ben feel dangerous they both had a lot of guns and there was an incident
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where during an argument he shot a gun into the ceiling after the the case with the
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poisoning allegations I saw a picture of the two of them you know arm in-arm attending a Gala together and looking
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like a happy couple he was so hopeful and optimistic that everything would be all right every time she made
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allegations she always came back to him and gave him hope of reconciling at some point Ashley said
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that she wanted to move to Maryland together and start over as a family they were packing up her house in Florida I
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heard some somebody screaming outside and she shot him she walks next door gun in hand and tells the neighbor I shot
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Doug in self-defense L White next door to me she just came over her strange husband attacked her and she says she
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shot him was she genuinely afraid or just trying to get her away since Black Swan came out I think that's a lot of
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people's only window into balet which sucks but this certainly does Parlay into that narrative to Doug Ashley this
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innocent pure white swan but underneath those white feathers she's the black onean
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