Background
Lorenzana currently resides in Portland, Oregon where she was born.
Lorenzana currently resides in Portland, Oregon where she was born.
Ashly began her work as an independent escort around 2005, at the age of seventeen. She primarily advertised her services on Craigslist in the now defunct "Erotic Services" sub-forum after learning that her mother was also using the site to find customers for her escort services. In various news stories, Lorenzana has voiced her support for online escort forums and communities, claiming that they provide a safer environment for sex workers and allow for easier screening of new clients.
Lorenzana is known for openly admitting to struggling with substance abuse problems, particularly a long lasting Methamphetamine addiction that began in her late teens.
In her writing and in several interviews, she has explained that her mother was also an addict and that the two of them often engaged in recreational drug use together as a shared hobby. In a New York Times column published in August 2012, Lorenzana is credited for writing a consumer review which led to the ultimate demise of paid review service GettingBookReviews.com.
Lorenzana wrote the negative review and published it on a number of consumer complaint sites after initially hiring GettingBookReviews.com to review her memoir, and later declaring that the company was in fact scamming their customers and that she refused to use their reviews after learning that writers were only being paid to write five star reviews for books