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Saturday, April 25, 2026

Tarot-Reading Influencer Ordered to Pay $10M in Damages for Falsely Accusing Professor in University of Idaho Murders - Yahoo

A federal judge ruled in 2024 that influencer Ashley Guillard’s statements were defamatory and based “only” on her “spiritual intuition about the murders”

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  • A federal jury ordered influencer Ashley Guillard to pay University of Idaho professor Rebecca Scofield $10 million in damages for falsely claiming that Scofield was responsible for the 2022 murders of four University of Idaho students

  • Guillard — known online for theorizing about high-profile unsolved murders, sometimes by consulting tarot cards — made a series of posts on TikTok in November 2022 claiming that Scofield was responsible for the killings

  • A federal judge previously ruled that Guillard’s statements were defamatory and based “only” on her “spiritual intuition about the murders,” but not “any objective basis”

An influencer has been ordered to pay $10 million in damages to an Idaho professor for falsely claiming she was involved in the 2022 murders of four University of Idaho students.

On Friday, Feb. 27, a federal jury ordered content creator Ashley Guillard — known online for theorizing about high-profile unsolved murders, sometimes by consulting tarot cards — to pay University of Idaho professor Rebecca Scofield $10 million in damages for her claims, per court documents obtained by PEOPLE.

According to the initial complaint, filed by Scofield against Guillard in December 2022, the content creator made a series of posts on TikTok in November 2022, claiming that Scofield was responsible for the...



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