{"id":235525,"date":"2023-09-11T18:07:11","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T18:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lovemainstream.com\/?p=235525"},"modified":"2023-09-11T18:07:11","modified_gmt":"2023-09-11T18:07:11","slug":"who-was-ashley-ellerin-and-how-did-she-die-the-sun-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lovemainstream.com\/world-news\/who-was-ashley-ellerin-and-how-did-she-die-the-sun-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"Who was Ashley Ellerin and how did she die? \u2013 The Sun | The Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"

FASHION student Ashley Ellerin was killed in her Hollywood home in 2001.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Here we take a look inside the tragic death of the 22-year-old student and her connection to Hollywood actor Ashton Kutcher.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Who was Ashley Ellerin?<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n

Ashley Ellerin was a 22-year-old fashion student from North California.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

She attended the LA's Fashion Institute of Design of Merchandising in the fall of 2000.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Tragically, in February 2001, Ashley Ellerin was brutally stabbed to death.<\/p>\n

How did Ashley Ellerin know Ashton Kutcher?<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n

Ashley Ellerin met Ashton Kutcher, who was then an up-and-coming actor, in December 2000.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The pair later reportedly started a relationship in February 2001.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Ashton – who began dating Ashley that month – testified at the trial, and detailed the night she was found dead, revealing how he went to pick up the 22-year-old fashion student to take her to a post-Grammys party.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

What happened to Ashley Ellerin?<\/h2>\n

Ashley Ellerin was found in her Hollywood home with 47 stab wounds, on the night she was due to go on a date with Ashton Kutcher on February 21, 2001.<\/p>\n

The impact of the stab wounds had nearly decapitated her.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The man convicted of her death was Michael Gargiulo.<\/p>\n

Prior to her death, Ashley had met then-24-year-old Michael Gargiulo when she went to get her flat tyre fixed.<\/p>\n

Ashley feared she had a stalker after her killer had started showing up to her apartment unannounced offering to fix things.<\/p>\n

Detailing the night Ashley was found dead, Kutcher told the court of how he arrived at her home, but his date didn\u2019t answer the door.<\/p>\n

He explained: ''I knocked on the door. There was no answer. Knocked again.<\/p>\n

''And once again, no answer. At this point I pretty well assumed she had left for the night, and that I was late, and she was upset.''<\/p>\n

He added that before he left, he peeked through the windows and saw what he described as a stain on the floor.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

He said: ''I saw what I thought was red wine on the carpet. But that wasn\u2019t alarming because I went to her house party [days before] and it was like a college party.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

''I didn\u2019t think much about it.''<\/p>\n

He added: "I remember the next day after I heard about what happened, I went to the detectives and said 'my fingerprints are on the door'.<\/p>\n

''I was freaking out."<\/p>\n

The stain later turned out to be Ashley\u2019s blood.<\/p>\n

Who is Michael Gargiulo and where is he now?<\/h2>\n

Michael Gargiulo is a former bouncer, air-conditioner repairman, and aspiring actor who was convicted in August 2019 for murdering Ashley Ellerin in 2001.<\/p>\n

He was also convicted of the murder of Maria Bruno, 32, in 2005 – but at his sentencing, he argued he shouldn't have been convicted.<\/p>\n

"I'm innocent. I've been framed by tunnel-vision detectives," Gargiulo said.<\/p>\n

The former bouncer, air-conditioner repairman, and aspiring actor was also found guilty of attempted murder in an attack on a Santa Monica woman in 2008.<\/p>\n

In 2021, Gargiulo was sentenced to death for murdering the two women.<\/p>\n

Daniel Nardoni, one of Gargiulo's lawyers, objected to the sentence, saying "it's not right to execute a mentally ill person."<\/p>\n

Gargiulo's crimes were "vicious and frightening," according to Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Larry P. Fidler who sentenced him to death.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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