he is legit here while he is a gag artist by trade there is no doubt she did it in my opinion.

you really think she did it. Think again go visit this website and you see the REAL BILLY ASH

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The Con Artist Lives Again
Bill Ash Re-Emerges With a New Tale of Lies and Lust

By Norm Kent
Publisher, http://www.nationalgaynews.com
It is a story that could only have South Florida roots.

It is September of 2007, and Seth Tobias, 44, a multi millionaire hedge fund investor, known nationally for his appearances as a respected financial commentator for CNBC is found very dead in the swimming pool of his Palm Beach Estate, a 5 million dollar, 6,700 square foot mansion.
The night before his body was discovered, his friends, together for a pool party, witnessed an angry dispute between he and his wife of two years.

Allegations of sexual trysts, domestic violence, and drug abuse emerge as law enforcement officers interview the spouse, the brothers, and a mysterious online psychic whom the thrice-divorced wife apparently consulted with regularly. The psychic regales the willing media with lurid tales of drinking, of male hustlers, wild parties and cocaine.

That ‘psychic,’ Bill Ash, a rather large and exquisitely effeminate gay man, surprisingly alleges that the wife, his online confidant, is the one who murdered the husband to steal his fortune and avoid a divorce.

Ash purportedly holds secrets about the spousal relationship, and he has been peppering the media for months with hidden revelations, giving the story life, helping it run large in the tabloids and on the ‘net in force.

Today, it is all over pagesix.com

But Bill Ash is no psychic. Bill Ash is a con man with South Florida roots, and the roots have a very bad fungus.

You almost have to believe the movie rights are being sold as you read this. At the very least, the sordid and scandalous story of the sad death of Seth Tobias was the cover page feature of New York Magazine last week.

This week, not in the media, but in real life, in a Palm Beach county courtroom, a legion of attorneys- eight at least- are battling over the multi million dollar estate of Seth Tobias. His pre marital will leaves the bulk of his purported 25 million dollar estate to his family and brothers. But his wife, Phyllis, is fighting for her legal rights under Florida law, asserting she is now the rightful heir.

No one has been charged in the death of Seth Tobias, and months have passed without a measured toxicology report being published by the coroner.

Evidence is being gathered suggesting that Seth’s death was caused by an overdose; that there was cocaine and the sleeping pill, ambien, in his bloodstream. However, the mysterious gay psychic claims the wife confessed to him in an online session. So Seth’s brothers’ lawyers are using his testimony to advance the claim that as a potential murderer, she cannot be the rightful heir. It’s Florida law.

The psychic however, has claimed to have a relationship not only with Mrs. Tobias, but purports to have known Seth as well, claiming to have met him in La Jolla, California. He alleges that he provided male hustlers for Seth, took him to gay strip clubs like Cupid’s in West Palm Beach, and provided personal services on an ongoing basis for the deceased fund manager.

Bill Ash cannot sustain a single claim about his alleged relationship with Seth Tobias. However, one of Seth’s secretaries can. She represents Bill called and demanded money.

The New York Times bought into Bill Ash, and on the front page of their Business section last December 4th, ran a story about the Tobias death. The paper related Ash’s allegations du jour, including a claim that his wife had lured Seth into the pool with promises she would arrange a sexual liaison with a gay porn star.

However, police, lawyers, investigators, and journalists, who have spent countless hours investigating and unraveling the claims of ‘Billy’- that’s his new moniker- Ash are just beginning to learn that the man making these claims has a sordid past, pockmarked by defrauding countless others to advance his own mercenary, self-aggrandizing artifices and schemes.

The truth is that Bill Ash is a con man and the truth has caught up with him again.

It is not just that William Ash is a convicted felon. It is that his criminal history involves acts of fraud, transparent lies, knowing deceit, and repeated dishonesty. It is that his reputation for truth and reliability is virtually non existent.

It is not just that he has misused his talents to persuade others to advance his own criminal acts, misdeeds, embezzlements, and swindles. It is that his skills at deception and dishonesty have harmed good and decent charitable organizations, as well as honest businessmen trying to earn a living. Add to that now the wild goose chase he must be sending lawyers for the Tobias family on.

The reality of Billy Ash’s chronicles of deception that newspapers and television crews are uncovering today in the Seth Tobias case were already exposed by The Express Gay News in March of 2000. I should know. I was the publisher and I was the author of the articles revealing his scams. Inconsistency and unreliability are Bill Ash’s middle name.

The crooked dealings of Bill Ash which I exposed in The Express seven years ago revealed a man who lied for a living, and attempted to compound one lie with another when caught and exposed in an untruth. It revealed a person who was incapable of remembering one story from another, since they were mostly made up to begin with. If his deeds were not so sinister, the conduct would have been comical.

Ash’s criminal history includes a 1996 felony conviction for stealing the client list of a company that sold goods manufactured by the disabled and setting up a rival company; passing worthless checks for years while delivering false promises of restitution; misrepresenting his role and compromising the position of AIDS charities and Pride South Florida; lying to tabloids about celebrities while publishing untruths engineered to defame them; and scamming businessmen by rendering payments with checks from a man he knew was dead.

In one of his more elaborate deceptions in 1995, he chartered a boat for his own 31st birthday, arranging for thousands of dollars on flowers and balloons by telling vendors he was throwing the party for Dolphins owner Wayne Huizenga, and that the Miami businessman would be footing the bill.

In another episode in the year 2001, he misled one charity into thinking he was booking Jennifer Holliday as a main act, failing to reveal that Holliday was so appalled by Ash she had sought a restraining order against him the year before.

All of these acts led to criminal prosecutions which were eventually consolidated before a Broward County Circuit Court Judge. Ash would initially be placed on probation, but he would violate it by running an illegal escort service. The court would revoke his probation, convict him as a felon, and give him jail time.

Ash did not just spend months in jail for running a prostitution ring as some of the stories concerning Tobias relate. Ash was adjudicated guilty of multiple criminal charges, including grand theft, kiting checks, not making restitution, and fraudulent use of credit cards.

This is the gay man and key witness whose testimony the Tobias family lawyers, on both sides of the bar, are now fighting over. This is the man who the media gave a moment in the sun.

His escort scheme was gay soap opera. At the time, Ash was billing himself as ‘Mr. Madam’ and boasted he had an offer to write a book about his days as a Heidi Fleiss–like pimp. He feigned elaborate connections, international contacts, and incredible wealth, all while bouncing checks to restaurants for fifty bucks. He claimed to own bars he never bought, booked acts he never paid for, and be involved in deals with people he never met and knew nothing about him.

Bill Ash may have stumbled upon fame when Phyllis Tobias reached out to him, relying on ‘askbilly.com’ for advice, counseling, and guidance. I understand he got paid thousands and was sought out often by the wife of the late Seth Tobias.

With his persuasive charm, I cannot imagine how much his newly discovered professional ‘psychic’ career has generated for him. You never know. Like W.C. Fields once said, “There’s a sucker born every minute.”

There may be some measure of truth in some of the things Ash is relating to the media and authorities about Phyllis and Seth Tobias, but those who are listening to the things he says today ought to be reminded of his lack of credibility yesterday. The big boy has cried wolf a few thousand times too many.

He left South Florida for San Diego in disgrace, and set up shop on the Internet as the ‘world’s best psychic’. He gets involved intricately in the death of a celebrity and milks it for everything it is worth.

With Bill Ash involved, my guess is the milk turns out to be very sour.

PUBLISHER’S NOTE AND DISCLOSURE

Writing for New Times in 2001, Wyatt Olson did an even more elaborate story documenting the details and dimensions of the fraud that was Bill Ash, Entitled ‘Ash and Burn,’ you can still find it on the Internet. See the link below.

Unfortunately, the new owners of the Express, who I sold the newspaper to in December of 2003, have not put the first four years of our paper online yet.

Consequently, those researching Bill Ash’s background could never have come upon our first series of very revealing stories from February and March of 2000. Too bad; the cops and litigators could have used some background material.

To her credit, Courtney Ford of CNBC did thoroughly read and review the story of Bill Ash in New Times, and has now contacted me for more information, some of which I have published in this story.

Look At Some Facts! Sounds Like Filomena Killed Seth
Filomena stopped taking her medication for mental illness seven weeks prior to Seth Tobias’s death, making her hostile and aggressive. Filomena gave Seth a black eye 4 weeks prior to his death. This was also noted by Seth’s personal driver and personal secretary in depositions. Seth said publicly that he was going to divorce Filomena two weeks prior to his death. Filomena hired a voodoo princess to put a death wish on Seth, which showed her mental state and her desire for him to be dead. Her attorneys agree that she spent over $100,000 on this voodoo woman. Filomena says she spends her days reading the bible. She still calls psychics.

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I feel Filomena killed Seth Tobias. If you would like to reach the black widow or the person that hasn't filed her proper taxes for herself your staff you can call her 561-662-4111

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Murder goes on forever. Filomena can be arressted at any time. The ambien was taken from Filomena's personnal safe. The empty bag only had Filomena's hand print on it. She said on tape you washed all the dish's to make sure the ambien was all off. She also said on tape that see got in the water and flipped Seth over so he would drown. Filomena has never helped the police investigate. She would not take a polygraph. She had the pool repainted and Seth wasn't even burried incase some of the drugs got in the water. Your husband isn't burried and you are worried about draining the pool. Bill Ash did take two polygragh tests and passed both.

A Lurid Aftermath to a Hedge Fund Manager’s Fast Life

By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN
Published: December 4, 2007
JUPITER, Fla. — A life of private jets and black-tie balls ended with Seth Tobias, a wealthy investment manager and a familiar presence on CNBC, floating face down in the swimming pool of his mansion here.
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Seth Tobias, a regular guest on “Kudlow & Company” on CNBC, was found dead in the pool of his home in Florida. His brothers say his wife killed him.
It was just after midnight on Sept. 4 when Mr. Tobias’s wife, Filomena, frantically called 911. “Please send somebody, please!” Mrs. Tobias screamed. “He’s not breathing!” By the time the police arrived, she had pulled her husband’s body to the edge of the pool, where she cradled his head in her arms, sobbing.
Mr. Tobias, who was 44 years old, had apparently suffered a heart attack, his brother Spence said at the time. The police did not consider his death suspicious.
But now an unfolding drama over Mr. Tobias’s estate is providing a lurid account of fast money and faster living in the volatile world of hedge funds. Mr. Tobias’s four brothers and Mrs. Tobias are locked in a legal battle over the estate, which is worth at least $25 million. And, in a civil complaint, they have gone so far as to accuse her of murder.
The brothers, Samuel, Spence, Scott and Joshua, claim Mrs. Tobias drugged her husband and lured him into the pool. Bill Ash, a former assistant to Mr. Tobias, said he had told the police that Mrs. Tobias confessed to him that she had cajoled her husband into the water while he was on a cocaine binge with a promise of sex with a male go-go dancer known as Tiger.
Mrs. Tobias’s lawyers call the claims outrageous. She has not been accused of any crime.
The mystery deepened when it emerged that Mrs. Tobias spent $9,628 to have the pool drained and resurfaced days after her husband died, according to documents filed in an unrelated case.
The salacious accusations have captivated this wealthy enclave north of West Palm Beach and transfixed the investment world in New York, where Mr. Tobias ran a $300 million hedge fund from an office on Park Avenue. From the Breakers hotel in Palm Beach, a stately symbol of old money, to trading floors on Wall Street, the epicenter of the explosive wealth now reshaping American society, the case is seen as a parable of the modern gilded age.
“I don’t understand why this hasn’t ended up on ‘CSI: Miami’ yet,” said Jim Cramer, the host of CNBC’s stock-picking show “Mad Money” and Mr. Tobias’s former boss on Wall Street.
The questions keep piling up, starting with the big one: How did Mr. Tobias die? The police in Jupiter have not opened a homicide investigation but are awaiting the results of toxicology tests before making a final determination, said Sgt. Scott Pascarella.
At the center of the dispute is Mr. Tobias’s will, which designates his brothers as beneficiaries but does not name Mrs. Tobias. She contends that she is entitled to the estate because the will was signed before the couple married. In court filings, the Tobias brothers invoke Florida’s “slayer statute,” which prohibits inheritance by a person who murders someone from whom they stand to inherit. They claim she “intentionally killed” her husband “by asphyxiation and drowning.”
One lawyer representing Mrs. Tobias, Gary Dunkin, said he was shocked by the accusation. “In my 25 years practicing law, this is the most reckless allegation I have ever seen,” he said in court. Her lawyers, which include her prior husband, Jay J. Jacknin, have asked the court to put off her depositions, citing her “psychiatric condition.” They said she hired contractors to empty the pool because she was distraught over her husband’s death.
However this mystery plays out, it is providing a treasure of details about the lavish lifestyles that hedge funds can afford their founders, and perhaps sheds light on how all that money ultimately influences personal lives.
Mr. Tobias, a native of Philadelphia, entered this secretive, often volatile corner of the financial world after spending less than a decade on Wall Street, including a stint with Mr. Cramer’s former money-management firm. He formed Circle T in 1996, with $4 million, and parlayed that into a $300 million hedge fund and brokerage firm. Circle T is in the process of returning investors’ funds; clients have not lost money.
He counted among his investors Samuel Zell, the billionaire who recently agreed to buy the Tribune Company. Mr. Zell, in an interview, said he rarely interacted with Mr. Tobias. “I knew Seth for 10 or 15 years on a very unconnected basis,” he said. “He was a good, smart guy.”
Along the way, Mr. Tobias collected the trappings of success. He spent days at the Kentucky Derby and nights at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club. He frequently shuttled by private jet between New York, where he worked in the Seagram Building in Manhattan, and Florida, where he owned two homes.
Mr. Tobias made — and apparently spent — millions of dollars a year, court documents suggest. Outstanding expenses at the time of his death included $52,532 on his American Express Centurion Black Card and $7,960 on his Bank of America credit card. His mortgage payment for one of his homes was $35,000 a month. He paid $1,367 a month to lease a Land Rover. His monthly cable bill from Comcast was $535.19.
But the boyish Mr. Tobias never ran with the titans of Wall Street. He was a small player in an industry where successful managers command billions or even tens of billions of dollars. Nonetheless, Mr. Tobias managed to make a name for himself on financial-news television, appearing on “Squawk Box” and “Kudlow & Company” on CNBC.
Now, the hints emerging about his private life have captivated Wall Street. Mrs. Tobias told the police that her husband may have been using cocaine on the night he died, according to police reports. Some of Mr. Tobias’s former associates say he used drugs regularly and often disappeared from his office for days or weeks at a time.
Mr. Tobias’s life was apparently as volatile as his investment returns. After Circle T lost 5.3 percent in 2005, his marriage began to fray. In March 2006, the police were called to the Tobiases’ home because of a domestic disturbance. A few days later. Mr. Tobias filed for divorce. It was one week before the couple’s first anniversary.
The Tobiases later reconciled. But the divorce filings included a laundry list of accusations. Mrs. Tobias stated that she caught him having an “adulterous affair” and that he “gambled away tens of thousands of dollars and used other funds on illicit habits.” She asked the court to award her $46,000 a month for living expenses. He argued that she was constantly spending too much money.
Even after the couple reconciled, they fought constantly, mostly over money, according to several friends, who asked not to be identified for fear of being subpoenaed in connection with the case or because they were worried that their professional reputations would be harmed by being associated with the case. At one point, Mrs. Tobias bought a Porsche on her credit card and then cried when Mr. Tobias told her to return it, one friend recounted.
They also secretly frequented a gay bar called Cupids in West Palm Beach, in a strip mall along a main thoroughfare. It was there, according to Mr. Ash, that Mr. Tobias first met Tiger.
“Seth used to come in here back when it was crazy,” said Adiel Hemingway, the longtime manager of Cupids. As a flat-screen television blared hard-core gay pornography, he said that Mr. Tobias often came to the club with his wife. Mr. Hemingway took out a picture of Tiger in his office. Tiger is blond and covered with tattoos that look like stripes.
“I know exactly who he is, but I’m not telling you,” Mr. Hemingway said. The Tobias brothers have subpoenaed Tiger, using the address of Cupids, but have been unable to learn his true name.
The day Mr. Tobias died, he spent the afternoon at the Breakers with his wife and several friends, drinking and possibly using cocaine, according to Mrs. Tobias’s statement to the police. From there, Mr. Tobias went with one of the friends to E. R. Bradley’s Saloon, a boisterous open-air bar in Palm Beach that looks over the Intracoastal Waterway.
What happened next is unclear, except that Mr. Tobias was dead in the pool, with abrasions on his nose, forehead and back. When the police arrived, Mrs. Tobias, on the advice of a friend who is a lawyer, refused to let them enter the house, which is perched on the edge of the sixth hole of a Jack Nicklaus-designed golf course in a gated community. After returning with a warrant, the police found a Ziploc bag with a white powdery substance and a small baggie and a straw, as well as two empty plastic prescription bottles. Mr. Tobias’s eyeglasses and a drinking glass were discovered on the bottom of the pool.
According to the brothers’ lawsuit, Mrs. Tobias caused her husband “to ingest one or more controlled substances that induced loss of consciousness and capacity to breathe.” They further claimed that she caused him “to enter the swimming pool at their residence after his ingestion of controlled substances and in his stuporous and helpless condition he was asphyxiated and died.” Mr. Tobias’s best friend, Patrick Bransome, said in a statement to police that he had not seen him go in a pool or swim in years. Mr. Bransome declined to comment.
A few weeks later, Mr. Ash called the police and told them that Mrs. Tobias had confessed to him and that he had a tape recording to prove it. Mr. Ash has a past: he has been arrested at least 11 times on charges ranging from larceny to prostitution; He has been called Mr. Madam because of a past connection he says he had to Heidi Fleiss, the Hollywood Madam. Investigators flew to Mr. Ash’s home in San Diego and spent a day interviewing him.
“She confessed to me on tape,” Mr. Ash, said in an interview. “I believe she absolutely did it.” He would not provide the tape, but expressed outrage that the case was not moving more quickly. “I’m the only one standing up for him. Who else in this whole crazy thing is looking out for him?”
The police in Jupiter appeared unimpressed with Mr. Ash’s allegations. “You can take it for what it is worth,” Sergeant Pascarella said.
Through her lawyers, Mrs. Tobias refused to comment for this article. In a recent interview with The Palm Beach Post, she said, “I’m broken. I haven’t gone out in six weeks. I’ve been in and out of the hospital. I just pray all day and wonder why people could be so evil.”

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