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Kristen Ashworth Curtis
Kristen Ashworth Curtis joined Charlatan Magazine in 2025.
Kristen Ashworth Curtis
Her exposé "Billion Dollar Blackjack: The Story Of Corruption And The Los Angeles Times" offered compelling insight, historical corrections, and a stunning revision of the Prohibition Era through her family dynasty’s claim on the American Way.
From Los Angeles California to Old Las Vegas, Curtis’s ancestors are among the men who claimed, governed and created the infrastructure of the American West. An alumnus of Brigham Young University, Curtis proffered a firsthand account of the genesis of Covid-19 in Utah’s Nursing Homes, and, with an inside connection to the first Las Vegas Hotel and Casino, waxed lyrical on how risk-taking, fraud, and the abject failure of regulators led to the 2008 Financial Crisis.
Curtis is the daughter of the late Senator Don Ashworth, Mary Bonelli Ashworth, and is the mother of five children in Highland, Utah. She joined Charlatan as an editor-at-large in 2025.
Articles by Kristen Ashworth Curtis
Billion Dollar Blackjack
It was called the scourge of mankind. Contributor Kristen Ashworth Curtis re-examines the Prohibition Era, and her family dynasty’s claim on the American Way.
Ground Zero
Nursing Homes were the first stop for the coronavirus. Contributor Kristen Ashworth Curtis remembers how Generation Z and the elderly were destined to meet on the front lines of Covid-19.
In a Rugged Land
The Financial Crisis of 2008 was the worst since the Great Depression. Contributor Kristen Ashworth Curtis recalls the good housekeeping lessons in Gunlock.
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