Kristen Ashworth Curtis

Her exposé "Billion Dollar Blackjack: The Story Of Corruption And The Los Angeles Times" offered compelling insight, historical corrections, and a re-examination of the Prohibition Era through her family dynasty’s reclamation of the American Way.

From Los Angeles California to Old Las Vegas, Curtis’s ancestors are among the men who territorially claimed, governed and created the infrastructure of the American West. An alumnus of Brigham Young University, Curtis is the daughter of the late Senator Don Ashworth, Mary Bonelli Ashworth, and Mother of five children in Highland, Utah. She joined Charlatan as an editor-at-large in 2025.