Hipster Grifter Thinks She's Great Enough To Deserve 16th Minute

Well you gotta hand it to Kari Ferrell, aka the Hipster Grifter. Five months after her story lit up the blogosphere and she's now in a Utah jail after being arrested for her fraudulent and thieving past, Ferrell continues to play the media like a fiddle. Ferrell has now taken her publicity tour to a bigger stage, giving "an exclusive jailhouse interview" to ABC News, providing her with a platform to express herself the way one would in an online profile. Among the choice tidbits and quotes that Kari shares:

She says that the reason her story became such a big deal is because she is "pretty, intelligent and very well spoken."
She calls herself "funny and charming." To prove it, she describes her childhood as "akin to the Cleavers, just a little less Aryan" and says that she did things like take piano and tennis lessons as a child in Utah, but quit because she guesses she was "not WASPy enough for it."
The self-titled "Korean Adbul-Jabbar" goes on about her intelligence, claiming to have skipped first grade, how her teachers didn't know what to do with her, and her testing was "off the charts."
She says that the reason that so many people in New York shared stories about her and made accusations without any charges being filed was because, "Everybody wants their 15 minutes of fame. They wanted to be in the media. They wanted to be a victim of the quote-unquote Hipster Grifter."
The young woman who famously used the metaphor about how she'd like to "throw your hot dog down my hallway" lists her favorite authors as Henry Miller, Proust, Augusten Burroughs, Jack Kerouac and Tolstoy. But in the jail library she's been reading David Sedaris and Ira Glass.
On her well covered exodus to Philadelphia, Ferrell says that she went "to slow the media down. But you guys are crazy. You'll go anywhere."
Her plans after she gets out of jail...coming back to New York. "If there is anywhere that can forgive, it would be New York."

Ferrell is scheduled to be sentenced in Utah for charges of forging checks, fraud and theft on October 9th. She could receive up to 12 years, but is expected to receive less time after copping a plea deal. The Law & Order episode based on the hipster grifter tale is expected to come early in the new fall season.

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By Billy Parker in News on September 14, 2009 4:10 PM

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NannyState

At this stage, she's just another stale order of Grunge Pao Chicken.

Wza

I'd rather read about Bai Ling.

tnturner

Yeah. Miller doesn't get enough tabloid coverage these days. Agreed.

Trilby16

Ooh! I like Henry Miller too!

tnturner

I like her. She's entertaining.

*Blowjobs with her feet* Ha!

Sommelier

Is this the girl who gives handjobs with her mouth... or is it blowjobs with her feet or something?

marcasm

Hipster Grifter AND Ashley Dupre. My Monday is complete.

Bort

The mocking tone of this article is automatically canceled by the fact that you're giving her the publicity she wants. But hey, anything for a big comment section, right?

jaycjay

Giving the people what they want, obviously.

Bernie Madoff-Goetz

Carlson sick today? Gag to death on her own foot? How'd this baton of shit get passed to you, Billy?

Jen S

I see the problem here: they interviewed her mom.

babyhitler

she's more like the asian margaret cho.

jaycjay

She may have worked in a vet's office, but she wasn't a Veterinary Technician after dropping out of high school. A Vet Tech has to graduate from a two-year program at an American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) accredited community college, college or university.

I mean, not that I want to say she'd lying or anything. Probably was misquoted.

goyogago

congrats, billy, you just gave her her 16th.

jaycjay

By SCOTT MAYEROWITZ

ABC NEWS Business Unit

Really?

Steven

Nobody cares about what she is up to. Let this story die already, just like Ashley Dupre.

Kojak

In more important news. The 456 aint running. They say someone got hit by a train at 110st

mellow_fellow

My first thought upon reading "The 456 aint running" was, something is wrong with one of your Ferraris.

hotstepper

what is this "Washed-Up Hussies Monday"? if so, i want my 10 cent chicken wings and $2 drafts.

jaycjay

Come on, back off on Kanye!

Nyctini11

Seriously, if i read one more thing about this dolt, i'm going to scream. Stop giving this waste of space the time of day PLEASE.

ANGRYGOD11

The self-titled "Korean Adbul-Jabbar" goes on about her intelligence, claiming to have skipped first grade, how her teachers didn't know what to do with her, and her testing was "off the charts."

Wile E. Coyote, Super Genius

Rocknrope

This woman is alive and Annie Le is dead.

There is no justice in this world.

HOTCUP

hmm, what other asians in recent news can we associate with this story?

also, kanye and michael jordan are both jerks. i just thought i'd associate those stories because they're both black. i thought we were doing a thing, here.

admit it, gothamist readers, you all fear asian people.