Genderlicious: Sympathy Grifting: The Intersection of Race,
Gender, and Fraud  Ashley Kirilow in cancer disguise   I am
living in Toronto for the summer, where the press is going wild
over a local case of sympathy-fraud:  Ashley Anne Kirilow, a
23-year-old Burlington native, admits she faked cancer, ran a
bogus charity and collected thousands of dollars from hundreds
of people. She shaved her head and eyebrows, plucked her
eyelashes and starved herself to look like a chemotherapy
patient. She told anyone she met she had been disowned by drug-
addicted parents, or that they were dead. Both parents are alive
and well, each in separate marriages with three young
children... While volunteers claim she raised $20,000, she said
it was less than $5,000.  Since this newspiece a fourth fraud
charge has been added to Kirilow's list.  Kirilow is young,
thin, sweet-faced and white: over the year that she convinced
people to donate money to her cancer cause, she was given trips
to Disneyworld and took a paradise trip to Au