Danni Ashe, born Leah Nicole Flinn on January 16, 1968, in Beaufort, South Carolina, began her career as a stripper at 17 using a fake ID in Seattle, later moving to Los Angeles for modeling in men's magazines and soft-core videos. She founded Danni's Hard Drive in 1995, launching it as a subscription site with exclusive content, which quickly became a global phenomenon, consuming massive bandwidth and generating millions. By 2003, her operation included 50 employees and a large studio.
Primarily softcore, she performed in lesbian scenes and was named the most downloaded woman by Guinness in 2000 after over a billion downloads. Ranked among porn's powerful in 2003, she retired from modeling in 2005, sold the site in 2004 (later to Penthouse in 2006), and now works as a photographer in Arizona after breast-reduction surgery.