So, who is Kirra Hughes and how did she wind up dating such a man?
The relationship
Coming from a small beach town in California, Hughes moved to San Francisco when she was 18 to study fashion design, according to the Netflix documentary. It was during this time that one of Hughes’ friends took her to a party that Moore threw. According to The Cinemaholic, Moore approached Hughes just as she was about to leave and they had an immediate spark of attraction. Moore asked her out the next day and the two began dating.
What Hughes didn’t know was that this romance would soon lead to a nightmare of crimes. Not quite the knight in shining armour, her boyfriend turned out to be a criminal in disguise who preyed on the utmost privacy of innocent people.
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In 2010, he started a website called Is Anyone Up?, which posted naked photos of people along with their names, professions, hometowns and social media information without their knowledge or consent.
It was made for angry and vengeful ex-partners who would submit nudes of their ex-lovers to the site, making the material publicly available for the world to see, according to Yahoo!
And if that wasn’t bad enough, Moore even hired hackers to steal images from people’s private email accounts to expose on the site, per Rolling Stone.
Hughes wasn’t entirely in the dark though, as Moore did eventually fess up about the website to her. According to various media outlets, Hughes remembered thinking it was “bizarre”, but she didn’t fully understand it. She apparently refused to believe that Hunter was doing something wrong … but came to grips with reality when his house was raided and he was finally arrested in 2014.
Threats and pleas
As time went on, Hughes came across several messages on her Facebook account from strangers for the first time. Moore’s victims had sent her threats for what he had done and for ruining the lives of others for his own selfish gains.
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Other victims, whose images were put up on the website, would send her pleas and beg for help to take down the images, as they believed she was the only one who could convince Moore to do so.
According to HITC, Hughes “couldn’t handle” the threats and messages any more. Waking up in the middle of the night, she bought a one-way ticket to New York. It’s also speculated she might have also deactivated her Facebook account after her break-up with Moore.
A new life
Hughes now lives in Brooklyn. She has made a name for herself as a prop designer and model, working with brands such as The Kooples, Filthy Mouth Creative and Ponyboy, as per Photobook magazine. In her interview, she said she was flown to Paris for The Kooples campaign.
At the end of 2020, Hughes mentioned in an interview that she had found new love with musician Spencer Draeger and lives with him in a flat with their two cats, per The Cinemaholic. She also featured in one of his music videos, New Life.
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These days, Hughes is less active on social media and tries to keep a low-key profile, according to Celebseek. She does, however, continue to maintain her public Instagram account, where she shares glimpses into her life in the Big Apple.
Looking back
Yahoo! reported that, although Hughes was somewhat aware of her ex-boyfriend’s dark business, she has said she wasn’t involved in any wrongdoing. Still, there’s a part of her that regrets not doing more to help the victims and she claimed that she should’ve spoken up when she did have a voice.
In the Netflix documentary, Hughes said, “I feel ashamed and upset. I just wish I had known better at the time.”
