- Mother of writer Christian Peppard, her son by with George Peppard.
- Her jaw was shattered in a boating accident. It had to be replaced. It took five years for recovery. (1985)
- A fire destroyed her New York City apartment and lifelong mementos which she had recently shipped to NYC from California. The blaze was caused by a damp but smoldering cigarette which Ashley threw into her trash can before she left the apartment in the morning. (1999)
- While portraying Cleopatra in George Bernard Shaw's "Caesar and Cleopatra" on Broadway (New York) in 1977 opposite Rex Harrison, she sustained an eye injury. She missed a few performances, then finished the run wearing an eye patch.
- In 1977, she was raped and severely beaten by three drunken men at an abandoned gas station near Bakersfield, California. She did not reveal the rape publicly until 1993, when she testified in the trial of a man accused of raping a friend of Ashley's.
- Won a Tony for "Take Her, She's Mine". (1962)
- Won Broadway's 1962 Tony Award as Best Supporting or Featured Actress (Dramatic) for "Take Her, She's Mine." She has also received two other Tony nominations as Best Actress (Dramatic): in 1964, for "Barefoot in the Park," and in 1975, for a revival of "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof".
- Breakthrough Broadway role in "Take Her, She's Mine" earned her a LIFE magazine cover story. (November 1963)
- Ex-stepmother of Julie Peppard and Brad Peppard.
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