She's Getting in Touch With Her Soulful Side

It's a classic Washington story: Young person arrives from the boonies and through sheer moxie manages to network her way to fame, success and a pile of ignored default judgments owed to burned ex-pals.

At least that was the twist Farrah Ashline's story took. She was the founder of an early-'00s D.C. social club, GirlsGoingOut.com, that claimed 6,000 members and won positive PR for its yoga- and chocolate-intensive chicks-only parties -- before suddenly evaporating. In its wake: a bunch of ticked-off former employees who claimed Ashline owed them thousands.

Well, guess who's resurfaced! An investigation by the Albany Times Union of dubious Internet ads for "massage" services found Ashline, 33, working in Schenectady, N.Y., as " Nayka. . . a world renowned Tantra dakini and soul healer." Her Web site promises "body treatments to free up any repressed or blocked sexual energy . . . and as a result receive longer or multiple orgasms." Fun! The paper called Ashline out for advertising as a "licensed massage therapist" (she admitted she has no license) and claiming an apprenticeship at Harvard med school (no such program).

Ashline (who did not respond to our e-mail or phone messages) told the paper her craft is a serious exploration of Eastern arts, nothing fishy or illegal. Meanwhile, old fans of GirlsGoingOut.com, take heart: She's also advertising a Meetup, for "all women from 18-60 . . . brunches, dinners, movies, day trips, spa nights, concerts and more." The name? "Goddess Girls."

LOVE, ETC.

· Born: A daughter to Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban yesterday -- the summer's third-most anticipated celebrity spawn after Brangelina's upcoming twins. The 6-pound 7 1/2 -ounce baby was born in Nashville and named Sunday Rose Kidman Urban. (Yup, another baffling Hollywood name in the tradition of Apple and Puma.) This is the first child for the actress and the country singer, who married in 2006; Kidman has two teenage children from her marriage to Tom Cruise.

· Divorcing: Yankees star Alex Rodriguez and his wife, Cynthia. The slugger's wife filed papers in Miami yesterday claiming her husband of six years was unfaithful and "emotionally abandoned" her and their children. Later in the day, her lawyer described A-Rod's relationship with Madonna as an "an affair of the heart" (no sex!) but still the "last straw." "She's just a Greek Orthodox lady who has had as much as she can take," he told People magazine. The couple has two daughters: Natasha, 3, and 8-week-old Ella.

THIS JUST IN . . .

· Sen. Ted Kennedy is responding well to treatment for his malignant brain tumor and tackling cancer "with his trademark grit and determination," says wife Vicki. In an e-mail obtained by the Associated Press, she told friends that he's been exercising and sailing in between trips to the hospital for radiation and chemotherapy. "The only side effect is fatigue, and that word has never been in Teddy's vocabulary before," she wrote. "But he's learning to cope with it."

· Laura Bush threw her husband a party for 200 on Friday at the White House, but President Bush got a second celebration Sunday -- his actual 62nd birthday -- on Air Force One. While on his way to the G-8 summit in Japan, aides gave him a wooden box crafted from a 115-year-old oak that fell on the White House lawn last year. The box was made in Texas and filled with notes and cards from his senior staff.

HEY, ISN'T THAT . . . ?

· Jimmy Smits at the Spy Museum on July Fourth. The actor (light blue T-shirt, tan baseball cap, sunglasses), in town to host "A Capitol Fourth" on the Mall that night, dropped by the museum with a small group -- four adults and two young girls.