Who is Art Jones?

[Superidealist]

And why did he have EightStar's website up a full year before EightStar, itself?

Here is the archive of ArtJones.com from October 1997.

Here is the earliest archived version of EightStar's website (December 199.

The big difference between these is this page, included on ArtJones.com but absent from EightStar-Diamond.com.

Also, apparently Gemstones.com once sold EightStar diamonds, as seen here.

 

[Superidealist]

Here's another page that predates the first archived copy of the EightStar website (though by only one week). Jason Guritz (who is now, and may have then been, with EightStar) was a vice president with this company at the time.