and then there's Danni Ashe:
http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?q=danni%20ashe&url=http://www.danni.com/
Her site is never lower than 3000 and usually up there in the sub 1500 ranking. Yeah, yeah, it's a medium core porn site, but the stats are legit. Oh, and she started the site herself and did her own HTML coding in the early days (I've heard her discuss HTML coding and the business of running a profitable web site, she's legit in that regard).