Remember Alexandra Paressant, that (allegedly) French (alleged) model who claimed she had an (alleged) affair with Tony Parker? If you’ve been on Mars for the last few weeks, type “Tony Parker” in the search field on the right side of the page. Got it? There you go. Well, it turns out that not only doesn’t she have any proof of the affair, but she isn’t even really who she says she is!
Somebody at the Huffington Post did some actual reporting on it. (Yes, I said the Huffington Post. Why?) Dana Kennedy looked into it for People magazine, and she talks about her findings at HuffPo. It turns out that all the pictures and videos of Paressant online are really of a German model named Hana Nitsche. Nobody reporting on the story has ever actually seen Paressant. She also invented other characters to back up her story, including a “best friend” named Ornella, played by Paressant herself. She’s like the Eddie Murphy of crazy stalkers! Before Parker, she pulled the same crap on a Brazilian soccer star named Ronaldinho, and it sounds like he wasn’t the first one. Now Parker is suing x17online to the tune of $20 million for running her story, but they got suckered too.
So, Alexandra Paressant isn’t who she says she is, Tony Parker didn’t do anything wrong, and I totally fell for it. I was careful to point out that her tales were only allegations, but in my heart I was a liar. I believed it because I wanted to believe it. Let that be a lesson, Me!
(Hat Tip: Cele|bitchy, who has more on Hana Nitsche and how she got fooled into helping Paressant’s plot along)
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