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‘Virgin River’ fan allegedly scammed out of $375K by Martin Henderson impersonator: ‘Very foolish’
New Zealand Herald.She claimed that after posting on a fan page for the Netflix show, she received a message from a person claiming they were Henderson’s agent, who put her in contact with who she thought was the 50-year-old actor.“We hit it off immediately and talked about favourite foods and common interests,” said Lea, claiming the two talked over WeChat and Telegram.The scammer, according to Lea, sent her voice messages in Henderson’s AI-doctored voice with promises that they’d be together soon.Come December 2024, Lea allegedly moved to New Zealand under the pretense that she was going to marry Henderson.“He told me he wanted to leave the acting world and live a quiet life in New Zealand with me – we planned marriage and three children,” she shared.Lea said she was supposed to pick the star up from Auckland Airport on New Year’s Eve, but the scammer told her that he allegedly was hospitalized during filming in South Africa.However, Lea’s friend allegedly sent her a Herald article about Henderson’s philanthropic mission in Matakana, New Zealand that exposed discrepancies in the scammer’s story.“I thought, ‘What is Martin doing in New Zealand in Matakana on a bike rally when he told me he was lying in a hospital bed in Johannesburg after a mild heart attack?'” said Lea.But by that point, Lea allegedly already spent more than $375,000 in purchases for “Henderson” due to the scheme.Lea said she paid $10K to bail him out of jail, $5K for a commercial flight for his trip back to New Zealand, $30K for a private jet from South Africa, $56K for fake invoices for a box that didn’t exist, $12K in gift cards and $5K in bitcoin transfers.
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‘Wild at Heart’ Producer Joni Sighvatsson Sets ‘The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden’ With The Global Ensemble Drama, Diprente Media
Annika Pham Hollywood Icelandic mogul Joni Sighvatsson, producer of David Lynch’s Palme d’Or winner “Wild at Heart” and head of L.A.-based Palomar Entertainment, has partnered the Scandinavian powerhouse The Global Ensemble Drama and South Africa’s Diprente Media for the feature adaptation of Jonas Jonasson’s best-selling book “The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden.” The majority English-language project in development will be directed by high profile South-African talent Kagiso Lediga from a script by Karabo Lediga, both credited for Netflix’s first African series “Queen Sono.” “The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden” is the second Jonas Jonasson movie adaptation for Sighvatsson, after the executive produced “The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared” which grossed over $51 million worldwide. Published in 2013 and sold by Albatros Agency to around 30 territories including to Harper Collins for English language countries, “The Girl…” is the empowering story of Nombeko Mayeki, “a young woman from Soweto who finds herself caught in an international whirlwind from South Africa to Sweden,” per the official logline.” “A heroine born in the slums of South Africa, she rises from obscurity to become the key player in an international nuclear conspiracy, accidentally saving the Swedish monarchy and averting global catastrophe with her quick-witted resourcefulness.” Nombeko’s journey is described as “an absurd and heart-warming tale of how one underestimated person can inadvertently save the world from disaster.
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by 2,798 kilometres (1,739 mi) of coastline of Southern Africa stretching along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the north by the neighbouring countries of Namibia, Botswana, and Zimbabwe; and to the east and northeast by Mozambique and Eswatini (Swaziland); and it surrounds the enclaved country of Lesotho. South Africa is the largest country in Southern Africa and the 24th-largest country in the world by land area and, with over 58 million people, is also the world's 24th-most populous nation.
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