Caroline Calloway claims she had sex with shooting suspect Luigi Mangione

social media influencer caroline calloway claim to be related to Luigi MangioneMan, 26, suspected of fatally shooting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

“OMG I’m a real UnitedHealthcare CEO assassin,” Calloway, 33, wrote on was arrested by law enforcement officers while eating at a McDonald’s restaurant. He has since been charged with murder in New York and faces four additional charges, including one count of forgery and illegal possession of a firearm, according to CNN.

Calloway wrote in a subsequent tweet: “Well, technically he wasn’t an assassin when we had sex. … As far as I know. But still!

Some were quick to cast doubt on the accuracy of Calloway’s claims.

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“Receipts Caroline, we need receipts,” one X user wrote, while another chimed in, “Godly liar.”

Calloway has previously been accused of living a lie. In a 2019 article tailoring Titled “I’m Caroline Calloway,” Calloway’s former friend natalie beach Recalls getting paid to ghostwrite Instagram captions for Calloway, discovering that Calloway had bought fake social media followers, and helping Calloway write a book. (Calloway received a six-figure book deal to write a book called ” female student But it withdrew from the agreement in 2017, returning most of the $100,000 advance.

“Caroline is caught between who she is and who she believes she is, which may ultimately be the most relevant thing about her,” Beach writes. “That’s why, when people ask me if Caroline is a liar, I try to explain that if she is, her first mark will always be herself.”

Beach’s essay is one of several that appears in her 2023 book, Drama for Adults: and Other Essays. Calloway releases her self-published memoir with the cheeky title fraud,same year. when she celebrated publicly new yorker published a review comparing it favorably to Beach’s collection of essays.

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“Beach’s book, on the other hand, is almost irritatingly rooted in fact. … Beach’s book is less meandering than Calloway’s, but it’s also slower and more uncertain,” Calloway wrote via Instagram in July 2023, citing new yorker review. “God, make me a bigger person – just not yet!!!!!”

Calloway’s comments online came as a surprise. Her remarks about Mangione came months after she said during an appearance on the “No Jumper” podcast that she “hadn’t had sex with a guy who could read in two years.”

“I met them on Hinge and I thought maybe if I dated them more than a few times, they might be able to get enough clues about my life to figure out who I was, but most of them didn’t know Ask, I won’t tell them,” she continued.

Calloway also sparked controversy in October when she announced via social media that she had no plans to leave her beachfront home in Sarasota, Florida, despite dire warnings to evacuate as Hurricane Milton approached land.

“If I do die in this storm, the price of my book will go up significantly. Order it now,” she wrote in an Instagram Story at the time.

It’s unclear whether Calloway was telling the truth or joking about her alleged connection to Mangione. Mangione is suspected of shooting Thompson outside the entrance to the Hilton Midtown hotel in New York City on Wednesday, December 4.