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12.27.07 3:45 PM CST • Here at Playboy • Josh Robertson

tonyparker.jpgI’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. The “supermodel” who “slept with” Tony Parker is a hoax. What’s unfortunate is that actual print magazines are committing this garbage to ink. Over the holidays, some female relatives bought a stack of celebrity weeklies and I couldn’t believe my eyes when I came across the familiar name Alexandra Paressant. God, not this again.

No thanks to Messrs. Woodward and Bernstein over at X17.

The people (there are at least two) who are currently smearing Tony Parker and Eva Longoria tried something similar with Ronaldinho after the 2006 World Cup:

Nice one, Sherlock Sun.

That was 17 months ago; when I heard about it I did very little digging, and the Ronaldinho story quickly fell apart. Here’s what I found in detail. I stopped responding to dim-witted e-mails from “Alexandra” and her supposed manager “Olivia Ducreu,” and the two geniuses pretty much went away.

Dana Kennedy had much the same experience when she investigated the story for People. Her experience is uncannily similar to mine – I have no doubt these are the same idiots pushing the same unsophisticated act. She explains it all over at the Huffington Post.

A few more things of interest here:

1. I said Alexandra and Olivia pretty much went away. But not totally – here’s an e-mail I received from Alexandra in February:

I have to shoot with Antoine Verglas for Playboy and other magasine in march in NYC, otherwise I was selctionate to meet Georges Lucas for Indian Jones 4 IN june in Hollywood.

As in Los Angeles at the begining of march is it posible that you Give me the contact of HUGH HEFNER cos he tried to contact me in my old mobile( as each  year) to attend at his party in L A.


Wow. Oh, what tangled syntax we weave. Let me get you Mr. Hefner’s direct line.

2. Dana mentioned Alexandra’s alleged best friend Ornella Irie. This wasn’t part of the story back in 2006. As with Alexandra, Ornella has a fan blog on auFeminin.com– and as with Alexandra, the pictures on the blog are of other people, most notably Sports Illustrated swimsuit models Oluchi Onweagba, Carla Campbell and Jessica White.

3. Ornella’s MySpace gallery had some of those pictures as well. And Alexandra’s had a vast gallery of suspicious images. Both profiles are now set to private. I wasn’t able to identify many of Alexandra’s photos in the brief time I had with the MySpace gallery (I’m better with cheesecake than fashion), but I did recognize one shot (above), Milena Roucka by the photographer Bruce Brandon. Alexandra also had a picture of “herself” with soccer player Sergio Ramos. The same photo is on this soccer blog and the woman is identified as Carolina Martinez.

4. Yeah, but… yeah, but… X17 has a VIDEO of Alexandra Paressant talking about Tony Parker! Possible explanation here.

5. It is wrong to spread rumors. Web pages are easily faked. Magazines and newspapers have an obligation to check facts. Bearing all that in mind, and making no claims for the following’s veracity, I present a very amusing page from an escort reviews site. Credit to HuffPo reader hutsisi.



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