Acton, California Dec 25, 2023 (Issuewire.com) - Canadian-Portuguese artist Saint Von Colucci (real name: Erich-Saint Colucci Lima) has not undergone any cosmetic surgeries and has not passed away.
The artist and his representatives were victims of an elaborate smear campaign and publicity stunt early this year in order to promote another artist's body of work.
Colucci's managers accuse his Chinese ex-manager, a South Korean music agency, a Canadian superstar, and an American music mogul of being the masterminds behind the elaborate smear campaign. According to them, the music managers and the South Korean agency paid hackers to get into Colucci's representatives email servers and to send out fake press releases to the media, and then worked alongside underpaid freelancer British journalists and American media outlets to create and spread artificial intelligence conspiracy theories with photoshopped screenshots online in order to harm Colucci and South Korea's reputation.
The artist has been suffering greatly due to the publicity stunt, and it has affected his mental health greatly to the point that he had to pause all his work activities for treatment.
According to his managers, the hackers took an old headshot picture of him and used Photoshop software to change his face, and then paid the Western journalists to spread the theory that the artist was an artificial intelligence-generated character. They also claim the malicious individuals created fake profiles of him, screenshotted them, and published the screenshots online, trying to frame him as the culprit, when, in reality, Colucci never had any social media accounts except a Welbo account.
Colucci's managers accuse journalists of engaging in cybercriminal activities such as doxxing, invasion of privacy, bullying, and defamation, only to harm the artist's reputation. "Journalists purposely created and spread artificial intelligence conspiracy theories that Saint was not a real person just as a cover-up for their smear campaign and publicity stunt," say his managers.
Colucci's new managers also allege that his ex-manager lied to the press about the singer's parents and their backgrounds in order to make it look more appealing to the press, when in reality, Colucci's parents are not either wealthy or famous, and they abandoned him when he was only three years old, dropping him off at an orphanage where he lived until he got kicked out at the age of 18, leaving him homeless on the streets until he moved into a youth homeless shelter for one year after his biological parents refused to help him financially if he pursued arts instead of business.
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