Angelina Jolie Mystery Assistant?
Note: I’m a little late on this story due to illness.
There’s still much drama surrounding the Angelina Jolie fake delivery story. According to the AP, Entertainment Tonight knew the story was fake before it aired on their show. Angelina’s real assistant, Holly Goline, told the media source that she had not sent them emails about the birth after it was printed on the ET’s website.
Shortly after the story was posted but several hours before the broadcast aired, Goline told “Entertainment Tonight” that she was not the person with whom they had been corresponding, a person with direct knowledge of the conversation told The Associated Press. That account was confirmed by another person close to Jolie.
The story started with and ET Producer named Sharlette Hambrick who told the show that “she had obtained a BlackBerry e-mail address for Goline from a contact at CNN, according to the executive, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release the information.”
According to the show, they didn’t learn of the impostor until they received a letter from Jolie’s attorney three days after the show aired. A statement for the show read in part:
“We takes this very seriously and is, of course, concerned that the show may have been victimized by someone allegedly posing as a member of Ms. Jolie’s team. We are actively investigating the matter and are reaching out to law enforcement agencies.”
All this back and forth was supposed to have taken place via Holly’s Blackberry email. A source close the family says that Holly has never had a Blackberry account even though she was spotted with a Blackberry at Cannes. (Do you have to have a Blackberry account to use your Blackberry? I have no idea how it works. I assume you can just use any ole email account as long as you are connected at to the web.)
It’s all very confusing but it looks like ET didn’t fact check like they should have.
June 11th, 2008 at 10:29 pm
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