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Olena Zelensky Bought Bugatti Tourbillon Worth 4.5 Million Euros in Paris? Fake Purchase Bill, AI-Generated Video Used To Make False Claim About Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s Wife, Here’s a Fact Check
Latestly.com ^ | July 2, 2024 | Team Latestly

Posted on 07/02/2024 10:47:22 PM PDT by Widget Jr

However, the recent reports alleging that Olena Zelensky purchased a Bugatti Tourbillon have been debunked. The claims, which included a fake purchase bill and an AI-generated video, were found to be false.

Several reports on social media claimed Olena Zelensky, the wife of Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky, purchased a Bugatti Tourbillon worth 4.5 million euros in Paris. However, the recent reports alleging that Olena Zelensky purchased a Bugatti Tourbillon have been debunked. The claims, which included a fake purchase bill and an AI-generated video, were found to be false. It was found that the "Bugatti dealer" video is an AI deepfake. The rumours began circulating after an alleged invoice and video surfaced online, suggesting that the First Lady had bought the luxury car during an official visit to Paris.

Netizens Claim Olena Zelensky Buys Bugatti Tourbillon Worth

https://x.com/aussiecossack/status/1807774973047758873

🚨🤣🇺🇦Zelesnky's wife Olena just spent 4.5 million euros of your tax payer money on a brand new Bugatti Turbillon (1 out of 250) in France.

💰An employee of the Bugatti dealership in Paris by the name of Jacques Bertin revealed that the Zelensky's made this purchase whilst visiting Paris on the 7th of June 2024.

🧵A thread. SOURCE: https://veritecachee.fr/2024/07/01/olena-zelenska-est-devenue-la-premiere-proprietaire-de-la-toute-nouvelle-bugatti-turbillon

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Readers added context to this video

This video is a deepfake video. This guy is not real and this was never said.

The website that is linked literally still has parts describing what should be put there along with the fake news.

https://x.com/kylejglen/status/1807848412450050529

Simeon Boikov is a known Kremlin propagandist.

vatniksoup.com/en/soups/193/

Fake Bill Receipt of the Purchase

https://x.com/jackunheard/status/1807890769514004892

Zelensky’s wife just bought a €4.4 Million Bugatti and here’s the receipt.

Your tax dollars that Biden is so quick to give up and send over.

'No Evidence to Support Claim'

AI Deepfake Video

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TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Conspiracy; Society
KEYWORDS: angrybunnymaximus; firehoseoffalsehood; foreigntrolls; grifters; killkillkillforpeace; mic; moondoggiemaximus; propaganda; putinsbrownnosers; russia; russoukrainewar; ukraine; welfarewar; zeepersoutraged; zelensky; zelenskyqs
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Posted in response to I’d like to thank Congress for using my Tax money to buy Zelensky’s wife a Bugatti., to provide a rebuttal to an obviously and badly done fake story. If someone's going to debunk this nonsense it might as well be me. And no one else is going to bother to call out this nonsense.

Links from the above images, not in the article itself:

https://www.neuillysurseine.fr/
https://www.impots.gouv.fr/international-professionnel/tva/a>
https://stripe.com/de/resources/more/mangatory-information-invoice-france
https://x.com/splendid_pete/status/1807873673262682423

Not that anyone believing this story will bother to look them up.

Responses on X have shown the give aways this is fake.


1 posted on 07/02/2024 10:47:22 PM PDT by Widget Jr
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To: Widget Jr
I figured this is good enough to show this site and story are frauds.
2 posted on 07/02/2024 10:48:36 PM PDT by Widget Jr (🇺🇦 Слава Україні! 🇺🇦 🛇 CCCP 2.0 🛇)
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To: Widget Jr

Frau Elenska REALLY likes her Paris shopping sprees...


3 posted on 07/02/2024 10:53:25 PM PDT by kiryandil (FR Democrat Party operatives! Rally in defense of your Colombian cartel stooge Merchan!)
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To: Widget Jr
And in the tradition of pro-Ukrainian freepers "posting to themselves" to head off all the abuse they get, here is Ryan McBeth's take on the matter.

Did First Lady of Ukraine,Olena Zelenska, purchase a 4.5 million dollar Bugatti?

He makes the same points as other have, that the purported invoice has errors in how the French write up legal documents. French use commas, not periods to separate thousands, 1,000 not 1.000. There is the mixed use of French and English, instead of all French, and so on.

he concludes this is an "active document". It is a fake that is seeded to friendly channels, who spread it on their own. Those who believe it are what we used to call "useful idiots".

4 posted on 07/02/2024 10:54:21 PM PDT by Widget Jr (🇺🇦 Слава Україні! 🇺🇦 🛇 CCCP 2.0 🛇)
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To: Widget Jr

The question then becomes which came first?

The need publish and then quickly “fact check” a demonstrably fake story,
or the fake story itself?

Were the story and the fact check designed together as pure political narrative?

That would be my guess.


5 posted on 07/02/2024 10:59:12 PM PDT by EasySt (Say not this is the truth, but so it seems to me to be, as I see this thing I think I see. #MAGA-A)
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To: Widget Jr

They had me believing it when I read about it last night.


6 posted on 07/02/2024 11:00:20 PM PDT by Bullish (...And just like that, I was dropped from the ping-list)
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To: Widget Jr

I assumed as much, but thank you for posting. The gullible Kremlin-lovers automatically believe anything bad about Zelensky and wife. This is at least the third fraud of this kind, probably more.


7 posted on 07/02/2024 11:01:23 PM PDT by devere
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To: kiryandil

Sour faces all around the Unit 54777 offices. They over-reached themselves and got fisked within hours.

Better luck next time, Boris!


8 posted on 07/02/2024 11:03:59 PM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan (Your insults are my rocket fuel. )
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To: kiryandil
You read quick. Impressive.

What did you think about the site starting June 22, a supposedly "French" site using US servers, and about the page where the preprinted instructions on what to say were left on before publishing the page?

These are really clear clues this is a premade disinformation site.

9 posted on 07/02/2024 11:04:03 PM PDT by Widget Jr (🇺🇦 Слава Україні! 🇺🇦 🛇 CCCP 2.0 🛇)
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The only thing that is important is the Russian casualties versus the Ukrainian casualties.

All the rest is chaff.

10 posted on 07/02/2024 11:05:52 PM PDT by kiryandil (FR Democrat Party operatives! Rally in defense of your Colombian cartel stooge Merchan!)
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To: Widget Jr
I figured this is good enough to show this site and story are frauds.

Zelensky damage control must get tiring.

11 posted on 07/02/2024 11:07:13 PM PDT by Right_Wing_Madman
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To: EasySt
Neither. There is no which came first between the chicken or the egg question here.

The fake site and story following Russian disinfo tactics of flooding the internet with garbage came first.

The need to dispel it followed.

12 posted on 07/02/2024 11:07:48 PM PDT by Widget Jr (🇺🇦 Слава Україні! 🇺🇦 🛇 CCCP 2.0 🛇)
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To: Widget Jr
I saw FReepers post that here on FR. I LOLed.

First of all, how often do you see a lady buy a fancy car like that one?

Maybe if it was Volodymyr himself, I'll believe it. But he's a little bit busy at the moment.

13 posted on 07/02/2024 11:07:57 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: Widget Jr

I suggest that many of these stories are invented solely for the purpose of dispelling them.


14 posted on 07/02/2024 11:12:24 PM PDT by EasySt (Say not this is the truth, but so it seems to me to be, as I see this thing I think I see. #MAGA-A)
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To: MinorityRepublican

The President of Ukraine depends on the world’s help and support, the last thing he would do is what all these fake stories claim, and that is the purpose of all these fake stories planted by Russia and their agents.


15 posted on 07/02/2024 11:14:14 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: devere
Thank you.

Trends I've seen with all the phony stories Russia has created about Zelensky.

Once you recognize the pattern, the fake stories and sources are easy to spot and then disregard.
16 posted on 07/02/2024 11:17:19 PM PDT by Widget Jr (🇺🇦 Слава Україні! 🇺🇦 🛇 CCCP 2.0 🛇)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

Chump C. Mulligan weighs in from Down In The Flats.


17 posted on 07/02/2024 11:17:27 PM PDT by kiryandil (FR Democrat Party operatives! Rally in defense of your Colombian cartel stooge Merchan!)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan
The Cambridge online dictionary entry for Fisking:

"The act of making an argument seem wrong or stupid by showing the mistakes in each of its points, or an instance of doing this".

Just like the namesake of term, the Russians make it easy.

18 posted on 07/02/2024 11:19:45 PM PDT by Widget Jr (🇺🇦 Слава Україні! 🇺🇦 🛇 CCCP 2.0 🛇)
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To: Widget Jr

What is Pooty-Poot going to end up with except with totally trashed acreage?


19 posted on 07/02/2024 11:27:15 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Widget Jr

General Mike Flynn believes it’s true.

https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/42bc5fd0955c6688037ca486c70c0e79d1cd70d30f3436b7b149f39c3360bd9c.jpg


20 posted on 07/02/2024 11:35:10 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man (The last two wen't balloons. One was a cylindrical objects Trump is being given the Alex Jones tr)
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