Posted on 04/29/2021 2:23:08 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
Andi Schmied pretended to be an ultrawealthy European socialite to gain access inside the city's most exclusive real estate listings
As “Gabriella,” an ultrawealthy European socialite searching for a New York apartment
To pass as a convincing buyer, Schmied enlisted an antiquarian friend in Budapest to serve as her “husband,” and invented a 21-month-old baby, a personal chef, and a personal assistant named "Coco." She also blew the entire allowance from her residency at Dumbo’s Triangle Arts Association on manicures, makeup and clothes.
Realtors would struggle to outdo each other when talking up a property: If one building had a private restaurant, another had a private restaurant with a Michelin star chef, and another had rotating chefs every month that were all Michelin star chefs.
‘The most special thing’ was always the same,” Schmied says. “You’ve never seen Chinchilla Mink marble like this,’ she explains, imitating an eager realtor. “‘It’s the greatest in the world, from the quarry where Michelangelo’s David was carved.’ And then the next apartment would have Calacatta Tucci marble counters, ‘the best in the world.’ Sometimes it was even the same agent talking to me in both places, just a few hours apart.”
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The young lady has some serious eyebrow action going on there.
It must be wooly caterpillar season?
That means it is going to be a cold winter, I think?
I wanted to win so badly.
The Girl’s got moxy. I’ll say that much for her.
Some people have a strong personality, clear cut goals and a taste for drama that makes suspension of disbelief quite easy with certain targets.
With all that said and done, I’m still not certain of her purpose in all this deception, except to prove that it could be done. She even admits herself that most the photos are similarly predictable and hence, dull.
I guess she enjoys taking risks. Maybe she lost a drinking bet.
Don’t democrat politicians pose as having a heart and a brain all the time?
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How do you fake being a billionaire? Espouse Malthusian claptrap? Promote biochip vaccine scanning? Demand open borders? Call decent people racists?
Well, she dresses better than Jack Dorsey anyhow.
I volunteer for snuggling duty if she’s having trouble paying the heating bill. It’s the least I can do to support the arts.
You win! But who is watching the factory?
—”Well, she dresses better than Jack Dorsey anyhow.”
Something wrong with that guy, ten digits or not.
Ears, too.
The Saab factory? That’s in Sweden!
Well, history has shown that the ability to make money is not necessarily tied to sanity. Hence Jack Dorsey, Bill Gates, George Soros, etc.
An almost famous old quote:
“Lopsided men run circles around the hills of success.”
Always on the lookout to use that quote.
Maybe. But she’s still not guilty even without makeup or eyebrow plucking.
Smart kid! I like it!
A portrait of the artist, Andi Schmied.
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