Zelensky Purchases Bill Cosby’s Former NYC Townhouse (HOAX)

Bill Cosby’s sprawling New York townhouse was sold less than a month after being listed for $29 million, with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky identified as the buyer through an offshore company – Film Heritage Inc.

While the final sale price remains undisclosed, the deal marks the end of a turbulent financial chapter for the disgraced entertainer and his wife, Camille, according to the New York Post. The purchase coincides with a $100 million corruption scandal engulfing Zelensky’s administration, with several of his closest allies accused of involvement in a massive kickback scheme.

Earlier this year, the Cosbys were accused in court of defaulting on $17.5 million in loans on the residence. Bill Cosby, a serial rapist, who has faced allegations from more than 60 women of sexual assault, rape, and harassment, was likely seeking liquidity; the couple allegedly stopped making mortgage payments in June 2024.

Cosby acquired the home through a lawyer in 1987, according to city records, near the height of his career. The stately six-bedroom residence was reportedly purchased as a surprise for his wife, Camille.

There is some small humor here. The supposed writer of the article inverts a real Antoinette Bueno of Entertainment Tonight into "Bueno Antoinette."

It's a very poor spoof, actually, and all the links at the bottom of the page go back to the proper "dot com" domain, away from the "dot now" fake name, but a very real, one week old domain name. One can "mouseover" all to verify this.

I've made a proper, documented complaint to the ICANN folks and Spaceship, Inc., the registrar. If you would like to also make complaint ( more the merrier ) the proper email is " abuse@spaceship.com."

Registrars take this seriously, but it takes time for them to act. Alas.

The www.pagesix.now site has been tied to Storm-1516, a known Kremlin linked disinformation group promoting false stories, such as a fabricated claim that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy bought Bill Cosby’s NYC townhouse for $29 million via an offshore company.

This story mimics Page Six’s gossip format but originates from a recently created fake domain, as flagged in real-time X discussions. Users and analysts quickly identified it as bogus by noting the URL mismatch (pagesix.now vs. pagesix.com).

Sure. It’s in some Grok research at X.com that I just did, but it doesn’t seem to be linkable. I’ll paste some here for you...

<> Question:
www.pagesix.com is an official site associated with New York Post publishing. Is www.pagesix.now which claims to be associated with New York Post a hoax site?

<> Answer:
Yes, www.pagesix.now is a hoax site masquerading as an extension of the legitimate Page Six gossip column from the New York Post.

It copies the branding and style of the official site (www.pagesix.com) (www.pagesix.com) to spread disinformation, but it has no actual affiliation with the New York Post or its parent company, News Corp.

~~~~~

<> Question:
Explain Storm-1516 operations

<> Answer:
Recent Disinformation Campaign:
As of December 3, 2025, the pagesix.now site has been tied to a Storm-1516 operation, a known disinformation group promoting false stories, such as a fabricated claim that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy bought Bill Cosby’s NYC townhouse for $29 million via an offshore company.

Storm-1516 is a sophisticated, Kremlin-linked disinformation network identified in late 2023 as a major player in Russia’s hybrid information warfare. It operates as a “troll farm” and influence operation, producing and disseminating fabricated content to undermine Western support for Ukraine.

Storm-1516 blends old-school trolling with cutting-edge tech such as:

Fake Media Ecosystem: Spoofs legitimate outlets (e.g., imitating Page Six or Le Monde) and impersonates journalists to publish hoaxes.

AI and Deepfakes: Generates synthetic media, including audio clones of politicians and videos of fabricated “whistleblowers”

Social Media Swarms: Uses bots and influencers for initial boosts; videos garner millions of views on X, Telegram, and YouTube.

--- "...much more reliable than my query to AI."

Thanks for the response. Moving from this current hoax to a far larger hoax, it is my considered opinion that Large Language Models -- purported to be artificial intelligence -- are not intelligent. Just fast at scraping the internet for "language" and then heuristically weighting it.

There is an immense flow of venture capital to AI in the moment, and so to state that AI is essentially a hoax reaps lots of pushback. But I think it a hoax.

Central to the hoax -- as with all snake oil 'sales,' most politics and policy, so much of propaganda, and more -- it that YOU BELIEVE. Or at least "accept." That is the lever by which a vote or a dollar or an allegiance is pried out of someone's hand and into another's hand.

Very fast processing, very large searches for text and the like, these are what proponents of AI "believe" makes for intelligence. But heck, from modern natural philosophers to connectionists to functionalists and beyond, the actual explanation of consciousness itself, much less the unconscious and the intelligent, stills recedes from the grasp of lots of big names in the "business" of AI.

Today's "query to AI" is just a search engine, pretending to be intelligent enough to provide an actual, verifiable answer. But ask an "AI" to explain how matter expresses itself in human intelligence, then one finds it's just someone else's opinion.

And all opinions come down to "believe me." We want others to believe our propositions.

What still amuses me is that various AI attempts have ended in racism, misogyny and sexism, antisemitism, artificial "depression" in an AI set of responses, and more. After lots of effort and venture capital have been thrown at the dream of an artificial intelligence. The phrase is actually am oxymoron of sorts.

But AI operators all offer 1) a free entry to the use of the product(s), and 2) a very nice income stream for those who are then convinced to pay. Like "free" drugs, or even socialism's promise of "free" money. Those who would addict you, would also continue to "push" their wares.

Best wishes.

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