Culprit For Posting Fake News About Lea Salonga Finally Identified
The social media user who is responsible for posting the fake news about the Filipina singer Lea Salonga has been finally identified.
The Filipina journalist Rita Villadiego from Queens County is now facing charges filed by the ‘New York Times’ for pretending as one of its reporters to gain admittance to the news conference and other events.
Villadiego has represented herself as Contessa Bourbon claiming to be a reporter for the US newspaper, but “Times” denied that Bourbon is not or has been never been a reporter for the company.
The reporter was claiming of writing a memoir about her life entitled “Queen Contessa Memoir” which will have a movie adaptation to be directed by Steven Spielberg, co-produced by Dreamworks and 21st-Century Fox, and starring Angelina Jolie.
The journalist also posted on her Twitter account claiming a Broadway musical based on her memoir will be played by the Filipina singer Lea Salonga as Queen Contessa.
However, Lea Salonga denied the tweet and even call it 100 percent fake.
A New York-based Filipino journalist Cristina Pastor wrote in the magazine “The FilAm” that she had personally met Villadiego before.
Pastor revealed that the so-called Contessa Bourbon was a former reported of Philippine Daily Inquirer before she became a freelance journalist in the United States.
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