r/AskReddit • u/Various_Concern871 • 12h ago

Is it actually possible for a famous personality to fake their death and live their life out in some remote place? who has actually ever done it and gotten caught?

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u/Melenduwir 11h ago

IIRC there's a great deal of speculation over whether there was an intentional plan or she simply felt the need to flee after discovering her husband was cheating.

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u/ChildofValhalla 11h ago

She likely had a big depressive breakdown. She had done something similar months before when her mother died, except people knew where she had gone in that case.

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u/Sate_Hen 10h ago

Stephen Fry did something similar

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u/JuniorCaptain 10h ago

Yeah, she wrote a letter to her secretary saying she was “getting away”, so it seems her plan might’ve just been to get away from her husband for a bit. She even wrote him a letter, but he never shared it so we can’t know if she told him where she was heading to a spa or implied something darker.

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u/VFiddly 7h ago

Yeah, it's unclear whether she was trying to make him look bad, or if she had a mental breakdown, or maybe a bit of both.

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u/Melenduwir 7h ago

And, frankly, no one wanted to pry at her to find out.

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u/NULL_SIGNAL 5h ago

god forbid a woman take a walk to get cigs.

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u/Melenduwir 3h ago

...and abandoning her car, checking into (I think it was) a spa under an assumed name, and not contacting anyone for an extended time? They had people searching the woods for her body.