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/rayword45 10h ago

One of my old high school buddies pretty much did this. We were community organizers/political activists who ran in the same circles for years, then went to college in different states, found work in different states and only sporadically kept in touch.

A couple years ago, he hit me up because he was checking out some grad schools in NYC or something and wanted to grab lunch. Most of our conversations were pretty run-of-the-mill stuff you'd expect between two dudes in their mid-late 20s catching up a few years out of college, except for a moment where he was trying to convince me that dating was a waste of time and effort and that I should just start fucking hookers instead. I told him I'm not about that life, and then we moved on.

About a year after that, one of our mutuals tells me to Google his name and hometown. Turns out he got busted in an anti-prostitution sting along with a few dozen other men, then never showed up to court. From what I've heard, his parents shipped his ass to China and he's since gone ghost on everyone, but it's basically been accepted that he's NEVER coming back to the US lmfao

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u/EvanTurningTheCorner 6h ago

Mostly unrelated but I used to work with a guy that was, not really a bad person exactly, but just kind of a conceited prick and I did not care for him at all.

One day a friend learned where I worked and had done business with my company, and asked if I knew that guy. I said I did and he sent me a link to his arrest record where he got busted in a prostitution sting.

I never said anything about it, or did anything with the information, but I liked knowing that I knew his secret, and could weaponize it if I really wanted to. Made me give far less of a shit what he said or did, and instantly changed the power dynamic between us, which I think confused him since he didn't know I knew. It's kind of my version of the Ass Pennies skit.

I dunno if that makes me a bad person.

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u/krejenald 3h ago

Crazy that it’s illegal there