At the end of November 2023, the Russian media reported that the star of the films of Robert Rodriguez was allegedly invited to come to Ukraine, but the actor refused due to the corruption scheme proposed to him. We checked whether this is a real story.
Messages about how officials of Ukraine allegedly tried to earn cooperation with the Hollywood actor Danny Trekho appeared in Runet on November 29, 2023. Russian media, with reference to the American channel MSNBC, said that the star manager Ryan Davis opened the diagram manager in the TMZ tabloid podcast: representatives of the head of the presidential administration Andrei Ermak, as part of the Zelensky PR campaign, invited the third to visit Kyiv and demanded a rollback from him. In the alleged interview, Davis said that people from the presidential administration asked to indicate in the contract the amount for a trip of $ 150,000, but $ 50,000 had to be returned to the Ermak assistant. It is reported that Trekho did not suit this and he refused the deal. It is also reported that such a scheme was practiced by other foreign artists who had previously visited Ukraine. Approximately in this form, the story was retold "Inosmi", IA"Prime","Reginum" Eadaily, newspaper "Capital with","Truth.ru" URA.RU And other News resources. At the same time, in some publications the details differ: for example, somewhere it is argued that the actor’s manager was talking not with TMZ, but with MSNBC.
The authors of some Telegram channels, in turn, reported that Third himself spoke about the rollback on the television channel. For example, such posts appeared in "Mordor's voice"(56,000 views at the time of writing this analysis) and"Ramzae"(44,000). Chairman of the Party "Decent Life" Roman Khudyakov (117,000 views) generally referred to another channel (spelling and punctuation is preserved): “Now you understand what Schwarzenegger’s statements, Visits by Sean Penn, Ben Stiller, Angelina Jolie and other freaks?! From 150 to 3 million dollars, ”reports the same NBCNews. We live in a world imposed by the United States - streams of lies, manipulations, meanness and cornation. ” Actress Yana Poplavskaya (30,000 views) The news of kickbacks commented as follows: “Not like our patriotic artists - some generally go to Donbass for their own money. Some with transport are helped by public organizations, the government and the Ministry of Defense. But no one gets money for this. Even such a thought is not! And the western western Bohemia even earns on the death of Ukrainians ... "The writer was also told in Telegram about the refusal Zakhar Prilepin (111,000 views), TV presenter Oscar coachman (30,000), TV channel "Tsargrad-TV"(38,000), and also"Heaven is"(155,000),"Ukraine.ru"(97 000), Mediapost (81,000), "Open Ukraine | Open Ukraine"(53,000) and"Politnavigator"(30,000). Similar popular posts are found on other platforms: social networks X (for example, I shared a video there Dmitry Polyansky - First Deputy Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation at the UN), ""VKontakte" And "Zen".
In the part of the publications of interest to us, a roller of 1 min is demonstrated. 12 sec. In the upper right corner of this video is the logo of the MSNBC television channel. Below are a full translation.
Danny Trekho refused to cooperate with the office of the President of Ukraine.
During the podcast for TMZ Live, actor's manager Ryan Davis spoke about his communication with the office of the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky. In March 2023, Danny Trekho was invited to Kyiv representatives Andrei Ermak, heads of the office of the President of Ukraine. “Apparently, this was done in the framework of the general PR campaign in support of Vladimir Zelensky,” said Ryan Davis. The manager Treho said that the actor was forced to refuse because of the strange requirements of the Ukrainian side. “They agreed to Danny's conditions - this is $ 100,000 and representative costs. But the people from the president’s office asked that the amount of $ 150,000 was registered in the contract, ”added Ryan Davis. According to the manager, $ 50,000 by Trohu had to return the assistant to Andrei Ermak on arrival in Kyiv in cash. “It is natural that Danny refused! Even if we were talking about $ 1, he would never have agreed to this ... Danny knows what a prison is, ”Ryan Davis said. Editor TMZ Harvey Levin He suggested that in this way the office of the President of Ukraine earned about $ 700,000 on stars. Sean Penn, Angelina Jolie, Ben Stiller, Orlando Bloom And others visited Kyiv (in fact, Jolie was in Lviv. - Approx. Ed.) Throughout the conflict in Ukraine.
“Verified” did not find traces of such a video on the resources of MSNBC: the video is absent in the social networks of the television channel (Facebook*, Instagram*, X, YouTube), and on site Throho has not been mentioned since 2018. Similar situation with the tabloid: we Not found Such an interview with Ryan Davis about Throh on Resources programs TMZ Live (website, X, YouTube). As for the actor's social networks, then there we found only positive statements About Ukraine, and in March 2022 at the TIKTOK account Trejo’s Tacos appeared The video with the Ukrainian flag, where the actor said that he was praying for the peoples of Ukraine and Russia. “The President of Zelensky, if I need it, then just call,” Trekho finished his appeal.
In fact, on November 30, on the website of the authoritative movie site Deadline appeared refutation. The editors of the publication contacted the representatives of Trekho, who confirmed that this whole story is a lie. “Zelensky never invited Treho to Ukraine. He was never offered a fee for such a trip. Zelensky’s office never asked for a rollback, ”the article says. Through his representative, Trekho said: “This has never happened. Someone invents. " Moreover, a certain Ryan Davis, who is presented in a viral video as manager There is no actor in the team Troho, and such a person never represented his interests.
The fact that the MSNBC video was fabricated, on December 1, also wrote Journalist Olga Robinson from BBC Verify. According to her, the actor agent also confirmed to her in a personal conversation that the video is fake. And our colleagues-factchera from ukrinform found outthat the fake clip was made up of several videos and photos that can be found on the network in the public domain: for example, interview Throho 2019, release TMZ Live about Taylor Swift and words Harvey Levin about O-Jae Simpson. Moreover, the video about Treho They called it The probable fake even on the air of the Russia 24 television channel, but they did it in their manner. “Despite the logo of the American television channel, which is attributed to the authorship of the video, the information is most likely fake. Well, at least there were no reliable evidence. However, all this is so consistent with Ukrainian realities that it is very easy to believe in such a thing, ”said the presenter Alexei Kazakov.
The earliest publication with a fake among those that was able to track “verified” appeared on November 29 at 15:00 Moscow time in the Telegram channel “105th detachment Z"(Total 93 views). Later, the video was placed in the channels that should be well known to our readers: "Tasking News"(3100 views),"Shkvarka 2.0"(1100) and"Vzvod"(4700) - all of them indicate that the video was sent by an anonymous subscriber, which has already become a classic scheme for the spread of fakes. Previously "verified" Disassembled many videos that are disguised as plots of various authoritative foreign media, including MSNBC.
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