Trainwreck of the Week

Being a longtime Jessica Simpson fan, my Google alerts are dry and there’s not much to look forward to - but then I got a message about this…

There’s this person, who “claims” to be a singer named Lucia Cole - I have no clue what their real name is, maybe it is their real name? I don’t care that much - but what I do care about is their attempts to steal the legacy of legendary pop sensation Jessica Simpson.

That is a crime I will not allow.

Someone messaged me a link to this girl’s latest EP. Apparently. she’s a singer/songwriter - who’s worked with superstars like Mariah Carey (All of this is according to her Wiki page - but we’ll get to that later), and now she’s focused on going solo. So I checked out the linked EP, and anyone with a cultivated ear, accustomed to greatness and ethereal vocals, will know right away that none of “Lucia’s” songs are hers. Actually, they’re all Jessica Simpson tracks from 15 years ago.

Click to preview “Heart” and you’ll get a preview of Jessica’s “Heart of Innocence”:

Click to preview “Your Love” and you’ll get the Tuna Queen’s “For Your Love”:

You get the point.

But what’s even funnier is that if you search this girl’s songs on YouTube - it’ll straight-up ID them all as Jessica songs:

Even her covers are stolen from Jessica!

Where does the injustice end?

She even talks about Jessica in the past tense like she’s dead and been replaced:

You better watch out Lucia - Jessica’s building a recording studio in her home as we speak and she’s going to rise once again!

And she probably (most definitely) set up that “David Russell” YouTube account most of those videos were on (I guess it’s too embarrassing to upload things on your own account these days, you need to pretend to be someone else so it looks like you’re relevant?) - kinda like how she probably (most definitely) set up the fan accounts she talks to all the time on Twitter:

Her few dedicated fans are really fighting the good fight… I wonder where the other 60k are?

Oh… well…

At least she has all those songwriting royalties to fall back on!

Her dedicated fans () even discuss the deep meaning behind her heartwrenching lyrics, and all the latest Lucia gossip!

Speaking of "fans” - check out a fan covering one of her instantly recognizable smash hits!

Funny… I swear I’ve seen that video before.

Oh yeah, it’s from 2008.

Not only did our “Lucia” reupload an old cover, but she pretended to be the girl singing it!

And on top of all of Lucia’s current successes - she even landed a spot on the Tomorrowland soundtrack:

Oh wait, that movie didn’t even have a soundtrack. It had a score: http://www.amazon.com/Tomorrowland-Original-Motion-Picture-Soundtrack/dp/B00XBBET3O

LeAnn must be glad she finally found someone as crazy as her.

She actually has one non-Jessica song in her repetoire - titled “All That Matters: http://www.amazon.com/All-That-Matters-Lucia-Cole/dp/B00VYA1K9U

But it’s also stolen from someone named "Bre” - just click to preview “You’re All That Matters”“ : https://itunes.apple.com/bw/album/bre/id269507244

The sad thing is, if you search the lyrics to Bre’s song - Lucia’s pops up:

Poor Bre… whoever she is. She’s probably working some small job these days, all while "Lucia” makes $$$ off her music.

And all the pictures of this elusive songstress? Stolen from someone else:

The thievery doesn’t end there. Even her Wikipedia page is a phony:

An excerpt from Jessica’s:

And a little paragraph from Lucia’s:

And this tidbit really got to me:

Lindsay and Mischa who?

But like any of my Middle School research papers, there’s some solid references to back this all up:

I clicked to check out that postyournews site:

Does anybody remember her? I clearly don’t :/

But apparently Shaq does?

And apparently they’re related?

You can fake relatives now? Holy shit - then Kathy Hilton is my godmother and I’m never working a day in my life (But seriously, is Shaq in on this? Is he behind some sort of social experiment? How did he know this fake person exists? So many questions tbh)

And to make this mess even messier - she manufactures her own scandals. Kris Jenner who? This girl’s a seasoned pro.

The current trouble our songstress is embroiled in involves a football player named Kenny Vaccaro:

I decided to look up their names and I came across a bunch of random forum topics:

Surgeries? Homewrecking? Feuds?

A STAR OF THE PARENT TRAP?

First she tries to steal Jessica’s legacy - now Lindsay’s?

Also, go figure - all these posts were made by the same person:

How does this girl have enough time to maintain a bunch of fan accounts dedicated to her? Is she unemployed? Is she a teenager? Is she Ashlee Simpson?

On top of all of that, Lucia also found so time to edit other singer’s Wiki pages to include credits for her hard work:

1). https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stronger_(Kelly_Clarkson_album)&diff=prev&oldid=661430705

2). https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Catch_My_Breath&diff=prev&oldid=660484929

3).https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Beautiful_(Mariah_Carey_song)&diff=prev&oldid=657301187

And even time to fake drop a TIDAL exclusive!

And TIDAL even favorited it… wtf

Shaq… Trey Songz (Check the updates)… and now Jay-Z (Or a confused intern) is wrapped up in this mess.

And like every superstar in training, she’s the subject of many (three) “interviews":

In one with Bossip back in April, she talks about being a child star and her plans to appear in Tyler Perry’s next Madea flick. I’ll keep my eyes peeled for her when it comes to DVD - my mom loves those movies!

Her media takeover doesn’t stop there! In anotherinterview she talks about being signed to Universal… http://www.universalmusic.com/artists?initial=l Yet her name is nowhere to be found? This woman interviewing her probably just got an email from “Lucia” asking for an interview, thought to herself “Sure, why not. Let me go look up who she is”, stumbled onto a completely fake Wiki page and then decided - okay, seems legit.

(Obligatory Jennifer’s Body gif)

And in her most recent interview, with a website named Music Times (UPDATE: I tried accessing the interview but they took it down lmaoo) she talks about her new collaborations:

Hanging around Ariana Grande probably would induce this level of insanity. But good thing Ariana’s fans keep an eye out for all mentions of her - if it wasn’t for them, I wouldn’t have found out about this mess.

But seriously, how does someone get a fake album on iTunes with other people’s music (Does iTunes not have a system to check songs like YouTube does for Copyright stuff?), use other people’s pictures and videos on their Twitter account, and land interviews with ACTUAL WEBSITES - in the process somehow convincing them she’s a real person with an actual past in the industry? What the..?

Oh, and someone needs to tweet this to Mariah real quick:

Whoever our “Lucia” is (I’m sticking with my Ashlee theory), let’s pray she gets the help she needs - and while we’re at it, let’s pray for a new Jessica Simpson album. This mess reminded of the beauty of Sweet Kisses.

And don’t forget guys, if you spot a trainwreck - send me a message!

I have a feeling we’ll be talking about Lucia again once Grammy’s season hits!

UPDATES (7/14):

- Trey Songz started following her. “Lucia” previously tweeted a bunch of stuff about Trey not wanting to work with her - this is getting too juicy.

(Pic via ATRL)

- Her wiki page is now locked until 7/15 due to all the edits: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucia_Cole

- The Wiki page was taken down this morning (7/14)

- Someone messaged me this link to an article from April about her being abused by a Sony exec, with FAKE TEXTS to go with it: http://newscentral.exsees.com/item/d61885367f59c6794c5d96aee7707f5b-d2b73f003918d20feb5b071362173129

On top of finding time to create fake fanpages, interview with websites, submit music that isn’t hers to iTunes, and make up rumors about her life on forums - she’s faking text messages about being abused by an ACTUAL PERSON. This is insane. Who is “Lucia” texting? Are there multiple people in on this? Did “Lucia” steal someone else’s phone? Also I love how this article says there’s been “much speculation” - amongst who? Who was speculating about a person that doesn’t exist? I’m looking forward to the Lifetime movie of this.

- I just DM’d Joe Simpson (Jessica’s dad) on Instagram a summary of all of this and a link to my post. I’ll let you guys know if I get a response!

- It looks like Lucia’s had a lot of buzz on ChaCha.com! A ton of people have been asking about her the past few months:

Hmm… okay, only one person has. But I wonder what other questions “Lulu Rowe” has asked?

Well, I guess we found out what else Lucia does with her time. She really needs to teach a class on multitasking. Shoutout to Kelsey Witzke - you’re a real trooper.

- Another account (UPDATE: The account is now deleted) who was constantly retweeting “Lucia” and talking to her:

While it might seem legit at first - someone messaged me that it’s just another fake set up by Lucia. Here’s the real Randall: https://twitter.com/clutchmenard/status/543141962266591232 This guy needs to file criminal charges tbh.

EDIT: The guy she stole the picture from just found out about all of this:

- Speaking of fake relationships, remember her scandalous fling with Kenny? Well it turns out another media outlet has been buzzing about it: http://newscentral.exsees.com/item/d61885367f59c6794c5d96aee7707f5b-f4711dbb34a442cd3587303b00f43738

The site claimed (back in May) that these texts between Kenny and “Lucia” were leaked:

Fake texts… now fake sexts? The dedication is unreal.

- It turns out Reese wasn’t Lucia’s only source of pictures:

(Pics via ATRL)

What was this person’s endgame? What would happen if one of Lucia’s songs went big? How did they plan on doing promo? Or performances? Not only would they have to pull an Ashlee Simpson on SNL, they would have to look like the person on the album cover. This was so flawed… but they got away with it for so long. And think of all the money that went into this. To buy fake followers, get your fake album on iTunes… :/

- IP ADDRESS: “Lucia’s” Wiki account was banned after she/he/whoever tried editing Lucia into multiple pages, including Kelly Clarkson songs… and the presenters section of the Teen Choice Awards: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/68.226.168.55

- “Lucia” doesn’t seem to be phased by all the media attention she’s been getting! She posted this video on her Twitter. But, like everything else - it’s stolen. It’s from Reese’s Instagram. Shoutout to the person who submitted this!

- Jessica Simien, one of the people who had interviewed “Lucia”, finally caught wind of this mess and opened up on Twitter:

- Meanwhile, in Jessica’s world…

The level of dedication that went into creating this “Lucia”… Fake Celebrity, Fake Album, Fake Articles, Fake Texts, Fake Relationships, Fake Friends, Fake Fanpages, Fake Success, Fake Buzz, Fake… everything.

UPDATES (7/15):

- Even Matilda’s heard of our R&B superstar! That Lucia reign just won’t let up!

Lucia, it’s time to take advantage of all this buzz and drop a new single, may I suggest Willa Ford’s discography this time?

- People over at Lipstick Alley and ATRL think the person behind “Lucia Cole” might be the same person behind another fake persona, “Erica Mendez.” This past fake persona is very similar to this one, minus a singing career. Football players, sex scandals, etc. - it’s all there. And apparently the person behind that persona was based in Louisiana, like Lucia! Well, it’s probably the same person. The fact that this is the second persona they’ve created in the past couple of years is worrying: http://thebiglead.com/2014/05/26/odell-beckham-is-the-victim-of-a-fake-online-persona-using-images-of-two-other-women/

Some interesting details about this person’s past persona:

1). Like their Lucia persona, for their Erica persona they created a Twitter account using two other girls’ pictures, created accounts for fake friends, and fake “hater” accounts dedicated to trashing Erica. Trey Songz (once again lmaoo) thought this person was real and followed them. Their “story” was that they were a model who was engaged to a football player named Odell Beckham. She even edited his Wiki page to make note of this fake engangement. And while we’re digging deeper - she posted pictures of fake gifts from him on her Twitter (back in 2014 before she was exposed/deleted):

And fake emails:

For reservations she ACTUALLY set up.

And Erica also had a website:

2). She landed an actual interview with Radar Online, and Jessica Simien - the same person who interviewed Lucia (Jessica took down this interview, but the Lucia one is still up). They also submitted articles about their fake relationship with this football player to StarPulse and submitted a fake story about their imaginary fling to Baller Alert. Both sites only published the stories about “Erica” because of her persistence. This girl would not give up.

3). In their Radar Online interview, they created an elaborate fake story about their relationship, saying she met Odell when she was 17, and she also said she was pregnant with his child - before having a miscarriage due to emotional trauma she suffered from discovering his “infidelities”… Degrassi writers better be taking notes.

4). Apparently the story seemed so legit, that Jimmy Fallon referenced this fake engagement during Odell’s appearance on his show:

5). Here’s the fake Wiki page that this person created for their Erica persona, before it was deleted for being a fake: http://speedydeletion.wikia.com/wiki/Erica_Mendez_(model)

6). When the situation blew up, they somehow landed an interview with NY Daily News saying the Radar Online interview was completely made up: http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/odell-beckham-fiancee-denies-radaronline-tales-article-1.1800401

7). Even after being exposed as a fake, they used one of their fake “hater” accounts (with the username ‘beckhamfan’) on Lipstick Alley to continue to vouch for the validity of Erica’s entire story: http://www.lipstickalley.com/showthread.php/661314-The-Official-Everything-Odell-Beckham-Thread/page51

8). After Odell acknowledged that he had never met Erica or spoken to her before in his life, he announced he would be investigating who was behind this. Nothing happened after that.

How many other personas has this person created, and possibly gotten away with in the past? When are they going to ditch Lucia and create the next public figure out of thin air? Lifetime needs to hop on this. I need to pitch it to them like I did with the Brittany Murphy movie last summer.

Speaking of people in Louisiana with a lot of free time - does anybody know where Jamie Lynn Spears has been during this mess? Hmmm…

UPDATES (7/16):

- While digging up dirt on the last persona, I stumbled onto another name that sounded oddly fictional. I did some more digging and I am 99% positive that aside from Lucia and Erica, there’s another persona - Luna.

- The timeline of things suggests that the first known persona was Erica, starting in January 2014 and ending around April/May. This next persona can be dated back to August 2014 and ended shortly after. While I’m typing this, I really question why I care so much. I’m not sure. My summer’s been really boring so far and this beats watching 48 Hours specials on YouTube and old VH1 reality shows.

- The first mention of Luna is last August in a Lipstick Alley thread by user “shademaster” - who automatically is assumed to be “beckhamfan,” the person who meticulously documented the nonexistent existance of model Erica Mendez. Here’s what “shademaster” wrote:

A quick Google search on “Luna” leads to nothing except a couple of other posts that popped up conveniently around the August/September time period. On Jets Insider, a thread popped up on Lozada, created by a user named Nonnie Berard: http://www.jetsinsider.org/forums/threads/267729-The-Jets-amp-Giants-have-something-in-common-They-re-after-a-Princess-Luna-Lozada?s=9f1c6ce46216b946655e3fe4e7149b55

“Nonnie Berard” is also the name of a user on ChaCha (bringing back Lucia memories?) - and their questions mainly focused on… well:

In another “Luna” post I found on Google, on on another sports forum, posted - once again - by Nonnie Berard, Luna became part of the “French Royal Family.”

Here is what “Luna” looks like:

So I dragged that picture to a Google Image Search, and it took me to a post on a website from July 2014.

I’m guessing the person who runs the website is a photographer? Idk. I just immediately scrolled to see if the picture was there, and it was. A quick look at the names of the models featured in this shoot:

Where’s Luna?

Well underneath the pictures on that sports forum post, there was a link to Luna’s Wiki page.

It was deleted, but I clicked the sources and Luna’s “Personal Info” was the Lipstick Alley thread set up by “shademaster”, the “Trivia” was a sports forum post, and the “Website” was Luna’s (now defunct) Twitter.

And if you try to search Luna’s name, you can find nothing. No connections to nobility, no photos of her at New York or Milan Fashion Week. Nothing.

A little more searching can turn up her YouTube account, where she posted several of her “covers” - conveniently there’s no actual video of her, just her modeling shots that aren’t even of her.

I was going to search for covers of those songs on YouTube and hopefully stumble onto one with a similar length to find whoever she probably (most definitely) stole it from like the Jessica cover, but I’m tired of being Nancy Drew for the night. But I think it’s safe to say at this point, Luna Lozada is persona #3. Sadly, no interviews or serious articles. Not even Trey Songz was involved in this one. So “Lucia” went from being the fiance of a football player, to part of French nobility, to a platinum-selling R&B singer in the period of a year and a half. When will Barbie?

UPDATES (7/17):

- Lucia’s albums and singles have been removed from both iTunes and Amazon. No word if Jessica or her team caught wind of the situation or if iTunes just found out on its own.

If you’re bummed you didn’t get to give Lucia’s debut a listen, I recorded a video when I first caught wind of everything since I knew it’d only be a matter of time before it’d get taken down (Ignore my dirty computer screen).

According to NPR, no more than five copies were sold of any of Lucia’s songs. Even Tila Tequila had higher numbers.

UPDATES (7/19):

- Of course after I went to sleep, everything went down.

- Lucia posted these tweets (shoutout to thewaitisogre for sending in pics):

(I love how she goes down still using the other girl’s pictures)

And with that, the saga comes to an end.

It’s poetic, really. Thank you Lucia for blessing us with the scandal of 2015.

Gone, but never forgotten.

UPDATE:

- Shortly after I posted this morning’s update, I saw this waiting in my inbox:

I decided to look into it, well…

The obligatory Kenny Vaccaro mention:

Cue the quick Google Image search:

Then I tweeted a simple “Hey Lucia” to this new account, and:

The entire time “Lucia” was meeting its demise, a new identity was already taking shape. I guess this is just one story that never ends. Tracking this any further is just a waste of my time, so this is likely the last update I’ll make to the post. But even though “Lucia” is over, “Seriya” and many more personas to come are just getting started.

*Cue the ominous music*

UPDATE: (1/18/16)

- Lucia made a comeback under a new identity and stealing another artist’s music. This time, I found out who was behind all of this: http://www.popculturediedin2009.com/post/137510580321/lucia-cole-is-back