July 16, 2011
The Even Darker Underbelly of Fandom
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Even worse than creepy fetishes.
Amy Player is
Jordan Wood is Victoria Bitter is Andrew Blake
(updated)
...and that's only the tip of the
iceberg.
Allow me to explain.
Some years ago, a fan from my neck of the woods (one Amy Player) convinced several members of the LOTR cast that she was Elijah Wood's nephew/cousin/brother/something'r'other and conned them (and a great many Lord of the Rings fans) into donating to and otherwise supporting a bogus charity that turned out to be the Amy Player enrichment fund.
It gets worse.
Much worse.
Now she/he* has gone and gotten people killed.
Colleen Doran has a long, well researched post on this.
Read the whole thing. It is incredible and it is all true.
Be advised that, as one of her commenters points out, the story is like a
TV tropes thread. This psychopath has cut an intricate, vast and
nigh unbelievable swath of misery, theft and betrayal through several
branches of fandom.
This has rather more urgency than it might because the person is still out there preying on people. Even now, under the name Andrew Blake, this character is running...yet another charity. Appallingly, it is dedicated to the memories of those that this sick person helped get killed.
Warn your friends in fandom, especially those involved in cons. Put the word out. This louse is a crook and any charity said louse is involved in is likely to be a scam.
There is a collection of photos of this parasite here.
There is an excellent written account of Amy Players Continent Spanning Lord of the Rings charity scam by Jeanine Renne. It can be bought here.
UPDATE:
* ( its unclear to me if there was ever surgery involved, the person was a trap when going by the name Amy Player, or the person in question is just a misandrist moby pretending to be a guy)
Allow me to explain.
Some years ago, a fan from my neck of the woods (one Amy Player) convinced several members of the LOTR cast that she was Elijah Wood's nephew/cousin/brother/something'r'other and conned them (and a great many Lord of the Rings fans) into donating to and otherwise supporting a bogus charity that turned out to be the Amy Player enrichment fund.
Much worse.
Now she/he* has gone and gotten people killed.
Colleen Doran has a long, well researched post on this.
Read the whole thing. It is incredible and it is all true.
This has rather more urgency than it might because the person is still out there preying on people. Even now, under the name Andrew Blake, this character is running...yet another charity. Appallingly, it is dedicated to the memories of those that this sick person helped get killed.
There is a collection of photos of this parasite here.
There is an excellent written account of Amy Players Continent Spanning Lord of the Rings charity scam by Jeanine Renne. It can be bought here.
UPDATE:
* ( its unclear to me if there was ever surgery involved, the person was a trap when going by the name Amy Player, or the person in question is just a misandrist moby pretending to be a guy)
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I don't see the link between the con artist and that murder-suicide. They seem to be unrelated tragedies.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Sat Jul 16 21:41:41 2011 (+rSRq)
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"Andrew Blake, 27, who had locked himself in a bedroom, was shot in the
foot after Eisenberg fired through the door. He called 911 after the
first shots were fired." - from the news article
Doran's post has more on Blake's influence over Brittany Quinn, the wife murdered by Eisenberg.
Doran's post has more on Blake's influence over Brittany Quinn, the wife murdered by Eisenberg.
Posted by: Wonderduck at Sun Jul 17 01:38:30 2011 (3tp4g)
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I missed that. Sorry.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Sun Jul 17 08:58:34 2011 (+rSRq)
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This gets creepier still.
It seems that there is another Andrew Blake who is actually known and presumably respected in the charity/NGO community.
This bit of trivia might explain why this waste of skin got such high profile endorsements for his most recent venture (Which includes Starbucks).
UPDATE2:
Via Colleen Doran