Caroline Calloway, Set: Luigi Mangione
Noam Galay/Getty Images; Jeff Swensen/Getty ImagesSocial media influencer Caroline Calloway claims to be related to Luigi MangioneThe 26-year-old man suspected of shooting and killing the United Healthcare executive Brian Thompson.
“GOD YOU GUYS I LITERALLY KILLER THE CEO OF UNITED HEALTHCARE,” Calloway, 33, wrote via X on Monday, December 9, the same day Mangione was detained by law enforcement officers while eating at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania. He has since been charged with murder in New York and faces four additional charges, including one count of forgery and criminal possession of a firearm, CNN reported.
In a follow up tweetCalloway wrote: “Okay, technically he wasn’t a killer when we got away. … That I know of. But still!!!!”
Some people were quick to express doubts about the accuracy of Calloway’s claim.
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“Receipts Caroline we need receipts,” wrote one X user, while another chimed in, “Godly cheater.”
Calloway has been accused of living a lie before. In a 2019 essay on The incision titled “I Was Caroline Calloway,” Calloway’s ex-girlfriend Natalie Beach recalled being paid to write captions on Calloway’s Instagram, discovering that Calloway had bought fake social media followers, and helping Calloway write her book. (Calloway received a six-figure book deal to write a memoir called A schoolgirl but withdrew from the agreement in 2017, returning most of its $100,000 advance.)
“Caroline was caught between who she was and what she believed she was, which in the end was perhaps the most relatable thing about her,” Beach wrote. “That’s why when people ask me if Caroline is a cheater, I try to explain that if she is, her first sign is always herself.”
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Jeff Swensen/Getty ImagesBeach’s essay is one of several that appear in her 2023 book. Drama for Adults: And Other Essays. Calloway released his own self-published memoir with a cheeky title a cheaterthe same year. She publicly celebrates when The New Yorker published a review comparing it favorably with Beach’s collection of essays.
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“Beach’s book, on the other hand, is almost irritatingly rooted in reality. … Beach’s book is less meandering than Calloway’s, but it’s also slower and more unsure of itself,” Calloway wrote via Instagram in July 2023, citing A New Yorker review. “GOD, MAKE ME THE BIGGER MAN – JUST NOT YET!!!!!!”
Calloway can be counted on to make impressive statements online. Her recent claim about Mangione comes months after she said it I hadn’t ‘fed anyone who could read in two years” during a May appearance on the “No Jumper” podcast.
“I meet them on Hinge and I think maybe if I go on more than two dates with them they might have enough clues about my life to know who I am, but most of them don’t ask and I don’t I say,” she continued.
Calloway also sparked controversy in October when she announced via social media that she had done so he has no plans to leave his beach house in Sarasota, Florida, despite dire evacuation warnings as Hurricane Milton nears landfall.
“If I really die in this storm, my books will go WAY UP. Order now,” she wrote on her Instagram story at the time.
It’s unclear whether Calloway is telling the truth or joking about her alleged relationship with Mangione. Mangione is suspected of shooting and killing Thompson outside the Hilton Midtown hotel in New York on Wednesday, December 4. After a five-day manhunt, Mangione was arrested in Pennsylvania on Monday.
