![]() Stll, his mother and connection with our victim also “gave him legitimacy,” the fifth source said. “He was saying how he’d set up a meeting with this donor, and then it kept getting drawn out… Who tells someone that they’re connecting a donor to a charity and the donor is going to donate a million dollars? It’s a strange lie that will come out,” they said. Thankfully, she realized, “he’s full of s–t,” she said. The fifth source told us he was trying to “get in the mix with the New York arts community” and offered to give her a million dollars for her charity. Hermes apparently wasn’t the only thing Mickum was selling. It was a close friend or somebody that was in their circle.” It was my understanding that it wasn’t some random person who sold them the bag. The rep added they “felt bad because one of the girls started crying. Two of us looked at them and those bags were not OK,” they claimed. When one of the victims showed them the bag, “I said, ‘They’re fake.’ They looked counterfeit to us, and we didn’t think they were authentic. “One of the many things that one looks at to authenticate a bag is the date stamp, which is a unique code to identify the bag,” they explained. “That’s when one person went to an Hermes store and there wasn’t a on the bag,” according to the source.Ī rep for Hermes did not comment, but a rep for luxury handbag reseller Madison Avenue Couture in New York, confirmed one of the victims came to them to authenticate the bags. Painter worked for the Clinton Administration in the mid-’90s. We’re told the women cracked the alleged scam after “one of our friends noticed” a fake bag he was “flaunting around,” according to a fifth source. The fourth source believes Mickum’s association with the royals made it easier for him to allegedly scam the socialites because “he claimed to have vacationed with the royal family and leveraged that in NYC circles for credibility.” “Meeting someone’s mother adds a lot of credibility - especially when they’ve worked with the royals and have been photographed with King Charles,” they said. ![]() They reconnected in New York and, “I’d see him and he was always like, ‘I’m jetting off to Turkey or Paris.’ I never thought twice ,” she told us.Ī fourth source said Mickum would “parade his mom” around New York when she’d come to town from Washington, D.C. also a pretty recognizable person around ,” she said. “As far as I knew, his mother was close friends with the Prince of Wales. The “super trusting” fake bag victim says she met Mickum at an event for Prince William in London that he attended with his mom “a million years ago.” ![]() He knows the socialites “won’t say anything once they find out. Painter, was a senior advisor in the Clinton administration “from 1993-1995,” according to her company bio. One victim of the alleged scam, who is too embarrassed to be named, shamefully admitted she fell for him because of his pedigree: His mother, Sally A. It’s all shady,” a second source, who has interacted with Mickum, told us. He makes them wait! It never sounded right. Several sources familiar with the situation told us Mickum was allegedly able to convince the ladies to purchase the hard to come by, five figure bags “that even rich people don’t have access to” because “he lied about being friends with Michael Coste.”īut, “Michael doesn’t even sell bags to his best customers. A source told Page Six Mickum “targets wealthy women” with fake Birkins, like the one seen above. However, Mickum told us that the allegations are “absurd and false.” The women accusing him of selling them the fake bags have not filed charges. Unlike Delvey, however, his alleged victims aren’t pressing charges and, “he knows they won’t resell them, and won’t say anything once they find out ,” the source added. One source described Mickum as the “modern male version” of convicted fraudster Anna Delvey because “he targets wealthy women and has been selling his friends hard to get Hermes bags at resale, but it turns out they’re all fakes!” the source said. Guest of a Guest writer and real estate agent George Mickum is being accused of scamming a number of NYC’s top socialites out of thousands of dollars by selling them fake Birkins - and the rich ladies of Manhattan are piping mad that they’ve been allegedly duped. Howard Sobel hits the social scene during ugly divorce Hamptons abuzz as celebrity dermatologist and ‘King of Lipo’ Dr. Russell Simmons’ daughter Aoki toasts her 21st at a gala amid feud John Mellencamp’s mystery girlfriend revealed as multimillionaire socialiteīlaine Trump drops last name from gala honoring Scarlett Johansson
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