Maryland native Luigi Mangione, pending three separate criminal cases in connection to the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, is now defending himself against another claim: that he starred in his own sex tape.
Mangione’s lawyer Karen Agnifilo denied her client was the person in the video, speaking Monday to DailyMail.com. Agnifilo did not immediately respond to requests for comment from The Baltimore Sun.
“Hopefully everyone realizes these are fake and not Luigi,” Agnifilo said to that outlet about claims of a sex tape that have gone viral.
Kevin Blatt, a celebrity “sex tape broker,” told The U.S. Sun that Mangione likely hadn’t made 20 high-quality videos as had been originally claimed. Rather, Blatt said he’d only seen one video, about a minute and a half long, with poor production value. However, he did reveal that the man who Mangione allegedly sent the tapes to had been trying to sell them for half a million dollars.
Blatt said he believed the video, which he said appeared to be filmed in a bathroom, was sent in 2020 to a man on the gay hookup app Grindr.
“I’m known as the number one sex tape broker in the country, so if I haven’t come across a tape, it’s pretty safe to say it doesn’t exist,” Blatt said to The U.S. Sun.
Since his arrest, Mangione has accumulated a cult following, with his legal team setting up a website last month to share information about his case. A legal defense fund has raised over $720,000 as of Wednesday.
Mangione’s next court date is March 19 for his federal criminal case.