Collien Fernandes Files Spanish Criminal Complaint Against Christian Ulmen Over 14 Years of Digital Abuse
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Updated · The New York Times · Aug 23
Collien Fernandes Files Spanish Criminal Complaint Against Christian Ulmen Over 14 Years of Digital Abuse
2 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Aug 23
Summary
Fernandes said she filed a criminal complaint in Spain accusing ex-husband Christian Ulmen of digital and psychological abuse after years of online impersonation and harassment carried out in her name.
A late-March Instagram post to her roughly 250,000 followers identified Ulmen as the alleged perpetrator, timed to coincide with a major report on her claims.
Fernandes said the abuse included fake social-media accounts, sexually explicit online relationships conducted as her, and pornographic material falsely presented as her image, including lookalike or possibly A.I.-generated content.
The allegations followed her own investigation after a 2021 video appeared to show her having sex with numerous men, a case she said had plagued her for years.
In Germany, the accusation against one half of a celebrity couple married for 14 years quickly became a major national story, drawing comparisons to a #MeToo-style reckoning.