How does the saying go about art imitating life? Is it the other way around? However it goes, I don’t think it applies to celebrity impersonators, but a Tiger Woods lookalike getting busted for sexting would have been serendipitous all the same. Alas, it was not to be — turns out the impersonator (Golfelganger?) was being framed in this case.
It’s a tale as old as time: girl sends boy naked photos during the good times, harasses him during the bad times, then uses those naked photos to set the boy up as a sex offender. If you’ve heard it once, you’ve heard it a thousand times. The sordid details on this one are pretty good, too: Canh Oxelson, who has used his similarity to Tiger for paid appearances for years, spent the last few months being harassed by his ex-girlfriend, Minochy Delanois.
Delanois allegedly texted Oxelson around the clock when the couple were on the outs with threats and insults, at one point stealing medical records from her workplace (where she was a nurse) to claim that she was pregnant with his child. When she threatened to call Oxelson’s employer, he reminded her that he still had nude photos she sent to him. At that point, she went to the police to accuse Oxelson of harassment.
If this isn’t a Jerry Springer plot, it’s at least a Maury Povich one. Celebrity impersonators, man. (Is there a saying about them too?)
