Luigi Mangione, 26, maintains that he is not the person featured in a bathroom sex tape being sold on the dark web for $500,000.
“Hopefully everyone realizes these are fake and not Luigi,” his lawyer, Karen Agnifilo, told the Daily Mail on Monday.
Mangione is accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson and currently sits awaiting trial at a detention center in New York City.
Kevin Blatt, who gained notoriety for publicizing a sex tape featuring Paris Hilton in 2003, claims to possess a sex video featuring Mangione obtained from a user of Grindr, a gay hookup app. Blatt shared blurry screenshots alleged to be Mangione and told the U.S. Sun that the user is trying to sell the footage for $500,000.
“The video I have seen is not high production stuff—it’s pretty seedy, solo stuff that looks like he recorded it in a bathroom at his parents' house and in a bedroom and then sent to a man he met on Grindr in 2020,” Blatt told the U.S. Sun, adding that Mangione used a fake name on the app.
Blatt also claimed that Mangione met with at least one man on Grindr.
According to Blatt, the video recipient was surprised to see that the person he met on Grindr—whom he believes to be Mangione—had been arrested.
Mangione is suspected of killing Brain Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, in New York on Dec. 4, 2024. After a nationwide manhunt, he was arrested and arraigned in Altoona, Pennsylvania, five days after the shooting.
He has been charged with stalking and murdering Thompson. Following his arrest, Mangione became a social media folk hero.
However, Blatt claimed that nobody is interested in buying the tape because of its affiliation with an alleged murderer. He added: “It’s the same reason why I don’t want to broker this thing. I want nothing to do with it.”
