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Authorities have been looking into whether a sexual predator who has been cold calling actresses under the guise of an Oscar-winning filmmaker is actually the notorious Con Queen of Hollywood, who was arrested in the U.K. at the end of November.
The number of actresses claiming to have been contacted by a manipulative sexual predator masquerading as an Oscar-winning filmmaker has doubled.
The Hollywood Reporter in November, the conman has been cold calling women claiming to be Hugh Welchman, the director of the groundbreaking 2017 animated feature
Loving Vincent. The impostor begins by dangling the opportunity of a role in an upcoming project that he says he’s producing. From there, he’s pressured many of his targets into taking part in uncomfortable, domineering, inappropriate and increasingly sexual conversations under the guise of "energy work" and has persuaded several to move to Skype video, where a number have been coerced into taking their clothes off on camera.