Brains did not overcome beauty this time.
Brazilian supermodel Adriana Lima was tricked by a supposed fan into giving the salute of a Turkish terror group called the Grey Wolves.
An online video was posted on a Turkish website of the model being instructed to give a hand signal and then howl like a wolf. The incident occurred at a boxing gym in Miami where the Victoria’s Secret model and spokeswoman for Maybelline and Marc Jacobs perfume regularly works out, a spokesman for the model told the Daily News.
A boxer at the gym approached her and asked her to take a selfie video with the wolf hand gesture and howl. The spokesman said she did not know what it was for and is upset her good intentions for appearing with a fan were taken advantage of.
“She was told the hand signal and call-out were the names of his local gym,” her publicist Jesse Stowell told The News in a statement. “She was unaware of the wider context of what she was doing or its association to a political group.”
He added that Lima has no affiliation to any political party in Turkey and “unequivocally denies” any implied association to these organizations.
Lima, who split from her husband NBA star Marko Jaric last year, has not spoken publicly about the incident which has drawn some backlash from people on the Turkish site. But others have defended her and criticized the man for tricking her.
The Grey Wolves have been labeled an ultra-conservative, neo-fascist organization who spread a philosophy of Turkish nationalism. They have been linked to several violent acts, most notably the shooting of Pope John Paul II in Vatican City in 1981.
The pope survived four gunshot wounds, and in 2000 the shooter Mehmet Ali Agca was pardoned and deported back to Turkey upon the holy leader’s request.
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