Joey Skaggs Remembers His 1994 National Enquirer Hoax

Note to Jeff Bezos: Take a page from me and screw the National Enquirer!

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In 1994, after The New York Times Magazine published John Tierney’s article, Falling For It, about my Dog Meat Soup hoax, the National Enquirer called and said they were doing a profile about me. They wanted an exclusive photo shoot. Not liking or respecting this publication, I declined. They said they were going to do the story with or without any assistance from me. So, I sent an impostor to two different photo shoots.

They published this story:

Page Six of the New York Post exposed the hoax:

Full details of the National Enquirer hoax are here.