Clare Werbeloff

Clare Werbeloff

Clare Werbeloff is an Austrailian woman who has become an Internet celebrity after video of her using racial slurs outside a nightclub shooting surfaced. Find more Clare Werbeloff news and information here.

 
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Written by Jake on
Clare Werbeloff , the semi-racist Australian who got a dose of Internet fame after a video of her outside a nightclub shooting went viral (you can see it to the left), is now being outed as a liar. Turns out she didn't even see the shooting that spurred her to call two men "wogs." From a Reuters article: An Australia woman's account of a late night shooting in Sydney has turned her into an Internet sensation with T-shirts, mugs and a dance remix made in her honor but there's just one problem -- she made it up. Sydney woman Clare Werbeloff's dramatic account of ... Read Full Story
Written by Tony on
After a week of press interviews and "instant Internet fame", Clare Werbeloff has no regrets about her interview with the press immediately after the shooting.  Clare was interviewed as a witness and became an overnight sensation.  Here's what she had to say about the experience: "I didn't think it would blow out of proportion like this and I wasn't thinking at the time. I didn't think anything would come out of it," she told the Nine Network's A Current Affair tonight. "Aussies love to muck around with each other. They love jokes and I just thought Australia would get it." Read Full Story
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Jerry Fuchs A drummer for a popular indie-rock band yesterday plunged to his death after trying to leap from a stuck elevator at a Williamsburg fund-raiser, police said. Jerry Fuchs — who had drummed for the dance-punk bands LCD Soundsystem, !!! (pronounced “chk, chk, chk”) and The Juan MacLean and had just finished touring with the psychedelic ensemble Maserati — tumbled five stories shortly after 12:30 a.m. at 338 Berry St., cops said. Sources said Fuchs, 34, was in the freight elevator with another male guest when it stopped three or four feet above the fifth floor. He and the man opened the door ... Read Full Story
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Known as the "Chk-Chk-Boom Girl" to hundreds of thousands of YouTube viewers, Australian Clare Werbeloff gained instant celebrity as witness to a shooting in Sydney's nightlife district. But in a twist to the tale, the 19-year-old now says the television interview she gave was pure invention and she never saw the shooting, The Australian newspaper reported Monday. Shortly after a man was shot and wounded around 3.00am on May 17 on a street in Sydney's Kings Cross area, Werbeloff gave a Nine Network cameraman a graphic eyewitness account of what she said had happened, using language considered highly offensive in most parts of the ... Read Full Story
CANBERRA (Reuters) - An Australia woman's account of a late night shooting in Sydney has turned her into an Internet sensation with T-shirts, mugs and a dance remix made in her honor but there's just one problem -- she made it up. Sydney woman Clare Werbeloff's dramatic account of a shooting, with her "chk chk boom" firing of a gun and imitation of the men involved, made her an overnight hit on video sharing website YouTube, prompting about 500,000 viewings. The 19-year-old has since received invitations to appear on various TV shows and even the offer of a bikini photo shoot. But the Australian ... Read Full Story
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