{"id":564806,"date":"2025-11-12T02:06:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T02:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/564806\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T02:06:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T02:06:15","slug":"maga-pr-guru-melissa-rein-lively-banker-pal-wanted-for-questioning-in-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/564806\/","title":{"rendered":"MAGA PR guru Melissa Rein Lively, banker pal wanted for questioning in UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A MAGA influencer who heads an \u201canti-woke PR firm\u201d is wanted for questioning by police in the UK after she was identified in video from an alleged racist assault on a family in London, according to reports from UK media.<\/p>\n<p>Melissa Rein Lively, 40, and her partner Philipp Ostermann are being sought by British authorities following a run-in with a child in a stroller and her kin at a Tube station, according to British newspapers, including<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/uk\/crime\/article\/rein-lively-philip-ostermann-trump-bond-street-london-attack-v50qlmkjk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> The Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Lively is an Arizona-based PR boss who previously publicly said she wanted to be President Trump\u2019s White House press secretary.<\/p>\n<p>MAGA influencer Melissa Rein Lively, 40, and her partner Philipp Ostermann are wanted for questioning by UK police after she was seen in a video in an alleged racist assault on a family in London. Facebook\/Melissa Rein Lively<\/p>\n<p>She also was the subject of a profile about \u201cMar-a-Lago face,\u201d in a recent interview with French outlet\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/live-news\/20251110-big-lips-and-botox-in-trump-s-world-fashion-and-makeup-get-political\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AFP<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe victim was entering Bond Street Underground station with her sister and two young children, one of whom was in a [stroller]. A man and women were walking together in front of them when the woman collided with the [stroller],\u201d the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.btp.police.uk\/news\/btp\/news\/appeals\/image-released-following-racially-aggravated-assault-and-abuse---central-london\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">British Transport Police said<\/a>\u00a0in a statement released on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe man then began shouting racial abuse at the victim and her family, before the woman grabbed her hair. When the victim tried to defend herself the man pulled out a small bottle and said it was pepper spray before spraying it in the direction of the victim and her family,\u201d the statement continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe woman shouted abuse and made lewd gestures at them before both parties left the area,\u201d the statement went on.<\/p>\n<p>The statement featured an image of a man and a woman, identified by multiple news outlets as Ostermann and Lively.<\/p>\n<p>Lively was the subject of a profile about \u201cMar-a-Lago face,\u201d with French outlet AFP. Facebook\/Melissa Rein Lively<\/p>\n<p>None of the alleged victims suffered any injuries in the incident, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>Pepper spray is illegal in the UK, and it can carry a minimum six-month prison sentence.<\/p>\n<p>The exact details of the alleged racist interaction has not been released by authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Lively nor Ostermann declined to comment on the situation on Tuesday. British Transport Police Authority<\/p>\n<p>Neither Lively nor Ostermann responded to requests for comment on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Lively, who went viral in 2020 when she <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/07\/06\/arizona-karen-with-40000-rolex-trashes-face-mask-display-in-target\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">filmed herself destroying a rack of face masks<\/a> at an Arizona Target while boasting about her $40,000 Rolex, is the founder of \u201cAmerica First PR,\u201d which describes itself as the world\u2019s first \u201canti-woke\u201d PR agency.<\/p>\n<p>She later <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/11\/12\/arizona-woman-who-smashed-target-mask-display-blames-qanon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blamed the QAnon conspiracy theory<\/a> for what she called her \u201cjaw-dropping\u201d mental breakdown.<\/p>\n<p>In the AFP profile of Lively, she said she didn\u2019t change her appearance to match the MAGA movement \u2014 her aesthetic simply came into vogue.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStart your day with all you need to know\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMorning Report delivers the latest news, videos, photos and more.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis has always been my look. I just found my tribe,\u201d she said, describing the combination of long, blond, wavy hair, heavy makeup and cosmetic interventions that has come to be associated with Trump\u2019s prominent female supporters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A MAGA influencer who heads an \u201canti-woke PR firm\u201d is wanted for questioning by police in the UK&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":564807,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,4884,257,529,16,15,727],"class_list":{"0":"post-564806","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-london","12":"tag-police","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-us-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115534285001065523","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=564806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/564807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}