Well it worked. Cam girl Molly Cavalli went viral after claims she was bitten by a shark during an underwater video shoot. She posted pictures of her injuries to make it look authentic, but like most viral videos, it was apparently faked.
Does this look like fake blood? Yes it does.
Here are more details from the Palm Beach Post.
As keeper of the International Shark Attack File, and a noted shark-bite investigator, it fell to George Burgess to take a scholarly look at an adult-film actress’ claims last week of an attack in Florida waters.
It’s all recorded on an oft-viewed YouTube video, except the actual moment when teeth met flesh, and Burgess had no shortage of research material as colleagues emailed headlines — “Porn star attacked by shark: See the Horrifying Video.”
“I can tell you for a fact, it was not a shark bite,” Burgess said Tuesday about a slice in the actress’s foot allegedly wrought by a lemon shark. “How it was inflicted is conjectural, but the main thing is, the injury is not a shark bite. It was a PR stunt, and it worked.”
Florida Atlantic University shark researcher Stephen Kajiura reviewed the video and said the linear gash on the woman’s foot is not something that would typically be caused by shark teeth. Shark bites tend to be arcs, because their teeth are in a semi-circular pattern.
If there is a slash, it’s usually multiple slashes because more than one tooth would be used.
“For a wound that deep, one would expect to see multiple parallel slashes from teeth, not a single slash,” said Kajiura, who added that he couldn’t completely dismiss the possibility of bite.
But, he said: “It makes more sense that she was cut on the side of the cage, then blamed the sharks for the publicity.”
There you have it, the experts have weighed in and it was definitely faked. Cavalli still went viral, so mission accomplished. Flip the pages for video of the fake shark attack and pictures of Molly Cavalli.