TAMPA, Fla. (PIX11) – A Florida woman’s claims of a surgically-attached third breast appear to have been officially debunked after capturing the Internet’s attention for several days.
Jasmine Tridevil — who is really 21-year-old Alisha Hessler — told police her luggage had been stolen from Tampa International Airport earlier this month, according to The Smoking Gun. Luckily for Hessler, police caught the two suspects who allegedly made off with multiple bags belonging to her and others customers — but, unlucky for her, they made a detailed list of the contents.
Inside Hessler’s bag police found the following damning evidence:
Miscellaneous female clothing
Three pairs of stiletto heels
Miscellaneous papers containing Hessler’s name
A hairbrush
3 Breast Prosthesis
According to the report, the property was given back to Hessler last Tuesday.
Skepticism was already growing around Tridevil’s alleged third breast — a la that memorable scene from “Total Recall” — and a local Florida news station decided to investigate.
| A Tampa reporter asked the woman, who goes by the name “Jasmine Tridevil,” to show him the new breast — and Tridevil complied with a quick flash. When pressed to show more — including where it attached to her chest — Tridevil told 10 News she couldn’t “because it’s in episode six of my show.” The 21-year-old massage therapist told reporters that her life goal is to star in her own MTV reality show, and that she spent $20,000 on the bizarre surgery. |
Tridevil pulled her shirt up for a reporter outside of a Tampa home, but refused to allow anything more than a quick glancing, claiming that she didn’t want to give away anything from her planned reality show. (10News)
Viral vetting expert Snopes was one of the first to call the Internet “triboob” sensation false. Most of the evidence of her claims comes from her own YouTube and Facebook photos, along with an interview she did with a Florida radio station. Tridevil has also said she signed a non-disclosure agreement with the surgeon to keep him from being prosecuted for performing the surgery — thus ruling out the only expert witness.
Hessler made news last December after an incident at a Tampa club in which she was allegedly beaten by a man named Gabriel Urena. Instead of pressing charges with police, Hessler had Urena sit for eight hours at a busy intersection wearing a tall, white dunce cap and hold a sign reading “I BEAT WOMEN HONK IF I’M A SCUMBAG.”
The story was widely covered and she appeared on television and on various websites.
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Hessler was also arrested in a separate incident in March 2013 and charged with “fraudulent use of personal information.”
Snopes tracked down a massage parlor called “Alisha’s Golden Touch,” where an Alisha Jasmine Hessler has an online bio with the same phone number that’s linked to jasminetridevil.com.
Business information site manta.com now lists Alisha’s Golden Touch as a “provider of Internet hoaxes since 2014,” but it’s unclear who posted the description.
She posted the following statement Tuesday morning on Facebook:
“Everyone keeps sending me this snopes article. Why? Yes, they have my real name. Yes, the news story last December is true, and yes, I was arrested for using someone elses i.d. (attempting to get in a club). I was underage and wanted to get drunk lol.”