claim: Anthony Scaramucci posted nude photographs of his wife in order to get revenge for her filing for divorce.
origin: On 29 July 2017, the web siteÂ Nevada County ScooperÂ published an article claiming that White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci had posted online nude photographs of his wife, Deidre Ball, shortly after she filed for divorce: < Senior Advisor to the President, Anthony Scaramucci is no stranger to controversy. From the beginning of his career at Goldman Sachs to his recent successful selling of global investment firm Skybridge Capital, Scaramucci has been in the gilded spotlight. The spotlight that he is currently in may be more than he bargained for. Scaramucciâ€™s wife, Deidre Ball, filed for divorce citing her husbandâ€™s â€œblind political ambitionâ€ as her main reason for leaving him. Scaramucci has hit back by posting nude pictures of Ball to his Twitter account earlier this evening, posting â€œNow everyone can see her â€˜blindâ€™ ambition.â€ The pictures show Ball completely nude in very suggestive poses, obviously meant to be kept private. > The article came after a week of controversy in which the newly-appointed communications director made an expletive-laden phone call to aÂ New Yorker reporter and accused then-White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus of leaking information to the press. By the following day, Priebus had resigned his post and Scaramucciâ€™s wife had filed for divorce. After a week like that, it might be difficult to discern real news stories about Scaramucci from rumors, gossip, and fake news. However, this story, like everything else Nevada County Scooper publishes, is false. The Nevada County Scooperâ€™sÂ â€œmanifestoâ€ calls its content â€œsatiricalâ€: < What is the Nevada County Scooper? First off, what kind of dolt reads a manifesto? Answer we do and apparently so do you. So congrats. The Scooper is a satirical website is in scope and intent. Sometimes itâ€™s funny; often it is not. in scope and intent. It provides social criticism in a satirical, sometimes news-genre setting. We are not a â€œfake newsâ€ site, but rather an entertainment one. Sometimes itâ€™s just plain-old crappy writing with a few bad jokes. Our intention is not to fool or trick anyone, but obviously it happens. We firmly believe that you can soften a personâ€™s willingness to listen by injecting irony, and yes sometimes humor, into the conversation. > Â