Jun. 26 at 3:40 AM
$AMC In 2022, Aron entered into a weeks-long text exchange with a woman he believed he was getting to know online. In the course of that texting he sent sexually explicit photos and messages. The whole thing was a setup: the perpetrator, Sakoya Blackwood, was running a catfishing scheme posing as the fictional woman's boyfriend and later as a Vanity Fair journalist, and threatening to show the photos to the press and to AMC's board unless Aron paid. She sought to extort roughly
$300,000 to stay quiet, and also obtained phone numbers belonging to Aron's son, threatening to make false claims to people close to him.
So the more precise picture: Aron did send the explicit images himself, voluntarily, during what he thought was a genuine private exchange that part isn't disputed. The crime against him was the catfishing, blackmail, and extortion that the exchange was engineered to produce.
