Lillee Jean Defamed: Met Gala and Teen Vogue | Project Bullyish
- Lillee Jean
- Feb 21
- 9 min read
Updated: Nov 10
Ah, the sensation of the internet! "Lillee Jean Met Gala", or oh wait, my favorite "Lillee Jean Teen Vogue". "Lillee Jean faked paparazzi". Can we just talk about this intentional propaganda?
The Lillee Jean Incident
As many avid readers of my advocacy website know, I've been through the ringer since I was a child, with being criminally stalked. This isn't about cyberbullying. This has been relentless stalking, where PR companies have come aboard with smaller corporations to PROFIT off the mass hysteria, and rumors being spread to intentionally harm my brand and me as a person.
They profit off YouTube, Twitch, and Onion TOR, with the lies that intrigue the already plagued.
Admit it, they think it's quite appealing to post a hate comment for $10.00. A game card here, covering college costs there - you're merely a dollar bill in a digital agency's quota.
I have been the subject of a long-term online harassment campaign that's criminally escalated, which began when I was just 15 years old.
This coordinated effort, which self-identifies as the "Lillee Jean Clone Cult," has been a source of unrelenting criminal-level disinformation. For the past nine years, I have actively worked to document this experience with law enforcement to bring justice to the crimes committed, including identity theft, nonconsensual deepfakes of my body, and threats to my life.
They evolved from 24/7 fake accounts rotating around the clock with defaming statements splattered across the web, with literal PR campaigns to "rip me from the face of the Earth", into criminal deepfake explicit photos of my body being distributed now in 2025.
It's turned into betting occurring on the dark web, threats to my life, stalking occurring to my entire family at all times, and packages being sent to my home. The cult has a symbol, an egg. My family has been sent an egg timer with tape to let my family know "the time is up".
What I've done about it now, in 2025, is work with law enforcement, where we have a break in this case.
Not only have I filed police reports with the NYPD on the criminal traceable deepfake explicit photos (these photos were spread on YouTubers' Discord servers, X accounts created to impersonate me WITH those photos, and Onion TOR), where subpoenas have been put in, but I have active reports with the District Attorneys office for impersonation (doctors appointments were made in my name locally, auto loans inquired via telephone as Lillee Jean Trueman were had, my agent was contacted as Lillee Jean Trueman with a phony email), and even have the FBI involved for the internationals who've threatened my very saftey and also conducted criminal identity theft.
The cult has already had a member indicted for nefarious propaganda. This is when the "influencer" thing expanded, because many do not stay truthful, and somehow a smattering of me being Jewish was added in, because in some of their words, Jewish people "steal".
So, it's an intentional subliminal marketing campaign. These are the very people curdling children’s brains online, bribing them with money to do their bidding...those with records.
Here is the massive joke: for the record, I was never an influencer or beauty guru. I modeled for companies, and in many cases, did not profit. I created a series of professional application videos to showcase the products. I was always very clear due to the FTC guidelines.
Lillee Jean Met Gala
This title messes with me, because how funny would it be in a few years to attend the MET and contribute to the arts in such a way? Do you know how many of my friends actually did a mock-up the way my fan edited me on the MET carpet and hashtagged MetGala2019? Many. That's why it's comical that this is an argument point for these PR companies to play on the emotions of those not educated on realities, for why my family is "terrible" and should be "removed" from Earth. A girl in a dress, who never said she attended such an event, is being treated like a 1st degree crime occurred, oh my.
Each member of the Lillee Jean Clone Cult has skeletons that the NYPD has found. Some with criminal, serious records. To understand this, you have to understand these aren't PEOPLE creating rumors...these are corporations that hired SEO experts, "pawns", and are PR companies.
So, that YouTuber that seems just like a "YouTuber"...yeah, save the sop-story, that's a corporation looking to make a buck. That person who tweeted about something that nobody remembers from ages ago, yeah, they probably were paid to start the buzz train again. If they look average enough, it's subliminal enough. Unfortunately, that's what happened to me. People nobody would suspect, creating mass-hysteria online intentionally to yield mass-profit for the company they work for. Maybe a Telegram goes out, they see it, take the job, and go for it.
It's vital to mention, I had a video mentioning looks I liked, and didn't as much about the Met Gala 2019 on YouTube, publicly, where people could see me once more, never saying I attended.
Cutting to the chase, the fact is, I did not attend the Met Gala in 2019, and I never said I attended the Met Gala in 2019. In over 200+ videos, over 8 years of pain, a fan-edit of my face with a champagne dress, on-top of Katy Perry has been circulated on the web, tarnishing my brand, across so many countries (no joke, I'm international, and made not a dime on this phony PR story), with underesearched companies selling this phony story with my face. These PR Companies tried to model a then 18-year-old after stories of people actually defrauding...they created a lie for money.
Who wouldn't want to see the pretty girl FAIL?
Now, here is the catch. In each YouTube, or TikTok video, they show my mom reposting the fan edit, where she tags firework, a Katy Perry song....the problem is viewers are 50% botted to make it look like a massive story, and 50% people droning, following the crowd, to be "popular". They join that company's Discord server, and feel like they have finally sweet, sweet, camaraderie. Now, the little drones will buy merchandising and spread the evil empire gossip, which spreads the video organically at some point. We go from video, to the press.
If they listen to a nasally, not by far a VO quality actor voice, see a guy who looks like them, or see a girl who looks like they could be their mom, these play on the SENSES of humans. Relatability, and unwitting victims of public relations machines helping content farms.
The significance is that these media corporations have taken my face, my name, and turned it next to negative words such as "Fraud, Fake, Phony, Liar", and then spawned into NEW rumors for profit. Now we have what they intentionally did to my family and I, the very things of stalking and harassment next to my face.
These very articulated, intentional rumors, have led to Adult Protective Services being called to my home, and I've been swatted thrice. Why do these people know where I live, down to the precinct? If you watch Project: Bullyish, my award-winning documentary on stalking, you'll even see them gloating about calling in the fake tips.
Lillee Jean Teen Vogue
So, see, Lillee Jean can't be on the cover of a magazine; her mother must have paid for it. Not only is this defamation and a lie, it has caused mass-hysteria that to this day, February 2025, encouraged those very deepfakes, intentional threats to my life, and stalking on such an insane level, you'd think I was mega famous. I'm just an actress trying to make it.
I never said I was on the cover of Teen Vogue. A fan edited me on the cover, which, obviously, has a photograph of me juxtaposed on top of a flower. So...Lillee Jean, unlike any other celebrity (I was growing a nice following at the time, since I'd been on the web since I was 9 with my stop-motion blog), can't share that out? Of course not. It's high school-level gossip with real-world consequences, of my family's life in danger each time.
When these rumors began, that's actually when the stalking increased with personal family documents being plastered on the dark web, to begin. They even put up the inside of my home (shown in the Project Bullyish film). They intentionally chose me to be a villain. Why? I'm pretty and make money for them...but it's also a hit job.
The interesting part is my family has no contact with these criminals...it's all in their heads.
Below you will see from an antisemitic website, note the Star of David next to my mom's name, a defaming statement that fuels these lies. So any cover I'm on, legitimately, must be paid for, because of a fanedit...of Teen Vogue...and heaven forbid Lillee Jean has fans.
As a public figure and filmmaker, I have documented my experiences with organized online harassment campaigns. These coordinated efforts circulate false narratives in an attempt to damage my brand. Above, see how it dives deeper.
It's Paid For Campaigns
The police have found all of these incidents relate to a personal, paid-for hit job, and my family concurs. Do you know, to this day, in February 2025, they still are running these campaigns slapping more slogans against my name, still bruising my face in photos, still creating lies that have caused actual harm?
May 2024 to the Winter of 2025 was the worst time in my entire life. I had a feeling it was coming, because of the searches, which by the way included kidnapping me.
The lie began again that terrible, beautiful, sunny morning, that I'm a terrible person, I'm stalking and harassing...these very criminals with the deepfake explicit photos destroying my body, the phone calls as Lillee Jean Trueman, the packages to my home of their cult symbol, the swattings. I mean, go figure.
The coordinated attack of May 2024 where several people published videos in unison to "rid me of the Earth," was tragic, and has mentally left a scar that shall never heal, because the waterboarding of the same fake story, leaving me helpless has been rinsed, and repeated SO MANY TIMES, OVER SO MANY YEARS.
Each time, I see financial loss, I lose opportunities, and my safety is put in harm's way.
The Fabricated Paparazzi Narrative: When Satire is Weaponized for Defamation on a Teenager
The claim that I "pretended to be caught by paparazzi" at almost 15 years old is a definitive example of how subtle satire and contextual humor are systematically distorted and weaponized by coordinated criminal harassment campaigns. The photograph in question above was taken when I was only 15 years old.
The original caption was:
"I WANNA WAKE UP IN A CITY THAT NEVER SLEEPS" oh gosh, the paps caught me singing that [lips zipped emoji] [laughing emoji]"
The factual context has been systematically obliterated and weaponized by coordinated harassment campaigns - the original social media post was about singing: “WANNA WAKE UP IN A CITY THAT NEVER SLEEPS” oh gosh, the paps caught me singing that [lips zipped emoji] [laughing emoji].* This simple, joking caption, where I was clearly focused on the song lyrics, was made when I was a minor. Yet, the entire context has been stripped and twisted into a malicious "paparazzi fabrication" narrative.
The fact that this self-deprecating joke about singing, made by a teenager, is perpetually re-indexed and distorted even in 2025 speaks not to my actions, but to the true, ongoing malicious intent of criminal harassers.
These digital media agencies and their agents thrive on taking a moment of lighthearted content and reframing it as evidence of delusion or instability, proving that for those committed to malicious defamation, "nothing I do is ever considered right or genuine." This relentless, bad-faith misinterpretation, which often targets my earliest work, is a core component of the criminal gaslighting documented in Project Bullyish. These are the very people involved in criminal A.I. deepfakes of me.
Here is further proof of how they weaponized their fake narrative and made it into SLOGANS.
The Future of Project Bullyish
With Project Bullyish, I want to continue discussing these tropes of stalking and push for more change. I want to live my life, write my monologues, direct my films, be on TV, and be distanced from these criminals even further. It can be a beautiful place, but devious with seedy companies seeking quick profit. You might be surprised at who is really a content farm (a media corporation that produces mass media for profit). It might be your favorite journalist or newspaper.
About Lillee Jean Trueman:
Lillee Jean Trueman is an actress, director, writer, producer, and filmmaker from New York City. In 2021, Trueman founded Bullyish to spearhead global discussions about criminal online stalking and coordinated attacks. Through her award-winning documentary film Project: Bullyish, she has gone on to shed light on how this criminal process is conducted by digital media corporations online. Through Trueman's own research and by involving appropriate law enforcement, she has continued to make people talk, globally, about the true underbelly of the World Wide Web.
Her documentary project received excellent acclaim abroad from those who have been harassed and stalked. Project Bullyish is an award-winner at the Humro Cinema Film Festival (June 2024), and the documentary won two Official Selection awards from FilmNest International Film Festival (June 2024), and Kurdistan International Independent Film Festival (December 2024) as well. In June 2025, Trueman's documentary touched French viewers through livestreams globally, amplifying discussions for coordinated criminal harassment attacks.
Through Bullyish, Trueman has continued to advocate for various topics related to cyber technologies, including AI usage and IP protections. Above a documentary, Trueman promotes combating stalking online through education, true in-depth journalism, and the integrity of insight into the truth of online dangers.
©️ 2025 Lillee Jean Trueman. All rights reserved. This article contains the personal opinions and experiences of the author and is not intended to provide legal, financial, or any other professional advice. Readers should consult with a qualified professional for advice regarding their specific situation. The publisher is not responsible for any actions taken based on the content of this article.