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Jeanne de la Motte, a noblewoman fallen on hard times, pretended to be French Queen and tricked a cardinal into giving her the necklace, without paying.

He even pretended to go to her funeral on Valentine's Day.

He rang 999 and pretended he had found her hanging from a stairwell.

He said that on 21 August 2023 he pretended to be trying to escape by acting "very suspiciously" next to a food delivery lorry.

“It's bizarre to watch. And most young people, I think, are aware of it,” Rogan said, explaining to Trump, who pretended not to know why he drew more publicity than other candidates in 2016, that “the Internet's giving people information that they're not getting from anywhere else.”