Socialite con artist Caroline Calloway believes she is “going to die” because she has not been evacuated from the area where Hurricane Milton is expected to hit.
Calloway, 32, became one of the first Instagram influencers when she documented her time at the prestigious Cambridge University in England, but it was discovered that she had falsified her grades.
Posting to her Instagram Story Tuesday night from her new home in Florida, Calloway detailed the full extent of her situation.
‘So if you’ve been following Hurricane Milton, mmm, I’m going to die! It is assumed to make landfall in the Sarasota-Bradenton area. “I’m in Sarasota, I live on the water, it’s zone A, mandatory evacuation,” he said.
Calloway then tried to explain why he didn’t leave his house in time for the storm.
Socialite con artist Caroline Calloway believes she is “going to die” because she has not been evacuated from the area where Hurricane Milton will hit.
Calloway, 32, became one of the first Instagram influencers when she documented her time at the prestigious Cambridge University in England, but it was discovered that she had falsified her grades.
—First of all, I can’t drive. Secondly, the airport is nearby. Third, the last time I evacuated for a hurricane, I went to my mom’s house in Northport for Hurricane Ian,” he said.
“Their entire street was flooded and the US military evacuated us after three days without electricity or running water,” Calloway revealed.
‘It was very traumatic and that’s why I don’t want to evacuate to my mom’s house because the last time I did that, it was the worst moment of my life!’
She then said she was locked with her cat in a bathtub filled with “reservoir water.”
“We have food, but it’s a little scary and… yeah, I’ll keep you posted,” he concluded, before posting a video of Tampa Bay Mayor Jane Castor saying that if they don’t evacuate, “they’re going to die.” “‘
Calloway notoriously paid to gain Instagram followers and defrauded hundreds of fans with “creative workshops” that never materialized before fleeing to Florida, where he says he “hasn’t fucked someone who can read in over two years.”
In 2015, her large Instagram following helped her land a six-figure book deal, but she failed, calling its premise “sexist” but offering the first seven chapters for sale on Etsy.
Then his ghostwriter Natalie Beach wrote an explosive essay in The Cut.
The trial coincided with the suicide of Calloway’s father, and Calloway told her followers on Instagram Stories that she was battling depression, anxiety and Adderall addiction, while consumed by existential questions about why she was alive.
Posting to her Instagram Story Tuesday night from her new home in Florida, Calloway detailed the full extent of her situation.
It now finds itself in the path of Hurricane Milton, which on Wednesday moved toward a potentially catastrophic collision along Florida’s west coast, where some residents insisted they would stay after millions of people were ordered to evacuate and the officials warned that stragglers faced grim odds of survival.
Still needing to pay the advance for the book she had not written, she opened an Onlyfans account in 2020 claiming that Playboy had commissioned a photo shoot for her.
She told Harvard crimson magazine he imagined his subscribers would be “kids who went to Princeton and now work on Wall Street and who think I would have been mean to them in high school.”
But her subscribers were not enough to prevent a landlord from evicting her from her West Village apartment and suing her for $40,000 and damages to the building.
That summer, a BBC documentary ‘My Insta Scammer Friend’ dealt another blow to her reputation when former followers detailed their abusive relationship with her.
“I was 10 out of 10 obsessed with Caroline Calloway,” Genevieve Wheeler told the show’s makers.
‘She liked your posts and it felt like Christmas morning. “It was the greatest thing in the world.”
“I would definitely say I’m addicted,” Caitlin Vickers said. “I really wanted to live that life.”
She told her followers that she wanted them to ‘grow old with me’ and watch her fall in love and get married.
—First of all, I can’t drive. Secondly, the airport is nearby. Third, the last time I evacuated for a hurricane, I went to my mom’s house in Northport for Hurricane Ian,” he said.
“We have food, but it’s a little scary and… yeah, I’ll keep you posted,” he concluded, before posting a video of Tampa Bay Mayor Jane Castor saying that if they don’t evacuate, “they’re going to die.”
But many lost money on his ‘creativity workshops’ and were devastated when Calloway revealed his mercenary side shortly before quitting social media in 2021.
—Do you know how difficult it is to get fame and money from nothing? she demanded. And I’m killing it.
“Big picture: I want fame, power and money, and people talking about me is part of that.”
She transferred from New York University to Cambridge with Beach, who admitted she was dazzled by “the most confident girl she had ever met.”
“She looked like an adult, someone who had just moved on and built a life of independence. “I, meanwhile, was a virgin with a docile ponytail and lived in a railroad apartment that was sinking into the Gowanus Canal,” she wrote.
‘She constantly called me her best friend and work wife, telling me she loved me. I thought we were in this together.’
But Calloway later admitted that she had been aroused by Beach’s account of being sexually assaulted, and cruelly compared her figure to that of a potbellied man with whom she had had sex.
Three years later, she was compared to notorious Fyre Festival scammer Billy McFarland after selling $165 worth of tickets to a nationwide ‘Creativity Workshop Tour’, which promised tutorials on how to build an Instagram brand, develop ideas and address ‘the emotional and spiritual dimensions of making art’. .
Caroline Calloway, 32, had 800,000 followers on Instagram as one of the site’s first influencers, but her landlord sued her for $40,000 after leaving her New York apartment in 2022.
Plagued by debt, Calloway created an Onlyfans page that she claimed brought her $25,000 a month.
But most events were canceled, and Calloway urged some ticket buyers in Philadelphia to take a train to New York for one of the few that took place.
“It was a disgusting feeling,” said fan Abigail Scott. “A light bulb went off…She was just looking at her fans as a way to make money.”
Moving to Sarasota, Florida, he capitalized on his reputation with a 2023 memoir called Scammer in which he described the plaque he hoped would one day be outside his old apartment in New York.
Sold through his revived Instagram account and self-released through his Dead Dad imprint, it was well received by critics and the New Yorker described it as “funny, engaging and full of genuine insight.”
She told the Crimson that she hopes it will be the first in a trilogy of ‘juvenilia’ answering her critics before attempting to leave her past behind.
“It’s been terrible for my reputation,” he said. ‘I mean, people finally know that I’m not a scammer now. How am I supposed to maintain my reputation when there are people here slandering my name?
Earlier this month he told the Podcast without jumpers she only dated men who know nothing about her past, but she “hates” them.
It now finds itself in the path of Hurricane Milton, which on Wednesday moved toward a potentially catastrophic collision along Florida’s west coast, where some residents insisted they would stay after millions of people were ordered to evacuate and the officials warned that stragglers faced grim odds of survival.
Tampa Bay areahome of more than 3.3 million peoplefaced the possibility of widespread destruction after avoiding the direct hit of major hurricanes for more than a century.
The National Hurricane Center predicted that Milton, a monster Category 5 hurricane for much of its approach, would likely weaken but remain a major hurricane when it makes landfall Wednesday night.
