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International Business Times UK
International Business Times UK
Tanmay Puri

Louvre 'Fedora Man' Identity Revealed: No, He's Not AI — He's a 15-Year-Old Teenager

Why the Fedora Man Image Went Viral at the Louvre and Sparked AI Speculation, Identity Revealed! (Credit: Pexels)

A single photograph taken outside the majestic halls of the Louvre Museum in Paris has shaken the internet into full tilt speculation. The image shows a well dressed young man, sharply clad in vintage style and wearing a fedora, as if pulled from a 1940s detective novel, walking past uniformed police officers in the timing around the Louvre Heist. Dubbed the 'Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux' or simply Fedora Man, the man quickly went viral, with many convinced he was either a stylised insider, a set piece actor, or even an AI generated deep fake. But the truth is far more sobering as he is a real person, a French teenager, entirely human and he has finally reacted.

Why Fedora Man Went Viral

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