Nobody expected to see Luigi Mangione on a fashion site. Yet here we are, staring at photos on Shein that look a lot like the 26-year-old accused killer. The images show a man in a button-down shirt, and the resemblance is so strong that people couldn’t ignore it.
The timing only makes things stranger. Authorities locked up Mangione at MDC Brooklyn in December after his arrest for killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Prosecutors recently made his personal writings public in court, and those pages revealed just how deep his anger toward the health insurance industry ran. With all of that going on, seeing his face, or something that looks like it, selling an $11 shirt online caught people completely off guard.
Shein has not explained whether the model is real, a lookalike, or the r