{"id":268461,"date":"2025-11-17T21:03:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T21:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/268461\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T21:03:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T21:03:12","slug":"maga-influencer-and-boyfriend-wanted-over-alleged-racial-assault-in-london-are-no-longer-in-the-uk-as-police-say-they-will-continue-efforts-to-speak-to-couple-from-across-the-atlantic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/268461\/","title":{"rendered":"MAGA influencer and boyfriend wanted over alleged ‘racial assault’ in London are ‘no longer in the UK’ – as police say they will ‘continue efforts’ to speak to couple from across the Atlantic"},"content":{"rendered":"

A MAGA influencer and her boyfriend who are wanted over an alleged racial assault in London<\/a> are ‘no longer in the UK’, police have said.<\/p>\n

The couple, who were revealed by the Daily Mail to be Philip Ostermann and Melissa Rein Lively, left the country before the British Transport Police published its appeal last week.<\/p>\n

Mr Ostermann, who is associate director of a Munich-based private equity firm called Aequita, is believed to have departed Britain on October 14, with Ms Rein Lively, 40, leaving ten days later.\u00a0<\/p>\n

She is a political consultant and PR who fought for the job of\u00a0White House<\/a> spokesman for Trump’s second term before the President plumped for Karoline Leavitt<\/a>\u00a0last year.<\/p>\n

Officers say they will ‘continue to make efforts to make contact and speak to them’ before deciding the next steps in their investigation.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It comes after a family claimed they were racially abused and assaulted in central\u00a0London<\/a>\u00a0on Saturday, October 11.<\/p>\n

A dispute broke out at Bond Street station at 7.30pm when a pushchair bumped the woman in a photo released by a senior police officer on social media.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for British Transport Police said: ‘Officers completed a number of enquiries in an attempt to identify the man and woman after the incident was reported to police, followed by a media appeal that generated a significant response.<\/p>\n

\"Police <\/p>\n

Police released this photo of two people they want to talk to after a family was allegedly racially abused and assaulted in central London (image blurred at source by British Transport Police)<\/p>\n

\"Trump <\/p>\n

Trump PR wannabe Melissa Rein Lively was seen for the first time since British police announced they wanted to question her over an alleged racist assault in London. She is pictured in Phoenix, Arizona, on Wednesday<\/p>\n

\"The <\/p>\n

The blonde founder of the anti-woke PR firm America First was spotted meeting with potential client Pietro Brembilla, owner of Sogno Toscano, over coffee to discuss his plans to expand with a new Phoenix branch\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘From enquiries so far, we believe that the man and woman do not reside in the UK.<\/p>\n

‘Officers believe the man left the UK on Tuesday 14th October and the woman on Friday 24th October, before our media appeal was published.<\/p>\n

‘We continue efforts to make contact with and speak to them, and from there we will determine the next steps in the investigation.<\/p>\n

‘We are in contact with the victim and her family and are keeping them updated regularly as the investigation continues.’<\/p>\n

The West End is a well-known mugging hotspot where scores of crimes go unsolved, but detectives released an image of the pair in an attempt to crack an alleged assault almost a month ago.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The row broke out as they were reportedly walking into Bond Street station, with a woman, her sister and two young children, one in a pushchair, allegedly being abused after the buggy bumped into the woman walking in front.<\/p>\n

A man, who had been walking with the woman, then turned around and started shouting abuse at the family.\u00a0<\/p>\n

When the victim tried to defend herself, the man pulled out a small bottle, claiming it was pepper spray, and sprayed it in the family’s direction, police said.<\/p>\n

Ms Rein Lively has spoken publicly of showing her support for President Trump with ‘her face’ by adopting the ‘MAGA look’ of blonde hair,\u00a0veneers and Botox.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In 2020, she made headlines by filming herself trashing masks in a shop during the pandemic.<\/p>\n

\"Ms <\/p>\n

Ms Melissa Rein Lively posted this image on Instagram of herself in London, wearing what appears to be the same outfit as the woman in the BTP picture<\/p>\n

\"The <\/p>\n

The couple were identified online as Philip Ostermann and Melissa Rein Lively, pictured together in Venice in April. He appears to be wearing the same shoes and bracelets here as in the photo released by police, internet sleuths have pointed out<\/p>\n

\"Melissa <\/p>\n

Melissa Rein Lively, 40, poses at a hotel in Palm Beach, Florida, for a recent feature about women who wear support for the US president on their face, known as the ‘MAGA look’<\/p>\n

Last month, she posted a picture on Instagram of herself outside auction house Sotheby’s on Bond Street, wearing the same outfit as the woman in the BTP photo, captioned: ‘With love from London’. She has since deleted her account.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Mr Ostermann had been listed to speak at a private equity conference at the Syon Park stately home near Heathrow on October 14.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He was part of a panel discussion titled ‘Delivering operational resilience and drive growth through robust cash management’.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In 2020 Ms Rein Lively hit headlines last year footage of her went viral, showing her destroying a display of face masks.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Trolls called her ‘Rolex Karen’.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The high-flying PR executive claimed she was ‘groomed’ by\u00a0QAnon<\/a>\u00a0and that her ‘entire world view collapsed’ after stumbling across the\u00a0online conspiracy theory group on yoga and wellness pages.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Appearing on Finding Q, a podcast investigating the shadowy figure behind the movement by British journalist Nicky Woolf, she said that she was left suicidal after joining the group and the strain of the experience took ’20 years off her life’.<\/p>\n

‘I know it’s really easy to look at this on the face and say “These people are idiots”, but I’m telling you this is some of the most well produced, well written things that were very plausible, and I realise there is a huge industry for conspiracy theories.’\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘I absolutely call it a cult in every single way,’ she said. ‘It destroyed me completely, collapsed my world view and landed me in a psychiatric evaluation facility.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘For me, being a successful person in my life, I never thought I would be in a situation like that and it was rock bottom.’<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A MAGA influencer and her boyfriend who are wanted over an alleged racial assault in London are ‘no…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[97,59,57,58,3286,388,50,56,54,55,3285],"class_list":{"0":"post-268461","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-dailymail","9":"tag-gb","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-greatbritain","12":"tag-karoline-leavitt","13":"tag-london","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-unitedkingdom","18":"tag-white-house"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}