At a US banquet, Jeremy Fragrance was joined by Gerald Grosz and two German right-wing extremists.
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Perfume influencer Jeremy Fragrance (actual name: Daniel Schütz) has almost seven million TikTok followers, 1.2 million Instagram followers, and around 2.2 million Twitter followers. About a year ago, The STANDARD (Der Standard) published a picture of him; in early December, we had a conversation with him, during which we also discussed remarks that were quite divisive at the time. He had previously been extremely forthright in a live interview on his ability to have sex with a large number of women daily and his greatness apart from cocaine.
Jeremy Fragrance offers fitness and lifestyle advice in his videos, which number over 500 on YouTube alone. He mostly promotes certain scents. The term "Power" appears in the title of his book and is also a running theme throughout his audiovisual works. Additionally, he brags about a composition by composer William Goldstein titled "The Sound of Fragrance" that was written after Schütz's spraying of perfumes on Goldstein. This time around, the handsome influencer is also dressed in all white.
At the moment, Jeremy Fragrance is in the news for yet another reason: he attended the New York Young Republicans Club's (NYYRC) annual dinner and uploaded many things there, including interviews with prominent right-wing radicals. According to "Vanity Fair" and "Politico," Donald Trump, who was a star guest at the gala and gave a speech that lasted about 80 minutes, reiterated claims he had made in an earlier article in the "New York Times" about how he would act dictatorially on the day of any re-election.
U.S. media outlets have reported that the aforementioned event has been a gathering spot for conservatives leaning towards the extreme right in recent years. At this year's gala, NYYRC President Gavin Wax made a statement that even the Deep State is listening to: "Once President Trump is back in office, we will no longer play nice. It will be a time of retaliation." Wax continued, "All those responsible for the destruction of our once great country will be held accountable after years of baseless government and media investigations and lies against this man." "Turn the tables and lock up these actual crooks for a change." he further pledged.
These gatherings will most certainly be graced by representatives of the MAGA movement. As US President Joe Biden put it, members of this group have pledged their loyalty to Donald Trump and hold the belief that the 2020 election was a fraud. "Politico" claims that right-wing Twitter celebrity Rogan O'Handley—who, among other things, advocated for a transphobic boycott of Bud Light—was there, as was former Trump adviser Steve Bannon and former New York City Mayor Rudy Guiliani.
Reportedly there as well was Harald Vilimsky, an FPÖ lawmaker from the EU Parliament, as stated in the Politico article. According to STANDARD, Vilimsky attended the event last year and, like Maximilian Krauss, strengthened connections with US Republicans. Last year, Gerald Grosz was also present; this year, Jeremy Fragrance shared another selfie with Grosz on Instagram.
Standing with far-right Germans
However, it does not stay that way. Der Spiegel, a German magazine, claims that the perfume influencer's popularity was fueled by her photos with prominent figures from Germany's right-wing extremist movement. Someone named Alexander Klein—who goes under the name "Alex Malenki"—and someone named Davis Bendels were both caught in his Instagram stories. Even if X users can't access Instagram stories anymore, they can still capture screenshots.
Kleine, alias Malenki, is reportedly one of Germany's most prominent right-wing extreme Identitarian campaigners. Fragrance, a sticker from his media business, was included in his narrative. He has been operating the agency for a while now. In addition to the aforementioned media agency, the right-wing extremist group Junge Alternative of Brandenburg has placed ads for it and even displayed its wares in the AfD state parliament in that region. While running for federal office in 2017, Kleine was involved with the Reconquista Germanica, an organisation that promoted hate speech and disinformation on purported electoral fraud.
The media article states that Bendels was the head of the "Association for the Preservation of the Rule of Law and Civil Liberties," which has since disbanded. For the 2017 and 2018 election campaigns, he distributed thousands of copies of the "Deutschlandkurier"—a publication he also publishes and edits—at no cost to the AfD. Funding for this political group was unlawful. Bendels is a supporter of both Donald Trump and the AfD's ethnic wing, as well as the right-wing extremist Thuringian state leader Björn Höcke, as revealed in the "Spiegel" investigation.
In all likelihood, the influencer's social media postings will win over the conservative camp. The office manager of Höcke in the Thuringia state parliament was reportedly pleased by the "metapolitical success" of the now-deleted X-posting, according to "Spiegel". According to the paper, "metapolitics" in this context means using the cultural war to shift discussions to the right.
Jeremy Fragrance claims to be unaware
The German division of "Business Insider" requested a statement from Jeremy Fragrance. He stated via correspondence that he was unaware of the political stance of Gerald Grosz at the time of the photograph. He granted Grosz his request for a photograph, as per his request. According to the report, he snaps photographs with individuals he finds appealing. The remaining images remained uncommented.
A documentary is removed from Sky's programming.
Regardless, the action is likely to have immediate repercussions for his career, as Sky had already devoted an entire documentary series to him. Tuesday, this will be eliminated from the offer, according to a report by " Stern." In any case, neither a continuation nor additional collaboration were intended.
The German publication Heel-Verlag, which also published "Power, Baby! The Jeremy Fragrance Story," provides commentary in the medium's report. Additionally, it is stated that no additional collaborations are scheduled and that a revised edition of the book in question will not be produced.
Source: Der Standard/SKY/Twitter/Instagram