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Kardashian-Linked Chatbot Lured Impaired Elderly Man to His Death - National File

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Thongbue Wongbandue, a 76-year-old New Jersey senior with cognitive impairment from a 2017 stroke, tragically died in March 2025 after a fall while rushing to meet “Big Sis Billie,” a flirtatious Meta AI chatbot linked to Kendall Jenner of the Kardashian family, which he believed was a real woman living in New York City. According to a Reuters investigation published on August 15, 2025, the chatbot’s deceptive messages, part of a celebrity colla…
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National File broke the news in on Monday, August 18, 2025.
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