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A MAGA influencer and her banker boyfriend were charged in a racist pepper-spray assault on a family with children in London, authorities said Friday.
Melissa Rein Lively, 40 — who heads an “anti-woke PR firm” and once campaigned to be President Trump’s press secretary — was charged in the harrowing assault at a tube station in October, police sources said.
Her partner, Philipp Ostermann, a 37-year-old German financier, faces two racially aggravated public order charges, and a public order offense, cops told The Independent.
The bust stems from an attack in which the couple clashed with a woman and her sister as they entered the Bond Street station with two young children on the evening of Oct. 11, according to cops.
The pair collided with a stroller that one of the women was pushing — prompting Lively to allegedly pull the victim’s hair, as Ostermann shouted racist slurs and pepper-sprayed the family, police said.
“The man then began shouting racial abuse at the victim and her family, before the woman grabbed her hair,” police said at the time.
“When the victim tried to defend herself, the man pulled out a small bottle and said it was pepper spray before spraying it in the direction of the victim and her family,” police said. “The woman shouted abuse and made lewd gestures at them before both parties left the area.”
The use of pepper spray is illegal in the United Kingdom.
Lively, who runs the Arizona-based America First PR, profiled recently about her “Mar-a-Lago face,” and has spoken publicly about adopting the “MAGA look” of blonde hair, veneers and Botox.
She previously vied to be Trump’s White House press secretary, telling Politico she was “a hair away” from getting the job in 2024.
“I do think I’m going to get it,” she said. “My sphere of influence goes far beyond people who are paper pushers on the Trump campaign. I work with billionaires. My clients are — I can’t even name who I work with. They own half of Palm Beach.”
Ostermann is an associate director of a Munich-based private equity firm Aequita.
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