{"id":1043511,"date":"2021-11-22T09:58:43","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T14:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1043511"},"modified":"2021-11-22T09:58:47","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T14:58:47","slug":"fact-check-is-this-man-105-years-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-is-this-man-105-years-old\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Is This Man 105 Years Old?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-is-this-man-105-years-old%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1043511&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>An image&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/signatureofhumanity\/posts\/961383937920626\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a>&nbsp;claims to show a 105-year-old man.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span>Verdict: False<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The man pictured is G\u00fcnther Krabbenh\u00f6ft, a German fashion model who is in his 70s, according to the public relations firm that represents him.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span>Fact Check:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Facebook post includes two photos of the same elderly man dressed in a suit at what looks like a train station. \u201cBelieve me! He is 105 years old and he looks more stylish than most of the youngsters today,\u201d reads the image\u2019s caption.<\/p>\n<p>In reality, the man pictured is G\u00fcnther Krabbenh\u00f6ft, a German \u201cstyle icon\u201d who is in his 70s, according to his biography on the website of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.martapr.com\/guntherkrabbenhoft\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Marta PR<\/a>, the public relations firm that represents him. His profile on the website includes one of the pictures included in the Facebook post.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStyle icon G\u00fcnther Krabbenh\u00f6ft is the most elegant sensation to emerge in the Berlin fashion scene,\u201d reads the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.martapr.com\/guntherkrabbenhoft\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">website<\/a>. \u201cHis impeccable taste and detail oriented approach to style resonates deeply with his worldwide following.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2019\/07\/18\/fact-check-cs-lewis-never-too-old-goal-dream\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Did CS Lewis Say, \u2018You Are Never Too Old To Set Another Goal Or To Dream A New Dream\u2019?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Krabbenh\u00f6ft rose to fame in 2015 after photos of him were widely shared online in recognition of his distinctive fashion style, according to French pop culture website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.konbini.com\/fr\/edito\/rencontre-homme-le-plus-classe-du-monde-gunther-krabbenhoft\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Konbini<\/a>. He told the outlet that same year that he was 70 years old rather than 104 as some online rumors at the time claimed.<\/p>\n<p>Krabbenh\u00f6ft has received&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cosmopolitan.com\/style-beauty\/news\/a45362\/gunther-krabbenhoft-cool-grandpa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">international<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.es\/summum\/estilo\/moda\/abci-gunther-anton-krabbenhoft-influencer-aleman-76-anos-debes-seguir-pista-202111150057_noticia.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">press<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/newsus.cgtn.com\/news\/2020-09-10\/Forever-young-on-the-dance-floor--TF92rYiTXa\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">attention<\/a>. He maintains a verified&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/g.krabbenhoft\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Instagram account<\/a> with over 145 thousand followers and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/gunther.krabbenhoft\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook profile<\/a>, where he regularly posts photos of himself visiting different places in his trendy attire. He published a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Sei-einfach-Jungsein-bist-German-ebook\/dp\/B085DNZQQT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">book<\/a> in 2020 with a German title that translates to, \u201cJust be you \u2013 You\u2019re never too old to be young.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image\u00a0shared on Facebook\u00a0claims to show a 105-year-old man.Verdict: False The man pictured is G\u00fcnther Krabbenh\u00f6ft, a German fashion model who is in his 70s, according to the public relations &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":1893913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1043511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1043511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1893913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1043511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1043511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1043511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}