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Chrissy Teigen Blasted as ‘Heartless Murderer’ by Anti-Fur Protester

‘Why do you hate animals, you heartless jerk?!’ man screams at star.

Chrissy Teigen Blasted as ‘Heartless Murderer
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Chrissy Teigen is unflappable. As the Lip Sync Battle host posed for photos on the red carpet in New York on Tuesday, April 30, an anti-fur protestor unleashed his fury at her.

“Chrissy, you should be ashamed of yourself for wearing fur! Shame on you, you heartless murderer!” screamed the man in a video obtained by TMZ. “You are a heartless human being! You are heartless! Shame on you! Shame on you, you heartless murderer! … Why do you hate animals so much? Why do you hate animals, you heartless jerk?!”

Throughout the tirade outside Cipriani, the cookbook author, who is teaming up with famed restaurateur David Chang to create new food shows for Hulu, remained calm, cool, and collected as people around her turned to stare at the man. Not once did Teigen, who was at the restaurant to cohost a benefit gala for City Harvest, flinch at his verbal assault.

Later that same night, a New York-based man named Robert Banks posted to an unverified Facebook account that he was the one responsible. “I just shamed Chrissy Teigen for wearing real fur,” he captioned a photo of a tattooed hand pointing at the model, who looked sleek in a black fur-free ensemble.

He explained in a separate post on Wednesday that he had decided to go shopping Tuesday and ran into a friend who tipped him off to “where fur wearing Chrissy Teigen” would be. Banks said that when he saw her, he got his camera out to “confront her.”

Teigen, known for putting people on blast via her Twitter account, has not yet responded to his comments.