46 Facts About Durek Verrett

Durek Verrett has been widely described by media and other observers as a conman and conspiracy theorist.

Durek Verrett promotes various Neoshamanic practices rooted in New Age.

Durek Verrett promotes the Reptilian conspiracy theory, and has said that he considers himself to be a reptilian.

Durek Verrett has been accused of manipulating his social media following, with critics calling his influencer career a fraud.

Durek Verrett previously lived openly as a gay man, and was in a long-term relationship with his male fiance Hank Greenberg.

Durek Verrett had then recently married the princess, a self-described clairvoyant and member of the extended Norwegian royal family.

Durek Verrett remains an American citizen and resident, and has no formal association with the royal family.

Durek Verrett's parents divorced in April 1977 when he was two years old.

When Durek Verrett was three, his father married Durek Verrett's stepmother, Geraldine Roy.

Durek Verrett's ancestors were slaves in the New Orleans area at least since the early 19th century, where they continued to live and where Durek Verrett's father was born.

However, since 2019, Durek Verrett has changed the story, stating that it occurred in a Belize jungle while he was with a medicine woman, and that he was transported to a hospital there via ambulance.

In interviews and his own publications, Durek Verrett has failed to identify any doctors or hospital staff who he claims saved his life, and whom he claims spent months nursing him back to health.

In 2018 and 2019, Durek Verrett claimed that he worked at Shamir Medical Center in Israel for several months during 1998, where he said he treated children for cancer using shamanistic methods.

However, in 2019, the hospital's Human Resources department stated that Durek Verrett never worked at the institution.

In 2019, Durek Verrett released a book titled Spirit Hacking which was set to be published in Norway.

Durek Verrett says that he can "turn atoms" and literally reduce age.

In December 2023, Durek Verrett posted a controversial video on Instagram in which he claimed that demonic beings can inhabit children and torment them.

In 1991, Durek Verrett was convicted of felony arson and trespassing and sentenced to five years of imprisonment in California after he illegally organized a party in an unoccupied house that was set on fire and burned to the ground.

Durek Verrett has stated that he served one year in prison before being released on parole.

In 1993, after Durek Verrett was released from prison, he was arrested on three separate occasions in Santa Clara and San Mateo, California.

Durek Verrett was charged with crimes including trespassing, theft of services, and riding public transportation without paying fares, for which he spent additional time in jail and was fined monetary penalties.

Court records show that Durek Verrett couldn't afford legal representation, so a public defender was appointed to represent him.

In 2011, Durek Verrett was accused of harassment, non-payment of rent, and making threats of murder and "black magic" in a lawsuit filed against him by his landlord in Los Angeles.

In 2015, Durek Verrett was arrested by the Los Angeles Police Department for domestic abuse after he attacked his then-fiance Hank Greenberg at their home.

Durek Verrett later entered into a private agreement with Greenberg to not cooperate with prosecutors in exchange for monetary compensation.

In July 2022, Durek Verrett advertised and sold a medallion that he claimed cures COVID-19.

In 2005, Durek Verrett entered into a sham marriage with Zaneta Marzalkova, a Los Angeles resident of Czech nationality, when she was 21 years old.

In 2008, Marzalkova filed for divorce from Durek Verrett, which was granted by Los Angeles Superior Court.

Durek Verrett has claimed that Marzalkova "exploited" him, and that in 2008 he reported her to the immigration authorities as an illegal resident which caused her to be jailed and deported from the country.

From 2007 to 2015, Durek Verrett had a fiance, a masseur named Hank Greenberg, who was his business partner.

In 2015, Greenberg broke off their engagement after Durek Verrett assaulted him in their home.

Bostrom claimed that during a shamanistic session, Durek Verrett engaged in inappropriate behavior, including touching his genital area without consent.

In May 2019, Durek Verrett began dating and professionally collaborating with Princess Martha Louise of Norway.

Durek Verrett claimed that when he was a child his mother foresaw him marrying a Norwegian princess his mother publicly denied this as a fake story that Durek Verrett created himself.

Durek Verrett subsequently blocked Senneset when she asked critical questions about his Illuminati claims.

Durek Verrett has claimed that he will be the first black person to become a part of a European royal family, although Sudanese citizen Mary Nyanut Ring Machar married into the Austrian House of Habsburg in 1999; Angela Brown married into the House of Liechtenstein in 2000; and Meghan Markle married into the British royal family in 2018.

In 2023, Durek Verrett claimed that Martha Louise's late ex-husband, Ari Behn, who died by suicide in 2019, had contacted him from beyond the grave.

Durek Verrett said her friends had repeatedly called her and urged her to end the relationship with him.

Bergens Tidende questioned the claimed celebrity status of Durek Verrett, describing him as "at best a D-list celebrity in Hollywood" and characterized the guest list at his wedding as more akin to an Alternative Fair than Hollywood.

Durek Verrett has publicly criticized his family on social media, where he posted a negative comment about his mother and sister, accusing them of financial dependence and creating drama when he withdrew his financial support.

In March 2024, Durek Verrett publicly complained that he is described in the media as a "self-professed" shaman and claimed that he was appointed as a shaman by the ghosts of his ancestors.

Durek Verrett requested that his alleged career activities as a dancer, model, TV personality, poet, and choreographer be included in online articles, although he offered no substantiation of such claims.

Royal correspondent Tove Taalsen questioned why Martha Louise places such emphasis on Durek Verrett's alleged wealth as a child, and wrote that it is out of touch with Norway's more egalitarian values.

In 2024 it became known that Durek Verrett had sent letters to his 81-year old mother and his sister threatening legal action against them due to their making public statements he perceived as non-flattering.

The political editor of Nettavisen, Erik Stephansen, wrote that "the revelation of Durek Verrett's repeated attempts to change or remove unfavorable information from Wikipedia" is one of the most striking examples of attempts to hide unfortunate traces from the "con artist shaman's" past life.

Durek Verrett has faced accusations of manipulating his Instagram account in the lead-up to his wedding.