Yesterday an unbelievable story broke in Germany.

These two are Collien Fernandes (44, TV presenter and actress) and Christian Ulmen (50, actor, comedian, director and TV producer).

They just got divorced after a 15 year marriage that was completely scandal-free and unproblematic. The breakup and divorce was uneventful for the public. They have a 14-year-old daughter. Both are popular, but he is one of the most popular funny guys, known for his boundary pushing cringe humor.

Collien has also developed into somewhat of an activist against deep fake porn, because there are many deep fake porn clips with her face circulating and fake social media profiles acting as her, sexually chatting with men and distributing the fake porn.

Yesterday Collien went public with the whole story in a thoroughly researched article in Der Spiegel, a very reputable magazine.

On Christmas Day 2024, after having filed a police report against unknown, her husband Christian Ulmen sat her down and told her, he is behind the fake profiles and that he distributed the fake porn of her.

According to her he panicked because of the police report and admitted it, hoping she would cancel the report, because it was him and not some stranger.

She said on her social media yesterday that he told her he did it as a means of control, because she's his wife and he can control who he offers her to sexually. The story is headlined "You raped me virtually".

He himself apparently contacted a lawyer after that fateful day saying he messed up and developed a fetish that controlled him.

He contacted hundreds of men through the fake profiles and around 30 stuck around to engage in a full blown affair with "her". It went as far as telephone sex where Christian Ulmen used an AI tool to fake is wife's voice. The people he targeted were strangers and people they had professional contact to. Like a director who engaged in it and eventually led to her knowing about the profiles in the first place, because he thought they had a thing when they saw each other and she didn't.

This apparently went on for 10 years.

She has since filed a police report in Spain, where they both live and investigations are running. 

It's the digital version of Gisèle Pelicot.

I added screenshots of her most recent social media post. Please use a translator to read it. [This](https://archive.is/ym9Ih) is the full article in German (TW: Domestic violence).

This is a celebrity scandal from Germany that deserves international attention: Collien Fernandes and Christian Ulmen were a scandal-free celebrity couple. She went public yesterday, talking about digital rape in their marriage. (TW: Sexual assualt and domestic violence)