Picture this: a young girl, clearly distressed, was found loitering near the General Post Office on bustling O’Connell Street. She’s alone, silent, and seemingly terrified. When two police officers in Ireland approach her, she doesn’t — or won’t — speak English. But she somehow manages to get one thing across: she’s 14 years old.

The only other clues? Some haunting doodles of an airplane, a bed, and a gun. Not exactly the kind of thing you’d find in your average teen’s sketchbook. Authorities begin to suspect she might be a victim of sex trafficking. It’s not long before Interpol and the Missing Persons Bureau get involved, and the media latches on. Headlines scream: Who is GPO Girl?

With no solid leads and a growing public obsession, the police make a bold move — they go public. Her photo, snapped on the sly, is released… and when the sun rises on the southern hemisphere, the real story finally comes to light.

Because GPO Girl? Yeah, she wasn’t a teenager. She wasn’t trafficked. And she definitely wasn’t who she claimed to be.

She was Samantha Azzopardi — a 25-year-old Australian woman with a suitcase full of lies and a long history of reinvention. Her stint in Dublin was just one chapter in a globe-trotting tale of deceit, delusion, and downright bizarre behaviour. 

Sources:

https://www.news.com.au/national/victoria/courts-law/principal-predator-malka-leifer-and-schoolgirl-conwoman-samantha-azzopardi-shared-kiss-behind-bars/news-story/22def31a59175d16bcd00cdc4b5b7a20

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-57284621

https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/she-even-managed-to-fool-gardai-true-crime-series-con-girl-exposes-the-many-lives-and-lies-of-samantha-azzopardi/42357359.html

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/missing-teenage-girl-found-in-dublin-identified-as-25-year-old-australian-1.1586181

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/may/29/disturbed-au-pair-who-created-false-identities-given-two-years-jail-in-victoria

https://www.crave.ca/FR/tv-shows/con-girl

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/the-downfall-of-australias-baby-faced-serial-scam-artist/YRWIFKNC6FHLCUSHVNCB25JBX4/#google_vignette

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/0/con-girl-true-story-what-happened-samantha-azzopardi/

https://www.womensweekly.com.au/news/samantha-azzopardi-true-story/

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