"When 15-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux realized an Associated Press photo of him at the Louvre on the day of the crown jewels heist had drawn millions of views, his first instinct was not to rush online and unmask himself. Quite the opposite. A fan of Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot who lives with his parents and grandfather in Rambouillet, 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Paris, Pedro decided to play along with the world's suspense."
""I didn't want to say immediately it was me," he said. "With this photo there is a mystery, so you have to make it last." For his only in-person interview since that snap turned him into an international curiosity, he appeared for the AP cameras at his home much as he did that Sunday: in a fedora hat, Yves Saint Laurent waistcoat borrowed from his father, jacket chosen by his mother, neat tie, Tommy Hilfiger trousers and a restored, war-battered Russian watch."
Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux, 15, was photographed at the Louvre on the day thieves carried out a daylight raid on the French crown jewels and became an online sensation dubbed "Fedora Man." The image showed him in a 1940s-style fedora and three-piece outfit, prompting theories that ranged from detective to insider to AI-generated. He lives with his parents and grandfather in Rambouillet and is a fan of Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot. Pedro deliberately remained silent to maintain the mystery and presented himself in vintage-inspired clothing, including a fedora honoring French Resistance hero Jean Moulin.
Read at ABC7 Chicago
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]