SHEIN Launches Investigation after Luigi Mangione Appears Modeling Men's Shirts in Their Ads
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 27 September 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
A new investigation surrounding Luigi Mangione. The retail giant Shein is trying to figure out who used a likeness of the accused murderer in an ad campaign on the company's website. It has now been removed but the image of Mangione was used to model a white, short-sleeved shirt.
A spokesperson from Shein says the likeness was provided by a third-party vendor.
Mangione has been indicted on first-degree murder in furtherance of terrorism. He is also charged with two counts of murder in the second degree, with one of those counts also denoting Mangione murder of CEO Brian Thompson as an act of terrorism. Now the Federal government is seeking the death penalty.
Attorney General Pam Bondi directed federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty which marks the first such directive by the Trump administration. New York, where the murder occurred, has abolished the death penalty, and Mangione's lawyers are attempting to block the federal death penalty pursuit, arguing the move is a political stunt.
Police questioned Mangione's mom the day before he was captured. She told officers that the shooting 'might be something that she could see him doing.'
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:04.7 | Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. |
| 0:09.6 | Well, it's Friday night, and it is special. |
| 0:14.1 | What does accused assassin Luigi Mangione have to do with the world's largest fashion retailer. Shine. Okay, wait for it. |
| 0:26.6 | Wait for it. Remember Luigi Mangione? He's behind bars for gunning down a health care CEO, |
| 0:33.7 | leaving behind a widow and two boys because he was, quote, angry at the insurance system. |
| 0:41.2 | Yeah. |
| 0:42.3 | He was born with a silver spoon in his mouth, was educated within the Ivy League, |
| 0:49.0 | prep schools all the way, has been baking in the sun in Hawaii by the ocean living in a high rise, not working |
| 0:59.0 | a lick. |
| 1:00.0 | And then he comes to Manhattan and guns down, a hardworking CEO. |
| 1:06.0 | Yeah, that's Luigi Mangione. |
| 1:09.0 | But what does he have to do with Shine? |
| 1:12.0 | I'm Nancy Grace. |
| 1:13.0 | This is Crime Stories. |
| 1:15.0 | I want to thank you for being with us. |
| 1:19.8 | In the last days, the alleged assassin was pictured beaming. |
| 1:24.4 | Wait, rephrase. |
| 1:25.6 | In the last days, the alleged assassin was pictured smiling for the |
| 1:30.1 | camera, wearing a white floral patterned button-up shirt in the image of the, in the image on the |
| 1:42.7 | Chinese, I can't say that, okay. |
| 1:45.3 | In the last days, the alleged assassin has been pictured smiling for the camera, |
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