grantLOVE is grantFRAUD

In response an article in the LA times: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2022-12-20/alexandra-grant-art-coffee-table-book 

I invite @deborahvankin to read the reviews of Alexandra Grant’s book on goodreads.

Ms. Vankin interviewed Alexandra Grant & has written an article for the @latimes_entertainment

The article reports that grantLOVE has generated more than $300,000 for U.S. & international nonprofits & quotes @roxanegay74 asserting the project may be small, but “it is mighty, with incredible reach, a powerful mission, and a ferocious heart.”

The amount donated, be it $1000 or $5,000,000 is impactful, but more importantly, people should be able to trust the words of the person seeking donations & can verify where it’s going. In California, all charity collections are required to be registered & financial reports submitted yearly. 

grantLOVE has been in operation for 14 years but was only registered in 2021 after receiving a letter from the Attorney General’s office stating that the charity was unlawful until it is properly registered.

For many years, Grant claimed that grantLOVE is a nonprofit. This info was written on her CV & given to media outlets in the US & abroad to publish which is tantamount to committing international fraud with $300,000 being collected unlawfully until a year ago.

Ms. Grant is aware of the criticisms of her unlawful charity & had to update her CV & made a statement on her website that grantLOVE is not a nonprofit.

Why did Alexandra Grant leave out this important part of grantLOVE history? Was it an oversight or was it easier not to follow the law & not be transparent? After lying about grantLOVE being a nonprofit for years, are we supposed to just take her at her word that she has donated $300,000?

Will Ms. Vankin be brave enough to do a part 2 by asking the real questions or allow con-artists to continue scamming people through a philanthropy that was illegal for over 12 years?

https://grantloveproject-caution.blogspot.com

#grantloveproject #grantlove #grantalexandra #AlexandraGrant #cameronbooks #grantlovebook

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https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5178267552

I was browsing a bookstore, not looking for anything in particular when I came across the book LOVE: A Visual History of the grantLOVE Project by Alexandra Grant. I stared at it for a few seconds before picking it up. I was aware of the controversy connected to the grantLOVE project. While proclaiming to be a philanthropist doing charity work, Alexandra Grant ran grantLOVE for 12 years without registering it as required by law. In 2021, she received notice from the Attorney General's office informing her that she needs to register her charity.

I was also aware of the controversy that Alexandra Grant lied about her accomplishments on her resume. I shrugged this off at first because I think everybody fudges things a bit on their resume. But when I found out that it stated that grantLOVE Project was a non-profit and it actually wasn't, it changed my opinion. That is not a small lie. There is no excuse for it.

I know that Alexandra Grant says she's been a target of bullying online, but a lot of the "bullying" I saw that she received was because she lied and said that grantLOVE Project was a nonprofit, and people couldn't find any registration for it. They criticized her for lying and called her out on it on social media and wanted to know where all the money was going. I don't think that's unfair and it's certainly understandable.

The book's description mentions the words 'reflect' and 'retrospective', so I don't think it was inconceivable of me to expect that Alexandra Grant would address some of the controversy surrounding grantLOVE project and the concerns of her critics. But I guess Alexandra didn't reflect on any of this or think it was an important part of grantLOVE Project's journey because it wasn't mentioned at all.

I believe the criticism grantLOVE Project received is a valid part of their history. The day that it became a lawful, registered charity should have been noted and highlighted in the book. Maybe she wanted to do good but didn't know the laws and regulations until years later? But if that's the case, she should have admitted it. Admitting errors she made along the way would have provided useful information to those desiring to start a charity project and how they can avoid making the same mistakes. None of that was present. It's been swept under the rug like a dirty secret you don't want anyone to know about.

This book documented the journey of an artist choosing the most recognized word in the world (LOVE) and then plastering it on the work of other artists and selling it for charity without being clear how much was going to charity. Her contribution to the project is minimal, yet she prances around as if she has donated millions of dollar to people in need.

This book is about the journey of a mediocre artist who used the idea of philanthropy and collaborations to gain clout from more talented artists in order to boost her own image. This book is about the journey of a woman who didn't have an original idea so she resorted to scribbling the word love on everything and is trying to convince us this is brilliant. This book purported to “reflect on the confluence of philanthropy and the arts and celebrates building community around the roles of love and empathy in contemporary art and culture” but the unwritten history shows a lack of love and empathy. Where's the empathy for those criticizing her works? Where's the insight that could have come from acknowledging her mistakes and critics head-on with love, compassion and empathy? How can she claim to understand love without understanding truth, honesty and humility? All of these are important components of love and empathy, and she didn't show one shred of that in this book.

I opened this book with the sincere hope that Alexandra Grant would prove her critics wrong and show that she is capable of love and growth. Unfortunately, I think her critics are right.

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LOVE: A Visual History of the grantLOVE Project by Alexandra Grant

  The @Laweekly article by @shananys named Alexandra Grant's book “LOVE: A Visual History of the grantLOVE Project” as one of the 12 Books They (and You) Will Love this Holiday Gifting Season.

https://www.laweekly.com/12-books-they-and-you-will-love-this-holiday-gifting-season/

The important thing about this book is not what's in it but what's not. The missing history of grantLOVE being an unregistered charity for over 12 years. How could Grant present her project as a charity but failed to do the most basic thing by registering it? She was forced to register grantLOVE in 2021 because honest citizens reported her illegal charity to the Attorney general office. When she was asked to provide information about her fund-raising event, Grant continued to be dishonest & the form was returned as incomplete. When she resubmitted it, she was still dishonest about the dates.

To answer the question that the book asks, “What is love?” Lying is NOT love.

Alexandra Grant did not register her charity & for many years, she claimed that grantLOVE was a nonprofit. These lies were printed on her CV & shared worldwide. Not surprising, people around the world disputed the lies of Ms. Grant & called her out.

If Alexandra Grant had any love in her, she would have taken responsibility, but as a person incapable of love, she filed a bogus restraining order claiming her critics were just one person & used the bogus restraining order to subpoena the accounts of her critics, an intimidation tactic letting us know that she has the mean to expose our identity if we continue to expose her fraud.

So far, there are reviews from people in the US, Germany & Canada. Let's see what other countries will stand up against the fraud of Ms. Grant & let her know that lies & vindictiveness will NOT go unchallenged.

The biased article by shananys is an unfortunate promotion of fraud on unsuspecting readers. Special thanks to honest reviewers. 

I'm including Ms. Vasquez' review. Her review is on Goodreads & Amazon. It's thorough & insightful with idioms to describe the mediocre of a failed artist and I'll add a failed human.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R1QXZYKNZRAVHO/ref=cm_cr_dp_d_rvw_ttl?ie=UTF8&ASIN=1951836294

Customer Review

LVasquez

1.0 out of 5 stars Vapid, bloated and self-indulgent.

Reviewed in the United States on December 16, 2022

This is a book (in the loosest terms) that purports to be the history of a 14-year old artistic philanthropic project, Grantlove, by the Los Angeles based Alexandra Grant.

In reality it’s a vapid, bloated, self-indulgent atrocity of an object made of glossy paper that was never going to be truthful, introspective or thoughtful, exactly.

In an interminable 300 plus pages the author (who by the way is Keanu Reeves’s girlfriend) gives hardly a hint of introspection or what it is like living a life under increasing scrutiny (because, by the way she is Keanu Reeves’s girlfriend), life is a neverending collection of artists who want to drop everything to work with her (because, by the way she is Keanu Reeves’s girlfriend) and a bizarre collection of hangers-on and deluded fans who buy her branded items and posed awkwardly for photographs in this credibility-straining monstrosity (because.. Keanu…rinse…repeat).

There’s hardly even a hint of how her life must have changed circa 2019 when the relationship became public.

A far more interesting book might have been here if the author was honest and adult in including her famed relationship and its impact on her life in the public eye. I would maybe read that book - how she met Keanu, how the relationship began and developed, how we approached going public, the issues it has caused in my life (social media, publicity, online harassment from trolls etc.)

Instead there is nary a mention of Keanu or any suggestion that her insipid, self-centered life is anything less than a pretty day at the park where everyone eats artisan chocolates, frolics on love-branded rose petals and walks a dog named Spot.

Toxic positivity is a diagnosed mental illness - the refusal to see any impacts, accept constructive feedback or be capable of genuine self-reflection in the adult world is an issue for Grant. Her childlike, repetitive, sparkly view of the art world is just not credible.

Love:A Visual History of the Grantlove Project is ceaselessly self-serving. When the author has her ‘love’ branded necklaces sued by Cartier for trademark infringement she bizarrely sees this as a positive ‘I must have been creating something of value’. Uh, no - major corporations have the right to protect their intellectual property and you were violating it girl.

The entire bloated tome is a monotonous collection of vapid insipidness that only deserves incredulity in return. It’s like reading a religious text of a minor creepy cult. After a lobotomy.

This book is a hustle, a Ponzi scheme publication designed to make us think the author is a major figure in the art world (I can guarantee you she is not), a thoughtful philanthropic figure (she is not) and SO much more than a movie star’s quiet, gray-haired girlfriend. (By the way did you know her only ACTUAL claim to fame is that … she’s Keanu’s girlfriend).

This book is the Ikea of love. Cheap, quickly assembled and likely to fall apart.

Amber Heard - A Human without Integrity

You are a human being, Ms. Heard, but what kind of human are you? A decent human or a terrible human? I believe that you are a horrible human that lacks integrity and empathy.

You deserve human dignity like everyone else. You don’t deserve to be threatened or abused. I feel sorry for you if you are facing threats but after all the lies you have told, I wonder if this is simply another lie.

As a human being, you deserve to be held accountable for your actions, lies, and false allegations that cause pain to another human being.

I can’t bring myself to listen to the closing argument made by Ms. Heard’s counsels. The lies made by Heard, and the lies being pushed by her counsels for the jury is a punch to my gut. My solar plexus gives off signal that what is being said is not true. It’s hurtful and harmful. I pray for the jury to give the right verdict and for Ms. Heard to be held accountable for her lies.

If it means no one will ever hire you for another movie role, you deserve it. If it means people calling you a liar and an abuser, you have earned it. Your own recording captures your vicious attacks and psychotic cackles. I cannot erase that sound from my mind. This is the sound that should be used for the next movie about an evil villain. You are a human being but there is lack of foundation of your empathy and honesty and I do not believe your claim of abuses.

#WheresWaldman
#istandwithjohnnydepp #idonotstandwithamberheard #justiceforjohnnydepp #amberheard #Amberturd #amberheardisaliar #amberheardisanabuser

I don't believe Amber Heard's Story of Abuse

The article written by Raven Smith for @voguemagazine called “Why It’s Time to Believe Amber Heard” ended with the sentence: “The British courts believed Depp beat his ex-wife. What’s stopping the rest of us?”

Because the legal system consists of people, judges, lawyers and prosecutors who are human and they can make mistakes and have biases. This is the reason that organizations like the Innocent Project exist working to overturn wrongful convictions. Many people have spent years in prison for a crime they didn't commit. So why is it hard for Mr. Smith to believe that Johnny Depp may have been given the title of wife beater wrongfully.

Maybe Mr. Smith should also look into the fact that the son of Judge Andrew Nicol works for TalkRADIO, a sister company of The Sun owned by Rupert Murdoc. Could the judge have been biased and Depp was going to lose the case no matter what?

Mr. Smith also asked “Have we completely lost track of the severity of these allegations?” If a man was falsely accused of horrendous acts of abuse and rape but none of it is true, what is the severity of the false allegations?

I paid attention passingly when Amber Heard filed a TRO against Johnny Depp in May 2016. She came to court looking demure and weak, with a bruise on her face and the Media was waiting at the court. It was obviously staged for attention and the next day, the bruise disappeared and Heard was photographed laughing with her friend and if I remembered correctly, the night before court, she went out clubbing with her friends and posted a photo on her Instagram account which she later deleted, but people noticed there was no bruise on her face so I didn't believe her story. A few years later, I discovered the YouTube channel of Incredibly Average (aka @ThatBrianFella on Twitter) and it confirmed what I believed as he provided proof of their taped conversations and videos. Amber Heard is aggressive, abusive and manipulative and I can hear it in the recordings.

Amber Heard claimed that while they were in Australia, Depp punched her, ripped off her clothes, dragged her over broken glasses, tossed her against a pool table causing it to break and raped her with a bottle. This was brutally violent and yet she did not seek medical attention and has nothing to show as proof. This is the night that she cut off the tip of Depp's finger and there's a recording of it. She admitted that she didn't do it on purpose. She was hysterical and was afraid that Depp would leave her. There were other people in the house, a doctor, a nurse and his bodyguards and none of them noticed that Amber Heard was brutally beaten and raped. I don't believe Amber's story and this is one of many lies and inconsistency. Her own witness is contradicting her story in court because she keeps telling different lies to different people.

As for proof of her injury for the night of the brutal beating and rape, she provided a photo of bruise on her arm but her face showed no injury and she claimed that blood splattered from her mouth when he was punching her. She also submitted photos that was supposed to show two black eyes, a broken nose and a busted lips for another incident. Her lips look like it was cracked from dryness. Her nose was not broken and there is no bruising or swelling and she has some darkness under one eye, not both. The bruise under her eye looked like something that was caused from Botox injection. She submitted the same photo with two different lighting and claim they were different. Another lie that was easily proven wrong.

It is not time to believe Amber Heard. It is time to hold Amber Heard's accountable for her lies and manipulations. It is time to hold Amber Heard's accountable for the severity of her false allegations. It is time to let Amber Heard know the severity of false accusations and how it ruined lives, which not only included Johnny Depp but his family and children.

Alexandra Grant's Charity Fraud Petition - Change.org

A shitload of similarities between Alexandra Grant and Amber Heard: bogus restraining order, refusing to be transparent or truthful about charity donation, constantly lying and pretending to be a victim.

Their appalling behavior has resulted in a petition to set things right. Sign and share please.

https://www.change.org/p/alexandra-grant-illegal-charity-grantlove-2008-2021-financial-report-legal-consequences

#alexandragrant #grantalexandra #conartist #narcissist #keanureeves #xartistsbooks #grantloveproject #cancelkeanureeves #cancelalexandragrant #nowbehereart #beherenowart #evewood #charityfraud #contemporaryart #artmuseum #semperfimovie #matrix4 #johnwick4 #billandted3 #carliergebauer #iwasborntolove #iwasborntolovenottohate #cameronbooks #justiceforjohnnydepp #mepoo #amberturd #amberheardisaliar #amberheard #ocma

Amberturd's Lies

 Reposting @thatumbrellaguy

According to Amber Heard's witness testimony: Johnny Depp is so abusive and controlling that he forced #Amberturd to dress modestly. Her dress is so modest here, I can see her butt crack

#justiceforjohnnydepp

The lies on the witness stand yesterday was appalling... I'm ashamed to be human. I'm going to start telling people that I'm a hummingbird.

Family Lineage

If those were your parents, how would that make you Mexican?

Do fraudulent people pretend to be whatever just so they can sell their arts through a gallery that promote Latin artists?

Transparency & legal consequences for the unlawful fundraising of Alexandra Grant from 2008 to 2021 PETITION

 Kudos to @lookingfortransparency for petitioning @agrobbonta for transparency & legal consequences for the unlawful fundraising of Alexandra Grant from 2008 to 2021.

https://www.change.org/p/alexandra-grant-illegal-charity-grantlove-2008-2021-financial-report-legal-consequences

According to an article from @wwd written by @boothmoore published on 4/28/2020, Alexandra Grant started the grantLOVE project in 2009 & has raised more than $225,000 for charities. Raising money for charities without registering with the Attorney General office is unlawful and Grant received a notice in May 2021 and was forced to register and received her registration effective 6/28/2021. Every fundraising prior to that date is unlawful, has no transparency or accountability.

https://wwd.com/fashion-news/fashion-scoops/l-a-artist-alexandra-grant-designs-love-necklaces-for-charity-1203623214/

Grant’s unlawful activities coupled with her lies in interviews and on her resume about grantLOVE being a non-profit resulted in people calling her a fraud. Grant filed a restraining order claiming that her critics were one person.

Grant has received her second notice of incomplete from Mr. Bonta for her annual financial report charity with OCMA due to missing campaign dates. Her fundraising with OCMA was illegal because it was prior to grantLOVE being registered.

I support the demand for transparency. Alexandra Grant has been proven to be a dishonest person without a moral compass. The OCMA fundraising and the $225,000 raised since 2009 occurred before grantLOVE was registered. What are the legal consequences of this?

What are the legal consequences of accusing her critics of being a convicted felon, then using this false accusation to get the LAPD to subpoena account info because she wants to know the identity of people exposing her fraud.

In America, free press is an essential check & balance but when the media prints the lies of Alexandra Grant without checking, it is up to us to demand the truth. It is up to us to call her out on manipulating the court as a revenge against every person who exposed her fraud & lies.

Please sign the petition & pass it along. Thank you.

#AlexandraGrant

A shitload of similarities

 A shitload of similarities between Alexandra Grant and Amber Heard: bogus restraining order, refusing to be transparent or truthful about charity donation, constantly lying and pretending to be a victim.

#alexandragrant #grantalexandra #conartist #narcissist #keanureeves #xartistsbooks #grantloveproject #cancelkeanureeves #cancelalexandragrant #nowbehereart #beherenowart #evewood #charityfraud #contemporaryart #artmuseum #semperfimovie #matrix4 #johnwick4 #billandted3 #carliergebauer #iwasborntolove #iwasborntolovenottohate #cameronbooks #justiceforjohnnydepp #mepoo #amberturd #amberheardisaliar #amberheard #ocma