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There seems to be a little confusion over the photos and pictures that are appearing of Arturo Gatti's wife, Amanda Rodrigues Gatti.
As we know Amanda Rodrigues Gatti is being held by Brazilian police on suspicion of being involved in the death of her husband, Arturo Gatti, over the weekend.
There's been something of a frenzy to find pictures of Amanda Rodriguez, leading at least some sites to go mining Facebook to see what they can find. As here for example. Why not? After all, this is how pictures of Maria Belen Chapur, Mark Sanford's mistress, were found. However, while that top picture there is of one lady with the correct name, it isn't in fact of Amanda Rodrigues Gatti: just of one Amanda Rodrigues.
For, you see, there are some 215 results on Facebook for "Amanda Rodrigues" and so how can we be sure that this is the right Ms. Rodrigues: the Amanda Rodrigues Gatti picture that is of interest?
A pretty Portuguese/Brazilian looking woman with the right name perhaps isn't quite enough. We don't even know if Ms. Gatti has a Facebook entry at all, so assuming that the first one we come across is our purported criminal is going a little too far (the image was also, for a time, the first Google images result for the name).
APPhoto/Clemison Campos/JC Imagen: definitely Amanda Rodrigues Gatti
On the right we have what is definitely a picture of Amanda Rodrigues Gatti, certainly the widow or ex-wife (however you'd like to put it) of Arturo Gatti. Or, if we're going to maintain our stance of some skepticism, the lady that the Brazilian police are holding as Arturo Gatti's wife, if we're going to be completely precise.
Now there is indeed some similarity between the two: both are pretty, young, dark and long haired and both look (at least to this tutored eye, your reporter has spent some time in Iberia) as if they have Portuguese and or Brazilian backgrounds.
But this reporter is not wholly convinced that they are in fact the same person: indeed, is certain that they are not.
We have two photographs of people with the name Amanda Rodrigues. That much we know. However, only one of the photographs is definitely identified as Amanda Rodrigues Gatti, Arturo Gatti's wife. The other picture is simply a case of entirely mistaken identity.
An interesting lesson in these new technologies perhaps: despite all these whizzy things we can do, these new ways of finding things out, the same old journalistic cliches still remain. Check your sources for example.
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