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On 26 October 2016, Donald Trump surrogate and former Charles in Charge actor Scott Baio took to Facebook to share some new discoveries he had unearthed about the Clinton family. Chief among them was the claim that Chelsea Clinton had married the nephew of billionaire and philanthropist George Soros: Baio didn't provide any evidence that Marc Mezvinsky, Chelsea Clinton's husband, was related in any way to George Soros. The closest the actor came to connecting the two was when he said (falsely) that Clinton and Mezvinsky had been married at Soros' mansion. While this rumor has been circulating for several years, it is as untrue now as it always was. Chelsea Clinton and Marc Mezvinsky were married at Astor Courts on the old Astor estate Ferncliff Farm, a property that is not owned by George Soros. Furthermore, it's unclear where Baio discovered that Marc Mezvinsky was the nephew of George Soros, as this claim is demonstrably untrue. The billionaire had one brother, the late Paul Soros, who fathered two children, Peter and Jeffrey Soros. Therefore, George Soros has two nephews, Peter Soros and Jeffrey Soros, neither of whom employs the pseudonym 'Marc Mezvinsky' or is furtively married to Chelsea Clinton. Marc's father, Ed Mezvinsky, has one brother, Norton (who is not also George Soros' brother). Norton explicitly stated that he was Marc's only uncle after he did not receive an invitation to his nephew's wedding: The rest of Baio's post dealt with the criminal activity of Ed Mezvinsky, Marc's father, which we have detailed here. In May 2018, comedian Roseanne Barr tweeted a reference to this false rumor:
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