Belle Delphine
publication date: Monday, October 28, 2019 (part of Fall 2019)
category: Controversy
clue: For someone whose name means like a dolphin, she generated a lot of controversy this summer about whether or not she really was in water.
explanation: Delphine is an Internet celebrity who sold bottles of her own bathwater online. The offer went viral and stock sold out in two days. Controversy surrounded claims that the water had herpes, or that a scientist had tested the water and found no trace of it having been used in a bath with a human. more…
intended difficulty: hard
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, LaVonne Lemler, Chris Lemler, Matthew Preston, and Erik Bates