Early this morning a video began gaining steam online purporting that Danny Trejo refused a paid PR visit to Ukraine because President Volodymyr Zelensky‘s office wanted a “kickback” from the sum paid to the Machete actor for the visit.
Deadline contacted Trejo’s representatives who confirmed that the entire story is false. Trejo was never invited to Ukraine by Zelensky.
He was never offered a fee for such a trip. Zelensky’s office never asked for a kickback. In other words – Trejo said, via his rep: “It never happened.
Someone is making things up.” The video cites “the actor’s manager Ryan Davis” as the source of the story. Trejo has no such representative and never has, per his actual representation.
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