A thrift shop in Belgium has created a sensation on the Internet.
People at Opnieuw & Co, a local establishment in Mortsel, found an old photo album where a woman posed with the biggest stars in Hollywood. When they shared the pictures, the online community started their investigation.
Who was this woman hugging Johnny Depp, Angelina Jolie, Bruce Willis, and other A-list celebrities?
Someone noticed closely and found a tag she had in one of the photos. Later, it revealed that the ‘mysterious’ woman is Maria Snoeys-Lagler. She was a former member of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA). It’s a non-profit organization of journalists and photographers who report on the entertainment industry.
The HFPA consists of about 90 members from around 55 countries. They’re the ones who manage the annual Golden Globe Awards ceremony in Los Angeles every January.
From these pictures, it’s clear that Maria Snoeys-Lagler has met almost every big celebrity.
“We still have no idea how the album got to us,” a spokesperson of Opnieuw & Co told Bored Panda.
“We are a thrift store and we rely on donations to fund our social workplace (we provide refugees and people who can’t find a job with work). That means someone probably dropped it off at one of our shops in a box full of other stuff as well.
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“One of our people browsed through the album and realized this was not something that someone would get rid of voluntarily,” they said. “We figured out the lady’s name through her press badge in one of the photos. Then, one of our country’s national TV stations used their contacts and located her daughter in California. Nobody has any idea how the album ended up here.”
“Maria died in 2016 after being a Hollywood reporter until the age of 87. We have now contacted her daughter to make sure we can return the album to her.”
Look at the pictures!
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