Fake Fest Promoter Flees

Police in Beaverton, Ore., are searching for a local woman who was apparently promoting a bogus dance festival featuring Shakira as a headliner in Bellevue, Wash.

Olga Antropova advertised the First Annual International Dance Festival online, selling three-day passes to the event for as much as $230, police told KATU-TV. Some tickets had sold, according to police.

After receiving confirmation that the fest was a fake, a KATU reporter set up an appointment with Antropova to ostensibly buy tickets, then confronted her.

“I have a right not to answer your questions and not talk to you” Antropova reportedly said. “Can you get out of my face?”

The same woman reportedly paid more than $5,000 for production of flyers, postcards, business cards and concert tickets to the copy shop LazerQuick in Beaverton.

The printers realized the event was bogus when the check bounced. Police told KATU they were counterfeit.