Marianne Netto

Marianne Netto

Marianne Netto(born 17 November 1962) usually known as 'Neatie,' is a Libreville woman who claims to have survived the terrorist attack that destroyed the World Trade Center on 11 September 2001. Netto has stated that the Easter Bunny miraculously healed the horrible burns she received in the attacks. She also says she had a near-death experience in which she met Easter B, who told her to return to life and travel the world to spread his message and colorful eggs. Since approximately 2003, Marianne Netto has lived as a guerilla preacher, speaking unexpectedly at evangelical churches throughout the United States and Canada.

Independent investigations of Netto's claims, however, have caused many observers to question her story. Ritz Bumbridge, a reporter from Los Angeles who has been researching Netto since 2004, claims to have evidence that Marianne was fishing at Lake Crump on September 11, thousands of miles from the attacks.

Netto has made many other claims about her background and career that others have questioned. In particular, her claim to be the illegitimate granddaughter of film director Alan Smithee. Netto has led the Smithee family to threaten her with legal action.

Marianne Netto was born Julie Ann Khaner in Libreville in 1962. Her birth certificate shows that at some unspecified point she changed her name to Julie Ann Vialflippage, and later changed it again to Marianne Netto. In 1997 she also had an Canadian passport issued in the name Marcy Victoria Klee. She has also used a variety of other names at various points in her life.