The truth behind Twitter's epic Zola tale, a 148-tweet story that caught the attention of millions last Wednesday night and filled "Empire's" void, is that there was no murder and no attempted suicide the weekend of March 27, according to The Washington Post.
Last week, a young woman named Aziah Wells, known on Twitter as "Aziah King" or "Zola," set Twitter aflutter with an epic 148-tweet tale about stripping, prostitution and murder, Time reported. The storyteller goes by "@_zolarmoon" on Twitter.
The Twitter tale garnered millions of hits, and celebrities' attention last week, and continues to get hits. Rapper and producer Miss Elliot even tweeted about Zola's story.
The pimp mentioned in the story, who goes by the name of "Z" is really 35-year-old Akporode Uwedjojevwe, or Rudy, according to The Washington Post. Originally from Warri, Nigeria, he resided in Michigan up until his April arrest in Nevada. Uwedjojevwe was charged with sexual assault, battery, sexual trafficking, and attempted pandering with threat of physical force.
While there was a boyfriend of one month, Jarret Scott, who went along for the road trip to Florida with his girlfriend Jessica Swiatkowski, Aziah Wells and Uwedjojevwe, Scott did not attempt suicide. He did in fact, however, post on Facebook lamenting his girlfriend's prostitution and unwillingness to go home. Uwedjojevwe drove his girlfriend's car from Detroit to Tampa, according to The Washington Post.
“I begged her to stop,” Scott said, “but it was like Rudy was controlling her mind or something. He kept saying, ‘look at all this money,’ or ‘I’ll get your daughter back’.”
Also, 20-year-old Jessica Swiatkowski did in fact meet Wells at a Hooters restaurant in Roseville, Mich., The Washington Post reported. Swiatkowski lived in Detroit with her boyfriend and her longtime roommate, Uwedjojevwe. She was a dancer at Detroit clubs and convinced Wells to go with her to Florida to earn money stripping.
The facts are unclear about what happened after the two dancers made little money at Tampa's Gold Club. Whether Wells or Uwedjojevwe made the classified ad online for Swiatkowski to prostitute herself is unclear. However there are two profiles for Wells and Swiatkowski on the website to hire prostitutes and escorts. Wells claimed that "Z" took her phone and made the ad against her will, but allowed her to work the phone and field the clients' calls, according to The Washington Post.
One client did in fact become violent with Swiatkowski and try to kidnap her, noted The Washington Post. But Uwedjojevwe did not shoot him in the face. Rather, Swiatkowski came down to the lobby hysterically crying and Uwedjojevwe called the police. What happened afterward is also unclear.
"Z" was in fact arrested in April by the Reno Police Department on pandering and sexual charges.
Wells, a.k.a. Zola the Twitter star, may be called to testify against "Z" in his trial in January of next year. In the mean time, she plans on selling merchandise related to her Twitter tale, reported TMZ.
Zola fans are still tweeting about their celebrity dream casts for the movie "Zola."
