Man sold up to $550,000 in fake sports and celebrity memorabilia, feds in CA say
A man accused of selling memorabilia with forged signatures from athletes and other celebrities, including “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” stars, has pleaded guilty to mail fraud, prosecutors said.
Anthony J. Tremayne, 58, of Rosarito, Mexico, faces up to 20 years behind bars when he’s sentenced in August, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California said in an April 7 news release.
Tremayne used to live in West Covina, California.
McClatchy News reached out to his attorney April 9 and was awaiting a response.
In a plea agreement, Tremayne said he sold between $250,000 and $550,000 in fake memorabilia, prosecutors said. In one case, he sold “a ‘Keeping Up With the Kardashians’ photograph containing forged signatures of three of the show’s 22 personalities, which he purported to be genuine signatures,” to a buyer, prosecutors said. The buyer was an undercover federal agent, according to prosecutors.
A “certificate of authenticity” that accompanied the photo was bogus and “misspelled the first name of one of the personalities,” prosecutors said in a court filing.
Tremayne sold the fake memorabilia from at least 2010 to December 2019, according to prosecutors, who said he “advertised nationwide the memorabilia with purportedly genuine signatures.”
He’d mail the memorabilia to customers, sometimes including an authenticity certificate, prosecutors said. But “Tremayne forged the signatures, and the authenticity certificates were bogus,” according to prosecutors.
West Covina is about a 20-mile drive east from downtown Las Angeles.
This story was originally published April 9, 2025 at 3:17 PM with the headline "Man sold up to $550,000 in fake sports and celebrity memorabilia, feds in CA say."
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