Kaz Demille-Jacobsen

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Kazshari Demille-Jacobsen (born 26 November 1947), usually known as 'Kaz,' is a New Zealand woman who claims to have survived the terrorist attack that destroyed the World Trade Center on 11 September 2001. DeMille-Jacobsen has stated that God miraculously healed the injuries she received in the attacks. She also says she had a near-death experience in which she met Jesus, who told her to return to life and travel the world to spread his message. Since approximately 2003, DeMille-Jacobsen has lived as an itinerant preacher, speaking at evangelical churches throughout the United States and Australia.

Independent investigations of Demille-Jacobsen's claims, however, have caused many observers to question her story. Robert Lancaster, a computer programmer from Los Angeles who has been researching DeMille-Jacobsen since 2004, claims to have evidence that Demille-Jacobsen was in southern California on September 11, thousands of miles from the attacks.

Demille-Jacobsen 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 Cecil B. DeMille has led the DeMille family to threaten her with legal action.

Demille-Jacobsen was born Carol Ann Priest in Christchurch in 1947. Her birth certificate shows that at some unspecified point she changed her name to Carol Ann Nibbe, and later changed it again to Kazshari Demille-Jacobsen. In 1997 she also had an Australian passport issued in the name Karolanne Victoria Jane Seaborne-Lavell. She has also used a variety of other names at various points in her life.

[edit] External links

• StopKaz.com - Robert Lancaster's web site investigating Demille-Jacobsen's claims.