That investigation also called into question Ogles' claim to have been involved in investigating international sex trafficking during his time with law enforcement when he served as a volunteer reserve deputy with the Williamson County Sheriff's Office.
Newsweek has asked Andy Ogles' office for comment.
Anna Paulina Mayerhofer was born in 1989 to George Mayerhofer, an architect, and Monica Todd, an elementary school teacher and stay-at-home mother, in Santa Ana, California.[2][3][4] Her mother has Mexican-American ancestry and her father has Mexican and German ancestry, including a grandfather who was born in Germany and served in the Wehrmacht, the armed forces of Nazi Germany during World War II.[5] In 2020, Luna falsely claimed in a PragerU documentary that her "entire mother's side of the family and father's side of the family on both sides are from Mexico".[6]
Her parents never married; her mother married another man when Luna was about eight years old. Luna was raised in the California cities of Santa Ana, Irvine, Aliso Viejo, and Los Angeles but has described her hometown as Santa Monica, California.[7] She attended high school in Los Angeles and claims to have attended six high schools before graduating.[2][3] Luna has said her mother raised her on government assistance, and that her father was a drug addict whose bag of meth she found when she was 10. She has said that her paternal grandmother died of AIDS due to heroin use.[6][2] In August 2014, Luna wrote that she had set a goal to travel to 20 countries by her 25th birthday and that she was set to achieve it by December 2014.[7]
Disputed biographical claims[edit]
Home break-in[edit]
Luna said in 2019 that she suffered from "enduring trauma" after experiencing a "home invasion" by her landlord at 4 a.m. while stationed at Whiteman Air Force Base: "Had my friend Jeremy not been there to protect me, I'm pretty sure I wouldn’t be standing right here in front of you guys right now." Luna's roommate said that she did not remember such an incident. Instead, the roommate recalled a daytime break-in when Luna was not home. A Warrensburg Police Department report described the July 2010 incident as a "burglary not in progress". The report states that Luna and her roommate had reported to their landlord that the home's rear door had repeatedly been left open, so the landlord installed new locks, deadbolts and latches, but the problem persisted. Police records indicate that no suspect was arrested or charged in the case.[5][37][38][39]
Jewish heritage[edit]
Luna has said she was raised as a Messianic Jew by her father and that "I am also a small fraction Ashkenazi".[40][41] Members of her extended family have said her father was Catholic, and her mother said her father was a "Christian that embraced the Messianic faith" after getting clean from drug addiction. Her grandfather, Heinrich Mayerhofer, identified as Catholic when he immigrated to Canada in 1954.[5]
Heinrich's relatives have said that Heinrich served in the Wehrmacht, the armed forces of Nazi Germany in the 1940s; Luna's uncle Edward Mayerhofer provided a photo of Heinrich in a military uniform which the Simon Wiesenthal Center described as consistent with a Wehrmacht uniform. Luna filed a stalking injunction request against Edward Mayerhofer in 2020 after he questioned her biography on social media, while retorting that her maternal great-grandfathers Antonio Luna and William Todd served during World War II for the Allied Powers.[5]
