The Greek actor who claimed he had been with 3,200 women – “They would come to my house at 20 o’clock” he would say, but it was all a lie

The ease with which anyone can go viral (for both the right and wrong reasons) in Greece is reminiscent of an old story that may have happened a decade ago, but comes back again and again to the fore.

The lead role was an actor who, as he says, was trying to get free advertising for the show he was starring in at the time, putting his personal life on the line. Or so we thought at the time, until it turned out (on his own) that it was another role.

But let’s take things from the beginning: in the not-so-distant year 2015, the print and electronic media of the time, while they were just starting to “get together” from Spaliaras’s statements about 4,000 women, were flooded with the statements of actor Nikos Ziagos, who claimed to have been with more than 3,000 women.

In fact, he did not stop there, as he “revealed” that he had performed orgy rituals with “twenty” women who later came to his house.

While, in his very witty descriptions of the time, he explained that when he was tired “we would get bored with the phones because we couldn’t have any more sex and we would sneak them out the back door and leave.”

In fact, through the said interview, he not only achieved his goal, which was to make a fool of himself, but he also succeeded in discussing his statements even after a decade.

In fact, a simple Google search is needed to find publications up until this year, but also from previous years – even from sites considered serious – that republish the interview in question.

Let’s see in detail what Nikos Ziagos announced then.

“According to the calculations, during my 37-39 years, I was with 3,200 women. Then I became more selective, so at most I would have chosen 3,800,” he said, while not hesitating to put himself in comparison with Giannis Spaliaras. “Spaliaras ate me for $ 200. I’m not saying this, my friends did the calculations,” he declared characteristically.

“In the single-family house I was renting with friends, women would come in their 20s and have orgies. We would get off the phones because we couldn’t have any more sex and we would kick her out the back door and leave. As impressive as it sounds, five things remain from all of this: jokes and laughter with friends, not the sex itself. Here I was offered to make a porn movie and I turned it down,” he explained at another point.

And it didn’t stop there. “Now I’m selective. I’ve been intentionally off sex for a year and a half. I wanted to get myself together spiritually and I say this as a sex guru. When you have too much sex, you can’t find your purpose. In order for the universe to bend over you, you have to shut yourself off and ‘isolate’ a little bit,” he stressed and continued.

“Since I was 16, the first thing I fought to get ahead was envy. And I experimented with it. At 17-18, I dated a few girls I liked who went off with another guy right in front of me. I wanted to see what it would feel like. I saw what envy was like, stepped on it, demystified it, and never felt jealous again.”

Finally, he admitted that he had been caught cheating “9-10 times.” “Actually, one of them was my ex-wife, but after we started fighting first. She caught me with her best friend at the kitchen table and threw us out of the house,” he said characteristically.

the truth…

Nobody knows what happened during these almost nine years. However, in an interview in June 2023, Nikos Ziagos “destroyed” the myth he tried to build in 2015.

Speaking on a morning show, he revealed that “I was urgently looking for a scandal at the time” and then explained.

“At the time we were doing a play and had no budget for advertising. Then I said we desperately needed a scandal. I found the most scandalous magazine at the time and interviewed him,” he said and explained:

“Then I was joking. Spaliara said 4,000 and I said, ‘Well, he threw me about 200,’ and the journalist went and put a headline on it.”

In fact, he explained in another article that the words “orgy” and “sex expert” were never used by him and were invented by the journalist who attended the interview.

“The theatre was packed,” Nikos Ziagos concluded.

No one can know for sure whether Mr. Ziago’s statements were actually made with the aim of generating free advertising for the theater he represented at the time, or if the well-known actor has regretted this interview in the years since and tried to “get it together.”

But it’s a pretty good example (whether in 2015 or 2024) of what we choose to display and spread, especially in recent years as social media has become an integral part of our daily lives.