How Creepy Is "Billionaire Heiress" Andrea Catsimatidis's Dad?

Turns out Andrea Catsimidis, AKA the Tackiest Heiress In New York, has quite the creepy father situation going on.

Surely, we've all seen Meet The Fockers. And surely, we can agree that even though the trope of the insanely-overprotective father is definitely based on reality, not many dads fit into the 'extreme' category.

Today, in a technology story about the infamous facial recognition app, Clearview AI, The New York Times shared a real eyebrow raising anecdote. Apparently, one night back in October of 2018, John Catsimatidis was dining at Cipriani (as all insufferable rich people with poor taste do), when he saw his daughter Andrea walk in with a man he didn't recognize, clearly coming to the aforementioned restaurant on a date (as all insufferable rich people with poor taste do).

As all crazy sitcom fathers would, Mr. Catsimatidis then asked a waiter to go over a sneak a photo of the man, which he then uploaded to Clearview AI in order to figure out his name and sleuth further details about him. 

“I wanted to make sure he wasn’t a charlatan,” Mr. Catsimatidis told the Times, clearly a genius to be able to use a word like that at the drop of a hat. In further flex of his genius, he texted his daughter the man’s bio. 

“I expect my dad to be able to do crazy things. He’s very technologically savvy,” Ms. Catsimatidis said. “My date was very surprised.”

While the man in question was not interviewed for the feature, we can just about guess what a fucking bizarre red flag he found all of this to be. Wouldn't you?

[Photo via @ajcats]