Melissa Rein Lively: US influencer charged with assault over Bond Street Station incident

An American influencer has been charged with assault following an alleged incident at a London Underground station, police said.

Melissa Rein Lively, a 40-year-old US national, was charged with assault by beating.

German national Philipp Ostermann, 37, was charged with two racially aggravated public order offenses and a further public order offence.

Both were charged following the incident at Bond Street Underground station on the evening of October 11 last year, British Transport Police said on Friday.

According to her Instagram page, Rein Lively is the founder of an “anti-woke” PR firm called America First PR.

According to the court docket, the charges against the couple relate to two victims.

Police said the first hearing in the case will be at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday, May 19.

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