McAfee founder McAfee's ex-girlfriend said he faked his death and is currently in the United States.

According to foreign media reports, Samantha Herrera, the ex-girlfriend of McAfee founder John McAfee, claimed in a recently released documentary that McAfee faked his death and is currently living in the United States.

McAfee reportedly hanged himself in a Spanish prison in June 2021. In the Netflix documentary Running With the Devil: The Wild World of John McAfee, Herrera, his ex-girlfriend, said McAfee didn't die in his cell, but escaped from prison. Now in the United States, she said: "After McAfee died, I got a call from him, saying that he paid someone to fake his death. "

Herrera also claims McAfee asked her to elope with him and told her that only three people in the world knew he was alive.

Herrera's claim has not been confirmed. Documentary director Charlie Russell has reservations about Herrera's claim that McAfee is still alive.

McAfee was arrested in Spain in October 2020 for tax evasion. On June 23, 2021, the Spanish National Court granted McAfee's extradition, and hours after the news broke, he was found dead in his cell. Official autopsy results showed McAfee committed suicide, but McAfee had repeatedly tweeted on social media that if he was found dead in prison, it would not be suicide.