@slimboyfat
I mean I wouldn’t totally put it past some newspapers to be as wrong as that, but they are usually wrong on the details rather than the entire framing.
Have you been living under a rock the past 5 years? This was as others said, and I said in the other thread - a local interest story about someone who had a family legend they were related to a (in)famous cardinal who later became pope. Could as well be, hey here is a picture of a train that stopped by our village and he got some ice cream here. Newspapers will hang onto any gossip, remember Carter Paige, turns out to be their source was a drunk British embassy employee talking too much at a bar in DC or something like that and they blew it up into a full congressional investigation without any evidence and proof was never found. Or JFK/MLK/Area 51, thousands of opinion articles have been written which are then sourced as evidence for some theory, the Zapruder film was coined by the media as the only video evidence to the point the official investigations ignored literally any other source, until 1978, by the early 2000s the original footage of various sources had seen no interest and many have since been lost or sold into private collections.
My wife’s family has a legend of being related to Native American, DNA says otherwise, although great grandpa was not related to grandpa either and they both took that ‘secret’ to their grave.