Those Jeff Bezos hair transplant photos are very fake

<figure> <img alt="Two photos. one showing Jason Statham on the left, and Jeff Bezos on the right, both of which have been edited with hair." data-caption="These edits of Jason Statham (left) and Jeff Bezos are a bit jarring, but that’s sort of the point. | Image: The Verge" data-portal-copyright="Image: The Verge" data-has-syndication-rights="1" src="https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/11/Fake-Jeff-Bezos-Jason-Statham-hair-photo-edits.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;crop=0,0,100,100" /> <figcaption> These edits of Jason Statham (left) and Jeff Bezos are a bit jarring, but that’s sort of the point. | Image: The Verge </figcaption> </figure> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and actor Jason Statham have a distinctive feature in common: They're both famously bald, and that definitely hasn't changed in the last few days. However, there are <a href="https://x.com/kvng_chi/status/2117300489515868273">some images</a> of the two men <a href="https://x.com/i/trending/2117386539840012574">circulating around X</a>, <a href="https://www.threads.com/@mjg5x5/post/DfSEg4BEYf-?xmt=AQG0Z0SHWX_7CdbsWnT9-8DsZCvTky83tg4v2we48vgpNa-58Dzz_mwjXl3wDiWueAH3t7qJ&amp;slof=1">Threads</a>, and <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/jamellebouie.net/post/3mzgcqghxbk2s">Bluesky</a> in which they both have substantially more hair than their usual shaved look, which in Bezos' case appears to be <em>very</em> freshly transplanted. It's all just photo editing fakery, AI or otherwise.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">It's unclear <a href="https://www.threads.com/@9six7/post/DfQyiH8EcmO/looks-very-natural-said-everyone-on-his-payroll/">how viral</a> these <a href="https://x.com/semtinmuhabiri/status/2117226307776127241">posts are</a>, but they're prevalent enough that a few members of the <em>Verge</em> team have encountered them in their social media feeds. Some people who shared them claimed …</p> <p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/tech/1025745/fake-jeff-bezos-hair-replacement-photos-debunk">Read the full story at The Verge.</a></p>