It looks like she is conning more people, this time in funding her alleged mountaineering efforts.
Regular readers will know all about Pearl Going, aka Sian Pearl Going, aka Sia-Pearl Going. Just to recap here is a list her claimed fame:
- Speaks Arabic, French and Spanish but can barely type in English
- Has a BSc from Otago. (They have no record)
- she also says she has no degree
- Says she went to Senior College (They have no record)
- Says she went to Oxford University in 2006 where she studied Human Sciences, Politics and International Relations at New College. She says she studied medicine for two and a half years at Oxford. (I have a letter from Oxford saying she never, ever enrolled)
- also AUT in 2002 where she studied Human Sciences
- also Canterbury in 2005 where she studied international studies
- she says she has a pilot’s licence but won’t say where from.
- Says she last flew up north but will give no details.
- Says her “Clean” jeans are made in NZ She wont say where. She says they are sold at a store in LA She wont say where. She also says they are sold a “best seller” in Barneys
- She says she sourced the red silk for Natalie Portman’s dress for Zac Posen,
- She says she was engaged to Leon Rothschild and that he slashed his wrists at the end of last year when she broke off with him.
- She says she is a friend of NY socialite Tinsley Mortimer.
- Says she is mates with Marc Jacobs and was his fabric buyer and that she was Zac Posen’s muse.
- When asked if the Tinsley Mortimer quote on her Facebook was about her and she went all coy and smiled.
- She says she was in Brazil doing charity work and saved lives in a plane crash which she was in.
- She has siblings by different fathers. The siblings are part maori
- She says 2 weeks before her 16th birthday she was drugged and raped by [removed by request of person concern] who abused her for six hours and then left her body in a dumpster. [person’ name deleted as per request] is a pilot now living in the UK. I am told he is a very very decent and good young guy.
- She says she has breast cancer
- She says her mother has cancer of the colon and is going into hospital.
- She says her father is an alcoholic because of what happened to “his little girl”.
- She says she supports orphanages in Burma, Fiji and Sierra Leone but will give no details. She pictures of herself with Thai kids.
- She says she worked for FairTrade and Amnesty.
- She says she has spent 71 days in NZ in 2008 and maybe 6 months in NY in 2007 but she is in and out a lot so no specifics.
- The Clean Green Air company doesn’t google.
- She did used to work for Powercall as a telemarketer
- Her mum’s name is Maxine 021 18X XXXX. She is a massage therapist and cleaner
- She applied for a job at FairTrade with a stethescope hanging out of her bag and wearing scrubs. and she got job with forged refs from Oxford that said she was the brightest student they had seen.
- Says she is 23 and 28
- Says she lives off a Trust Fund
- Says she dated Peter Hujlich but threw a glass of wine on him when he called Peter Stewart a paedophile. (He denies even knowing Peter Stewart, he also denies ever having a relationship with the mad bitch)
- Has a handbag label using pleather — which is supposedly eco-friendly leather but which is actually plastic
- Was a pilot in Brazil, saved everyone in a crash with her medical degree
- Grew up on a farm in Southland next to the Stewarts, Pieter is her mum’s best friend also that she grew up in Tutakaka in a hippy family
- Worked for the UN for years
- Has been offered a job by Kate Sylvester after knowing her ten minutes
- Been on a yacht with Richard Branson, who is her “friend” watching the moon rise
From the Northern Advocate article we have yet another thing to add to the list of amazing things she has done:
One of her reasons for taking on the challenge was to prove herself after a brain injury she suffered in a car crash in Dubai in 2006.
The injury took much of her memory and put a stop to her studies. When she returned to Whangarei after the accident she could no longer find her way around or remember people she grew up with.
Maybe that explains the remarkable memory recovery she constantly spouts as above. But it is highly unlikely that the head injury even exists. I have seen fabricated medical evidence of this and if she keeps on saying it I will publish it all. But you can tell this is all a fabrication when you read banal tosh like this:
It was also the realisation of a childhood dream. Reconstructing her memories with the help of family members, she learned she had nagged her father to take her to a real mountain, Ruapehu, when she was 4 years old. At the age of 7 she wrote in a diary that her goal was to “climb to the top of the world”.
“To discover a dream again, when you’re old enough to do something about it, is a gift,” Ms Going said.
Wow, another thing we can add to the list. Wrote in diary at age 7!
Basically Pearl Going is a lying little minx. It looks like she has conned the Northern Advocate and Sony, Adidas, Scarpa, Marmot, Discovery Channel (yes she has their logo in her promotion photos) with her latest escapade. If I were them I’d be very concerned about being associated with a fraud and a cheat like Pearl Going.
Finally the only evidence she has allegedly climbed this mountain is a photo of someone with goggle and a hood on at the top of a mountain.

Is this really Pearl Going?
Mountain climbers I know tell me that when you “summit” you always throw back the hood and show your face so there is evidence that you did do it. Not so for Pearl Going. Her guide however shows his face in an unpublished photo. There are a few more from her Facebook page, but not an awful lot from an expediction of this size.
UPDATE: Pearl has a blog site