Recommendations of the Editorial team
New developments in the case surrounding Christian Ulmen and Collien Fernandes: The Berlin law firm Schertz Bergmann published official “press law information for Christian Ulmen” on March 27, 2026. In it, she not only rejects the actor’s production and distribution of deepfakes, but also provides new details regarding an arrest.
In the statement, the law firm announced that it would take legal action against “Spiegel’s” reporting. She also clarified on behalf of her client that Ulmen “at no time produced and/or distributed deepfake videos of Ms. Fernandes or other people.” Corresponding representations are incorrect. According to the law firm’s current knowledge, this accusation, contrary to what was sometimes announced, “is not being made at all.” The law firm describes key points in the reporting as “demonstrably incomplete and incorrect” and has announced a legal dispute. Ulmen himself has not yet commented publicly.
New descriptions of the arrest and proceedings
Regarding the temporary arrest of Ulmen in Mallorca, reported by “Spiegel” among others, the law firm announced that, according to its account, Collien Fernandes was also temporarily arrested by the Spanish police in the same context – for physical violence against Elmen, who had an injury to his neck. The police assumed there had been misconduct on both sides; There was no one-sided apportionment of blame.
Regarding the court date in Palma de Mallorca, to which, according to Spiegel, Ulmen did not appear, the law firm explains that their client was not invited to this date. Furthermore, she informs that the Spanish court has suspended the proceedings today because Fernandes has not submitted a required notarial declaration. All investigative actions are also suspended. The one-sided reporting was “demonstrably incomplete and incorrect.”
Law firm welcomes stricter deepfake laws
Finally, the law firm expressly welcomes the planned closure of loopholes in criminal liability for deepfake pornography – and “unreservedly adheres” to this demand.
Fernandes on degradation fetish
Collien Fernandes again made serious allegations against her ex-husband Christian Ulmen on Thursday (March 26). In a post spread across several tiles called “Christian Ulmen and the Deepfakes,” she describes that Ulmen had confessed to her that he had developed a degradation fetish – it made him horny to humiliate her. “It gives him a feeling of power. Power over me,” Fernandes writes. Over the last ten years or so, he created various fake profiles under her name on social media, contacted male users and sent pornographic videos and erotic photos.
It was important to him that everything seemed credible and that the material seemed private. “He had an intensive online affair with around 30 men under my name, including telephone sex,” said Fernandes. Sexual meetings were promised and canceled at short notice – he wrote to far more than these 30 men.
Christian Ulmen is presumed innocent.
