[have_faith]

There's multiple interviews from over the years with people that worked very closely with him, including the person who was his publicist for a long time (or a very similar role, I forget exactly). You can obviously decide that it's all part of some long game of deception but it's just not needed. No one is trying to arrest him here and they haven't seriously wanted to for over a decade, he's become an institution like baked beans.