Billionaire’s glamorous new wife goes viral trying to bully woman who shares her new surname into selling her Instagram handle just days after tying the knot – and her entitled messages will make you furious

A newlywed influencer got into a fight with a woman after she tried to buy her Instagram account for her updated last name.

Katherine Asplundh, formerly Driscoll, married 27-year-old Cabot Asplundh, a member of the Pennsylvania billionaire family, at a reception in Palm Beach, Florida, two weeks ago.

After the happy couple exchanged vows, the new Asplundh contacted another woman with the same name in hopes of buying her Instagram account name.

The newlyweds have now inadvertently gone viral after contacting a woman called Kate – who shared the posts in question on social media.

In the exchange, Asplundh can be seen messaging the anonymous user asking if she can buy her Instagram account.

Kate responds and says, “That’s my name too. I just googled it and it said if I sold my username I would be banned from Instagram.”

Asplundh messages back: ‘I bought my username in the past, but that’s not true.

‘Celebrities do it all the time, so they all have their handles as their full names.

‘So strange, I didn’t know there was another Asplundh family. Over there [are] no Katherine Asplundh in our family.”

She then adds, “I see you’re not that active here, but you started Instagram in 2018 and changed your username three times?

“Is there any way I can get you to change your username again?”

Kate replies that she uses the account as a secondary account, only for close friends and family.

The conversation turns sour and Asplundh then replies, “I actually don’t believe your name is Katherine Asplundh, who would make their finsta their real name?

“I reported you on Instagram and they can tell me your real name. I really hope I don’t know you because that will be very embarrassing for you.’

After the woman asks the influencer to report her, she confirms that she and her new husband both reported her.

She then continues to question the legitimacy of her name, which confirms that she is not American and says, “Do you have proof that this is your name?” I’d like to see that.’

Kate then tells Asplundh that if she had been nice, she would have considered giving her the account name for free.

She hits back at the influencer, saying, “But it wasn’t. I reported you for asking me to sell my account, and another for harassing me. Nice day.’

Speaking to the Philadelphia researcherKate told the outlet, “I was open to giving her my username.

‘I just didn’t want to sell it because I would get banned. After I replied to her, her messages came across as sarcastic, so I said to myself, “Okay, this isn’t worth it.”‘

According to her social media pages, Asplundh is originally from New Vernon, New Jersey, where she attended the College of Charleston.

Her TikTok page, called Lost Etiquette, has over 80,000 followers with over 5.5 million likes on her profile.

The family she married into founded Asplundh Tree Expert, which reported 2021 sales of more than $5.4 billion dollars.

The two met in Prague while Katherine was studying aboard and connected while growing up on the Jersey Shore, according to their wedding website.

Two years later, Cabot, the great-grandson of Carl Asplundh who founded the family business with his two brothers, proposed to her in Mantoloking, New Jersey.

Former Senate candidate and famed surgeon Mehmet Oz is part of the family through marriage, with his wife Lisa’s grandfather founding the family business in 1928 along with his two brothers.

The company, which maintains trees for electric utilities, municipalities and others, is run by third-generation Asplundhs and owned by nearly 200 family members, who together are worth at least $3 billion, according to Forbes.

Kate, who only told The Inquirer that her name was Katherine J. Asplundh, shared the conversation on Reddit, telling the outlet, “The whole thing just seemed stupid and ridiculous to me.” I thought they would laugh, and that would be it.”

One user commented: ‘Legitimately insane behavior “I don’t believe that’s your name” HUH?!?!.’

Another wrote: ‘The hey girly pivot to show me your birth certificate gave me whiplash.’

While another said: ‘Omg this is crazy, she married into a billionaire family and acts like they’re the only ones allowed to have that last name, wtf.’

Since then, Asplundh’s social media pages have been filled with comments and she reportedly had to privatize her page, which has 14,000 followers, before making it public again.

In posts about the wedding, Asplundh described it as the “best day” of her life, sharing photos of her in her dress.

According to Instagram, users are prohibited from buying, selling or transferring “any aspect of your account.”

Nevertheless, a study by Vox shone a light on an entire economy of people selling and buying names on dedicated online marketplaces.

Social media handles are intended to be distributed on a first-come, first-served basis, but in some cases celebrities have used their influence to push these rules.

In 2019, West Sussex’s Kevin Keiley claimed Prince Harry and Meghan Markle took over his @sussexroyal handle.

Instagram said the reassigned account name was due to Keiley being inactive.