On the 11th June 2018 UK-based Polish national Lukasz Herba was convicted of the kidnapping of Chloe Ayling by an Italian court. In his closing statement to the court, Herba said that he had been inspired to kidnap Ayling after watching the film "By Any Means". Ironically, the parallels between the plot of the film and Ayling's kidnapping was one of the reasons some social media users doubted her story.