EXCLUSIVE: Tom Brady's 'body coach' claimed Gisele endorsed his products, told parents not to give diabetic children insulin, lied about a $500m fortune and even tried to con fellow Mormons with 'snake oil cures'

  • Alejandro Guerrero is Tom Brady's personal health guru - but was sanctioned by the FTC for lying that he was a real doctor
  • Brady defended him  
  • Daily Mail Online has uncovered fresh evidence of his career of false claims and assertions and a lawsuit brought by investors 
  • Guerrero claimed he had sold a company for $500 million but was actually a bankrupt
  • He even targeted fellow members of his Mormon church in Alpine, Utah, to try to get them to buy his bogus health pills

Tom Brady's body coach falsely claimed the footballer and his supermodel wife were endorsing his 'snake oil' health supplements and other products, a Daily Mail Online investigation has revealed.

Alejandro Guerrero used the New England Patriots' quarterback and his supermodel wife's names to encourage investors to put their money into one of his companies. 

The claim was among a string of false statements made by Guerrero, court papers disclose - raising fresh questions over his relationship with NFL's most successful and famous sportsman.

Last week Brady spoke out in defense of his guru and now business partner in TB12 LLC, which has a sports therapy center headquartered at Patriot Place next door to Gillette Stadium.

Asked about Guerrero's past in a radio interview Brady went on the offensive saying, 'When you say, "Well this sounds like quackery," there's a lot of things I see on a daily basis in Western medicine that I think, "Wow, why would they ever do that? That is crazy."

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Endorsement: Daily Mail Online can disclose that Alejandro Guerrero claimed that Gisele, Tom Brady's wife, with whom he is pictured, was going to endorse his line of cosmetics

Endorsement: Daily Mail Online can disclose that Alejandro Guerrero claimed that Gisele, Tom Brady's wife, with whom he is pictured, was going to endorse his line of cosmetics

Show of support: Tom Brady (pictured with Guerrero in February at the Super Bowl) last week spoke to throw his weight behind the bogus doctor. But it is unclear if he knew what else his business partner has been accused of

Show of support: Tom Brady (pictured with Guerrero in February at the Super Bowl) last week spoke to throw his weight behind the bogus doctor. But it is unclear if he knew what else his business partner has been accused of

Namedropped: How court documents disclose Guerrero's use of his connection to Gisele 

Namedropped: How court documents disclose Guerrero's use of his connection to Gisele 

'That's just the way life works. I don't know the details of each of the incidences, but…there's no better person that I enjoy as much as Alex. He's been an incredible influence in my life.'

But it is not clear if Brady knew about the latest disclosures about Guerrero's past. 

They include how, when falsely posing as a doctor, he told the parents of diabetic children they should not use insulin - and claimed that the bogus 'science' of photography based on auras proved he was right. 

He also faced allegations of ripping off investors at the same time as milking the company for his own profit.

Guerrero, 50, was last week exposed as having been banned in 2005 from claiming he was a doctor by the Federal Trade Commission - and then revealed to have flouted that ban in 2011 by calling himself 'Dr Guerrero' on an infomercial.

 Each batch is tested by Kirlian photography to ensure that it is in the required frequency state
One of Guerrero's claims about his 'Legacy Products' - Kirlian photography is the claim that auras and 'energy fields' can be measured but is not recognized by pharmaceutical regulators

But Daily Mail Online has established this is just part of a pattern of behavior throughout the last decade. 

Perhaps most shocking is his claim that diabetic children taking one of his health products can stop taking their insulin. It earned him censure from the FTC.

In promotional material for 'Legacy Products' seen by Daily Mail Online Guerrero told of a 'very exciting product' called the Dia-Balance Pack. He claimed that this product 'stabilizes sugars in both Type I (Childhood) and Type II (Adult Onset) Diabetes.'

He went onto make the outrageous claim that diabetics on the Dia-Balance Pack, 'are lowering and coming off their insulin over an 18 month to 3 year period…slowly rejuvenating their pancreatic function.'

Guerrero claimed that 'Each batch is tested by Kirlian photography to ensure that it is in the required frequency state.' 

Kirlian photography is the photography of 'auras' or energy fields and not a recognized pharmaceutical measure.

According to Dr Barrie Cassileth, PhD in medical sociology and the founder of the Integrative Medicine Service at the Memorial Sloane Kettering Cancer Center, who helped the FTC debunk Guerrero's claims, this is 'just out and out quackery,' and part of a 'industry' of similar scams that rakes in $40million a year.

Home: This was the Alpine, Utah, house Alejandro Guerrero shared with his wife Alicia and five children when he was sued over claims he misled investors

Home: This was the Alpine, Utah, house Alejandro Guerrero shared with his wife Alicia and five children when he was sued over claims he misled investors

New home: Alejandro Guerrero now lives in Norfolk, Massachusetts, where he works closely with Brady. The NFL quarterback has spoken out to defend the man who posed as a doctor to promote health supplements

New home: Alejandro Guerrero now lives in Norfolk, Massachusetts, where he works closely with Brady. The NFL quarterback has spoken out to defend the man who posed as a doctor to promote health supplements

Guerrero's Supreme Greens made an estimated $16million in just 18 months thanks to a highly successful infomercial in which Guerrero posed as a doctor claiming to have received his MD in Oriental Medicine at the SAMRA University for Traditional Chinese Medicine in Los Angeles, California.

In fact he received only a masters from the university, which no longer exists.

Yet Guerrero failed to mention any of this, or the fact that the FTC had severely censured him in 2005 as a result of his fraudulent claims banning him from taking part in any similar schemes, when, just three years later, he approached potential investors for his new company, BioForce.

Guerrero founded and incorporated BioForce in Utah in January 2007, where heas then living with his wife, Alicia, and their five children in the town of Alpine.

It was initially engaged in the marketing of pain relief creams and other health and wellness products.

According to a 2012 lawsuit filed by several investors in the company and seen by Daily Mail Online Guerrero failed to comply with the FTC's ruling that he had to reveal the order finding him guilty of various FTC violations to 'all principals, officers, directors, and managers' of any business in which he held an interest of at least fifty percent.

The FTC violations were caused when he claimed that the Supreme Greens supplement could cure ailments such as cancer, diabetes, Parkinson's, multiple sclerosis and even AIDS.

His assertion that he had scientific studies to back up these claims was false and his 'medicine' dismissed by the FTC as 'nothing but quackery.'

Instead, Guerrero concealed the truth and went onto make a string of grandiose and false claims in a bid to convince investors to part with their cash in return for shares in his fledgling business.

Guerrero falsely claimed to have sold his previous business in California for $500million when, in truth, he had twice filed for bankruptcy prior to 2007.

By the year the suit was filed, in 2012, he owed the IRS more than $400,000 in unpaid taxes.

He claimed to have received an offer of $50million from a third party for the sale of BioForce but to have turned it down believing the company to have the potential to be a billion dollar concern.

Discredited: This is the product at the center of the storm over Alejandro Guerrero. The FTV sanctioned him for promoting it by claiming that he was a doctor

Discredited: This is the product at the center of the storm over Alejandro Guerrero. The FTV sanctioned him for promoting it by claiming that he was a doctor

Backer: Tom Brady gave his endorsement to his friend's product despite there being no medical evidence of its success. Brady claims 'Western medicine' does things which are 'crazy'

Backer: Tom Brady gave his endorsement to his friend's product despite there being no medical evidence of its success. Brady claims 'Western medicine' does things which are 'crazy'

It transpired that no such offer was ever made.

He claimed to have given the employees of his previous company $1million each – a claim which attorneys for the investors who brought the case against Guerrero found to be false.

And he milked his celebrity contacts in a bid to garner new funds; falsely claiming that Tom Brady, LaDanian Tomlinson, Lisa Leslie and Willie McGinest endorsed the products marketed by BioForce - and were also investors in BioForce.

He even went as far as to claim that Tom Brady's supermodel wife, Gisele, had agreed to 'exclusively market a new line of cosmetics titled, "Sejaa"'.

Once they had parted with their cash – in one case as much as $125,000 – the investors complained that they were consistently denied the right to vote on board matters.

They said that, while they were excluded from company business, Guerrero abused his own position buying himself a Porsche, an Audi and 'extravagant trips' on company funds.

For former neighbor, Cindy Waite, who lived next door to Guerrero and his family for three years the revelations are a shock but not entirely surprising.

Mrs Waite, 64, always had a sense that something about Guerrero didn't quite stack up, she told Daily Mail Online.

It was especially the case when the man who claimed to be a doctor offered to help treat back pain caused by her fibromyalgia – an incurable condition he had claimed that Supreme Greens could cure.

Speaking from her home in Alpine, Utah, she said: 'He claimed to be a doctor but I didn't get in my mind that he was an MD.

'A couple of times he came over and did more like chiropractic things. My back was always hurting and still is – he came over and he would massage my back and I wasn't getting anywhere so I knew this was kind of futile.'

According to Mrs Waite, Guerrero, who knew her husband as both men were members of their local church council, didn't really mingle with neighbors socially. 

She said she never once saw his wife out of the house. Yet he was keen to push what he presented as a new therapy business.

She said: 'He kind of presented it as if he was beginning to do this business and would you like to have this done? And my back was killing me so I thought I'd try it.

Neighbors: Cindy and Ned Waite lived beside Guerrero and he targeted them with his bogus health products, along with other members of his church

Neighbors: Cindy and Ned Waite lived beside Guerrero and he targeted them with his bogus health products, along with other members of his church

Nothing was sacred: Alejandro Guerrero was a member of this Mormon church in Alpine, Utah, but he targeted fellow worshippers with his bogus health claims

Nothing was sacred: Alejandro Guerrero was a member of this Mormon church in Alpine, Utah, but he targeted fellow worshippers with his bogus health claims

'But I could tell right off he didn't know his stuff on a deep level. He said he was a doctor in acupuncture and so many other things… the list goes on. He never had any papers to back it up.'

On one occasion, she recalled, Guerrero tried to interest her and her husband, Ned, also 64, in pills of some kind.

She recalled: 'He pushed that on us and the price was extremely high. I think that it wasn't anything medical – it was just pills in a bottle and of course we never bought them because we knew it was just off the wall.

'It was expensive, much more than I could get from a doctor here. It was like he tried to make you believe they were much more than they were and at one point my husband, Ned, wondered if they were sugar pills or whatever and that's when we backed off.

'They moved right after that.'

Mrs Waite said she had always wondered what had become of Guerrero and had actually doubted his claims to know Tom Brady.

She said: 'I have to question everything. He wanted you to believe he knew everyone and that he's a millionaire and that he's been trained in everything in the world. Nobody can do all that he claimed to do.'

A spokesman for Brady and Guerrero, and a spokesman for Gisele, did not return requests for comment.

Brady has already defended Guerrero, although it is unclear if he was aware that his own name had been used as an endorsement when he did so.

The 'snake oil doctor's' reach into Brady's life and career cannot be overstated. He is godfather to Brady's younger son, Benand Brady and other Patriot stars regard him as a sort of Mr Miyagi.

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE COURT DOCUMENTS 

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