Sadly, Verdibello was on target. Kirsch's so-called purple eyes were fakes; they were blue. And her economics tutor, the one she met with so often during fall 2006, in fact was Kirsch's lover, a fact he learned from Facebook on Dec. 30, 2006. They had broken up two weeks earlier, in mid-December.
Efforts to reach Kirsch's attorney Ronald Greenblatt yesterday were unsuccessful.
Meanwhile Verdibello said his world became even more topsy-turvy on Dec. 3 when he read the Daily News online and learned that Kirsch and Edward K. Anderton, the former "tutor," were arrested in November, accused of operating an intricate identity-theft scam out of their posh Center City apartment on Chestnut Street near 18th.
The crafty couple are charged with identity theft, conspiracy, burglary, making terroristic threats and other crimes. They had copies of mailbox keys and most of the unit keys in their building, the Belgravia, police said.
Their alleged crimes allowed the unemployed pair to travel the world, eat out with friends and live in their $3,000-a-month, two-bedroom unit.
Anderton, 25, a 2005 University of Pennsylvania graduate in economics, and Kirsch, a Drexel senior who has been suspended, according to her lawyer, will be in court on Feb. 12 for a preliminary hearing.
Initially, when Verdibello read the news, almost a year to the day since they broke up, he thought her arrest was "ultimate poetic justice."
Certain moments, he said, begin to make sense, such as when the two were cuddling in bed while she typed a text message. He saw the words from over her shoulder: "Ah, my cute capitalist," believing the message was for her tutor. When he questioned her, "she completely chewed me out."
