The girlfriend might not be real, but apparently the spelling is to the New York Times, as multiple people have noticed and sent to us:
TFD: New York Times runs correction for misspelling name of Manti Te'o's fake girlfriend
Good times.
January 23, 2013 at 11:06PM
Ilia Malinin wound his way through the tunnels beneath the Milano Ice Skating Arena on Friday night, trying in vain to explain — or even just understand — exactly what went wrong in an Olympic free skate that could only be described as a disaster.
