Christophe Rocancourt: The Con Man Who Faked Being a Rockefeller

Born into extreme poverty in France, Christophe Rocancourt reinvented himself in America as a Rockefeller heir, French nobleman, and film producer to con the wealthy.This episode examines his early real-estate fraud, his rotating web of aliases and relationships, his eventual convictions, and the darker exploitation of his later years.The $1.4 million sale of a Paris building he did not ownUsing stacks of cash and luxury settings to disarm wealthy targetsRunning multiple simultaneous marriages under fabricated identitiesHis 2001 capture in British Columbia and 2003 US fraud sentencingThe abuse of weakness conviction involving filmmaker Catherine Breillat