Christophe rocancourt autobiography

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Christophe Thierry Rocancourt, sometimes also called Christopher Rocancourt, (b.

Aka rockefeller

July 16, 1967 in Honfleur, France) is an impostor and con artist who scammed affluent people by masquerading as a French member of the Rockefeller family.

Biography

He told Dateline NBC in a 2006 broadcast that his mother sometimes worked as a prostitute and his father was an alcoholic who took Christopher to an orphanage when the boy was 5.

He ran away and made his way to Paris where he pulled his first big con: faking the deed to a property he didn't own, then "selling" the property for USD $1.4 million.

Making his way to the United States, Rocancourt used at least a dozen aliases.

Confidence tricks

He got the rich and powerful to invest in his schemes, he told Dateline, by tapping into their greed. He convinced them that he, too, was rich by paying for their lavish dinners in cash. In Los A