Christophe rocancourt wiki
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Christophe Rocancourt
French imposter
Christophe Rocancourt | |
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| Born | Christophe Thierry Rocancourt () 16 July (age&#;57) Honfleur, Calvados, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Other&#;names | Christopher Rocancourt Eric Rockefeller Christopher Reyes Christopher De Laurentiis Christopher de la Renta Christopher Loren Christopher Lloyd Fabien Ortuna Prince Galitzine Christo Michael van Hoven |
| Occupation(s) | Impostor, Confidence man |
| Spouse(s) | Gry Park Pia Reyes (&#;?) |
| Children | 3 |
| Parent | Daniel Rocancourt & Annick Villers |
Christophe Thierry Daniel Rocancourt colloquially Christopher Rocancourt (born 16 July ), is a French impostor and confidence man who scammed affluent people by masquerading in turn as a French nobleman, the heir to the Rockefeller family or family member of a celebrity.
Early life and education
[edit]Rocancourt was born 16 July in Honfleur, France, to Daniel Rocancourt, a financially destitute painter, who suffered from alcohol
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List of con artists
This is a list of notable individuals who exploited confidence tricks.
Born or active in the 17th century
[edit]Born or active in the 18th century
[edit]Born or active in the 19th century
[edit]- William Rockefeller Sr. (–): an American businessman, lumberman, herbalist, salesman, and con-artist.[4] Two of his sons were Standard Oil co-founders John Davison Rockefeller Sr. and William Avery Rockefeller Jr.
- George Appo (–): American fraudster, operated in New York and was involved in green goods scams. Wrote an autobiography and also had a biography written about him which discusses prison conditions and various other socio-economic conditions in the later 19th century.
- Lou Blonger (–): American pickpocket and fraudster, organized a massive ring of con men in Denver in the early s.[5]
- C. L. Blood (–): American patent medicine huckster, fraudster, and blackmailer.[6]
- Amy Bock (–): Tasmanian-born New Zealand con artist
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Rocancourt, Christophe
Biography
French tjuv, forger and imposter, who convinced many affluent victims of his scams that he was a French member of the Rockefeller family. The child of a prostitute and an alcoholic he was assigned to an orphanage at age 5. He eventually escaped and in Paris conned his first victims into buying a property that he did not own but for which he had forged the ownership papper. In the US his scams and con jobs multiplied. He was arrested in but never served time, reportedly bribing the right October he was sentenced to prison for grand stöld and fraud, having swindled New York residents out of thousands of dollars. In March he was sentenced to another fem years in prison and deportation back to France for additional crimes.
Link to Wikipedia biography
Events
- Crime&#;: rättegång dates (Sentenced for grand larceny and fraud)
Source Notes
Didier Geslain archive, 'guerre ' pdf en samling dokument eller en elektronisk lagring av data, p. (really!).
Same information from Paddy de Jabrun quotes birth certi