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 own
• Using stacks of cash and luxury settings to disarm wealthy targets
• Running multiple simultaneous marriages under fabricated identities
• His 2001 capture in British Columbia and 2003 US fraud sentencing
• The abuse of weakness conviction involving filmmaker Catherine Breillat