#176 The Tale of the Rockefeller that Never Was [Part 2]

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🗓️ 18 March 2021

⏱️ 117 minutes

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This is the second part of a 2 part series. He said he was a screen actor, a film director, an art connoisseur, a physicist, a seafaring captain, a financier, and a member of the English aristocracy. The truth was, he was none of those things, with possibly the exception of an actor. In a sense, that is what he spent nearly his entire adult life doing - acting. But it wasn’t ever for film or for television. No, it wasn’t that kind of acting. The kind of acting this man was somewhat masterful at has another name - imposter. He lived an inauthentic life as a pretender, a charlatan, a grifter. He was drawn to all the finer things in life, the high society, money, wealth, status...the more bombastic, the better. But he would not be made to earn it on his own. He jumped from country to country, state to state, city to city and name to name in order to con, deceive, cheat, and double-cross anybody taken by his charm. And he would go to any lengths to ensure his secrets were kept - even murder. This is the Tale of the Rockefeller that Never Was…

https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2009/01/fake_rockefeller200901

http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/news/artnetnews/rockefeller-art-scandal.asp

https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/3149166/people-v-gerhartsreiter-ca28/?

https://law.justia.com/cases/massachusetts/court-of-appeals/2012/10-p-1899.html

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0:00.0	Hello Dreamers and welcome back to part 2 of the tale of the Rockefeller that never was.
0:08.5	This is the second part of a two-part series, so if you haven't listened to part 1 which
0:13.4	is episode 175, you will need to pause this one here, listen to that one first and then
0:19.8	come back to this.
0:22.0	In part 1 we went over Christian Gerhardt's writer's journey from a rural town in Bavaria, Germany
0:28.6	to the United States, where he had dreams of becoming a movie producer and director.
0:35.1	But it didn't really seem like there was anything about actually working or earning his
0:40.2	way through life that Christian was interested in doing.
0:44.8	He wanted to lie, cheat, steal, and fake it for as long as he could.
0:50.8	And he managed to keep up his charade for the better part of three decades.
0:55.6	He proved that he would go to any lengths to make sure that he kept his secrets a secret.
1:02.2	Any time anyone got close to unraveling his game, he ran.
1:07.4	And he may have even murdered.
1:10.2	In part 1 we left off with Christian fleeing California after living with Didi Sous for
1:16.0	about two years.
1:18.0	For months he had been providing her with updates about her son and her daughter-in-law,
1:23.4	Ron and Linda, telling her that they were on some sort of confidential mission for the
1:28.5	government.
1:29.7	He was keeping Didi a prize of what they were doing and where they needed to be.
1:35.6	He made sure that she understood that these things needed to be kept secret, but he kept
1:40.4	reassuring her that they were all right.
1:43.2	But then when the daughter-in-law sister group concerned when the cat boarding place contacted
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