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Episode 388 - The House of Védrines & The “Guru” Who Stole it All

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Wondery | RedHanded

True Crime

4.518.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2025

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

This story of how a rich, aristocratic French family lost their fortunes, and their minds, to a painter-and-decorator conman, unravels like Dan Brown mystery.

Secret treasures, Masonic plots, kidnap and torture - the de Védrines family were desperate to hold onto their ancestral chateau; only to have everything ripped away from them by a Crowley-obsessed charlatan.

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