Fraud Week: Fiancé Doctor Pulls Off Personal and Medical Fraud, with Journalist Benita Alexander | Ep. 814

The Megyn Kelly Show

SiriusXM

News, Society & Culture, News Commentary

4.4 • 38.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2024

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Summary

It's Fraud Week on the Megyn Kelly Show, and we begin with the story of former NBC producer and journalist Benita Alexander, and her ex-fiancé Dr. Paolo Macchiarini. Alexander talks about how she met Macchiarini for a report she was working on about regenerative medicine, his personality and confidence, what drew her to him personally, the way he seemed with patients, how it started to fall apart, the tactics her fiancé used to keep up the fraud like "love bombing" and other signs of narcissism and arrogance, the thrill some people get from lying and conning people, the secret client list he said he had involving The Clintons and the pope, her fiancé's lies about the pope marrying them, his actual relationship with the Vatican, why he chose to amplify the lies he was telling, whether he was a pathological liar and sociopath, how she came to find out her fiancé had been living a double life and lying to her, the revelations about multiple families, what happened after she confronted him, how the con of Dr. Paolo Macchiarini was beyond just personal but professional and medical, the reality of the supposedly innovative plastic windpipe surgery he spearheaded, advice for other women on how to spot the red flags, and more. Alexander- https://www.instagram.com/benitaalexander_official/

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Megan Kelly Show, live on Serious XM Channel 111 every weekday at New East.
0:07.0	Hey everyone, I'm Megan Kelly.
0:13.5	Welcome to the Megan Kelly Show.
0:15.0	It's Broad Week on the show this week and we are bringing you incredible
0:20.0	and disturbing true crime stories all featuring some element of fraud.
0:25.6	That's all I'm going to say because I don't want to give any of the stories away.
0:30.0	Lots of them take different and unexpected twists and turns.
0:34.1	We begin the week with the story of an NBC news producer
0:38.7	who fell in love with a super surgeon,
0:41.2	a pioneer, a miracle worker. That surgeon was... a the darling of the medical world. He promised incredible developments in regenerative
0:54.9	medicine. He was the first person to transplant synthetic wind pipes into patients while
1:00.6	covering Paolo for an NBC special,
1:03.2	producer Benita Alexander fell for the doctor.
1:07.1	But romantic getaways soon turned into a bed of lies.
1:12.0	Benita Alexander is here to tell her story.
1:15.0	Benita, it's great to meet you.
1:19.0	Thank you so much for being here.
1:21.0	Thanks for having me, Megan. It's great to be here.
1:24.0	Okay, I've been watching all of it.
1:26.0	I did, I watched the Dr Death thing that originally did this and then the Netflix special of course you did a special on investigative I mean like I'm
1:35.4	obsessed with your story it's just not there's so much about it that I find
1:41.5	incredibly telling and complex and it raises so many issues.
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