Star-Studded Wedding Becomes Bride’s Worst Nightmare, Part 1

The Perfect Scam

AARP

True Crime, Aarp, Fraud, Society & Culture, Scam, Crime, Bobsullivan

4.5 • 980 Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Journalist Benita Alexander is swept off her feet by a dashing Italian doctor, Paolo Macchiarini, while filming a documentary about his miraculous surgeries. They become engaged and plan a lavish dream wedding, to be attended by celebrities and officiated by none other than Pope Francis himself. But before the wedding can happen, Benita makes a discovery that may prove the doctor is not all he claims to be.

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0:00.0	This week on The Perfect Scam.
0:03.6	He was incredibly generous, you know, and so romantic and just so wonderful.
0:10.8	If I had a checklist, he was everything I would want in a partner
0:14.2	everything you would want in a man he says to me I want to take over the wedding
0:18.7	planning I want to surprise you with everything I don't want you to do anything
0:22.0	except find your dresses and just all you
0:24.5	have to do is show up and look beautiful, maybe help with the invitations because I don't
0:28.1	want to deal with that, but everything else, I'm planning everything and you can't ask me any questions.
0:35.0	Welcome back to the perfect scam.
0:37.0	I'm your host Bob Sullivan.
0:40.0	But Nita Alexander has everything going for her.
0:43.6	She's a star producer for NBC News in New York
0:46.9	working alongside Meredith Vieira,
0:48.9	creating primetime TV specials.
0:51.2	She works in Rockefeller Center and flies all around the world.
0:55.0	And on one of these trips, she meets the man of her dreams.
1:00.0	A famous surgeon, a miracle worker who gives hope to hopeless patients, who's rewriting the rules of medicine.
1:08.0	And the two go on a magic carpet ride together.
1:12.0	Along the way, he promises her a fairy tale
1:15.5	wedding to be officiated by the Pope. But this magic carpet ride takes so many
1:22.3	twists and turns that, well, you just have to hear them for
1:26.8	yourself.
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