Star-Studded Wedding Becomes Bride’s Worst Nightmare, Part 2

The Perfect Scam

AARP

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

4.5 • 980 Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Devastated to learn that her fiancé, celebrity surgeon Paolo Macchiarini, has been lying to her, journalist Benita Alexander calls off the wedding and begins investigating the man she was planning to give up her career and move halfway around the world for. When she goes public with her story, she learns that a Swedish journalist, Bo Lindquist, is about to expose the deadly truth behind the doctor’s miracle surgeries.

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0:00.0	This week on the perfect scam
0:02.4	We'll still get married my love. It doesn't matter if we get married under a bridge you know even if it's not the Pope we'll still get married and
0:08.8	Once all this blows over I'll pay for everybody all 300 guests, I'll fly them all to Italy.
0:14.0	We grabbed a glass of champagne and we went for a walk.
0:17.0	And she just starts to say, you know, there's something happening with Apollo.
0:30.0	A fairy tale romance followed by the wedding of the century, officiated by the Pope.
0:33.0	Joining in Wettit Bliss, a prominent New York network TV producer and an Italian surgeon,
0:40.0	a medical miracle worker who was fashioning body parts in the lab and putting them inside
0:44.8	human bodies giving hope to the hopeless.
0:48.6	It's all a magic carpet ride for Benita Alexander.
0:52.4	When we left her, she had just quit her long time job working for
0:56.0	NBC so she and Palo Macarene, the surgeon, could begin their new life together in Spain.
1:03.0	But one day after she hands in her resignation,
1:07.0	the magic carpet suddenly falls right to the ground.
1:11.0	She gets an email from a work friend which shows her the Pope isn't going to be anywhere
1:16.4	near the Vatican on the day their wedding is planned.
1:19.5	He's going to be in South America. The impact of the email is so strong Benita almost faints.
1:25.8	It's as if the scales have been lifted from her eyes and she suddenly feels the need to
1:31.8	question everything about
1:33.7	Paolo. I immediately called him and what the hell's going on and you know and you know
1:38.8	all my love I just found this out myself I don't know I'm gonna go to the Vatican I'm't know, I'm going to go to the Vatican, I'm going to figure out, I'm so sorry.
1:45.2	So Paolo goes to Rome to fix the wedding.
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