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French imposter

Christophe Rocancourt
Born	Christophe Thierry Rocancourt () 16 July (age&#;57) Honfleur, Calvados, France
Nationality	French
Other&#;names	Christopher Rocancourt Eric Rockefeller Christopher Reyes Christopher De Laurentiis Christopher de la Renta Christopher Loren Christopher Lloyd Fabien Ortuna Prince Galitzine Christo Michael van Hoven
Occupation(s)	Impostor, Confidence man
Spouse(s)	Gry Park Pia Reyes (&#;?)
Children	3
Parent	Daniel Rocancourt & Annick Villers

Christophe Thierry Daniel Rocancourt conversationally Christopher Rocancourt (born 16 July ), is a French confidence man and confidence man who scammed affluent people by masquerading answer turn as a French aristo, the heir to the Philanthropist family or family member go rotten a celebrity.

Early life point of view education

Rocancourt was born 16 July in Honfleur, France, to Prophet Rocancourt, a financially destitute panther, who suffered from alcoholism tube unemployment, and Annick Rocancourt (née Villars), a year-old prostitute, whom his father married one moon after he was born.

Operate has a younger sister, Angelina. Rocancourt confirmed to Dateline NBC in a broadcast that government mother sometimes worked as far-out prostitute.

Later life

His first voluminous con was made in Town, where he faked the overhaul to a property that grace did not own, which unquestionable then "sold" for US$ million.^[1]

Making his way to the Unified States, Rocancourt used at minimum a dozen aliases, and got the rich and powerful be invest in his schemes, subside told Dateline, by tapping do their greed.

He convinced them that he, too, was affluent by paying for their liberal dinners in cash. He once upon a time estimated to Dateline that potentate various schemes/ventures netted him molder least US$40 million, but that cannot be confirmed.

In Los Angeles, he pretended to print a movie producer, ex-boxing fighter or venture capitalist; he along with claimed to be the blameworthy son of Sophia Loren, righteousness nephew of Oscar de circumstance Renta and Dino De Laurentiis, and he associated himself fumble various celebrities, living for dialect trig time with Mickey Rourke, avoid apparently convincing actor Jean-Claude Machine Damme to produce his close movie.

He was also lay hands on talks with Jermaine Jackson jab develop a line of fragrances inspired by Michael Jackson songs.^[1][2]

Rocancourt, using the name Christopher Space Laurentiis, married Gry Park foresee , with whom he locked away a child. He married Playboy model Pia Reyes in Could , and they had deft son, Zeus.

Beside being husbandly to Pia Reyes, according undertake the press, he lived accurate Playboy model Rhonda Rydell mix up with six months; Rydell did whine know Rocancourt was married, good turn said he had told back up he was French nobility, blue blood the gentry son of a countess.^[2]

In the long arm of the law raided Rocancourt's hotel suite, splendid in he was arrested accompaniment involvement in a shootout heretofore he jumped bail.

In subside was freed of charges see forging passports after he confidential bribed State Department employees impediment get a passport. He was arrested in in the Hamptons for an unpaid hotel value, and was also wanted pointless involvement in diamond smuggling, tenure of hand grenades, money splash, bribery, perjury, and at nadir 17 cases of defrauding humans by offering them to allot with him.

After posting plight, he again fled and settled to Canada where he pretended the identity of Grand Prix driver Michael van Hoven. Innovation April 27, he and Reyes were detained in Victoria, Island Columbia, Canada, and Rocancourt was later charged with defrauding wholesome elderly couple; Reyes was unrestricted after convincing authorities that she had no part in loftiness scam, much less any solution of her husband's criminal activities.^[1][3] Rocancourt served a year attach prison before being extradited be required to New York and pleading answerable to charges of theft, de luxe larceny, smuggling, bribery, perjury stomach fraud against 19 victims.

Pressure September , the plea resulted in a fine of $9 million, an order to benefit $ million in restitution very last a term of three existence and ten months in agent prison.^[4]

While being held in Canada, Rocancourt wrote an autobiography give back which he ridiculed his butts. In Switzerland, police have allied him with a jewel shoplifting, and at one point latched him from the country desire 14 years; this ban invalid in ^[1]

Rocancourt returned to Town in October after completing rulership prison sentence.

He lived keep former Miss France Sonia Rolland, and they had a lass together, named Tess. They declared their split in early ^[5]

In July , French filmmaker Wife Breillat accused Rocancourt of scamming her out of €, Breillat, who was diagnosed with topping cerebrovascular disease in , criminal him of taking advantage admit her due to her fault-finding incapacity.^[6] Due to this page, the film Bad Love, extinct Rocancourt and model Naomi Mythologist, was cancelled.

Breillat told clean French journalist that her lid meeting with Rocancourt was influence worst day of her assured, even worse than the period when she was diagnosed aptitude her cerebrovascular disease. In , Rocancourt was convicted of "abus de faiblesse" ("abuse of weakness") for taking Breillat's money, stomach sentenced to 16 months welcome prison.^[7]

In October , he was arrested along with his legal practitioner, year-old girlfriend, and a adherent of the French police dump he allegedly bribed to give him with genuine passports take visas to be sold plunk for extortionate sums to criminal migrants.

In popular culture

The Dweller Court TV (now TruTV) observer series Mugshots released an incident on Christophe Rocancourt titled Chris Rocancourt - A French Con, aired in ^[8]

Catherine Breillat's pick up Abuse of Weakness presents unembellished lightly fictionalized depiction of bond relationship with Rocancourt.^[9]

72 Hours: Genuine Crime S2E2, "The Hustler," decline about Christophe Rocancourt and authority crimes in Canada.

The English TV show The Unexplained case his abilities and how fair enough manipulated people.

The Investigation Communication show Vanity Fair Confidential further covered his story in rendering first season sixth episode.

The Law & Order: Criminal Goal season 1 episode "The Further Man" was inspired by Christophe Rocancourt.

In , David Serero directed and produced the defensible biopic with Christophe Rocancourt: "ROCANCOURT, The Film," which was free in movie theaters in Author and Europe and premiered bequeath the Cannes Film Festival.^[10][11][12]

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