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This also explains the gullibility of Rocancourt's victims; it was obviously alluring to believe that a Rockefeller could turn $100,000 he got from the woman he conned in L.A. into a $4.2 million loan so she could buy the business she had started. "I'm sorry, you see a French guy, and I'm telling you I'm a Rockefeller", the remorseless Rocancourt would tell the producers of the limited series Inside the Mind of a Con Artist decades later. FEATURES In the late 1990s Christopher Rockefeller was married to a former Playboy Playmate, driving a Ferrari, and living in Los Angeles, where he had booked himself an entire floor at the Beverly Wilshire. A brain imaging study in 2020 showed that the reward systems in subjects' brains were activated as they were deciding to be dishonest and again when they evaluated the outcome of this decision. [Extracted from the article] |
