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I think it s great, it s funny, but there s no accomplishment. andy warhol once gave the opinion that in future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes. do you worry at some point there ll be fatigue over the christopher rocancourt story and how do you make a living then and why would you not go back to the old life, which you were very good at? first of all, because, like you know, there s a movie. i m going to work on that. i make great money on it. i write a book. it did become a best seller. i make great money. i write a second book again. question, are you going to live an honest life now? honest and always? yeah, i will. if you ask me, i will never lie again? no, of course i will lie again. on what level? not the same level. let s not be foolish there. i m not a stupid man. okay. i m well known for what i did. come on. no.
The first french tv interview. an entertainment show got that one. and while he was in prison, he wrote a best seller called i, christopher rocancourt: orphan, playboy, prisoner. a deal for a second book was signed within days of his arrival. he even sold the rights to his name on a clothing line. in fact, he s being treated as something of a national hero. the solitary french rogue who beat the big americans at their own greedy game. do you think you ve accomplished anything? do you think you re a hero? let s forget what i did accomplish. it s just a story to be told. to be a french citizen, barely speak english. come to america, i say, hey, i m here, there you go. let s make this playground. i think it s humorous.
Performance that he borrowed the name christopher rockefeller. the would-be rockefeller who ended up conning all those hamptonites. and it turned out that his game almost ended there, when at summer s end, he was thrown in jail for not paying a $20,000 hotel bill. hampton police sergeant, margaret dunne, and her partner, jerry larsen, got the case. what are people saying when you say they stiffed him for a lot of dough? all a big understanding. the money s available, it could be wired, he d be happy to pay the bill. once again, christopher talked his way out of a jam. the east hampton cops ran his fingerprints to check for outstanding warrants in new york state. there weren t any. but they didn t do a nationwide check. so with only the innkeeper s complaint on the record, bail was set at $45,000. christopher s wife, pia, produced the cash with no problem. where d you get the $45,000? it was just there. where? in the house.
Ferrari test rosa, a range rover, and a bentley. not a bad fleet, to get around town. not bad at all. one of those was paid for by another mark, ageing pop singer who gave him $100,000 to get him a humvee. according to his security consultant, christopher ended up keeping the humvee and he also helped himself to a bit more of his money. when the final accounting came down, a total of $500,000 was taken. hello? candy from a baby, says mitch, hired trying to get his humvee and his money back. christopher rocancourt could sell an ice cube in hell. he s one of the smoothest salesmen i ve seen and met. how much do you think you tricked people? a few dollar. how much? how much and how many? let s forget about it. you ve thought about it. no, i don t thought about it. i did make a good living. you did make a good living? yeah.
With a long history of cons and a long trail of victims. christopher s story begins in the french city of awe fleur on the normandy coast. he was born in this tiny fishing village in 1967. rocancourt was the son of an alcoholic father who froze to death in the streets and a mother who was a sometimes-prostitute. by the age of 5, christopher had been abandoned by both of them and sent to live in an orphanage. how honest are you willing to give to us in the answers you give us? 100%? 70%? no, no. i don t have time to play games anymore. rocancourt had played the game for many years and he refused to admit that he was in fact a con man, always insisting that his victims were just bad business people who loaned him some money. so you re willing now, to say, for the first time that, i, christopher rocancourt, am a con man? i ve been a confidence man.
they had met someone from a famous family who would speak to them and spend some time with them. at the fancy gym where christopher worked out, corrine eeltink took notice. the girl at the desk mentioned to me, do you know who that is? that s christopher rockefeller. and i said, oh. and everywhere he went, rockefeller was shadowed by his personal assistant, joseph. that first time they came in, the assistant gave me a card with a trump tower address and said, if you have any big parties coming up or anything, you know, we d love to be involved. so the hamptons invitations started coming and christopher rockefeller found himself a magnet for the social and financial ambitions of others. they were desperate for recognition. they were also greedy. to the surprise and the delight of the people he met, young rockefeller seemed more than willing to share the wealth. he spoke of plans to buy a $9
Some con men like to stay in the shadows, silently tracking their prey like sharks, ready to pounce on unsuspecting victims. but at the turn of this century, this man, christopher rocancourt, a french-born swindler, was working the party circuit right out in the open, in two of the most high-profile places in the united states, hollywood and the hamptons. george mueller knows the alleged con man s history and patterns as well as anyone. as an investigator for the los angeles district attorney s office, he d been trying to nail the 34-year-old frenchman for years. he wants to go down as being one of the best. the baddest and the best. the baddest and the best. he played the game beautifully. mueller says as rocancourt became more successful, anything imaginable was worth trying, like smuggling diamonds from africa. he had a fetish for fancy cars and police said he seemed to find a way to avoid paying for any of them. had a great ferrari, a
You can be a good player, but there is a time where you just retreat, you know. you have to stop it. and you re saying that won t happen again? no, i will not. i think it s a closed chapter. he s not going to change. you can t take the lines off a zebra. george mueller, the l.a. investigator who tracked rocancourt s con man career isn t buying it. i don t believe the game is over. i think christopher will be back doing what he does. i don t believe he s going to change his ways. but rocancourt insists, if anything will convince him to change his ways, it s his son, zeus. i have so much love for that child, who is my son. i think it s the most, most feeling i ever had for that i love for any human being? yeah. because i want to ask you about that, christopher. the most painful thing in your life mm-hmm. and i know what this is like, is not having a father or mother of your own.
in the con man s world, one big secret to success is couched in irony, to surround yourself with people you can trust. police say in christopher rocancourt s world, that small circle included a hulking algerian, who called himself benny. christopher was using benny for being a bodyguard, running errands for him. benny s a big guy. and he wanted him there to play that part. benny played the part for close to a year, actually moving into the beverly wilshire suite for a while. eventually, benny and christopher had a falling out. i didn t know at the time that he was a con man. but christopher would soon learn never to double cross the man who knows your secrets. mr. rocancourt, in my feeling, is a very, very bad person. it was benny who would cause christopher s world to start cracking at the seams. benny, who called los angeles county investigator, george mueller, and started talking. not just about con jobs, but also about guns stashed in the suite and about other illegal