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"The outcry was such that the Karolinska Institute had to do something," said Ritchie. ABC7's Dallas Raines explains the difference, Jury selection begins for convicted torturer accused of escaping jail. NEW YORK Dr Paolo Macchiarini, He Lied About Everything with Benita Alexander Armchair MBA 18K subscribers Join Subscribe 1.5K Share Save 128K views 2 years ago I chat with Benita Alexander. And we finally decided that we would live in Barcelona. In the most recent development, she narrated her story on ABC's The Con, so that more people can be made aware of such practices. It started with Andrea Bocelli was going to be singing in the church, because Paolo told me that his mother and Bocellis mother were friends. Both have covered Macchiarini in their work. See production, box office & company info, Fatal Experiments: The Downfall of a Supersurgeon. The Pope doesnt marry people. Her mother was Korean, and her dad, Canadian. By what name was He Lied About Everything (2018) officially released in Canada in English? [00:00:34] Welcome back to The Perfect Scam. His six papers on the transplant surgery were retracted. In October, 2020, her story was the premiere episode of ABC's primetime series, "The Con," hosted by Whoopi Goldberg. Which sounds a bit absurd, however, he is an Italian surgeon. Benita Alexander, and swept her off her feet with a marriage proposal and promises of a wedding . It's a very aggressive form of brain cancer. [00:17:24] Bob: He was there when she needed somebody. [00:39:32] Bob: And as the day approaches, Benita gets to try on that custom-made wedding dress. And each surprise was a bigger wow factor than the last one. [00:12:57] Bob: And there is another reason Benita must focus on her work at the time. For other inquiries, Contact Us. Oh my God, um, confident. And her parents were just distraught, you know, they wanted, they had been told she might live 6 or 7 years, and there's no cure. Why don't you, can you just for once sit back and let somebody else take over, just let him, let him take it over." Short Press Reel. Claiming he was in demand. Documentary producer Benita Alexander thought it was love when her job introduced her to internationally renowned surgeon Paolo Macchiarini. Be sure to find us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts. After Cetir's surgery, doctors say she had to undergo an additional 191 surgeries for other complications. He was dying and Macchiarini became someone Alexander could lean on. 5. Learn how vehicle tech like blind spot warnings and drowsy driving alerts can help make driving safer. And she meets Christopher at his shop. Benita Alexander has been married twice. Benita has become a recognized love conned expert and along with speaking engagements, she is a regular guest correspondent on "The Dr. Oz Show." And this is something very clandestine and secretive and he cant talk about, but hes been doing this for many years, and he is a celebrity surgeon to a number of famous people and celebrities, but that he cant talk about this because hes tied to people who want a private doctor who will attend to them but, you know, they have these private doctors, because they don't want anyone to know, you know, whats going on in their private life. [00:19:53] Bob: While the romance is intense, it's also very secretive. I'm never viewed like that, but I was definitely like, huh? He was, he was just there when I needed somebody. I think he needs to be behind bars. Macchiarini was already being scrutinized for his work, including by doctors who had been trying to save the life of one of his patients, Yesim Cetir. "The surgeons in Turkey tried to repair it and there were some complications," said Rosemary Pinto, a personal injury lawyer later hired by Cetir's family. Death." And when we went to Boston to interview Dr. Macchiarini, when he came in, it was um, I was with a colleague, and he, he came into this bar where we had arranged to have a coffee with him just to say hello the night before the interview, and you know there's, he's a very charming, good-looking man. [00:36:55] Bob: Benita, the TV producer, is very used to managing all the details of a big event. to search for ways to make a difference in your community at It really affects you. Three months later, the Karolinska Institute ruled that while Macchiarini did not always rise to the level of its standards, he had not committed scientific misconduct. NBC News is pulling "A Leap of Faith" Meredith Vieira's documentary on controversial . 2023 Cinemaholic Inc. All rights reserved. I had to expose him.". You know, "You've, you've renewed my faith in love.". It was killing me, and but I was also so in love with him. Corbascio called the decision "absolutely insane.". And Benita had a veil, and I brought over some dresses, and we were having some champagne, giggling and sketching, and it was so fun. In 2015, Alexander sent emails to the Karolinska Institute expressing concerns about the acclaimed surgeon. 5. [00:04:39] Benita: I think one of the things that can make you a good journalist if, is if you're able to put yourself in the other person's shoes, and if you're able to sympathize with them and empathize them and really try to understand what it is they're going through. And he actually said his barber in uh the south of Russia, he, he managed to find this excellent, excellent barber in Kazan there where he performed his Russian experiments, brilliant guy. She said one question was heavy on her mind: "Why did you do this to me, why would you do that to anybody? What did he do this time?" He was giving people who had no other hope. Benita Alexander-Noel was born on April 21, 1966 in Australia. With a purported VIP list of friends and clients that included former presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, Russian president Vladimir Putin and entertainment icons such as Elton John, their wedding was expected to be one of the biggest events of the year. Benita graduated magna cum laude from Wayne State University in Michigan, with a B.A in journalism. Paolo says to me, "I want to take over the wedding planning and I want to surprise you with everything. "He was a good listener and gave me sage and solid advice.". [00:31:00] Bob: One of those nondisclosure agreements is signed by Matthew Christopher. There's so much she couldn't do, but she had this sparkling personality. Come on. I thought he was playing some kind of silly game with me. This is totally different. Since her romance with Paolo imploded in 2015, the brunette beauty has continued working on documentaries and docuseries. [00:38:37] Bob: But even without asking any questions, one thing is clear, this wedding is going to be big. Their trained fraud specialists can provide you with free support and guidance on what to do next. And we first met in early 2013. Benita Alexander's documentary chronicles her fairytale romance with a celebrity surgeon that turned into a scam. [00:39:38] Matthew Christopher: Yeah, I mean we were going through fittings, we were going through the process of um getting things together. Most importantly, though, we need to mention that Benita not only attended the former doctor/her former fiancs trial in Sweden, but she also covered it as a correspondent for season 3 of the Dr. People often tell me that afterwards, that, you know, I'm very hyper-focused and very no-nonsense, you know, all business. I was like, 'What is happening to Benita,'" Alexander's friend, Marian Fontana, said. Who lost her dad. It was kind of romance on steroids. I also believe that exposing what happened, and exposing him, might keep him from hurting others. I have to tell you, and I'm like, you know, I'm a very boisterous, fun guy, that's, you know, and very um, slap-happy fun, and I literally stopped in my tracks, and was like, "Huh?" 5 Journalist Benita Alexander (right) has. [00:12:11] Benita: Not like that, you know, this was, this was one of those almost cliche movie moments where, you know, I don't even believe in love at first sight, but there was some sort of thing, something happened. [00:31:04] Matthew Christopher: I'm a couture wedding gown designer. And so there was a lot of palpable excitement about this wedding, you know, people were really eager and excited for this wedding. A contact she had to the Clintons told her they'd never heard of Macchiarini. She had already spent good money on her wedding preparations. The article's author, journalist Adam Ciralsky, had also uncovered fabrications in Macchiarini's professional life, and he documented a number of examples of Macchiarini misrepresenting his medical training and work history. Prior to this, Benita spent 17 years in network television, producing long-form documentaries, breaking news, investigations, specials and hard news features for NBC. Want to keep up with the latest crime coverage? She finds that story in South Korea. She couldn't eat. Alexander then married, Edson Jeune, a ballroom dancer. And this trip had been planned for a very long time. I still remember my first day walking in there too, especially with, with all the art, the art deco and everything. It was beyond Benita's wildest dreams - Macchiarini reportedly told her he invited Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and Elton John, and that the Pope himself would oversee the ceremony. A post shared by Benita Alexander (@loveconned). And I was, I was really moved by that. And it's a beautiful building, and it just has this feeling about it, you know, as you, it's a very special feeling too. News Group Newspapers Limited in England No. Subtle message to him, perhaps. By the time Alexander discovered these things about Macchiarini, she said she'd spent over $50,000 on wedding preparations and quit her job. She is honestly proud of how far she has come (as she should be), and its evident shell never let anything or anyone take this journey/narrative away from her. But, she said he was in a "foul mood" the entire time they were there as he dealt with the continuing fallout from the allegations. Star-Studded Wedding Becomes Brides Worst Nightmare, Part 1, Journalist exposes her celebrity fianc, part 2, Computer hacker drains couple's life savings. En Espanol [00:03:01] Benita: Yeah, one of the ones um, there was a father in New Jersey, whose wife had abducted their son to Brazil, parental abduction, which is when one parent takes the child, against the other parent's will to another country. "I was doing a story about regenerative medicine and his name kept coming up," Benita, a New York resident, said on the podcast Dr Death: Miracle Man. "He [the Pope] wanted to use us as the poster couple for the Catholic church, to prove people who are divorced can get married in the Catholic church.". Hosted by Benita Alexander. But then I, and this was October of 2014, and I went and googled, the first thing I did was I went to my desk and googled, literally googled, Does the Pope marry people? And what popped up was an article from a month earlier where the Pope had just married 20 couples in the Vatican. [00:31:42] Matthew Christopher: Yeah, I do, you know, I've done tons of celebrity stuff, tons of Broadway stuff. And he had been fighting with her in the courts in Brazil over this, and then she passed away, unfortunately. Documentary producer Benita Alexander thought it was love when her job introduced her to internationally renowned surgeon Paolo Macchiarini. It was an excellent place. [00:31:37] Bob: Matthew is no stranger to dressing important people at important times. The happy couple start planning their wedding in earnest, and well, we already know Paolo likes a challenge. "He comes around the corner, he looks right at me and in that second something happened. It was going to be this four-day event in Rome, you know, with a red carpet event the night before the wedding, and a big brunch the day after the wedding, and people bought plane tickets, they bought fancy, you know, red carpet attire for this wedding. The latter refers to his misconduct that led to the deaths of several patients. TV & Film Producer, Director, Writer, Correspondent, Narrator. Capping off a whirlwind romance filled with gondola rides in Venice and quiet dinners in the Greek islands, she was promised a wedding in the Italian countryside officiated by the Pope himself. We were sitting together on the, on the plane, and I just sort of started pouring my heart out to him, and he was a very good friend. As a producer, for me that was next to impossible. I loved my life at NBC. Ole Petter Ottersen, president of the Karolinska Institute since 2017, told ABC News in a request for comment on Macchiarini, "It is obvious that KI's initial handling of this case was insufficient and inadequate on several points. "It said that he had a normal functioning airway," Corbascio said. She'd been in the intensive care unit in Turkey for three years, and her health was still deteriorating. I was so career-driven, and so career-oriented, but I was madly in love. And, and, and embraced me and held me so hard. She's a star producer for NBC News in New York, working alongside Meredith Viera creating primetime TV specials. And we got involved and started doing the story, and it got very intense. [00:34:26] Matthew Christopher: You put your, I am going to make the most gorgeous dress you've ever seen. Benita Alexander, an award-winning documentary TV producer and Paolo Macchiarini fall in love after meeting in 2013 while she is working on a story about the surgeon's pioneering w Show more. [00:32:33] Matthew Christopher: (laugh) She said to me as I um, she said to me, "Well, Matthew, (or team)" she goes, "Well, I'm getting married by the Pope." And so I was sort of, by becoming involved with him and by falling in love with him, I was breaking this cardinal rule in journalism that you don't get involved with a subject of your story, and even though when we did fall in love, it was, we were at the end of the production of the story, we kept it quiet because of that. She said she called the castle where all the guests were supposed to be staying and asked them about the reservation, which they didn't have. But before the wedding can happen, Benita makes a . [00:06:37] Bob: Dr. Paolo Macchiarini, he's doing surgeries that most doctors could only dream about. You know, it was awful for her family. And somehow, when I read that email, I guess all those little red flags that I had been ignoring, the things that were eating at my gut, I just knew. [00:39:49] Matthew Christopher: Um, so Paolo was going to have a place where he came out, after he did something with the Pope, and he said he's going to give her this ring, and there were going to be fireworks and blah, blah, blah, but he was going to be handed off to her in this dress, right, for a reception, and the dress was going to come out with this tulle overskirt, and it was going to ripped off by Paolo, and it was going to have a dance gown underneath, like Dancing with the Stars. [00:32:14] Matthew Christopher: She actually came to my private showroom which was really cool, and um, I had my whole staff there, and we had to sign a nondisclosure agreement, and I was like, what is going on here? [00:01:59] Benita: I had worked my way up from working in, from tiny little newspapers in Detroit, Michigan, which is where I went to college and where I'd, my family had moved after Australia. It defeats the point, Benita recently said. [00:33:22] Matthew Christopher: Right. [00:25:49] Bob: But, and this made him a fun interview, he doesn't mind debating his controversial techniques. Alexander is well-known for her career in production and film and was also in a relationship scam that made headlines and fueled her documentary, "He Lied About Everything." How do we, how do we tell this story? The Korean girl that had undergone Macchiarini's procedure in Illinois, whose story Alexander had been sent to cover, had died in the time following the surgery. [00:08:14] Benita: But we, we started looking into him, and then he was about to do a transplant on this beautiful, beautiful little toddler, um, her name was Hannah, from Seoul, South Korea. Its so damaging. [00:26:36] Benita: Paolo wanted a big, Catholic wedding. In the next 24 hours, you will receive an email to confirm your subscription to receive emails [00:08:01] Bob: Benita knows she wants to do a special about Paolo's work, but she needs a story, a patient that viewers can follow from beginning to end. Anyone that knows anything about private schools in New York knows how hard that is. But when it comes to the wedding, Paolo takes the lead. [00:31:32] Bob: I mean that sounds like a very special process. We need to be pointing the finger at the con man.. I mean, I got this sort of chill through my body, like there was some sort of electric spark, and I remember, in my head, thinking, 'What the hell was that?'". They became friends and over time she felt herself falling for him, despite her journalistic integrity impeding the romance. But the biopsies showed the cells were dead and that there was actually fungi growing on the plastic, he said. Powered by WordPress.com VIP. But everything else, I'm planning everything, and you can't ask me any questions." I was like why, why are you videotaping me again. The slip from "Prince Charming to pathological liar" took place over just two years, she said. She said Macchiarini had told her that for their wedding, the Vatican had offered them the pope's summer residence in the Italian town of Castel Gandolfo. "He was a top doctor, he spoke six or seven languages. And he's Italian, and he wanted this big Catholic wedding in Italy. Thank you to our team of scambusters; Executive Producer, Julie Getz; Researcher, Haley Nelson; Associate Producer, Annalea Embree; and of course, our Audio Engineer, Julio Gonzalez. I didn't even, I, I, I stopped in hesitation. He seemed that way in his work as well, but here he is talking to me and spending all this time listening to me and seemed very vested in this little girl that he had never met. And spent months, you know, this did not happen overnight. Paolo showers Benita with affection. He proposed to Alexander on Christmas in 2013 and she said yes. A presence. [00:24:20] Bo Lindquist: When we made our initial agreement to, to start filming, he said that his uh, personal life would be out of bounds, and I mean a bit odd that, that we couldn't even talk about where he went to school or, or something like that, but why should we? 5 Journalist Benita Alexander (right) has revealed chilling clues that disclosed her lover and famed surgeon Paolo Macchiarini as a "romance scammer" Credit: Instagram / loveconned 5 In the months leading up to the airing of A Leap of Faith, in June 2014, Macchiarini and Alexander went on trips to the Bahamas, Turkey, Mexico, Greece, and Italy. [00:23:07] Bob: The first time you met him was where? He wrote love notes in lipstick on her mirror and left roses on the bed in the shape of hearts. But at this point, they're just questions. None of the promises Alexander said her fianc Paolo Macchiarini had made for their wedding day would come true. ABC News produced a tv series, The Con, that explores stories of people taken in by claims and promises that proved too good to be true, revealing how the victims were fooled and the cost of their false trust. He's also had his artificial trachea removed. [00:31:35] Matthew Christopher: Yeah, it is a special process. Her new podcast "Benita and the Berracas," will feature Benita talking to other women who open up to her about their own love conned stories, along with advice on how to avoid becoming a victim. "He and I started going to dinners and I was kind of pouring my heart out to him about all this stuff. In September 2020, Swedish prosecutors announced charges against Macchiarini for aggravated assault in connection to three surgeries that he had performed at the Karolinska University Hospital, including Cetir's. You know, we should do this to help Pope Francis, we should do this to help the Catholic church, and so it was almost like an obligation. Alexander hired a private investigator to investigate all the secrets and lies about Macchiarini. Therefore, when Benita met the charming Paolo Macchiarini in the spring of 2013, thanks to NBCs A Leap of Faith, and he swept her off her feet, she crossed the professional line to start a romance with him. And so I did, you know, I sat back, and even when I was tempted to ask questions, I didn't. Call the AARP Fraud Watch Network Helpline at 877-908-3360. "He said he was having trouble finding a priest to marry us," she said. Meanwhile, the investigation into Macchiarini's professional life was ramping up -- the Karolinska Institute was investigating whether he'd fabricated aspects of his medical research. [00:40:30] Benita: Paolo lived in Barcelona, and so we had talked about what were we going to do after the wedding. "We had to clear her throat basically every four to six hours, sort of 24 hours, seven days a week," said Oscar Simonson, a cardiothoracic surgeon who worked at the Karolinska Institute and its affiliated hospital at the time. The way he used stem cells with his plastic tracheas would eventually develop into something quite extraordinary where you could use stem cells to target organs or other areas of the body where the, where there was a medical problem. Of the eight patients given artificial tracheas by Macchiarini, only one is still alive today. And it's presented to me by Paolo, it's not even about our wedding or about our love story. And he came to visit us in Australia, and I was just, I was only 8, but I was ab--, absolutely infatuated with what he was doing and asked him all these questions. I mean it was crazy. She was devasted to learn all the lies told by Macchiarini. Benita is the Executive Producer of the documentary film, He Lied About Everything, which premiered in the U.S. in 2018 on Investigation Discovery, and continues to be broadcast around the world. Macchiarini took Alexander to several romantic getaways in Europe. I don't want you to do anything except find your dresses and just, all you have to do is show up and look beautiful. [00:35:25] Matthew Christopher: Um, gosh, 1-2-3 for her. She is an executive producer, narrator, writer and director known for her work in the true crime genre. "As furious as it makes me what he did [to me and] my daughter, the thought that this is a man who has people's lives in his hands. She couldn't do anything that a normal child could do. Previously considered a pioneer for using both biological and synthetic scaffolds seeded with patients' own stem cells as trachea . On the back of his motorcycle, he drove her along the Illinois River until they found a place where she could memorialize her ex-husband. And he's getting noticed in the medical field. [00:25:28] Bo Lindquist: He was definitely prone to getting angry and, and could be quite violently. Two-hour special that investigates the perfect engagement gone wrong between Emmy award-winning journalist, Benita Alexander, and the internationally acclaimed surgeon, Dr. Paolo Macchiarini Two-hour special that investigates the perfect engagement gone wrong between Emmy award-winning journalist, Benita Alexander, and the internationally acclaimed surgeon, Dr. Paolo Macchiarini. [00:02:15] Bob: Still a young journalist, she found her way to the top of her profession very quickly. How to tell her, how to get her through this, and how is life going to change for her, and what does this mean for me? [00:35:53] Bob: And while the dresses are being made, while the other wedding preparations are underway, Matthew meets Paolo. You know this man adores you. And he, so his reputation sort of proceeds him, but when he walked in to where we were sitting that day, he, when he walked in, he looked right at me, and our eyes met, and I've never in my life had something like this happen to me before, but I, I felt like a silly, little schoolgirl. I'm, you know, I like, I like information. It does so much unnecessary damage. On your mark, get set, go. At the time, Macchiarini was employed by the prestigious Karolinska Institute in Sweden. 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And you know, dozens of roses and champagne and always the best champagne. [00:00:01] Bob: This week on The Perfect Scam. Paolo Macchiarini was born in Switzerland to Italian parents and has spoken of having had a difficult childhood in Basel, where by his own account he felt like a perpetual outsider in school. ET. Then, two years later, her father, whod married a neighbor, asked her to pack up her bags and leave for good. Alexander said that day marked the beginning of their relationship. There was no evidence the Obamas had heard of him, either. I was torn up about it, and my last day at NBC was in May of 2015. I really felt that we made a difference, you know, we, our story played a huge role, I think, in paving the way for him to finally bring his son home, and those are the kind of things that really mean a lot, at least to me in journalism. Meanwhile, the doctors were still trying to save Cetir's life. This was holy cow. For AARP's The Perfect Scam, I'm Bob Sullivan. 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