While Macchiarini continued to deny any wrongdoing, he lost his job at the Institute and Swedish prosecutors began looking into whether his behavior was criminal. But before the wedding can happen, Benita makes a . So I just found him very, I don't want to say intimidating, because intimidating's not the word. The slip from "Prince Charming to pathological liar" took place over just two years, she said. What started as dream relationship developed into a nightmare filled with lies and deceit. His work, if controversial, is also groundbreaking. The doctors also raised the issue that Macchiarini had reported on a patient in a way that suggested the patient was still alive, even though they had died before the paper was published. She was able to get the Vatican to verify that he had never been the pope's personal doctor. 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. [00:31:32] Bob: I mean that sounds like a very special process. But this magic carpet ride takes so many twists and turns that well, you just have to hear them for yourself. She reflected on their relationship and wondered how she could've missed all the red flags. [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. Previously considered a pioneer for using both biological and synthetic scaffolds seeded with patients' own stem cells as trachea . Although her family said the injury wasn't serious enough to necessitate a tracheal transplant, she still underwent the procedure and went on to experience tremendous pain. It was killing me, and but I was also so in love with him. Alexander had already sent invitations to her closed ones. And I tend to be a very empathetic kind of person, and I am very sensitive, and I care a lot about people and so I've always used that in journalism to really sort of get inside somebody else's shoes or, or their story. 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? [00:31:00] Bob: One of those nondisclosure agreements is signed by Matthew Christopher. Benita and Macchiarini's wild relationship was featured in a special episode of ABC's 20/20 on Friday. What is happening? Together, they'd spend long weekends traveling to different countries, like Mexico, Russia and Greece. By what name was He Lied About Everything (2018) officially released in Canada in English? There's so much she couldn't do, but she had this sparkling personality. Yeah. Um, made dinner, and did all this, and then we were discussing and showing fabrications and doing sketching and then like, you know, where were we going to begin? And he said, "Just tell me when you want to stop." Alexander was assigned to work on the documentary about Paolo Macchiarini who has considered a pioneer in organ transplant. They said that the patient was doing fine and that's not true: One of his lungs was completely obliterated from a chronic infection.". Alexander, who said she'd become close to the girl's family, was "devastated," and that Macchiarini was "depressed" about it, as they both had become attached to her. Which clearly would completely change the face of, of medicine and, you know, all these people that been told they have no hope or no chance, it, it would be, it would be a gamechanger, right. So just under two months before the wedding, and it was just difficult. You know, it was awful for her family. "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. I'm your host, Bob Sullivan. With the celebrations set to last four days, Alexander had her dress designer make four different gowns. Powered by WordPress.com VIP. And so he took me on his motorcycle along the Illinois River. But Bo at the time had no idea who it was. But as the wedding planning continued, Alexander's fianc became increasingly embroiled in work-related issues. With Whoopi Goldberg filling the narrators seat, the series kicks off with the story of Paolo Macchiarini, a former world-renowned thoracic surgeon now known for research fraud and his strange involvement with an unsuspecting producer by the name of Benita Alexander. [00:31:07] Bob: But what is a couture wedding gown designer? What to tell her. I didn't, you know, how do you, how do you not ask any questions, but all my friends convinced me, they said, "You know, Benita, you know he has amazing taste. We need to be pointing the finger at the con man.. In 2020, she appeared on the ABC documentary series The Con to discuss her personal life and narrate what happened between her and Paolo Macchiarini. Lindquist said the documentary sparked outrage in Sweden, and weeks later, new investigations into Macchiarini began. Benita was also the Co-Executive Producer and narrator for the 2016 TLC documentary, "Breaking the Silence," about sexual abuse. [00:37:05] Benita: Everything was very, very secretive, and because the Pope was doing this, um, and Paolo told me that the Vatican would not even announce it until the day of our wedding so that the news didn't leak out. 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. [00:30:37] Bob: So now that she's been told the Pope is involved, Benita has another secret to keep. 5. His six papers on the transplant surgery were retracted. But unfortunately, her personal life has been marred by a turbulent childhood in Huntington Woods, Michigan, and a series of unsuccessful relationships. He was, he was just there when I needed somebody. And spent months, you know, this did not happen overnight. And he's Italian, and he wanted this big Catholic wedding in Italy. related to AARP volunteering. And the stem cells were supposed to magically integrate, and he was fixing people. And I just thought, okay, you've got some stupid little schoolgirl crush on this doctor, which is absurd. receive communications related to AARP volunteering. [00:00:01] Bob: This week on The Perfect Scam. I mean it got to the point where he loved to surprise me, everywhere we went. Excellent place. The happy couple start planning their wedding in earnest, and well, we already know Paolo likes a challenge. Her film "He Lied About Everything," about her own personal story with a con man, aired on Investigation Discovery in 2018 and continues to air around the world. You know we went on this incredibly romantic trip to Greece, and he was always videotaping me. 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. And I said, "Well what are we going to do?" After sweeping Alexander off her feet by taking her to jet-setting and romantic locales all over the world for months, Macchiarini proposed. Benita was pursuing a big story when the ill-fated lovers met in 2013. They set their wedding for 11 July 2015 in Rome. He worked at the place that awards the Nobel Prize in Medicine, Karolinska Institute in Sweden, Stockholm, Sweden. Documentary producer Benita Alexander thought it was love when her job introduced her to internationally renowned surgeon Paolo Macchiarini. It wasnt surprising being a surgeon in Italy. An astonishing true story of love, betrayal and unimaginable deception. She said that in November 2014, they had planned a trip to California to spend Thanksgiving with her family, "and he had been really stressed in the weeks before, and he had been talking to me for some time about how there were people that were against him, and his 'enemies.'". Journalist Benita Alexander is swept off her feet by a dashing Italian doctor, Paolo Macchiarini, while filming a documentary about his miraculous surgeries. Macchiarini had told Alexander that he was on a work trip in Russia, but when Alexander pulled up near his home, she said he was standing on the steps with his dog. 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. Alexander hired a private investigator to investigate all the secrets and lies about Macchiarini. [00:25:49] Bob: But, and this made him a fun interview, he doesn't mind debating his controversial techniques. [00:25:58] Bo Lindquist: I think he liked the challenge. She is currently the voice of the true crime series "Still A Mystery" on Investigation Discovery, and she has narrated four seasons of this ongoing, multi part show. He is Italian. to search for ways to make a difference in your community at Despite her work ethic, she fell in love with Macchiarini. He speaks 5 or 6 languages, and he works all over the world, and you know, dresses very beautifully. Her mother was Korean, and her dad, Canadian. Macchiarini and Benita quickly started planning an extravagant wedding, she said. A successful TV journalist, the single mother-of-one was interviewing him for a report on cutting-edge medicine. Yeah. 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. A JOURNALIST revealed the chilling clue that disclosed her lover and famed surgeon as a "romance scammer.". Her colleague had sent an article that said the pope would not be in Rome, or even Italy, on the day of their wedding. You know, all these celebrities were coming. 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. He wrote love notes in lipstick on her mirror and left roses on the bed in the shape of hearts. [00:05:31] Bob: Benita worked on several stories about medical miracles, and at the time, there was one kind of medical miracle that just kept coming up. 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. We have somebody who has been brave enough to share something thats already humiliating and devastating. In 2013, she was featured in the NBC documentary "A Leap of Faith." She has won numerous awards for her work. [00:24:07] Bob: For many months, Paolo plays his cards very close to the vest as Bo starts asking questions about the patients Paolo has worked on. [00:01:54] Bob: Benita didn't start her career working for a larger network in New York. Free online workshop! How do we, how do we tell this story? On what was supposed to be the day of her wedding, Alexander flew to Rome, where she eventually met others who'd kept their travel plans. She couldn't eat. You know, "What did he do this time? [00:36:07] Matthew Christopher: Confident, rico-suave, I am Paolo, ha-ha, and I'm like, okay, you know, I'm like am I nervous? [00:18:58] Bob: I love you in rose petals on the bed. Maybe help me, help with the invitations 'cause I don't want to deal with that. And it was, when I walked back to the motorcycle, he kind of, he just got off the motorcycle and I walked up to him, and I had tears streaming down my face, and he, he just grabbed me, you know. And when I looked at the email, there was an article, and it was an article about the fact that the Pope was not even going to be in Rome on July 11th, 2015, he was going to be in South America. 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. We had a long time together on the flight from Korea to Illinois. Um, (laugh) I was uh, in my 40s. [00:24:45] Bo Lindquist: I mean he basically said that he was going to revolutionize medicine, and, and not just invent a new kind of a trachea or a new kind of transplant, but actually revolutionize surgery. Alexander, an award-winning documentary TV producer, met Macchiarini in 2013 while working on a story about the surgeon's pioneering work transplanting synthetic tracheas, or windpipes. In need of a lung transplant, doctors arranged to transfer her to Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia. "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. Um, maybe I felt like that at some point when I was really young and I had a, had a crush in school, I don't know, but I don't, I don't ever remember feeling like that. And we got involved and started doing the story, and it got very intense. [00:19:53] Bob: While the romance is intense, it's also very secretive. [00:17:35] Benita: Around this time that my ex-husband, John, passed away, we became romantically involved. But everything else, I'm planning everything, and you can't ask me any questions.". He was kind of a rebel. It hired Bengt Gerdin, a professor at Uppsala University in Sweden, who spent six months examining some of Macchiarini's papers for evidence of research misconduct and in May 2015 determined that he was guilty, writing in his report that Macchiarini had made false claims about his patients' conditions improving, failed to report severe complications in some patients and made it seem as if some patients had been healthier for longer than they'd actually been following their surgeries. "He said he was having trouble finding a priest to marry us," she said. I was like why, why are you videotaping me again. Paolo says to me, "I want to take over the wedding planning and I want to surprise you with everything. Macchiarini proposed to Alexander on Christmas Day in 2013. She was even more stunned when she began to realize that so much of what Macchiarini had told her about his personal and professional life was a lie. Benita Alexander-Jeune started her career as a journalist for a few minor television stations. The 56-year-old actually has a podcast appropriately titled Benita & the Berracas for the same, and she continues to be an active advocate on the matter. A contact she had to the Clintons told her they'd never heard of Macchiarini. He was dying and Macchiarini became someone Alexander could lean on. News Group Newspapers Limited in England No. But before the wedding can happen, Benita makes a discovery that may prove the doctor is not all he claims to be. It could go out the window. [00:36:44] Bob: I feel like there's some people you meet who are simultaneously uh impressive but uncomfortable. [00:36:00] Matthew Christopher: On Valentine's Day, I met him. She did what she had to but never let it take over her life, which in turn helped her graduate magna cum laude from Wayne State University in 1987. Star Benita Alexander-Noel See production, box office & company info Add to Watchlist 12 User reviews Photos Add photo In the course of that operation, the surgeons had nicked her trachea. She works in Rockefeller Center and flies all around the world, and on one of these trip, she meets the man of her dreams. In response to Gerdin's report, Macchiarini denied all the findings. ", Alexander, who waited in the car, said that the last time she saw Macchiarini, he had turned around and walked back up the stairs. The Perfect ScamSMis a project of theAARP Fraud Watch Network, which equips consumers like you with the knowledge to give you power over scams. "The headline is that it started out as a beautiful love story and it ended up as a total nightmare," said Benita. Once you confirm that subscription, you will regularly And right about then, across the Atlantic Ocean, Bo is about to find out the real truth about Paolo too. One of the reasons I am so adamant about continuing to talk about this is because I think victim-shaming is terrible. I was really taken back. Exploring the troubling tales of people manipulated by claims and promises that proved too good to be true, it reveals how the perpetrator fooled their victims and made them pay the price for their misplaced trust both emotionally and financially. 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. [00:42:33] Bob: When Benita comes to her senses, she switches back into investigative reporter mode, and decides to find out the real truth behind Paolo. [00:23:07] Bob: The first time you met him was where? [00:35:25] Matthew Christopher: Um, gosh, 1-2-3 for her. With Whoopi Goldberg. 2023 Cinemaholic Inc. All rights reserved. And I was ready to ride off into the sunset, into this new life in Barcelona, and but it was also a very, very difficult decision for me. [00:05:44] Benita: Yeah, I mean the, we wanted to do a story about this field called regenerative medicine which added base core, the most simplistic way to define this is, it's sort of sci-fi, futuristic medicine where the, the goal is to be able to create body parts or organs in the lab, man-made. [00:23:14] Bo Lindquist: And then we traveled to different places. [00:39:32] Bob: And as the day approaches, Benita gets to try on that custom-made wedding dress. Star-Studded Wedding Becomes Brides Worst Nightmare, Part 1, Journalist exposes her celebrity fianc, part 2, Computer hacker drains couple's life savings. Megan Hilty on the Tony's, like she got best dress, or Debra Messing, or you know, Carli Lloyd, like the whole soccer team coming in, I'm dressing Carli Lloyd for all these, for the ESPYs, and, you know, all these amazing people that I've dressed over the years, even the Oscars and I'm, I mean it's going wow, I made it to where I love what I do. Learn how to subscribe to AARP Podcasts on any device. We had been divorced for a couple of years at that point and for three years, and he was diagnosed with glioblastoma which is a very, there's no good kind of cancer, no good kind of brain cancer, but the, you know, the outlook is not good, you know they, they kind of give someone two years at the most. 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. In July 2015 their "cat and mouse game" came to an end when she revealed to him everything she found through the private investigation. And that frees up Benita to go public about their relationship. "She was having problems with infections so, at that point, she came into contact with Dr. Hundreds of Benita Alexander's friends and family had already bought their plane tickets to Italy to attend her extravagant wedding that was supposed to be officiated by the pope when it all came crashing down in a flurry of her fianc's deception. I had to understand what happened and why. And he's getting noticed in the medical field. "When I started reading specifically the papers that Paolo himself had written, then we could quite quickly come to the conclusion that what was written in the papers was not what was going on in reality," Corbascio said. Hearings are expected to begin in 2022. 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. Death podcast. Wake up to the real world! "Paolo was a really good listener," Alexander said. 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. I was so conflicted about it. She is an executive producer, narrator, writer and director known for her work in the true crime genre. Sought after worldwide, people believed Macchiarini would one day revolutionize the field of organ transplantation, journalist Bo Lindquist said. [00:01:28] Benita: I grew up in Australia, and I had an uncle, my mother's brother, who worked for Radio Free Europe. Gerdin also said Macchiarini had failed to obtain ethical permits to perform the transplants, which he said amounted to experimentation on human subjects. [00:30:34] Bob: Now your wedding is a cause. Macchiarini convinced Alexander that the Obamas, the Clintons, the Beckhams, Elton John, and John Legend were few of many personalities to attend their wedding. [00:17:24] Bob: He was there when she needed somebody. "It was the weirdest thing," Alexander said. She was just like a little ray of sunshine, and a) I was just, it was so devastating when she didn't make it. He was incredibly generous with them as well. Its so damaging. He proposed to Alexander on Christmas in 2013 and she said yes. I'm kind of a control, you know, right, I'm kind of a control freak. Because the, in itself, more gowns were added into the wedding. From what we can tell, Benita still resides in New York alongside her daughter, where shes primarily a freelance executive producer for Lion Television, all the while serving as a public figure. And that presence was really something, it was really something. And then every month there was a new surprise. [00:20:06] Benita: We had kind of quietly gotten engaged, but we weren't telling anybody um, because I mean the complicated thing about this is that there's a sort of unwritten rule in journalism that everybody understands, that, you know, there's, there is a line you just don't cross a kind of sacred line where you don't, you can empathize with a story subject, you can sympathize, but you don't become personally involved with a story subject for, for the reason, obviously, that your objectivity could be compromised, right. 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 "The woman in Barcelona was not his wife. And one of those really, really tight embraces. He, he was supposed to be their last hope. I mean we were there to speak about science, so I thought, okay. 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