the man in the rockefeller suit: the astonishing rise and spectacular fall of a serial impostor  <b>a real-life <i>talented mr. ripley</i>, the unbelievable thirty-year run of a shape-shifting con man. </b> <br /><br /> the story of clark rockefeller is a stranger-than-fiction twist on the classic american success story of the self-made man-because clark rockefeller was totally made up. the career con man who convincingly passed himself off as rockefeller was born in a small village in germany. at seventeen, obsessed with getting to america, he flew into the country on dubious student visa documents and his journey of deception began. <br /><br /> over the next thirty years, boldly assuming a series of false identities, he moved up the social ladder through exclusive enclaves on both coasts-culminating in a stunning twelve-year marriage to a rising star businesswoman with a harvard mba who believed she&apos;d wed a rockefeller. <br /><br /> the imposter charmed his way into exclusive clubs and financial institutions-working on wall street, showing off an extraordinary art collection-until his marriage ended and he was arrested for kidnapping his daughter, which exposed his past of astounding deceptions as well as a connection to the bizarre disappearance of a california couple in the mid-1980s. <br /><br /> the story of <i>the man in the rockefeller suit</i> is a probing and cinematic exploration of an audacious imposer-and a man determined to live the american dream by any means necessary.