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'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.