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		Rocancourt, 37, pleaded guilty on both coasts, as well as in Canada, where he was jailed a year for swindling $100,000 posing as a race car driver.
		Rocancourt is one of about 30 folks we found who over the last decade managed to get people to part with their money by posing as members of well-known families with access to great wealth or influence.
	christopher-rockefeller.blogspot.com (798 words)

	The Counterfeit Rockefeller, Steve Kroft Interviews Christopher Rocancourt - CBS News
		Rocancourt said he would be happy to loan her the money in exchange for 20 percent of the company and $100,000 up front.
		The true story of Christopher Rocancourt began 34 years ago when he was born in the fishing village of Honfleur on the northern coast of France.
		Rocancourt says he invested money in the stock market, and occasionally received loans from others — loans he was unable to repay because he got arrested.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2003/04/18/60minutes/main550070.shtml (1564 words)

	ATTN: Assignment Editors - Christopher Rocancourt
		Christopher Rocancourt, the 36-year-old convicted international con man who is charged in Los Angeles with passport fraud, is scheduled to appear in Los Angeles Superior Court Department 109 at 9 a.m.
		In October 2003, Rocancourt was sentenced in Suffolk County Court in New York for grand larceny.
		Rocancourt is scheduled to be sentenced on the local case and the sentence will run concurrently with the 46-month sentence he received in the federal case.
	da.co.la.ca.us /mr/archive/2004/032304a.htm (219 words)

	Christopher Rocancourt at AllExperts
		July 16, 1967 in Honfleur, France) is an impostor and con artist who scammed affluent people by masquerading as a French member of the Rockefeller family.
		He told Dateline NBC in a 2006 broadcast that his mother sometimes worked as a prostitute and his father was an alcoholic who took Christophe to an orphanage when the boy was 5.
		In Canada, Rocancourt wrote an autobiography in which he ridiculed his victims.
	en.allexperts.com /e/c/ch/christopher_rocancourt.htm (530 words)

	IN-DEPTH: THE COUNTERFEIT ROCKEFELLER
		Rocancourt managed to convince some members of the Hollywood elite that he was either a movie producer, a financier, or an international businessman.
		Last July, while Rocancourt was developing his schemes among the wealthy and status-conscious denizens of the Hamptons, some members of the summer colony decided to turn the tables.
		Rocancourt's assistant, Daniello was arrested along with Rocancourt on charges of theft of services on August 2, 2000.
	courttv.com /onair/shows/mugshots/indepth/rocancourt_jl.html (704 words)

	Excite - Page Six
		CON artist Christopher Rocancourt, who posed as a Rockefeller, scorns the gullible victims he swindled on both coasts and insists he never really stole their money, he just borrowed it.
		Rocancourt ripped off one woman who was looking for a $4.2 million loan to buy a movie-prop rental company.
		"Rocancourt said he would be happy to loan her the money in exchange for 20 percent of the company and $100,000 up front," Kroft reports.
	entertainment.excite.com /celebgossip/pgsix/id/04_12_2002_1.html (385 words)

	CNN.com - Faux Rockefeller: 'I misled people' - May. 20, 2003
		Rocancourt, who often claimed he was a member of the wealthy Rockefeller family, could spend less than five years in federal prison under the deal.
		Rocancourt's French accent twice left the court reporter befuddled, and a translator helped the con man detail his schemes for Sifton.
		The victims of Rocancourt's schemes will still be entitled to restitution for their losses, which assistant U.S. attorney Ron White said he would verify with receipts, wire transfer records and affidavits.
	www.cnn.com /2003/LAW/05/20/ctv.rocancourt (774 words)

	Hollywood Scandals Converging (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Rocancourt, 38, began life as a poor orphan in France and went on to travel the world, using a large number of aliases and an aura of celebrity to steal more than $1 million from the wealthy and well-connected from Beverly Hills to the Hamptons in New York.
		Pinho later testified that she also felt threatened by Rocancourt, who told her, 'You better not snitch on me, or you will take a very long nap.' She also suspected that he was responsible for leaving a decapitated mouse in her mailbox, which she understood to be a message to keep quiet.
		In March 2004, after being arrested and imprisoned for a year in Canada, Rocancourt pleaded guilty to passport fraud conspiracy in Los Angeles County Superior Court and was sentenced to five years in prison, the term to be served concurrently with two others for convictions in New York.
	www.topix.net /content/trb/1264163813259274373916145579561874059745 (1238 words)

	by Stephanie McCrummen Staff Writer
		Rocancourt was ever- attentive, always asking Eeltink how she was doing, always soothing, she said, in a platonic way.
		Rocancourt offered him a $450,000 loan in exchange for $50,000 in cash up front-"key money." He whispered that the two would go "jet setting." They would fly to Monaco and "live life large." With nothing in writing, Curry's fiance agreed to the deal, and two weekends of tennis and Hamptons cavorting began.
		Rocancourt came to his studio for what was supposed to be a 10-minute meeting.
	subtleny.150m.com /Chris/newsday.html (2480 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Nation -- Rockefeller impostor pleads guilty to fraud
		Rocancourt still could be ordered to pay millions of dollars in restitution and fines at sentencing on Sept. 12.
		Rocancourt, by his own account the son of a prostitute mother and alcoholic father, found his version of the American dream through sheer gall and gullible victims.
		Rocancourt used aliases like Christopher Rockefeller, William Van Hoven and Fabien Ortuno, the name on his fake French passport, while hobnobbing with the rich and famous in Hollywood and the Hamptons.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/nation/20030519-1631-phonyrockefeller.html (426 words)

	How the phony French 'Rockefeller' conned Americans - Dateline NBC- msnbc.com
		"Christopher Rockefeller" was a name that seemed to say it all— a name that seemed to open all the right doors in the summer of 2000 when the 38-year-old Frenchman swept throughout New York’s Hamptons summer playground to the rich and famous.
		Christopher told them the deal was simple— they put up some money, he would invest it, they would get a tenfold profit guaranteed.
		Christopher also promised millions to a real estate agent who showed him a $9 million oceanfront estate in the Hamptons.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/11770944 (1029 words)

	COURTTV.COM INDEPTH
		Rocancourt managed to convince some members of the Hollywood elite that he was either a movie producer, a financier, or an international businessman.
		Last July, while Rocancourt was developing his schemes among the wealthy and status-conscious denizens of the Hamptons, some members of the summer colony decided to turn the tables.
		Rocancourt's assistant, Daniello was arrested along with Rocancourt on charges of theft of services on August 2, 2000.
	www.courttv.com /onair/shows/mugshots/indepth/rocancourt.html (585 words)

	International con man gets another 5-year sentence \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		Christopher Rocancourt, 36, was sentenced in Superior Court for conspiracy to use a false or fraudulent passport.
		Rocancourt also fled to New York, where authorities said he bilked the wealthy by pretending to be a French relative of the Rockefeller family.
		Rocancourt, who had an extensive criminal history in France, was dubbed the counterfeit Rockefeller by the U.S. media, where he was photographed with actors Mickey Rourke and Jean-Claude Van Damme.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20040330/news_1n30phony.html (262 words)

	Manhunt Ends in Western Canada With Arrest of Hamptons Con Man - New York Times
		Rocancourt, a 33-year-old Frenchman, has been tracked on four continents in connection with crimes ranging from check kiting to forgery to diamond smuggling to a European jewel theft.
		Rocancourt was taken into custody while traveling with his wife, Pia Reyes, a former Playboy centerfold model who once said in an interview in the magazine that she did not care for deceitful men.
		Rocancourt was awaiting arraignment last night on charges of fraud, theft and misuse of credit cards, as well as immigration charges.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9C01E2DA1139F93BA15757C0A9679C8B63&sec=travel&pagewanted=print (764 words)

	International Con Man Sent to Prison
		LOS ANGELES – International swindler Christopher Rocancourt made a brief farewell appearance in a Los Angeles courtroom today as he was sentenced to prison for conspiracy to commit passport fraud.
		Rocancourt and the three others, including the adopted daughter of the president of Gabon and two federal passport employees, were charged with passport fraud in Los Angeles in March 1998.
		Rocancourt’s exploits first came to light in connection with the Los Angeles case, which was extensively investigated by the District Attorney’s Bureau of Investigation.
	da.co.la.ca.us /mr/archive/2004/032904b.htm (333 words)

	Christopher Rocancourt News - The New York Times
		Christopher Rocancourt is sentenced to one and a third to four years in prison for swindling Long Island residents out of $188,000, his second sentencing in a week on fraud charges; photo
		Christopher Rocancourt, who parted well-connected people from their money with a charming French accent, was sentence to almost 4 years in prison.
		Christopher Rocancourt, the French-born faux Rockefeller accused of swindling acquaintances out of more than $1.5 million, pleaded guilty to three federal fraud charges.
	topics.nytimes.com /top/reference/timestopics/people/r/christopher_rocancourt/index.html (635 words)

	Print Article: Playboy lifestyle sputters to a halt (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In real life, Christopher Rocancourt has no education, no money, no inheritance and he is not related to the Rockefellers.
		Police contend that Rocancourt has for years masqueraded as "Christopher Rockefeller" of the Rockefeller family, or "Christopher De Laurentis", son of the Italian film producer, Dino, or as a nephew of Sophia Loren, or the non-existent formula one racing driver Michael van Hoven.
		The rort stopped last year, when Rocancourt was arrested in Vancouver, Canada, where he was living free at a ski resort with his centrefold wife and their five-year-old son, Zeus.
	www.theage.com.au /cgi-bin/common/popupPrintArticle.pl?path=/articles/2003/04/17/1050172703548.html (505 words)

	ScamTypes » Blog Archive » Christopher Rocancourt - The False Rockerfeller
		Christopher Rocancourt was born in 1967 in the village of Hornfleur, situated in the north of France. He was given to an orphanage by his painter father and prostitute mother at the age of 9 and vowed when he left there at the age of 16 that he would reinvent his miserable past.
		Changing like the wind, Rocancourt became a different person to almost everyone he met - a racing driver, an Italian mobster, a film producer, a prince and the owner of a mass of vineyards to name but a few.
		Whilst in LA, Rocancourt was involved in scams such as fleecing $100 000 from Amanda Thayer as an advance for for arranging her a non-existent $4.2m loan for her company.
	www.scamtypes.com /?p=69 (528 words)

	COURTTV.COM ONAIR
		From France to Los Angeles to the Hamptons, Christopher Rocancourt swindled the rich and the famous.
		On the west coast, Rocancourt managed to convince some members of the Hollywood elite that he was either a movie producer, a financier, or an international businessman.
		At various times, Rocancourt claimed he was the son of Sophia Loren or the nephew of Dino De Laurentis.
	courttv.com /onair/shows/mugshots/episodes/rocancourt.html (116 words)

	Details reported in L.A. wiretap case - Boston.com
		Authorities in Los Angeles were investigating Rocancourt in connection with several alleged crimes, including bribing federal workers to provide him with a phony U.S. passport.
		Rocancourt pleaded guilty in March 2004 to passport fraud conspiracy in Los Angeles County Superior Court and was sentenced to five years in prison.
		The six people in the Rocancourt case were among scores of victims listed earlier this year in a 112-count federal indictment accusing Pellicano and others of wiretapping and illegally accessing law-enforcement databases to gain advantage in criminal and civil litigation.
	www.boston.com /news/nation/articles/2006/06/07/details_reported_in_la_wiretap_case?mode=PF (317 words)

	The Fakes - Forbes.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		He was Christopher, all right--Christopher Rocancourt, a convicted criminal in his native France wanted in Los Angeles for a passport bribery scheme and who reportedly had once posed as, among others, the nephew of filmmaker Dino De Laurentiis.
		Rocancourt, 37, pleaded guilty on both coasts, as well as in Canada, where he was jailed a year for swindling $100,000 posing as a race car driver.
		Rocancourt is one of about 30 folks we found who over the last decade managed to get people to part with their money by posing as members of well-known families with access to great wealth or influence.
	www.forbes.com /free_forbes/2004/1011/062.html?rl04?partner=msnbc (783 words)

	Inside the Minds of Con Artists
		Rocancourt is also wanted in Europe and the U.S. for fraud and theft involving millions of dollars.
		Rocancourt does all he can in the interview to convince viewers he is a far cry from the heartless criminal police have portrayed him to be.
		Rocancourt, who has used multiple aliases in order to deceive his victims, says it is not a crime to pretend to be someone else.
	www.straightshooter.net /Inside_the_Minds_of_Con_Artists.htm (1045 words)

	COURTTV.COM ONAIR
		From France to Los Angeles to the Hamptons, Christopher Rocancourt swindled the rich and the famous.
		On the west coast, Rocancourt managed to convince some members of the Hollywood elite that he was either a movie producer, a financier, or an international businessman.
		At various times, Rocancourt claimed he was the son of Sophia Loren or the nephew of Dino De Laurentis.
	www.courttv.com /onair/shows/mugshots/episodes/rocancourt.html (116 words)

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	Sue Frause
		There was nothing particularly noteworthy or unusual about the guy hunched over at the bar in Whistler, B.C. He was chatting with a fellow standing next to him as my husband and I sat down for a late night dinner.
		Christophe Rocancourt, 33, and his common-law wife were detained Thursday night at a hotel in Victoria, British Columbia on suspicion of fraud."
		Today, Rocancourt remains locked up in Vancouver, charged in British Columbia with sexual assault, threatening, assault causing bodily harm and fraud over $100,000.
	www.suefrause.com /clips.php?id=20 (722 words)

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