It wasnt surprising being a surgeon in Italy. Some even believed he'd win a Nobel Prize one day, according to author Stuart Ritchie. Not, not that kind of just instant, immediate spark. 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. View this post on Instagram I mean it got to the point where he loved to surprise me, everywhere we went. Be sure to find us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Alexander hired a private investigator to investigate all the secrets and lies about Macchiarini. Along the way he promises her a fairy tale wedding to be officiated by the Pope. 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. The Sun website is regulated by the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO), Our journalists strive for accuracy but on occasion we make mistakes. 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. Benita was also the Co-Executive Producer and narrator for the 2016 TLC documentary, "Breaking the Silence," about sexual abuse. 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. 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. And I, I think at least that it makes me a better writer and a better journalist. [00:31:56] Bob: Benita sees a dress made by Christopher in a New York City store, but it isn't quite right. 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. Capping off a whirlwind romance filled with gondola rides in Venice and quiet dinners in the Greek islands, she was. She was just like a little ray of sunshine, and a) I was just, it was so devastating when she didn't make it. Who lost her dad. You know the, the invitations talked about needing a password, a secret password to get into the wedding, and you couldn't get in unless you had the invitation with you. Death podcast. [00:11:57] Benita: Ooh, you're going to make me do math. [00:35:21] Bob: It does sound like the kind, I mean we were talking about what, 10 gowns? [00:14:35] Benita: The thing about Paolo is he's a very good listener, and we, after a shoot sometimes, would go out to dinner, or we would be in a group of people talking. ABC News reported that Macchiarini has never spoken publicly about his relationship with Benita. And she meets Christopher at his shop. Alexander didn't initially believe him, but she said Macchiarini told her that the pope wanted to push forward his progressive agenda for the church. Javascript must be enabled to use this site. 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. 1996-2023, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. And I was raised Episcopalian, but I said, "I know, I know enough about the Catholic religion to know that no priest is going to marry two divorcees," and he, he, you know, he said, "Don't worry. Benita Alexander, and swept her off her feet with a marriage proposal and promises of a wedding . And I was, I was really moved by that. She was floored when he told her John Legend would sing at their wedding and Pope Francis would officiate. But at this point, they're just questions. After doing some digging, it transpired that Macchiarini was not the medical genius she thought he was. What did he do this time?" She later tied the knot with a ballroom instructor Edson Jeune in 2012, yet even that didnt work out. [00:09:12] Bob: And so, Benita travels to Boston to meet the miracle worker for herself. And we rode for probably 30, 45 minutes until I sort of found a spot that I thought was appropriate, and I got off the bike and I went to the water. Benita Alexander attended Wayne State University, where she studied journalism. Six years later, in 2009, they filed for divorce. The procedure uses the framework of a plastic tube lined with the patient's stem cells and is intended to help them replicate into a healthy version of the . People could be dying because of this man, and therefore, I couldn't stay silent, I couldn't crawl under the covers. To inquire about a licence to reproduce material, visit our Syndication site. In the next 24 hours, you will receive an email to confirm your subscription to receive emails During her investigation into Macchiarini, Alexander hired private investigators in the U.S. and Italy. I want him to look around that courtroom and see the families of the patients whose lives he destroyed, and see my face and at last be forced for whatever few seconds to look us all in the eye and maybe understand what he did," Alexander said. "It said that he had a normal functioning airway," Corbascio said. And basically giving up everything. But on the afternoon that she met him, a day before she was supposed to begin filming him, something happened that gave her pause. Alexander said that day marked the beginning of their relationship. [00:36:55] Bob: Benita, the TV producer, is very used to managing all the details of a big event. The latter refers to his misconduct that led to the deaths of several patients. And it was very difficult for us um, with the story because, you know, we had all hoped for one of these happy endings, you know, this was, the hope was to do a two-hour special, and at the end of it, you know, Hannah's home in South Korea, running around the backyard with her, her big sister, and you know, being a happy toddler as, as she should have been all along, and you know, Hannah was the most vibrant little girl. Because the, in itself, more gowns were added into the wedding. [00:31:42] Matthew Christopher: Yeah, I do, you know, I've done tons of celebrity stuff, tons of Broadway stuff. He has been convicted of research-related crimes in Italy and Sweden. And I got so irritated with him, I actually hung the phone up on him. It was magical. They said that the patient was doing fine and that's not true: One of his lungs was completely obliterated from a chronic infection.". And spent months, you know, this did not happen overnight. 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It just never stopped, to the point that I would come home from these trips, and all my friends were hanging on the edge of their seat. 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. [00:01:54] Bob: Benita didn't start her career working for a larger network in New York. And I made it to this point. 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? This story is extremely personal and difficult for me to share, but the journalist in me couldnt let it be, Alexander says in the release. [00:19:53] Bob: While the romance is intense, it's also very secretive. And then every month there was a new surprise. After doing her own research, Alexander found that Pope Francis had just married 20 couples and began to believe it was possible after all. That hideous under eye makeup , the obvious heavy Botox , that absurd VERY heavy makeup AND that over-dyed silly black hair says it all. [00:30:47] Benita: It was all very hush-hush, you know, everybody that was involved in the wedding planning, including the people that designed the wedding invitations, the people that made my wedding dresses, everybody had to just, had to sign nondisclosure agreements. But there was something, yeah, something happened between us the, the moment we met. "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. Benita has since spoken up about her experiences in the media, given public speeches, and written detailed articles in renowned publications to bring awareness to the concept of love con. In the course of that operation, the surgeons had nicked her trachea. 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. "The Sun", "Sun", "Sun Online" are registered trademarks or trade names of News Group Newspapers Limited. [00:02:31] Benita: Yeah, right! For further details of our complaints policy and to make a complaint please click this link: thesun.co.uk/editorial-complaints/, Journalist Benita Alexander (right) has revealed chilling clues that disclosed her lover and famed surgeon Paolo Macchiarini as a "romance scammer", The two fell for each other when Benita was interviewing Macchiarini for a story, The couple planned a lavish wedding set to take place in 2015 that felt too good to be true after Macchiarini said the Pope would officiate it, Benita decided to hire a private investigator, which led to her discovering her famous surgeon lover was actually facing legal trouble over his innovative techniques, Benita said she left her job of 17 years to marry Macchiarini, Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO). 5. So now, if you wish to learn more about the latters narrative as well as her current inspirational standing, weve got the details for you. 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? 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. That makes me crazy. He responded wow,'" Benita claimed. Claiming he was in demand. [00:31:04] Matthew Christopher: I'm a couture wedding gown designer. In a 500-page complaint filed in 2014 that detailed their allegations, the doctors accused Macchiarini of promoting a medical procedure that showed few signs of success while endangering the lives of his patients. [00:23:14] Bo Lindquist: And then we traveled to different places. 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. So over the next few days he tells me that theres something hes never told me before, and that he is actually Pope Franciss private personal doctor. Elton John was going to be performing. She's a star producer for NBC News in New York, working alongside Meredith Viera creating primetime TV specials. [00:35:01] Matthew Christopher: No, no, just her friends who are so much fun. But this magic carpet ride takes so many twists and turns that well, you just have to hear them for yourself. [00:41:47] Bob: But not as scary as what happens next. And so does anyone who has anything to do with the wedding. Benita Alexander is a producer, director, writer, and narrator, who has actually been behind several episodes of ID's 'Now,' 'Dateline,' and even 'Inside the Obama White House.' It thus comes as no surprise that her professional success has given way to her confidence. Quack, quack, quack. 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. 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. The true tale of the love affair between award-winning investigative producer Benita Alexander and world-renowned surgeon Paolo Macchiarini. [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. But Benita's intuition overtook her and she hired a private investigator to look into the surreal wedding. And I said, "Well how's that going to work, because we're both divorcees," or so I thought, and I'm not Catholic. 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 was taking an incredible risk by getting involved with Paolo. She reflected on their relationship and wondered how she could've missed all the red flags. Moreover, the Italian investigator found records showing that despite planning a wedding with Alexander for so long, Macchiarini was still legally married. [00:23:10] Bo Lindquist: The first time was in Stockholm at the Karolinska Institute. They become engaged and plan a lavish dream wedding, to be attended by celebrities and officiated by none other than Pope Francis himself. [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. He traveled to Illinois to operate on a Korean toddler who was born without a trachea and who was going to be the youngest person to ever receive an artificial one. Benita Alexander is an award-winning investigative television producer, showrunner, correspondent, director, writer and narrator who has worked on a wide variety of film and TV programs. 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. The two-part special He Lied About Everything premieres on ID on Wednesday, Feb. 14 from 8 to 10 p.m. Benita was also the Co-Executive Producer and narrator for the 2016 TLC documentary, Breaking the Silence," about sexual abuse. ", "As devastated as I was and as much as I wanted to crawl under the covers and hide and stay there, I knew I couldn't fall apart," she said. Famous For Being an American actress and producer. And he was not doing well, and I was really struggling with the fact that I was about to become a single mother. As a producer, for me that was next to impossible. [00:12:41] Bob: And you went forward with that weekend pushing the feeling aside, right? And we finally decided that we would live in Barcelona. Documentary producer Benita Alexander thought it was love when her job introduced her to internationally renowned surgeon Paolo Macchiarini. "I was angry as hell. Benita met and married a fellow reporter, John Noel, and moved with him to New York, where they welcomed their daughter in 2003. But before the wedding can happen, Benita makes a . The story with making a couture gown is, you know, it goes through, gosh, a team of pattern makers, drapers, um, stitchers, sewers, hand stitchers, beading and embroiderers, lace, and all that kind of stuff. 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." On Feb. 14, Investigation Discovery, in conjunction with Efran Films, will premiere the astonishing and true story of love gone wrong in a new documentary special called, He Lied About Everything. 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. By the time he performed the artificial trachea transplant on Cetir, he had already performed the same procedure on four other patients. Benita Alexander-Jeune started her career as a journalist for a few minor television stations. 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. 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. How does one design a wedding dress for a wedding [00:34:25] Matthew Christopher: With the Pope? 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. 679215 Registered office: 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF. TV & Film Producer, Director, Writer, Correspondent, Narrator. Benita Alexander, an award-winning documentary television producer and single mother, shares her story in ABC's "The Con." ABC News At the time, Macchiarini was employed by the prestigious Karolinska Institute in Sweden. After she called Macchiarini, furious about what she'd read, she began to wonder what else he might have lied about. [00:25:56] Bob: How did he take to being questioned? Every time he took me on a trip, he just delighted in these, these big, over the top, elaborate surprises. 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. "That wasn't true. If you want to tell somebody's story well, it, it helps if you can really tell it from their perspective. 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. Macchiarini told Alexander he was having difficulty finding a Catholic priest who would marry two divorcees, but he told her not to worry, he would talk to his contact in the Vatican. And it's Paolo who helps Benita figure out the best way to say goodbye. He, he had sort of slowly moved his way into my heart and I, I think I just really needed to be wrapped in love at the time, and I, yeah, we fell in love. 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?'". I was like why, why are you videotaping me again. I, I had just, in that moment I didn't have the information yet, but I just knew he was lying about everything. The documentary includes never-before-seen footage and photos and shows Alexanders search for the truth after such a shocking betrayal of the heart. You'll start receiving the latest news, benefits, events, and programs related to AARP's mission to empower people to choose how they live as they age. Of course, it's Valentine's Day, I'm like, oh my God. This was, I didn't even know what to say. He actually brought him home on Christmas Day, and he and I are still in touch. The two-part special details how Alexander, an award-winning investigative news producer, met Dr. Paolo Macchiarini while she was producing an NBC News special about the renowned surgeons work in the field of regenerative medicine. Her daughter has thus been the only constant in her life. Oh, and a dance gown too, that was crazy fun. [00:10:23] Benita: Yeah, the thing about this was, I am, and I'm, I'm very serious when I work. So I just found him very, I don't want to say intimidating, because intimidating's not the word. In need of a lung transplant, doctors arranged to transfer her to Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia. 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 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. All Bo knew was that Paolo was very charming. One of the reasons I am so adamant about continuing to talk about this is because I think victim-shaming is terrible. Benita Alexander has been married twice. "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.". I was just giddy with happiness. She is also the CEO of Berraca Productions, a company she founded to further her advocacy work empowering women who are the survivors of fraud. He has peoples lives in his hands.. And I open the door, and there's a trail of rose petals leading up to the bed, and it says "I love you" in rose petals on the bed. And it's presented to me by Paolo, it's not even about our wedding or about our love story. Oh my God, um, confident. Benita Alexander is a producer, director, writer, and narrator, who has actually been behind several episodes of IDs Now, Dateline, and even Inside the Obama White House. It thus comes as no surprise that her professional success has given way to her confidence. This very personal film, which Benita narrates herself, documents how her fairytale romance with a world-renowned surgeon turns into a nightmare. As these events were unfolding, Maccharini allowed Lindquist to follow him for a documentary film. So he was very interesting and very fascinating and also because he was a pioneer, and he was pushing the envelope, you know, he was a little bit, a little bit radical, but doing, he was taking chances that nobody else would, and we actually need people like that in medicine. To see all content on The Sun, please use the Site Map. [00:17:35] Benita: Around this time that my ex-husband, John, passed away, we became romantically involved. That's next week on The Perfect Scam. My friends and my family all adored him. I said, I just, I can't do this. 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. [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. Once you confirm that subscription, you will regularly 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. You know, part of it is you meet so many different people that you would never meet otherwise, but when you can tell a story that actually makes a difference in someone's life, that, to me, that's one of the most beautiful things about journalism. She is an executive producer, narrator, writer and director known for her work in the true crime genre. [00:21:22] Benita: Tragically, Hannah passed away, which was, um, just devastating. His six papers on the transplant surgery were retracted. Their guest list, Alexander said, included Elton John, the Beckhams, the Obamas, the Clintons and Russell Crowe. ID gives the viewer the opportunity to experience this along with Benita the highs and the lows and to discover, along with her, howhe lied about everything, says Henry Schleiff, Group President of Investigation Discovery, Destination America and American Heroes Channel in a press release about the documentary. She said one question was heavy on her mind: "Why did you do this to me, why would you do that to anybody? 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." Nothing anybody could do for her, and then like so many of Dr. Paolo Macchiarini's patients, they did a google search and found this kind of a magician of a surgeon who said I can help your little girl. [00:31:35] Matthew Christopher: Yeah, it is a special process. You know, the equivalent of going to a drugstore and buying whatever, you, they, the idea is ultimately we'll get to the point that, you know, you have a failing organ or you lose a body part, you just order up a new one. But unfortunately, her personal life has been marred by a turbulent childhood in Huntington Woods, Michigan, and a series of unsuccessful relationships. [00:04:24] Benita: Right, yeah, and they're not always happy endings, and you do, you, unfortunately, you know, you report on a lot of very, very difficult things in news. 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. [00:41:50] Benita: The day after I quit my job, I got an email from a colleague and the headline just said, "The Pope." And she was Daddy's Little Girl. I mean I, I loved NBC. The Love Con: Directed by Star Price. 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