I want, I just want to get the job done. 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. Quack, quack, quack. In 2013, she was featured in the NBC documentary "A Leap of Faith." She has won numerous awards for her work. I mean things don't move forward if we don't have people who are willing to, you know, you know, push things a little bit and he, he was that guy, you know, and he, he was very fascinating. [00:36:51] Matthew Christopher: Yeah, yes, oh my gosh. I still remember my first day walking in there too, especially with, with all the art, the art deco and everything. And you know, dozens of roses and champagne and always the best champagne. Javascript must be enabled to use this site. 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 And, and, and embraced me and held me so hard. 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. In 2019, she produced the Oxygen doc Seduced By Evil, which chronicles another con-man, Derek Alldred. You know, all these celebrities were coming. Hosted by Benita Alexander. The providers terms, conditions and policies apply. I was just giddy with happiness. 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?'". 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. 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. It was, it was a huge change and a huge change for my daughter. Ole Petter Ottersen, president of the Karolinska Institute since 2017, told ABC News in a request for comment on Macchiarini, "It is obvious that KI's initial handling of this case was insufficient and inadequate on several points. [00:30:37] Bob: So now that she's been told the Pope is involved, Benita has another secret to keep. In her personal life, she's also looking for a medical miracle, a miracle that, well it wasn't going to come. She had already spent good money on her wedding preparations. And so we, we thought, you know, this is a perfect case to focus a story around, and so we started doing Hannah's story. And it's presented to me by Paolo, it's not even about our wedding or about our love story. ", Heartbroken, Alexander continued to discover more of Macchiarini's lies in the ensuing months. By what name was He Lied About Everything (2018) officially released in Canada in English? Prior to this, Benita spent 17 years in network television, producing long-form documentaries, breaking news, investigations, specials and hard news features for NBC. In September 2020, Swedish prosecutors announced charges against Macchiarini for aggravated assault in connection to three surgeries that he had performed at the Karolinska University Hospital, including Cetir's. Season 1 (206) 2018 13+ He Lied About Everything is the true tale of the love affair between award-winning investigative producer Benita Alexander, and world-renowned surgeon Paolo Macchiarini. It said he'd be in South America and that the "trip had been planned for quite some time," Alexander said. Oh, and a dance gown too, that was crazy fun. "I was doing a story about regenerative medicine and his name kept coming up," Benita, a New York resident, said on the podcast Dr Death: Miracle Man. AARP is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that empowers people to choose how they live as they age. That hideous under eye makeup , the obvious heavy Botox , that absurd VERY heavy makeup AND that over-dyed silly black hair says it all. 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. Short Press Reel. Um, which is just something I never thought I would do, you know. [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. Alexander hired a private investigator to investigate all the secrets and lies about Macchiarini. Yeah. So he goes to the Vatican, ostensibly, to ask for help finding someone who will marry us, and he calls me after that meeting and says to me, tells me I need to sit down, um, he has good news, but I need to sit down. Documentary producer Benita Alexander thought it was love when her job introduced her to internationally renowned surgeon Paolo Macchiarini. He actually brought him home on Christmas Day, and he and I are still in touch. And so we were looking into this field, and we found this doctor. The happy couple start planning their wedding in earnest, and well, we already know Paolo likes a challenge. He was speaking at a conference in Boston, and we went there to interview him, sort of ahead of Hannah coming to the US, about his work and about Hannah. I love some pressure, let's go for it. [00:38:37] Bob: But even without asking any questions, one thing is clear, this wedding is going to be big. And I, I think at least that it makes me a better writer and a better journalist. All of this was happening around the same time that Alexander was preparing to share her own story publicly for the first time in a Vanity Fair article. He says to me, "I want to take over the wedding planning and I want to surprise you with everything. Paolo Macchiarini proposes to Benita Alexander before leaving US for work: Part 2Alexander seemed to be living a fantasy lifestyle. Gerdin also said Macchiarini had failed to obtain ethical permits to perform the transplants, which he said amounted to experimentation on human subjects. Macchiarini convinced Alexander that the Obamas, the Clintons, the Beckhams, Elton John, and John Legend were few of many personalities to attend their wedding. Please return to AARP.org to learn more about other benefits. [00:31:56] Bob: Benita sees a dress made by Christopher in a New York City store, but it isn't quite right. But when it comes to the wedding, Paolo takes the lead. The true tale of the love affair between award-winning investigative producer Benita Alexander and world-renowned surgeon Paolo Macchiarini. The couple had the wedding planned for July 2015. And whatever that is, let's, let's push that away, you know. Benita has become a recognized love conned expert and along with speaking engagements, she is a regular guest correspondent on "The Dr. Oz Show." Benita Alexander thought she had found her modern day Prince Charming. Benita met and married a fellow reporter, John Noel, and moved with him to New York, where they welcomed their daughter in 2003. And I got so irritated with him, I actually hung the phone up on him. Her purpose for doing so is simple; to not only move on but also build a safe community for survivors like her a place where theres self-healing through sharing and unconditional support. Thats what I have the power to do now. 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. She later tied the knot with a ballroom instructor Edson Jeune in 2012, yet even that didnt work out. I want to focus on work. Lindquist had begun his own investigation into the claims brought forth by Macchiarini's colleagues. And Paolo never talks about his personal life. Spouse John Noel, Edson Jeune, Macchiarini, Source of Wealth Acting and Producing career. Alexander was working on a documentary about Macchiarini's success in the medical field. [00:36:55] Bob: Benita, the TV producer, is very used to managing all the details of a big event. 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. 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. Click here to get breaking crime news, ongoing trial coverage and details of intriguing unsolved cases in the True Crime Newsletter. [00:09:18] Benita: Yeah, so we, we started focusing our story around Hannah and her family, and Hannah was actually, she was going to be the youngest person in the world to ever get one of his experimental transplants; the first toddler, and also the first patient to be operated on in the United States. It was at this point that Benita said she started to feel that something was not right. You know we went on this incredibly romantic trip to Greece, and he was always videotaping me. But our guest list was insane because now that the Pope was marrying us, he kept inviting all these dignitaries, you know, so world leaders were coming to our wedding. "I put it all in a message. I couldn't fall apart because if he's lying to me like this, there's no way he's not lying in his medical and professional life.". With the preparations nearly finished, Benita decides to take maybe the toughest step she's ever taken in her 20-year career as a journalist. I mean I'm going to achieve this; you know what I mean? And it's, I was proud to work there. You know this man adores you. When Benita discovers that her fiance is not who he claims to be, she goes on an emotional journey to unravel a trail of destruction that leaves patients dead and their shattered families in shock. The two-part special He Lied About Everything premieres on ID on Wednesday, Feb. 14 from 8 to 10 p.m. [00:36:00] Matthew Christopher: On Valentine's Day, I met him. Benita Alexander has been working as a Macchiarini at NBC News. Alexander had already sent invitations to her closed ones. To inquire about a licence to reproduce material, visit our Syndication site. And he's getting noticed in the medical field. [00:02:15] Bob: Still a young journalist, she found her way to the top of her profession very quickly. When she continued to press Macchiarini about the pope, she said he blamed Vatican politics, alleging that the more conservative former Pope Benedict went behind Pope Francis' back to stop him from officiating the wedding. Documentary 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. It was kind of romance on steroids. He was incredibly generous, you know, and so romantic and just so wonderful. 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? Kind of like being in a fairy tale, you know. He speaks 5 or 6 languages, and he works all over the world, and you know, dresses very beautifully. Documentary producer Benita Alexander thought it was love when her job introduced her to internationally renowned surgeon Paolo Macchiarini. 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. [00:12:41] Bob: And you went forward with that weekend pushing the feeling aside, right? 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. But the biopsies showed the cells were dead and that there was actually fungi growing on the plastic, he said. News Group Newspapers Limited in England No. I was so career-driven, and so career-oriented, but I was madly in love. After relocating to New York, Benita worked for NBC and was featured in NBC's documentary "A Leap of Faith" in 2013. The third season, called "Dr. Death: Miracle Man" includes 6 episodes, along with a bonus episode that is an interview with Benita by host Laura Beil. [00:12:11] Benita: Not like that, you know, this was, this was one of those almost cliche movie moments where, you know, I don't even believe in love at first sight, but there was some sort of thing, something happened. Who lost her dad. 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. This is totally different. Macchiarini took Alexander to several romantic getaways in Europe. Macchiarini ran into some legal trouble regarding his stem cell treatments with Swedish prosecutors recently appealing a sentence given to the Italian surgeon, the Associated Press reported. After doing some digging, it transpired that Macchiarini was not the medical genius she thought he was. How to, what do we do now? And it was so fun to work with, with all of them, you know, anybody that, and they have private appointments that wanted to come in. And she, unfortunately, was born with no windpipe. [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. [00:15:45] Benita: There was a particular moment when my ex-husband had gone into a coma, and I was in Illinois, and I was, I was um, very upset about everything and trying to figure out a way, I was talking to Paolo about trying to figure out what to do and how to say goodbye, and uh crying about the fact that I hadn't been able to say goodbye. [00:01:59] Benita: I had worked my way up from working in, from tiny little newspapers in Detroit, Michigan, which is where I went to college and where I'd, my family had moved after Australia. "She had suffered at least two strokes; she had lost much of her vision, so she was partially blind; she couldn't walk," Pinto said. They got married in October 2012. For more compelling true crime coverage, follow our Crime magazine on Flipboard. This is a true you must see it to believe it tale, with so many twists and turns, it will leave viewers stunned, asking only how this could have actually happened, Schleiff says. [00:31:37] Bob: Matthew is no stranger to dressing important people at important times. Bo has begun asking questions about this medical miracle worker, so had some fellow researchers. [00:09:12] Bob: And so, Benita travels to Boston to meet the miracle worker for herself. And so that meant me quitting my job at NBC and leaving New York and pulling my daughter out of her very difficult to get into private school in New York. Benita Alexander, and swept her off her feet with a marriage proposal and promises of a wedding . 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. See the shocking new details about Paolo Macchiarini's alleged medical crimes, new interviews and new revelations Friday on "20/20" at 9 p.m. As a producer, for me that was next to impossible. ABC News reported that Macchiarini has never spoken publicly about his relationship with Benita. 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View this post on Instagram Um, it hit all of us very, very hard. Not, not that kind of just instant, immediate spark. Benita Alexanders personal life story was part of the documentary film, He Lied About Everything. The self-proclaimed love con expert is essentially currently utilizing her platform to expose various cases and empower brave women to not be shamed into silence, as per her Instagram. But as the wedding planning continued, Alexander's fianc became increasingly embroiled in work-related issues. [00:04:22] Bob: And you had a happy ending. [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. And so does anyone who has anything to do with the wedding. I, I thought it was ridiculous. My friends and my family all adored him. The personal relationship between Alexander and Macchiarini continued to blossom. And it came down to how are we going to accomplish doing all these pieces for this wedding that is going to be so high profile, so exclusive, I mean I've never heard of anything so, it was, I mean in my career I've experienced some great things; this was wow. And these were all couples that were quote-unquote living in sin, you know, they had children out of wedlock, or whatever. But despite his seemingly busy schedule, Alexander said Macchiarini offered to plan their wedding. And this is something very clandestine and secretive and he cant talk about, but hes been doing this for many years, and he is a celebrity surgeon to a number of famous people and celebrities, but that he cant talk about this because hes tied to people who want a private doctor who will attend to them but, you know, they have these private doctors, because they don't want anyone to know, you know, whats going on in their private life. "I, to this day, have no idea why he lied about our entire relationship.". In the months leading up to the airing of A Leap of Faith, in June 2014, Macchiarini and Alexander went on trips to the Bahamas, Turkey, Mexico, Greece, and Italy. 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. Um, you know, they come in and I'd say, "Welcome to your closet." 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. Benita is the Executive Producer of the documentary film, He Lied About Everything, which premiered in the U.S. in 2018 on Investigation Discovery, and continues to be broadcast around the world. So just under two months before the wedding, and it was just difficult. [00:18:58] Bob: I love you in rose petals on the bed. He was giving people who had no other hope. Reality struck Alexander's fantasy romance eight weeks before she was supposed to marry Macchiarini in 2015, when she received an email from a colleague with the subject line saying, "The Pope.". A successful TV journalist, the single mother-of-one was interviewing him for a report on cutting-edge medicine. You could uh, train stem cells so that, and then inject them into the body and the stem cells would do the work, the surgery, not the knife. 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. [00:34:59] Bob: When you went to her house, was Paolo there? 5 Journalist Benita Alexander (right) has. At the time, Macchiarini was employed by the prestigious Karolinska Institute in Sweden. 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. A contact she had to the Clintons told her they'd never heard of Macchiarini. [00:34:42] Matthew Christopher: We were going to meet later, so we just discussed the idea and it started with the wedding gown itself, and then had dinner at her house, and made dinner, and it was fun, and we were discussing things and how all these pieces were going to grow. We had, we had a very good relationship still when it came to our daughter and sharing custody and you know, both of us were very focused on our daughter. And he's Italian, and he wanted this big Catholic wedding in Italy. 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. [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? See production, box office & company info, Fatal Experiments: The Downfall of a Supersurgeon. 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. [00:31:04] Matthew Christopher: I'm a couture wedding gown designer. During her investigation into Macchiarini, Alexander hired private investigators in the U.S. and Italy. We just made sure we took care of Benita. Soon afterward, he took her on an "over the top" romantic trip to Italy, where they ate extravagant meals, went shopping and island hopped on a private boat, she said. Moreover, the Italian investigator found records showing that despite planning a wedding with Alexander for so long, Macchiarini was still legally married. I mean, and we didn't know what to do. 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. That's next week on The Perfect Scam. Benita Alexander-Jeune started her career as a journalist for a few minor television stations. 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