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. 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. One name kept coming up over and over again, Dr. Paolo Macchiarini. I want, I just want to get the job done. "The Sun", "Sun", "Sun Online" are registered trademarks or trade names of News Group Newspapers Limited. He's Catholic. 'People Magazine Investigates' : Tracking Down the Man Who Allegedly Killed Mom of Two Joy Hibbs in 1991, Arrest Made in Beloved Mother's Cold Case Murder and Prosecutor Credits 'People Magazine Investigates', 'Hiding in Plain Sight': All About Jimmy Savile, Disgraced Royal Confidante Featured in Netflix Doc, 'People Magazine Investigates' : Inside Decades-Old Disappearances of 5 People Along the Snake River. And he was not doing well, and I was really struggling with the fact that I was about to become a single mother. 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. We need to be pointing the finger at the con man.. He spent months supposedly going to different churches in Italy, and he would send me pictures of these places, and all these details, and asked me if I liked them or not. 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? Meanwhile, the investigation into Macchiarini's professional life was ramping up -- the Karolinska Institute was investigating whether he'd fabricated aspects of his medical research. And so he took me on his motorcycle along the Illinois River. Paolo says to me, "I want to take over the wedding planning and I want to surprise you with everything. [00:21:22] Benita: Tragically, Hannah passed away, which was, um, just devastating. [00:22:38] Bob: What Benita doesn't know at the time, she couldn't have known, is that Hannah's death also sparks the interest of the European journalist named Bo Lindquist, a Swedish filmmaker, he's already working on a documentary film about Paolo, but it isn't designed with a happy ending in mind. 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. Want to keep up with the latest crime coverage? 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. Paolo showers Benita with affection. Um, maybe I felt like that at some point when I was really young and I had a, had a crush in school, I don't know, but I don't, I don't ever remember feeling like that. You know, it was awful for her family. This was holy cow. Alexander was working on a documentary about Macchiarinis success in the medical field. My then ex-husband, who I had moved to New York with and the father of our beautiful daughter, was dying of brain cancer. Benita was pursuing a big story when the ill-fated lovers met in 2013. Um, and so he had, we were coming back into the room after dinner one night, and I was kind of teasing him. Alexander then married, Edson Jeune, a ballroom dancer. By the time he performed the artificial trachea transplant on Cetir, he had already performed the same procedure on four other patients. She was able to get the Vatican to verify that he had never been the pope's personal doctor. I was so conflicted about it. It really affects you. A post shared by Benita Alexander (@loveconned). 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. I was there for about 20 minutes, and I, I tossed these flowers into the water, and I was, you know, very emotional in saying goodbye to John. In mid-2013, they became a couple and in December that year they became pre-engaged as Macchiarini, who lived in Barcelona, Spain, said he was still legally married with two children but had been separated for a long time and was filing for divorce. Powered by WordPress.com VIP. The documentary includes never-before-seen footage and photos and shows Alexanders search for the truth after such a shocking betrayal of the heart. Paolo had actually told her that Pope Francis would be officiating their wedding and that celebrities such as Elton John, the Clintons, the Obamas, and the Beckhams, among many others, would be in attendance, and shed somehow believed him. Then, just before New Year's Eve, he left the U.S., telling Alexander that he had a "really important surgery" to perform. [00:31:56] Bob: Benita sees a dress made by Christopher in a New York City store, but it isn't quite right. My friends and my family all adored him. [00:40:15] Bob: With that dramatic entrance comes a dramatic exit too. 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. I mean it was, I felt butterflies, you know. Benita now uses her personal story of survival and resilience to help other women who have been love conned find the road to recovery. And then every month there was a new surprise. [00:34:35] Bob: The first step is working with Benita on ideas for the wedding dress. How does one design a wedding dress for a wedding [00:34:25] Matthew Christopher: With the Pope? They had already decided to marry in Italy, where Macchiarini wanted a Catholic wedding despite rules against remarriages. Give it to me. [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. 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. And I literally, I was really like, what? It has led to extensive reform work internally at KI in order to improve and clarify a number of regulations and routines.". [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 Benita had a veil, and I brought over some dresses, and we were having some champagne, giggling and sketching, and it was so fun. Cetir died waiting for the lung transplant she desperately needed. [00:35:53] Bob: And while the dresses are being made, while the other wedding preparations are underway, Matthew meets Paolo. In response to Gerdin's report, Macchiarini denied all the findings. Are you new to podcasts? He told her opera singer Andrea Bocelli would be singing in the church during their wedding and that John Legend would be playing the piano at their ceremony. Please enable Javascript in your browser and try He actually brought him home on Christmas Day, and he and I are still in touch. [00:40:30] Benita: Paolo lived in Barcelona, and so we had talked about what were we going to do after the wedding. His six papers on the transplant surgery were retracted. 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. I see a woman and two kids," she said, adding that she knew about Paolo's wife in Italy. It was beyond Benita's wildest dreams - Macchiarini reportedly told her he invited Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and Elton John, and that the Pope himself would oversee the ceremony. See production, box office & company info, Fatal Experiments: The Downfall of a Supersurgeon. 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. . [00:37:05] Benita: Everything was very, very secretive, and because the Pope was doing this, um, and Paolo told me that the Vatican would not even announce it until the day of our wedding so that the news didn't leak out. 5 People Vanished Along the Snake River Beginning in 1979: Will Police Finally Catch a Serial Killer? Instead, he says their underlying health conditions were fatal and may have been a factor in their deaths. Click here to get breaking crime news, ongoing trial coverage and details of intriguing unsolved cases in the True Crime Newsletter. He has peoples lives in his hands.. [00:23:44] Bo Lindquist: Paolo was very well-dressed and very careful with his looks. 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. When a magical romance with a world-renowned surgeon develops into a nightmare, his fianc uncovers a path of destruction that leaves dead patients and shattered families in its wake. Benita Alexander is an American television producer, director, writer, and reporter. I had tried, at one point I pushed him away, and we didn't see each other for about three months. Macchiarini did not respond to a request for comment from ABC News. A contact she had to the Clintons told her they'd never heard of Macchiarini. I mean I'm going to achieve this; you know what I mean? I want to focus on work. I'm never viewed like that, but I was definitely like, huh? It basically was, we've been asked to do this, and by virtue of being my fianc, because I'm this famous doctor, I feel that this is something we should do. And one of those really, really tight embraces. He was incredibly generous, you know, and so romantic and just so wonderful. 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." "She was having problems with infections so, at that point, she came into contact with Dr. So it was uh, quite, quite in--, incredible or remarkable to, for those words to come out of her mouth. [00:34:17] Bob: Well, at some point you transition from wow to okay, I've got to get to work on this, right? Macchiarini.". We were sitting together on the, on the plane, and I just sort of started pouring my heart out to him, and he was a very good friend. Journalist Benita Alexander is swept off her feet by a dashing Italian doctor, Paolo Macchiarini, while filming a documentary about his miraculous surgeries. And he came to visit us in Australia, and I was just, I was only 8, but I was ab--, absolutely infatuated with what he was doing and asked him all these questions. 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? [00:34:26] Matthew Christopher: You put your, I am going to make the most gorgeous dress you've ever seen. Quack, quack, quack. 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. 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. [00:23:10] Bo Lindquist: The first time was in Stockholm at the Karolinska Institute. But before the wedding can happen, Benita makes a discovery that may prove the doctor is not all he claims to be. "It said that he had a normal functioning airway," Corbascio said. TV producer's romance with star surgeon begins against better judgment: Part 1Benita Alexander met Paolo Macchiarini while covering his pioneering work for a. I think he was looking for challenges, and uh, things that makes life much, much more exciting. [00:02:31] Benita: Yeah, right! Macchiarini proposed to Benita Alexander on Christmas Day 2013, Alexander said. "I was angry as hell. And I was, I was really moved by that. You know, "You've, you've renewed my faith in love.". And, and then he would tell me the priest won't marry us, and this went on and on and on. Journalist Benita Alexander is swept off her feet by a dashing Italian doctor, Paolo Macchiarini, while filming a documentary about his miraculous surgeries. He's also never spoken publicly about his relationship with Alexander. 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 Firstly , on a personal observation , girl , you absolutely need a makeover. "He was a top doctor, he spoke six or seven languages. And, and so we pivoted the story a bit to make it a little bit more about some of Paolo's other patients and more about, you know the field of regenerative medicine. [00:26:36] Benita: Paolo wanted a big, Catholic wedding. It's, it's a very um, it has a lot of stature, that building and a lot of meaning. Capping off a whirlwind romance filled with gondola rides in Venice and quiet dinners in the Greek islands, she was. It's a very aggressive form of brain cancer. [00:00:34] Welcome back to The Perfect Scam. And we first met in early 2013. In June 2013, they flew to Venice for what Alexander called an incredibly romantic weekend.. In February, 2021 it was featured as a two-hour special on ABCs 20/20. Her story is now featured as the third season of Wondery's hit podcast, "Dr. She was taking an incredible risk by getting involved with Paolo. And it's presented to me by Paolo, it's not even about our wedding or about our love story. And she was Daddy's Little Girl. By clicking Accept All Cookies, you agree to the storing of cookies on your device to enhance site navigation, analyze site usage, and assist in our marketing efforts. Macchiarini had reported that after his first patient underwent the procedure, a healthy trachea was beginning to develop, Lindquist said. In need of a lung transplant, doctors arranged to transfer her to Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia. After relocating to New York, Benita worked for NBC and was featured in NBC's documentary "A Leap of Faith" in 2013. 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. I mean I, I loved NBC. Corbascio called the decision "absolutely insane.". 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. He was giving people who had no other hope. [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. 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?'". Um, I almost actually passed out. That was insane. [00:08:14] Benita: But we, we started looking into him, and then he was about to do a transplant on this beautiful, beautiful little toddler, um, her name was Hannah, from Seoul, South Korea. 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. [00:38:44] Benita: I should say this wedding turns into something akin to the wedding of the century. I loved my work at NBC. Benita Alexander has been working as a Macchiarini at NBC News. Read More: Where Is Paolo Macchiarini Now? Well actually, dresses. ABCs The Con is a true-crime documentary series that unveils the curtain on the people behind some of the most atrocious scams in recent times. A love story gone bad for Benita Alexander, an award-winning documentary television producer and Paolo Macchiarini, an internationally renowned surgeon. "I, to this day, have no idea why he lied about our entire relationship.". "Then he said he had connections to the Vatican. But when it comes to the wedding, Paolo takes the lead. [00:24:37] Bob: Paolo is a natural subject for a documentary film. And he had been fighting with her in the courts in Brazil over this, and then she passed away, unfortunately. Um, she was being brought to Illinois, the Children's Hospital of Illinois because a Korean nurse there had found Hannah in the hospital in Seoul and had sort of lobbied to bring her to the US. [00:31:42] Matthew Christopher: Yeah, I do, you know, I've done tons of celebrity stuff, tons of Broadway stuff. [00:13:10] Benita: When I met Dr. Paolo Macchiarini, and when I was working on this story, I was at an extremely vulnerable place in my life. Her new podcast "Benita and the Berracas," will feature Benita talking to other women who open up to her about their own love conned stories, along with advice on how to avoid becoming a victim. 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. In 2019, she produced the Oxygen doc Seduced By Evil, which chronicles another con-man, Derek Alldred. If I had a checklist, he, he was everything I would want in a partner, everything you would want in a man. [00:31:09] Matthew Christopher: Um, a couture wedding gown designer is someone that actually design gowns from beginning to end, whether that's draping, whether that's sketching; couture means it's handmade. Although her family said the injury wasn't serious enough to necessitate a tracheal transplant, she still underwent the procedure and went on to experience tremendous pain. Previously, Benita Alexander had created a documentary called He Lied About Everything, where she opened up about Paulo Macchiarini and how she got love conned by him. And he said, "Just tell me when you want to stop." [00:35:25] Matthew Christopher: Um, gosh, 1-2-3 for her. He soon proposed, only for her to realize her fianc was a complete liar around a year later. As Alexander began to unravel the web of lies Macchiarini had told her, she began to wonder if the world-renowned thoracic surgeon had also misled people in his professional life. And Paolo never talks about his personal life. For AARP's The Perfect Scam, I'm Bob Sullivan. related to AARP volunteering. 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. Documentary producer Benita Alexander thought it was love when her job introduced her to internationally renowned surgeon Paolo Macchiarini. 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. [00:31:04] Matthew Christopher: I'm a couture wedding gown designer. Mathias Corbascio, another cardiothoracic surgeon who worked at the Karolinska Institute at the time, said the intensive care unit doctor responsible for her care began consulting with him on the literature written by Macchiarini on tracheal replacements. From what we can tell, Benita still resides in New York alongside her daughter, where shes primarily a freelance executive producer for Lion Television, all the while serving as a public figure. Where is Benita Alexander now? She said that in November 2014, they had planned a trip to California to spend Thanksgiving with her family, "and he had been really stressed in the weeks before, and he had been talking to me for some time about how there were people that were against him, and his 'enemies.'". He, he was supposed to be their last hope. [00:42:58] Bob: If you have been targeted by a scam or fraud, you are not alone. So this is a lot of very heady information to take in, and he basically tells me that because hes the Popes private, personal doctor, um, and because this is such a progressive Pope, who has such a forward-thinking agenda, that the Pope a) wants to thank him for all the work hes done at the Vatican and for being his private doctor, and b) wants to use us for lack of a better term, as kind of a poster couple, so that by marrying two divorcees, you know, the Pope is going to use us to sort of open the doors of the Catholic church to allow divorcees to finally get married in a Catholic church. 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I'm your host, Bob Sullivan. 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. I mean not, not physically, but he could be quite uh frightening actually when he got angry. 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. In 2013, the successful documentary producer met world-renowned, Dr. Paolo Macchiarini while working on a project for a major network. Benita met and married a fellow reporter, John Noel, and moved with him to New York, where they welcomed their daughter in 2003. I think he needs to be behind bars. [00:09:12] Bob: And so, Benita travels to Boston to meet the miracle worker for herself. Oh, and a dance gown too, that was crazy fun. 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. Macchiarini denied the accusations coming from his colleagues at the Karolinska Institute to Alexander, and she doubled down on supporting Macchiarini. And so we were looking into this field, and we found this doctor. One of the reasons I am so adamant about continuing to talk about this is because I think victim-shaming is terrible. 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. They make it for you in the lab, right. She found out exactly what hed lied about - and she said it was extensive. And she, unfortunately, was born with no windpipe. That's pretty unusual too. And so I thought, okay, maybe its not as crazy as it, as it sounds. And then um, (sigh) oh her sisters, the two bridesmaids, and then two flower girl dresses. 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. And each surprise was a bigger wow factor than the last one. Kind of like being in a fairy tale, you know. In 2015, Alexander sent emails to the Karolinska Institute expressing concerns about the acclaimed surgeon. I had to expose him.". 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. Macchiarini had been credited with developing innovative surgical techniques using stem cells in synthetic trachea transplants. 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. [00:25:49] Bob: But, and this made him a fun interview, he doesn't mind debating his controversial techniques. 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. 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. 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.". What to tell her. Who lost her dad. The Korean girl that had undergone Macchiarini's procedure in Illinois, whose story Alexander had been sent to cover, had died in the time following the surgery. For more compelling true crime coverage, follow our Crime magazine on Flipboard. "We had to clear her throat basically every four to six hours, sort of 24 hours, seven days a week," said Oscar Simonson, a cardiothoracic surgeon who worked at the Karolinska Institute and its affiliated hospital at the time. In 2015, she served as a co-executive producer on Breaking the Silence, which featured DWTS pro Cheryl Burke, and Counting On alums Jessa Seewald and Jill Duggar Dillard. They said that the patient was doing fine and that's not true: One of his lungs was completely obliterated from a chronic infection.". 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. What started as dream relationship developed into a nightmare filled with lies and deceit. ET. 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. 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. And so there was a lot of palpable excitement about this wedding, you know, people were really eager and excited for this wedding. She said one question was heavy on her mind: "Why did you do this to me, why would you do that to anybody? Despite her work ethic, she fell in love with Macchiarini. And so now his son, who I think was about 8 or 9 at the time, was in Brazil with her family, and he was engaged in this very difficult and complicated fight to try and get his son back, and such a loving father. [00:12:46] Benita: Oh yeah, no, I immediately just sort of shoved it down and thought whatever that was, it was, it was silly, and uh, let's forget about that. And, and, and embraced me and held me so hard. Um, it hit all of us very, very hard. "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. And he was putting artificial tracheas, the windpipe, into patients. The Sun website is regulated by the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO), Our journalists strive for accuracy but on occasion we make mistakes. Emmy Award Winning . Macchiarini and Benita quickly started planning an extravagant wedding, she said. He is one of the world's leading cardio thoracic surgeons. You know, no, how do we take viewers through a two-hour journey of this little girl coming, you know, halfway across the world to get this radical surgery, and then she doesn't make it? And we finally decided that we would live in Barcelona. ET on ABC. [00:10:23] Benita: Yeah, the thing about this was, I am, and I'm, I'm very serious when I work. 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