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Macchiarini convinced Alexander that the Obamas, the Clintons, the Beckhams, Elton John, and John Legend were few of many personalities to attend their wedding. Um, which is just something I never thought I would do, you know. He is Italian. Subtle message to him, perhaps. "As furious as it makes me what he did [to me and] my daughter, the thought that this is a man who has people's lives in his hands. I loved my work at NBC. Yeah. [00:23:44] Bo Lindquist: Paolo was very well-dressed and very careful with his looks. He soon proposed, only for her to realize her fianc was a complete liar around a year later. For more compelling true crime coverage, follow our Crime magazine on Flipboard. She found out exactly what hed lied about - and she said it was extensive. [00:31:37] Bob: Matthew is no stranger to dressing important people at important times. She was floored when he told her John Legend would sing at their wedding and Pope Francis would officiate. Be sure to find us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts. [00:42:58] Bob: If you have been targeted by a scam or fraud, you are not alone. 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?'". They become engaged and plan a lavish dream wedding, to be attended by celebrities and officiated by none other than Pope Francis himself. And a very, very good listener and was giving me very wise, sage advice, you know, about all these questions; what to tell her, how to tell her, and I was sort of soaking it all up, and I was very touched by the fact that this man seemed so incredibly altruistic. [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. View our online Press Pack. Paolo Macchiarini was born in Switzerland to Italian parents and has spoken of having had a difficult childhood in Basel, where by his own account he felt like a perpetual outsider in school. We had a long time together on the flight from Korea to Illinois. As these events were unfolding, Maccharini allowed Lindquist to follow him for a documentary film. 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. Macchiarini took Alexander to several romantic getaways in Europe. In addition to her work at NBC, she was the Executive Producer of the Oxygen documentary, "Seduced by Evil," which premiered in 2019 and reveals how a group of women banded together to take down the man who stole everything from them. I have to tell you, and I'm like, you know, I'm a very boisterous, fun guy, that's, you know, and very um, slap-happy fun, and I literally stopped in my tracks, and was like, "Huh?" Benita's story is also told on BBCs Outlook" podcast. 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[00:18:02] Benita: Oh, there was so many. The slip from "Prince Charming to pathological liar" took place over just two years, she said. 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. 5. Every time he took me on a trip, he just delighted in these, these big, over the top, elaborate surprises. [00:36:00] Matthew Christopher: On Valentine's Day, I met him. 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. [00:12:41] Bob: And you went forward with that weekend pushing the feeling aside, right? 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. 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 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. "She was having problems with infections so, at that point, she came into contact with Dr. 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. After sweeping Alexander off her feet by taking her to jet-setting and romantic locales all over the world for months, Macchiarini proposed. She hence became the executive producer of a documentary film entitled He Lied About Everything, which chronicled her emotional journey as well as his scientific lies. 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." 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? Among several lies, Macchiarini told Alexander, one of those was Pope Francis officiating their wedding. Use tab to navigate through the menu items. A love story gone bad for Benita Alexander, an award-winning documentary television producer and Paolo Macchiarini, an internationally renowned surgeon. In 2020, she appeared on the ABC documentary series The Con to discuss her personal life and narrate what happened between her and Paolo Macchiarini. [00:06:46] Benita: And he was, as I said, called the super surgeon, and he was the pioneer in this field. 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. He speaks 5 or 6 languages, and he works all over the world, and you know, dresses very beautifully. 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. Emmy Award Winning . Anyone that knows anything about private schools in New York knows how hard that is. 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. "He comes around the corner, he looks right at me and in that second something happened. I mean most 8-year-olds will change their minds, you know, many times, but I never changed. You know, it was awful for her family. [00:30:34] Bob: Now your wedding is a cause. 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. It does so much unnecessary damage. I had tried, at one point I pushed him away, and we didn't see each other for about three months. 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. So I just found him very, I don't want to say intimidating, because intimidating's not the word. She was even more stunned when she began to realize that so much of what Macchiarini had told her about his personal and professional life was a lie. 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. And [00:14:24] Bob: It feels natural for Benita to share the family struggle with this world famous surgeon, a man who had spent his career cheating death, or trying anyway. 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. 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. She was devasted to learn all the lies told by Macchiarini. He was giving people who had no other hope. 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. In 2019, the film was nominated in the documentary category for the WIN Awards, Women's Image Network. 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. [00:24:45] Bo Lindquist: I mean he basically said that he was going to revolutionize medicine, and, and not just invent a new kind of a trachea or a new kind of transplant, but actually revolutionize surgery. I didn't know what to think. 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 she meets Christopher at his shop. to search for ways to make a difference in your community at I mean we were there to speak about science, so I thought, okay. His work, if controversial, is also groundbreaking. My friends and my family all adored him. She had already spent good money on her wedding preparations. Meanwhile, the doctors were still trying to save Cetir's life. To inquire about a licence to reproduce material, visit our Syndication site. The true tale of the love affair between award-winning investigative producer Benita Alexander and world-renowned surgeon Paolo Macchiarini. By the time he performed the artificial trachea transplant on Cetir, he had already performed the same procedure on four other patients. 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. Maybe help me, help with the invitations 'cause I don't want to deal with that. Documentary producer Benita Alexander thought it was love when her job introduced her to internationally renowned surgeon Paolo Macchiarini. [00:24:07] Bob: For many months, Paolo plays his cards very close to the vest as Bo starts asking questions about the patients Paolo has worked on. What started as dream relationship developed into a nightmare filled with lies and deceit. And these were all couples that were quote-unquote living in sin, you know, they had children out of wedlock, or whatever. She said she later sent a lengthy text message to him, and received a single-word response: "Wow! "He was a good listener and gave me sage and solid advice.". And after he left, I said to my parents, that's what I'm going to do when I grow up. And he's Italian, and he wanted this big Catholic wedding in Italy. And she was Daddy's Little Girl. 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. He was, he was just there when I needed somebody. You are leaving AARP.org and going to the website of our trusted provider. 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. Macchiarini claims the synthetic trachea didn't shorten Tuulik's life or the lives of any of his other patients, or cause their deaths. 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. "I made a very strategic decision to start playing a cat-and-mouse game, basically," she said. Who lost her dad. In July 2015 their "cat and mouse game" came to an end when she revealed to him everything she found through the private investigation. He was incredibly generous, you know, and so romantic and just so wonderful. Just like, oh, the dance dress was crazy. 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 was at this point that Benita said she started to feel that something was not right. 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 hired a private investigator to investigate all the secrets and lies about Macchiarini. Of course, it's Valentine's Day, I'm like, oh my God. And spent months, you know, this did not happen overnight. "The headline is that it started out as a beautiful love story and it ended up as a total nightmare," said Benita. But her death was awful. "He seemed like he was the miracle man," she said. 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. Macchiarini had been credited with developing innovative surgical techniques using stem cells in synthetic trachea transplants. I was just giddy with happiness. And he was not doing well, and I was really struggling with the fact that I was about to become a single mother. If I had a checklist, he, he was everything I would want in a partner, everything you would want in a man. [00:36:51] Matthew Christopher: Yeah, yes, oh my gosh. 679215 Registered office: 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF. 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. [00:39:38] Matthew Christopher: Yeah, I mean we were going through fittings, we were going through the process of um getting things together. 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. I did not think that by pulling that thread, we would completely undo the sweater.". 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." The documentary includes never-before-seen footage and photos and shows Alexanders search for the truth after such a shocking betrayal of the heart. [00:25:58] Bo Lindquist: I think he liked the challenge. 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. This is totally different. And so it was kind of the perfect case for us to focus our story around. And then um, (sigh) oh her sisters, the two bridesmaids, and then two flower girl dresses. [00:04:22] Bob: And you had a happy ending. 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. I see a woman and two kids," she said, adding that she knew about Paolo's wife in Italy. It was an excellent place. At the time, Macchiarini was employed by the prestigious Karolinska Institute in Sweden. ", "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. But when it comes to the wedding, Paolo takes the lead. [00:39:32] Bob: And as the day approaches, Benita gets to try on that custom-made wedding dress. The couple shares a daughter named Jessina, born in 2003. It defeats the point, Benita recently said. [00:36:55] Bob: Benita, the TV producer, is very used to managing all the details of a big event. [00:31:00] Bob: One of those nondisclosure agreements is signed by Matthew Christopher. Benita Alexander has been married twice. She soon discovered that as she lived an apparent fairy tale romance -- with someone who not only seemed to care for her and her daughter but also lavished her with expensive gifts and trips -- others were already searching for the truth about Macchiarini. And so they got FDA approval for Paolo to do the surgery in Illinois, and they got him a special medical license to do the surgery in Illinois. [00:02:15] Bob: Still a young journalist, she found her way to the top of her profession very quickly. But this magic carpet ride takes so many twists and turns that well, you just have to hear them for yourself. If your response is to point a finger at a victim, thats really sad. But unfortunately, her personal life has been marred by a turbulent childhood in Huntington Woods, Michigan, and a series of unsuccessful relationships. 5 Journalist Benita Alexander (right) has. Which sounds a bit absurd, however, he is an Italian surgeon. My daughter who, you know, has been through a lot. [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. Macchiarini.". This was, I didn't even know what to say. ", Alexander, who waited in the car, said that the last time she saw Macchiarini, he had turned around and walked back up the stairs. The way he used stem cells with his plastic tracheas would eventually develop into something quite extraordinary where you could use stem cells to target organs or other areas of the body where the, where there was a medical problem. 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. 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. 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. And we got involved and started doing the story, and it got very intense. 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. So it was uh, quite, quite in--, incredible or remarkable to, for those words to come out of her mouth. 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. Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Amazon Music| Spotify | Stitcher|TuneIn. [00:00:01] Bob: This week on The Perfect Scam. He was often described as a George Clooney look-alike, you know, he's, he's very elegant. Um, and so he had, we were coming back into the room after dinner one night, and I was kind of teasing him. I mean it was crazy. 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. Journalist Benita Alexander is swept off her feet by a dashing Italian doctor, Paolo Macchiarini, while filming a documentary about his miraculous surgeries. But the former NBC News producer would come to find out the hard way that even the most glamorous and convincing of appearances can be deceiving. It was, it was a huge change and a huge change for my daughter. I was so conflicted about it. "The woman in Barcelona was not his wife. With Whoopi Goldberg. He gave me really sage, solid, kind advice.". [00:25:56] Bob: How did he take to being questioned? [00:34:26] Matthew Christopher: You put your, I am going to make the most gorgeous dress you've ever seen. He actually brought him home on Christmas Day, and he and I are still in touch. Track SoCal rain with LIVE Megadoppler 7000 HD, Emily Whipp, Laura Dimon, Colleen Halpin, Emma Piscia and Anthony Rivas. And so I did, you know, I sat back, and even when I was tempted to ask questions, I didn't. And I also had my beard uh, uh, cut there. Moreover, the Italian investigator found records showing that despite planning a wedding with Alexander for so long, Macchiarini was still legally married. 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. [00:06:37] Bob: Dr. Paolo Macchiarini, he's doing surgeries that most doctors could only dream about. Her first marriage was to fellow journalist John Noel. None of the promises Alexander said her fianc Paolo Macchiarini had made for their wedding day would come true. 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. 1996-2023, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. And he said, you know, I actually met with Pope Francis. And I went, What? You know and he said, And I, I have great news. Um, Hes, hes going to help us um, were going to have somebody that will marry us, and he offered to do it himself. You know I said, What? You know, and I actually kind of called BS on him because I, I said, Thats absurd. He proposed to Alexander on Christmas in 2013 and she said yes. In June 2013, they flew to Venice for what Alexander called an incredibly romantic weekend.. They got married in October 2012. 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. I said, I just, I can't do this. 5. Benita Alexander is a strong, independent, intelligent, warm, and loving woman who thought she found her love connection with a man that swept her off her feet, much like prince charming! Um, it hit all of us very, very hard. And so he took me on his motorcycle along the Illinois River. "He said he was having trouble finding a priest to marry us," she said. [00:01:54] Bob: Benita didn't start her career working for a larger network in New York. Not, not that kind of just instant, immediate spark. 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. Yeah. 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