Scott Johnson

And there was a lot, there was a lot to unpack, you know, and I wanted to understand that.

And then ultimately, I mean, I don't know how much you want to give away for your, for your viewers, but I mean, I will say ultimately, I did confront this individual and had a series of conversations that went on and on and on and.

Yeah, it could have been.

Well, yeah, I suppose it could have been, and for some people it was.

But for a variety of reasons, I just felt...

compelled to keep going with it and ultimately to try to find this person.

So just to kind of walk you through the chronology a little bit or sort of how it developed after the summer of 2018.

So the summer of 2018, I got this tip and ultimately I wrote a story.

It was a cover story for The Hollywood Reporter.

And it was called Hunting the Con Queen of Hollywood.

And it was just about this weird scam.

And it was about this investigator who who was trying to kind of crack the case at that at that point.

She had not had not, you know, solved it, but she was hot on the pursuit of this person or at the time she thought it was a group of people.

And so the story was just sort of like there's this crazy scam.

You know, who is who is the con queen of Hollywood?

What's going on here?

Here are the voices of all these people who've been affected.

Here's the investigator.

We actually got some recordings that had been grabbed of the scammer in action, and we embedded those in the article so people could hear the voice work.

And it was very elaborate and weird, and nobody knew.