Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast
The Famous French Con Artist - The Christophe Rocancourt story
02 Feb 2025
This is the story of French con artist Christophe Rocancourt
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So this guy, let's call him Frenchy because he's super French. And Frenchy is about to con people out of $40 million. Now Frenchy, he's kind of a turd. He's been in and out of jail for petty theft, forgery, counterfeiting, but
Frenchy's also one charming mother like he can talk anyone into anything and one day he decides that instead of petty theft he's gonna go for a really big score and now his girlfriend has a rich father who owns a high-end townhouse in Paris and so Frenchy he creates a fake property deed for this building in Paris that he doesn't own and he tries to sell it for 1.4 million dollars oh but he doesn't stop there
He continues this string of crimes, and sometime later, he successfully robs a jewelry store. And lucky for him, he doesn't actually get caught for this robbery. But now he's a wanted man. So he decides to flee France, and he goes to the place where he can make some serious money, the United States.
And once he's there, he goes to Los Angeles, where he starts making lots of friends in the nightlife scene. Because like I said, he's a charming guy. Now, he doesn't tell anyone he meets that he's just a regular turd who's wanting for robbing a jewelry store in Europe. Instead, he always lies to them and says he's related to someone successful and famous.
Like he tells people he's Dino De Laurentiis' nephew. He's a famous movie producer. Or he'll tell them he's Oscar De Laurentiis' nephew. Oscar De Laurentiis is a famous fashion designer. And as absurd as that is, this works and people believe him and they love Frenchie. They find him so interesting.
And soon enough, he finds himself becoming friends with actual famous people like Mickey Rourke and Jean-Claude Van Damme, and he's trying to do a business deal with Michael Jackson's brother, Jermaine Jackson. Now, as cool as that is, Frenchie is a con man at heart. So he has to start really scamming people to pay his bills and keep up this big lifestyle.
And he makes a lot of money from this scam. His scam works like this. He takes some unsuspecting sucker out for dinner and champagne at expensive restaurants and he picks up the tab, which gives that person the impression that Frenchie is already rich And that he would never scam you. Then he'll offer this person an investment opportunity.
Like, you should invest in the clothing store I'm about to open. And of course, the people invest because they trust him. Because they already think he's the rich nephew of someone famous. And so Frenchie cons a lot of people this way.
And by the way, I'm skipping over a lot in this story because he committed so many crimes and ripped off so many people, I couldn't possibly fit it all in one video. Anyway, eventually he gets reported for some of these crimes and police catch on and boom, he gets arrested.
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