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Benita Alexander was promised a wedding in Italy officiated by the pope.
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How TV producer unknowingly became ensnared in fraudulent romance
“It was this very intricate, slow, meticulous weaving of this web of lies,” Benita Alexander said, “You’re so caught up in it, you don’t really realize what’s happening.”Benita Alexander
Hundreds of Benita Alexander s friends and family had already bought their plane tickets to Italy to attend her extravagant wedding that was supposed to be officiated by the pope when it all came crashing down in a flurry of her fiancé s deception.
Hundreds of Benita Alexander s friends and family had already bought their plane tickets to Italy to attend her extravagant wedding that was supposed to be officiated by the pope when it all came crashing down in a flurry of her fiancé s deception.
None of the promises Alexander said her fiancé Paolo Macchiarini had made for their wedding day would come true. 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. 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. This is a surgeon. . People could be dying because of this man, and therefore, I couldn t stay silent, I couldn t crawl under the covers. . I had to expose him.