Nick Harding
Apr 24 2021, 19:30 ET
TRAPPED in the back of a car in Jakarta, Indonesia, Heather Pitchford’s dream of working in make-up on a blockbuster film was becoming a nightmare. As she pleaded with the uncommunicative driver to take her back to her hotel, she was convinced she was being abducted.
“I was terrified he was taking me somewhere I would be gang-raped and murdered, and I was ready to jump from the moving car,” she tells Fabulous.
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Hargobind Tahilramani is accused of being the Con Queen of Hollywood Credit: Pal Hansen
Heather, now 45, from London, was hoping to make it in Hollywood. Instead, she had become the latest victim of what is alleged to be one of the most far-reaching and complex “scams” ever to hit the entertainment industry. Some predict that the person accused of being the “Con Queen of Hollywood” could have ripped off up to 1,000 people for in excess of £1million from 2013 to 2020.
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Authorities have been looking into whether a sexual predator who has been cold calling actresses under the guise of an Oscar-winning filmmaker is actually the notorious Con Queen of Hollywood, who was arrested in the U.K. at the end of November.
The number of actresses claiming to have been contacted by a manipulative sexual predator masquerading as an Oscar-winning filmmaker has doubled.
The Hollywood Reporter in November, the conman has been cold calling women claiming to be Hugh Welchman, the director of the groundbreaking 2017 animated feature
Loving Vincent. The impostor begins by dangling the opportunity of a role in an upcoming project that he says he’s producing. From there, he’s pressured many of his targets into taking part in uncomfortable, domineering, inappropriate and increasingly sexual conversations under the guise of energy work and has persuaded several to move to Skype video, where a number have been coer
Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images / THR Illustration
Authorities have been looking into whether a sexual predator who has been cold calling actresses under the guise of an Oscar-winning filmmaker is actually the notorious Con Queen of Hollywood, who was arrested in the U.K. at the end of November.
The number of actresses claiming to have been contacted by a manipulative sexual predator masquerading as an Oscar-winning filmmaker has doubled.
The Hollywood Reporter in November, the conman has been cold calling women claiming to be Hugh Welchman, the director of the groundbreaking 2017 animated feature
Loving Vincent. The impostor begins by dangling the opportunity of a role in an upcoming project that he says he’s producing. From there, he’s pressured many of his targets into taking part in uncomfortable, domineering, inappropriate and increasingly sexual conversations under the guise of energy work and has persuaded several to move to Skype video, where a number have been coer
Adobe Stock (4) It has taken me two years to recover what was taken from me psychologically and financially, says one photographer who lost close to $30,000.
Early on Nov. 26, police in northern England arrested a man U.S. officials believe to be the so-called “Con Queen of Hollywood,” a scammer who became infamous within the industry after he was the subject of a July 2018
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Hargobind Tahilramani, a 41-year-old Indonesian man and convicted felon, was arrested near downtown Manchester, ending a years-long investigation by agents from the FBI and private investigators from K2 Integrity (formerly K2 Intelligence), a New York-based corporate security firm.
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