it s about the line, the thin line we all walk between believe and make-believe or dreams and reality or love and deception. in 1994, jean moffet, who made a nice living as a cook with some crocheting on the side, met dominique digiorgio, not over the modern marvel the internet but through the u.s. mail. we just kept writing back and forth. one thing led to another. one thing led to another and that s how it got started. jean s husband of 33 years died three years before and her grown children had moved away. she was lonely. what did the handwriting look like to you? beautiful. he has beautiful handwriting. the letters she received filled a void, even if they came from prison where dominique was an inmate and had learned about jean, the widow, from one of her relatives, a cellmate. his early letters revealed he was a wealthy cattle baron and entrepreneur from italy and who had irs troubles and was caught
federal government. 8 in 10 americans are dissatisfied with the way the government is working and one-third say they are angry. and a crew is assessing the damage in oklahoma after the strongest quake ever measured there. it buckled roads and crumbled chimneys. more news later. we ll see you in an hour. dominique digiorgio, a self-purported cattle baron and businessman from italy, living whiz new wife, jean, in mesquite, nevada, a casino town an hour outside las vegas. he convinced dalea wilds to move to mesquite as well so as to better let him manage her career. , but the grandiose facade of the suave italian was beginning to crack. you called your bank? yeah. he went through everything. he had been borrowing a lot of money from his new wife, and
he was well spoken. he had assets. it would work. , but while things were going well with cathy, dominique, a man of many stories, was arousing lots of suspicions from others, like theresa wilds, the skeptical mother of singer dalea, whose career he was trying to manage. memories and the other two mrs. digiorgios, jean and naomi. theresa, upset after learning dominique lied to her about building a church, called las vegas, asked the casinos whether a dominique digiorgio had a license to book acts, like he told her he did. they had never heard of him. they looked his name up and said, i have no recollection whatsoever of a dominique digiorgio. shaken, theresa remembered that sweet story about how dominique wanted to repay baker city because he had been saved
impressive, and so was dominique s advice. always be careful, he warned them. others might take advantage of her. theresa remembered dominique s words. do you know if you just leave your girl somewhere, somebody could just con this daughter, and you never know. you can t trust people. man who carried enough to offer good advice about trust, and they certainly could trust him. couldn t they? at the same time that dominique was plotting dalea s singing career, mrs. dominique digiorgio settled down to her brand-new life with her wealthy businessman husband in baker city, oregon, and the honeymoon was soon over. marriage to a one-man conglomerate was not going as well as jean imagined. he d keep telling me his plate s so full, you know, he s so busy. i used to tell him the plate s turned into a platter. it s plum full. months after her 2003 wedding, jean was often home alone with her crocheting in an unfamiliar house in an unfamiliar town. she knew no one here. he was gone every
if in the bedroom dominique was no italian stallion, well, what did it matter? did you have a sex life? no, no sex life. he had problems from being in prison. what kind of problems? well, he had prostate problems. how did you feel about that? i went along with it. sex isn t everything in life, you know? , but the rest of it, magic. a whirlwind of scenic trips, fancy meals, love. so when dominique, just a month out of prison, proposed, jean didn t hesitate. on april 24, 2003, in palm springs, california, jean moffet became mrs. dominique digiorgio. must have felt great. it did. somebody to take care of you, somebody to pay attention to you. you didn t have to be alone all the time. before long, the newlyweds moves out of jean s ogden home. dominique assured jean he d take