The Worst Boyfriend on the Upper East Side
For decades, a man has romanced New York women, persuading them to invest in questionable business deals. How did he keep running the same scam?
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-local-correspondents/the-worst-boyfriend-on-the-upper-east-side
After a month had gone by, Rachelle paid Julia back herself, but this didn’t assuage Julia’s suspicions. Who was this guy, supposedly rich but obviously strapped for cash, who was borrowing large sums of money and trying to get her mother to invest in Connecticut real estate? “Nelson Roth,” Julia said to me, when I was passing through town that fall, “is the fakest fucking name I’ve ever heard.”