The ‘Hollywood Con Queen’ gets a new documentary from Apple TV Plus

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Before AI meant you could impersonate someone’s dependable with conscionable a snippet of audio, con artists needed existent accomplishment to impersonate celebrated figures. Take Hargobind Tahilramani, who allegedly impersonated specified almighty Hollywood women arsenic Amy Pascal, Kathleen Kennedy, and Wendi Deng Murdoch. Now, it’s a documentary from Tiger King’s Chris Smith.

The scam creator dubbed “the Con Queen of Hollywood” sent victims to Indonesia, past extracted currency for what seemed similar mean expenses, promising reimbursements. The reimbursements ne'er appeared. Scott Johnson astatine The Hollywood Reporter first broke the communicative successful 2018, past followed it, yet writing a book. The Apple TV Plus documentary is based connected that work. It premieres connected May 8th.

In 2020, Tahilramani was arrested successful the UK, wherever helium was utilizing the sanction “Gobind Tahil.” In summation to allegedly perpetrating the highly blase scam, helium was besides gathering a vocation arsenic an Instagram influencer successful London. When moving arsenic an influencer, Tahilramani besides allegedly told radical helium was an HBO enforcement oregon Netflix employee, according to Vanity Fair. In 2023, a UK justice ruled helium could beryllium extradited to the US.

Part of what made the Con Queen truthful convincing was the voice. The scammer sometimes pretended to beryllium a antheral adjunct earlier transferring to the almighty pistillate helium was impersonating. Apparently, the scammer besides “lured men into telephone sex,” according to Vanity Fair.

The Apple documentary isn’t the lone task that centers connected the scam. A movie called Kiss of the Con Queen starring Ravi Patel is besides successful the words.