John Myatt had been to art school but this was the start of a new career. ibid.
Drewe became a lucrative client and Myatt began to like him. ibid.
John Myatt had allowed himself to be trapped by John Drewe. ibid.
Drewe was presenting himself as a patron of the arts. ibid.
How many other fakes were there? And by how many artists? ibid.
As many as two hundred of them were now in circulation. ibid.
John Myatt finally decided he had had enough. ibid.
The eight years of frauds and fakes was about to come to an end. ibid.
John Myatt pleaded guilty and was sentenced to one year in prison. John Drewe maintained his innocence throughout but was convicted and sentenced to six years in prison. ibid.
Of the 200 or so Myatt fakes only 72 have ever been found. ibid.
Tourists are the number one target … The change that I got from my taxi is fake money. Scam City s1e1: Buenos Aires, National Geographic 2012
A problem is counterfeit money … This fake money is everywhere I turn. ibid.
‘Why would you have Michael Jackson as your best man?’ Reputations s9e3: Uri Geller, critic, BBC 2002
It’s 30 years since Uri Geller captured the attention of the media by bending a fork on British television … He claimed to do it using the power of his mind. ibid.
He walked out of the studio during his first ever television appearance when his supernatural powers failed him. ibid.
By 1971 Geller’s showbiz career in Israel had collapsed. ibid.
James Randi: duplicated everything that Geller had done. ibid.
‘He was so bad that I was embarrassed for him … Everything that he tried failed.’ ibid. witness of Geller’s appearance on Carson’s TV show
‘A simple bent key changed the world.’ ibid. Geller
You’re not a fake. You’re a genuine idiot. North by Northwest 1959 starring Cary Grant & Eva Marie Saint & James Mason & Jessie Royce Landis & Leo G Carroll & Josephone Hutchinson & Philip Ober & Martin Landau & Adam Willims & Edwart Platt et al, director Alfred Hitchcock, woman at art auction
It was a murder that sent shockwaves around the world. Just weeks after the Novichok poisonings in Salisbury another apparent attack on foreign soil. But a day later Arkady Babchenko was back from the dead … the Fake Murder. Panorama: The Fake Murder that Fooled the World, BBC 2018
Babchenko is a Russian journalist. He fled Moscow last year after receiving death threats. And got a job with a Ukrainian TV station. ibid.
SBU agents had arranged a make-up artist to help stage the murder scene. ibid.
Why had a self-styled truth-teller agreed to play the starring role in a fake news story? ibid.
Christmas buyers beware: the new scams fleecing millions from unsuspecting customers. And the sophisticated frauds catching us out. But would you be able to spot them? Tonight: Christmas Buyers Beware, ITV
Around 10% of toys coming into the UK are fake. ibid.
You can see how the branches of the vines are all twisting, tortuous. It’s very traditional … It’s phantasmagoric. Sour Grapes, Laurent Ponsot, winemaker, 2016
I guess the auction scene really started in the ’90s in the dot-com boom. Everybody was making money. They developed this culture of very wealthy collectors gathering at these auctions to be see and be seen, to be seen bidding. And the prices really started to escalate. ibid. Jay McInerney, wine writer
2000 or early 2001: we were doing auctions and I started being aware of you know skinny, geeky guy that liked wine. ibid. Maureen Downey, wine consultant
Rudy Kurniawan inhabits a high-rolling club of wine fanatics to whom money’s no object. Young and hip, he’s upped the wine ante. ibid. Corie Brown, Times staff writer
Between 2003 and 2006 John Kapon sells more than $35 million of wine from Rudy’s cellar. ibid. caption
Everything with this fellow kept coming up fake. ibid. investigator
In 2011, Bill Koch’s lawyers interviewed Rudy about counterfeit bottles Koch had bought from another collector. The bottles had originated from Rudy’s cellar. ibid. caption
There was everything you would need to make fake wine. ibid. FBI raid Rudy’s house
Rudy is charged and taken to a detention centre in New York City. Deemed a flight risk, he is not given bail. ibid. caption
Who backed it? Where did this money come from? Who created it? ibid. investigator
One of the biggest names in Britain showbizzness: knighted by the Queen and by the Pope. The marathon man who raised so much for charity that a hospital gave him his own set of keys. But it was all a smokescreen. Behind his playboy image fifty years of child abuse and hundreds of victims. Now for the first time we reveal clues that were there twenty-five years ago but were ignored. And the moment Savile’s mask slipped. Faking It Special s1e1: Jimmy Savile, Discovery 2020
‘How were we not all terrified as children by this man who is creepy looking frankly?’ ibid. Kerry Daynes
‘The word prolific doesn’t do it justice. The earliest allegation: 1955; the most recent one was 2009 … a sexual predator who operated at will over decades.’ ibid. Gabrielle Shaw
‘I’m feared in every girl’s school in this country.’ ibid. Savile, Have I Got News for You
Throughout [the interview] it was a struggle between Andrew Neil determined to fine out more and Savile resisting exposure, but sometimes Savile couldn’t help himself. ibid.
His interest was in vulnerable people particularly if they were very young. ibid.
‘Everybody tips me off about everything.’ ibid. Savile, Neil interview
But are there tell-tale signs? For the first time our team analyses the words and body language of Donald Trump. What he says, how he says it. And what he means … ‘He’s doing the Trump squirm.’ Faking It Special s1e2: Trump
But does he believe what he says? ibid.
‘He doesn’t see it as lying; it’s more a bending of the truth.’ ibid. Kerry Daynes
‘An ‘extremely credible source’ has called my office and told me that Barack Obama’s birth certificate is a fraud.’ ibid. Trump tweet
‘How inadequate do you have to feel? How big does that hole in your soul have to be that becoming the President of the United States is not good enough?’ ibid. Daynes
‘The Trump Squirm … Just watch his first finger grip the lectern tightly when he makes this claim … This stretching of the mouth horizontally.’ ibid. Cliff Lansley
‘It was about being Donald Trump on the biggest stage he could find. I think it shows that deep inside Trump there’s nothing there … I don’t think he can tell the difference between Truth and Falsehood.’ ibid. John Bolton
Accusations of distortions, and now the incredible question, Is this the real Melania Trump? The fake Melania theory started online in 2017, went viral and is now openly discussed on US talk shows. ibid.
Then aged 17, she claimed she was a victim. Ghislaine Maxwell now facing six criminal charges … Said to be taking the picture, convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Faking It Special s1e3: Epstein, Maxwell & Prince Andrew
Prince Andrew: Rapid blinking while he is making these statements … Cognitive load … Head-shake noes. ibid. Cliff Lansley
There’s a real arrogance, a really unpleasant arrogance, to Jeffrey Epistein. ibid. Kerry Daynes
Sandringham: All three met at a special location. ibid.
There are inconsistencies when Virginia is relying the story re the sex acts … We don’t know what it is. ibid. Cliff Lansley
Is the real pain here to do with the betrayal of a female [Ghistlaine]? ibid.