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Firstly , on a personal observation , girl , you absolutely need a makeover. Copyright 2023 ABC News Internet Ventures. Before their wedding, the couple visited Italy, where Alexander asked Macchiarini to show her where their wedding celebrations would take place. "He [the Pope] wanted to use us as the poster couple for the Catholic church, to prove people who are divorced can get married in the Catholic church.". I loved everything about it, and to be sort of plunging into the unknown, even though I felt very secure with Paolo, happily in love. Benita Alexander is a strong, independent, intelligent, warm, and loving woman who thought she found her love connection with a man that swept her off her feet, much like prince charming! Spouse John Noel, Edson Jeune, Macchiarini, Source of Wealth Acting and Producing career. Use tab to navigate through the menu items. The slip from "Prince Charming to pathological liar" took place over just two years, she said. He also directed ABC News to a list of reforms the Institute was implementing in the wake of the scandal. [00:24:45] Bo Lindquist: I mean he basically said that he was going to revolutionize medicine, and, and not just invent a new kind of a trachea or a new kind of transplant, but actually revolutionize surgery. I mean it was, I felt butterflies, you know. The couple had the wedding planned for July 2015. Benita Alexander has been married twice. And so we, we thought, you know, this is a perfect case to focus a story around, and so we started doing Hannah's story. [00:04:39] Benita: I think one of the things that can make you a good journalist if, is if you're able to put yourself in the other person's shoes, and if you're able to sympathize with them and empathize them and really try to understand what it is they're going through. But unfortunately, her personal life has been marred by a turbulent childhood in Huntington Woods, Michigan, and a series of unsuccessful relationships. In October, 2020, her story was the premiere episode of ABC's primetime series, "The Con," hosted by Whoopi Goldberg. Her mother was Korean, and her dad, Canadian. The doctors also raised the issue that Macchiarini had reported on a patient in a way that suggested the patient was still alive, even though they had died before the paper was published. You know, "What did he do this time? This is totally different. Alexander said Macchiarini later called her, telling her he was at the Vatican and that he had some big news: Not only did he find someone willing to perform the ceremony but he said it was his own patient, the pope himself. "Then he said he had connections to the Vatican. Her new podcast "Benita and the Berracas," will feature Benita talking to other women who open up to her about their own love conned stories, along with advice on how to avoid becoming a victim. She is currently the Executive Producer/Showrunner of the true crime series "Crimes Gone Viral," which airs on Investigation Discovery and is in its second season. And we finally decided that we would live in Barcelona. But on the afternoon that she met him, a day before she was supposed to begin filming him, something happened that gave her pause. [00:08:14] Benita: But we, we started looking into him, and then he was about to do a transplant on this beautiful, beautiful little toddler, um, her name was Hannah, from Seoul, South Korea. You could uh, train stem cells so that, and then inject them into the body and the stem cells would do the work, the surgery, not the knife. "He was a top doctor, he spoke six or seven languages. And Benita had a veil, and I brought over some dresses, and we were having some champagne, giggling and sketching, and it was so fun. [00:36:00] Matthew Christopher: On Valentine's Day, I met him. And these were all couples that were quote-unquote living in sin, you know, they had children out of wedlock, or whatever. His six papers on the transplant surgery were retracted. I want to focus on work. So I just found him very, I don't want to say intimidating, because intimidating's not the word. Paolo Macchiarini was born in Switzerland to Italian parents and has spoken of having had a difficult childhood in Basel, where by his own account he felt like a perpetual outsider in school. In a 500-page complaint filed in 2014 that detailed their allegations, the doctors accused Macchiarini of promoting a medical procedure that showed few signs of success while endangering the lives of his patients. And it's Paolo who helps Benita figure out the best way to say goodbye. And [00:14:24] Bob: It feels natural for Benita to share the family struggle with this world famous surgeon, a man who had spent his career cheating death, or trying anyway. Benita Alexander thought she had found her modern day Prince Charming. And I had seen paperwork that he had done work at the Vatican, consulting work. You know, we should do this to help Pope Francis, we should do this to help the Catholic church, and so it was almost like an obligation. I was so conflicted about it. "I talked to my editors and we started thinking, 'Well, let's just keep pulling on this thread. Prior to this, Benita spent 17 years in network television, producing long-form documentaries, breaking news, investigations, specials and hard news features for NBC. But her death was awful. It just never stopped, to the point that I would come home from these trips, and all my friends were hanging on the edge of their seat. And it was, when I walked back to the motorcycle, he kind of, he just got off the motorcycle and I walked up to him, and I had tears streaming down my face, and he, he just grabbed me, you know. He had told her, as personal surgeon to the Pope, the leader of the Catholic church wanted to marry the couple, she explained. "I was angry as hell. I think he needs to be behind bars. It was eight months later when they became properly engaged after Macchiarini presented her with a $100K ring. Alexander was assigned to work on the documentary about Paolo Macchiarini who has considered a pioneer in organ transplant. This is a surgeon. Uh, I think he actually appreciated being challenged to an extent. TV & Film Producer, Director, Writer, Correspondent, Narrator. A successful TV journalist, the single mother-of-one was interviewing him for a report on cutting-edge medicine. Best Known For For her appearance in ID Now (2017), Dateline NBC (1992) and Inside the Obama White House (2009). Meanwhile, the investigation into Macchiarini's professional life was ramping up -- the Karolinska Institute was investigating whether he'd fabricated aspects of his medical research. My daughter who, you know, has been through a lot. And I just thought, okay, you've got some stupid little schoolgirl crush on this doctor, which is absurd. We had been divorced for a couple of years at that point and for three years, and he was diagnosed with glioblastoma which is a very, there's no good kind of cancer, no good kind of brain cancer, but the, you know, the outlook is not good, you know they, they kind of give someone two years at the most. Six years later, in 2009, they filed for divorce. TV producer's romance with star surgeon begins against better judgment: Part 1Benita Alexander met Paolo Macchiarini while covering his pioneering work for a. Um, maybe I felt like that at some point when I was really young and I had a, had a crush in school, I don't know, but I don't, I don't ever remember feeling like that. To inquire about a licence to reproduce material, visit our Syndication site. [00:15:28] Bob: As Hannah's story becomes more intense, the news on Benita's ex-husband, John, gets worse. . But everything else, I'm planning everything, and you can't ask me any questions." ID gives the viewer the opportunity to experience this along with Benita the highs and the lows and to discover, along with her, howhe lied about everything, says Henry Schleiff, Group President of Investigation Discovery, Destination America and American Heroes Channel in a press release about the documentary. It was at this point that Benita said she started to feel that something was not right. A new two-hour "20/20" reports on Benita Alexander, a television producer who fell head over heels in love with world-renowned surgeon Paolo Macchiarini while producing a report on his revolutionary new surgery technique. www.aarp.org/volunteer. He was often described as a George Clooney look-alike, you know, he's, he's very elegant. I'm your host, Bob Sullivan. With the preparations nearly finished, Benita decides to take maybe the toughest step she's ever taken in her 20-year career as a journalist. "I have some really high-powered clients," she said he told her. Which clearly would completely change the face of, of medicine and, you know, all these people that been told they have no hope or no chance, it, it would be, it would be a gamechanger, right. Macchiarini had told her that he and his wife were separated, but that the divorce hadn't yet been finalized legally. And I was really wrestling with all of it. I did not think that by pulling that thread, we would completely undo the sweater.". But the biopsies showed the cells were dead and that there was actually fungi growing on the plastic, he said. Where is Benita Alexander now? Benita now uses her personal story of survival and resilience to help other women who have been love conned find the road to recovery. I really felt that we made a difference, you know, we, our story played a huge role, I think, in paving the way for him to finally bring his son home, and those are the kind of things that really mean a lot, at least to me in journalism. Oh, and a dance gown too, that was crazy fun. "It was the weirdest thing," Alexander said. She was 100% Daddy's Little Girl, and he utterly adored her. And it's presented to me by Paolo, it's not even about our wedding or about our love story. What is happening? But this magic carpet ride takes so many twists and turns that well, you just have to hear them for yourself. And so now his son, who I think was about 8 or 9 at the time, was in Brazil with her family, and he was engaged in this very difficult and complicated fight to try and get his son back, and such a loving father. related to AARP volunteering. Benita has to keep a secret. Benita Alexander and Paolo Macchiarini fall in love Alexander, an award-winning documentary TV producer, met Macchiarini in 2013 while working on a story about the surgeon's pioneering work. For further details of our complaints policy and to make a complaint please click this link: thesun.co.uk/editorial-complaints/, Journalist Benita Alexander (right) has revealed chilling clues that disclosed her lover and famed surgeon Paolo Macchiarini as a "romance scammer", The two fell for each other when Benita was interviewing Macchiarini for a story, The couple planned a lavish wedding set to take place in 2015 that felt too good to be true after Macchiarini said the Pope would officiate it, Benita decided to hire a private investigator, which led to her discovering her famous surgeon lover was actually facing legal trouble over his innovative techniques, Benita said she left her job of 17 years to marry Macchiarini, Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO). [00:31:32] Bob: I mean that sounds like a very special process. You know, no, how do we take viewers through a two-hour journey of this little girl coming, you know, halfway across the world to get this radical surgery, and then she doesn't make it? Just like, oh, the dance dress was crazy. [00:34:42] Matthew Christopher: We were going to meet later, so we just discussed the idea and it started with the wedding gown itself, and then had dinner at her house, and made dinner, and it was fun, and we were discussing things and how all these pieces were going to grow. Nothing anybody could do for her, and then like so many of Dr. Paolo Macchiarini's patients, they did a google search and found this kind of a magician of a surgeon who said I can help your little girl. That hideous under eye makeup , the obvious heavy Botox , that absurd VERY heavy makeup AND that over-dyed silly black hair says it all. It was kind of romance on steroids. When Benita Alexander eventually realized her whole relationship with Dr. Paolo Macchiarini was nothing short of a scam, she decided she wanted the world to know the truth about him. And so I was sort of, by becoming involved with him and by falling in love with him, I was breaking this cardinal rule in journalism that you don't get involved with a subject of your story, and even though when we did fall in love, it was, we were at the end of the production of the story, we kept it quiet because of that. You know, the equivalent of going to a drugstore and buying whatever, you, they, the idea is ultimately we'll get to the point that, you know, you have a failing organ or you lose a body part, you just order up a new one. In 2020, she appeared on the ABC documentary series The Con to discuss her personal life and narrate what happened between her and Paolo Macchiarini. [00:34:26] Matthew Christopher: You put your, I am going to make the most gorgeous dress you've ever seen. And so he took me on his motorcycle along the Illinois River. So it was scary. Previously considered a pioneer for using both biological and synthetic scaffolds seeded with patients' own stem cells as trachea . Her first marriage was to fellow journalist John Noel. He was speaking at a conference in Boston, and we went there to interview him, sort of ahead of Hannah coming to the US, about his work and about Hannah. Moreover, the Italian investigator found records showing that despite planning a wedding with Alexander for so long, Macchiarini was still legally married. Learn how to subscribe to AARP Podcasts on any device. Alexander is well-known for her career in production and film and was also in a relationship scam that made headlines and fueled her documentary, "He Lied About Everything." How to, what do we do now? I mean it was crazy. It really affects you. The happy couple start planning their wedding in earnest, and well, we already know Paolo likes a challenge. In 2019, the film was nominated in the documentary category for the WIN Awards, Women's Image Network. Benita Alexander, an award-winning documentary television producer and single mother, shares her story in ABC's "The Con." ABC News At the time, Macchiarini was employed by the prestigious Karolinska Institute in Sweden. [00:21:22] Benita: Tragically, Hannah passed away, which was, um, just devastating. It hired Bengt Gerdin, a professor at Uppsala University in Sweden, who spent six months examining some of Macchiarini's papers for evidence of research misconduct and in May 2015 determined that he was guilty, writing in his report that Macchiarini had made false claims about his patients' conditions improving, failed to report severe complications in some patients and made it seem as if some patients had been healthier for longer than they'd actually been following their surgeries. He was a flair for the dramatic and plans one romantic encounter after another. Capping off a whirlwind romance filled with gondola rides in Venice and quiet dinners in the Greek islands, she was. And it's a beautiful building, and it just has this feeling about it, you know, as you, it's a very special feeling too. I mean things don't move forward if we don't have people who are willing to, you know, you know, push things a little bit and he, he was that guy, you know, and he, he was very fascinating. Benita's story is also told on BBCs Outlook" podcast. I found him very um, hmm, he had a presence about him. Lindquist had begun his own investigation into the claims brought forth by Macchiarini's colleagues. And he was putting artificial tracheas, the windpipe, into patients. He responded wow,'" Benita claimed. Star Benita Alexander-Noel See production, box office & company info Add to Watchlist 12 User reviews Photos Add photo Corbascio called the decision "absolutely insane.". Then, one morning, she read in The New York Times that Macchiarini's colleagues at the Karolinska Institute had accused him of scientific misconduct and filed a complaint with the university. Why don't you, can you just for once sit back and let somebody else take over, just let him, let him take it over." [00:35:21] Bob: It does sound like the kind, I mean we were talking about what, 10 gowns? Free online workshop! And Hillary Clinton got involved, different people in Congress got involved, but ultimately, after many trips back and forth to Brazil and a lot of emotion, he got his son home. The couple divorced in 2009. "And then I want him to be held accountable. Benita Alexander attended Wayne State University, where she studied journalism. She was taking an incredible risk by getting involved with Paolo. Maybe help me, help with the invitations 'cause I don't want to deal with that. I also believe that exposing what happened, and exposing him, might keep him from hurting others. After relocating to New York, Benita worked for NBC and was featured in NBC's documentary "A Leap of Faith" in 2013. Macchiarini told Alexander he was having difficulty finding a Catholic priest who would marry two divorcees, but he told her not to worry, he would talk to his contact in the Vatican. [00:01:59] Benita: I had worked my way up from working in, from tiny little newspapers in Detroit, Michigan, which is where I went to college and where I'd, my family had moved after Australia. A JOURNALIST revealed the chilling clue that disclosed her lover and famed surgeon as a "romance scammer.". [00:00:01] Bob: This week on The Perfect Scam. So he goes to the Vatican, ostensibly, to ask for help finding someone who will marry us, and he calls me after that meeting and says to me, tells me I need to sit down, um, he has good news, but I need to sit down. [00:34:59] Bob: When you went to her house, was Paolo there? And that presence was really something, it was really something. Their guest list, Alexander said, included Elton John, the Beckhams, the Obamas, the Clintons and Russell Crowe. He has peoples lives in his hands.. ABC News reported that Macchiarini has never spoken publicly about his relationship with Benita. Documentary producer Benita Alexander thought it was love when her job introduced her to internationally renowned surgeon Paolo Macchiarini. "The Sun", "Sun", "Sun Online" are registered trademarks or trade names of News Group Newspapers Limited. When her ex-husband died, Macchiarini helped Alexander cope. It has led to extensive reform work internally at KI in order to improve and clarify a number of regulations and routines.". In 2013, the successful documentary producer met world-renowned, Dr. Paolo Macchiarini while working on a project for a major network. Benita was also the Co-Executive Producer and narrator for the 2016 TLC documentary, Breaking the Silence," about sexual abuse. And I was, I was really moved by that. [00:33:17] Bob: What he thinks is this is going to be an incredible challenge. The two-part special details how Alexander, an award-winning investigative news producer, met Dr. Paolo Macchiarini while she was producing an NBC News special about the renowned surgeons work in the field of regenerative medicine. I said, I just, I can't do this. But there was something, yeah, something happened between us the, the moment we met. [00:33:22] Matthew Christopher: Right. This was holy cow. Of course, it's Valentine's Day, I'm like, oh my God. But Bo at the time had no idea who it was. If your response is to point a finger at a victim, thats really sad. She is currently the voice of the true crime series "Still A Mystery" on Investigation Discovery, and she has narrated four seasons of this ongoing, multi part show. But the former NBC News producer would come to find out the hard way that even the most glamorous and convincing of appearances can be deceiving. He says to me, "I want to take over the wedding planning and I want to surprise you with everything. They got married in October 2012. Um, you know, they come in and I'd say, "Welcome to your closet." Documentary producer Benita Alexander thought it was love when her job introduced her to internationally renowned surgeon Paolo Macchiarini. And right about then, across the Atlantic Ocean, Bo is about to find out the real truth about Paolo too. And I literally, I was really like, what? "He and I started going to dinners and I was kind of pouring my heart out to him about all this stuff. By what name was He Lied About Everything (2018) officially released in Canada in English? [00:04:24] Benita: Right, yeah, and they're not always happy endings, and you do, you, unfortunately, you know, you report on a lot of very, very difficult things in news. What did he do this time?" 5. In the most recent development, she narrated her story on ABC's The Con, so that more people can be made aware of such practices. [00:42:33] Bob: When Benita comes to her senses, she switches back into investigative reporter mode, and decides to find out the real truth behind Paolo. Along the way he promises her a fairy tale wedding to be officiated by the Pope. And he actually said his barber in uh the south of Russia, he, he managed to find this excellent, excellent barber in Kazan there where he performed his Russian experiments, brilliant guy. It was magical. Its so damaging. Macchiarini had told Alexander that he was on a work trip in Russia, but when Alexander pulled up near his home, she said he was standing on the steps with his dog. [00:01:28] Benita: I grew up in Australia, and I had an uncle, my mother's brother, who worked for Radio Free Europe. She graduated magna cum laude from WSU with a degree in journalism in 1987. [00:36:44] Bob: I feel like there's some people you meet who are simultaneously uh impressive but uncomfortable. Subtitles English [CC] Audio languages English Buy Season 1 For other inquiries, Contact Us. He worked at the place that awards the Nobel Prize in Medicine, Karolinska Institute in Sweden, Stockholm, Sweden. [00:18:58] Bob: I love you in rose petals on the bed. Fans can also watch He Lied About Everything on InvestigationDiscovery.com. She said one question was heavy on her mind: "Why did you do this to me, why would you do that to anybody? [00:25:22] Bob: And while Paolo loves to talk about his work, he isn't always charming. The 56-year-old actually has a podcast appropriately titled Benita & the Berracas for the same, and she continues to be an active advocate on the matter. [00:31:56] Bob: Benita sees a dress made by Christopher in a New York City store, but it isn't quite right. And her parents were just distraught, you know, they wanted, they had been told she might live 6 or 7 years, and there's no cure. I love some pressure, let's go for it. But Benita's intuition overtook her and she hired a private investigator to look into the surreal wedding. I mean, and we didn't know what to do. The Pope doesnt marry people. In the course of that operation, the surgeons had nicked her trachea. Macchiarini took Alexander to several romantic getaways in Europe. So it was uh, quite, quite in--, incredible or remarkable to, for those words to come out of her mouth. Star-Studded Wedding Becomes Brides Worst Nightmare, Part 1, Journalist exposes her celebrity fianc, part 2, Computer hacker drains couple's life savings. The university even cited some of the whistleblowers, reprimanding them for their participation in some of Macchiarini's papers. Macchiarini has not yet entered a plea, but has denied all of the charges. The qualified journalist then began working at a string of local television stations. In June 2013, they flew to Venice for what Alexander called an incredibly romantic weekend.. And as they ride the motorcycle away from the river, the magic carpet ride takes off. And so I thought, okay, maybe its not as crazy as it, as it sounds. 5 Journalist Benita Alexander (right) has. I was so career-driven, and so career-oriented, but I was madly in love. [00:04:33] Bob: But it also sounds like you get pretty, your stories are very emotional, and you get pretty involved in your subjects, right. Capping off a whirlwind romance filled with gondola rides in Venice and quiet dinners in the Greek islands, she was promised a wedding in the Italian countryside officiated by the Pope himself. You are leaving AARP.org and going to the website of our trusted provider. NBC News is pulling "A Leap of Faith" Meredith Vieira's documentary on controversial . Benita Alexander has been working as a Macchiarini at NBC News. Hosted by Benita Alexander. Macchiarini proposed to Alexander on Christmas Day in 2013. [00:32:14] Matthew Christopher: She actually came to my private showroom which was really cool, and um, I had my whole staff there, and we had to sign a nondisclosure agreement, and I was like, what is going on here? The story with making a couture gown is, you know, it goes through, gosh, a team of pattern makers, drapers, um, stitchers, sewers, hand stitchers, beading and embroiderers, lace, and all that kind of stuff. [00:19:03] Benita: (laugh) Yeah, yep, yeah. Claiming he was in demand. [00:17:35] Benita: Around this time that my ex-husband, John, passed away, we became romantically involved. And we got involved and started doing the story, and it got very intense. And, and, and embraced me and held me so hard. Both have covered Macchiarini in their work. I have to tell you, and I'm like, you know, I'm a very boisterous, fun guy, that's, you know, and very um, slap-happy fun, and I literally stopped in my tracks, and was like, "Huh?" His work, if controversial, is also groundbreaking. And they kind of laughed. [00:35:01] Matthew Christopher: No, no, just her friends who are so much fun. En Espanol We just made sure we took care of Benita. Macchiarini.". It wasnt surprising being a surgeon in Italy. (Pasadena, Calif.) - This Valentine's Day, Investigation Discovery (ID) presents a love story gone wrong with HE LIED ABOUT EVERYTHING, the astonishing true tale of the love affair between award-winning investigative news producer Benita Alexander, and the brilliant, world-renowned surgeon Paolo Macchiarini.What started as a picture-perfect dream relationship between two people at the . My then ex-husband, who I had moved to New York with and the father of our beautiful daughter, was dying of brain cancer. And so it was kind of the perfect case for us to focus our story around. Benita Alexander, an award-winning documentary TV producer and Paolo Macchiarini fall in love after meeting in 2013 while she is working on a story about the surgeon's pioneering w Show more. He told her opera singer Andrea Bocelli would be singing in the church during their wedding and that John Legend would be playing the piano at their ceremony. And then John Legend was supposed to be playing piano in the church. The Karolinska Institute commissioned an external investigation into the allegations. I was really taken back. So over the next few days he tells me that theres something hes never told me before, and that he is actually Pope Franciss private personal doctor. [00:00:03] He was incredibly generous, you know, and so romantic and just so wonderful. But our guest list was insane because now that the Pope was marrying us, he kept inviting all these dignitaries, you know, so world leaders were coming to our wedding. That's next week on The Perfect Scam. I truly was for a period there, happier than I think I've ever been. [00:11:55] Bob: And how old were you then? Powered by WordPress.com VIP. Javascript must be enabled to use this site. The group eventually grew into four doctors, who compared the journal reports Macchiarini had published about his procedure -- all of which reported relatively positive results -- to the actual medical records of those patients. I mean I'm going to achieve this; you know what I mean? Exploring the troubling tales of people manipulated by claims and promises that proved too good to be true, it reveals how the perpetrator fooled their victims and made them pay the price for their misplaced trust both emotionally and financially. Hundreds of Benita Alexander's friends and family had already bought their plane tickets to Italy to attend her extravagant wedding that was supposed to be officiated by the pope when it all came crashing down in a flurry of her fianc's deception. "He seemed like he was the miracle man," she said. ET on ABC. [00:22:38] Bob: What Benita doesn't know at the time, she couldn't have known, is that Hannah's death also sparks the interest of the European journalist named Bo Lindquist, a Swedish filmmaker, he's already working on a documentary film about Paolo, but it isn't designed with a happy ending in mind. In the meantime, please feel free It was an excellent place. Once you confirm that subscription, you will regularly [00:40:30] Benita: Paolo lived in Barcelona, and so we had talked about what were we going to do after the wedding. [00:23:07] Bob: The first time you met him was where? While Macchiarini continued to deny any wrongdoing, he lost his job at the Institute and Swedish prosecutors began looking into whether his behavior was criminal. At the time, Macchiarini was employed by the prestigious Karolinska Institute in Sweden. Macchiarini convinced Alexander that the Obamas, the Clintons, the Beckhams, Elton John, and John Legend were few of many personalities to attend their wedding. I had butterflies or something like some, some kind of electric spark went through my body, and I, my immediate thought was, what in the heck is that? He traveled to Illinois to operate on a Korean toddler who was born without a trachea and who was going to be the youngest person to ever receive an artificial one. Her colleague had sent an article that said the pope would not be in Rome, or even Italy, on the day of their wedding. 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