They said that the patient was doing fine and that's not true: One of his lungs was completely obliterated from a chronic infection.". The true tale of the love affair between award-winning investigative producer Benita Alexander and world-renowned surgeon Paolo Macchiarini. He says to me, "I want to take over the wedding planning and I want to surprise you with everything. [00:15:45] Benita: There was a particular moment when my ex-husband had gone into a coma, and I was in Illinois, and I was, I was um, very upset about everything and trying to figure out a way, I was talking to Paolo about trying to figure out what to do and how to say goodbye, and uh crying about the fact that I hadn't been able to say goodbye. At the time, Macchiarini was employed by the prestigious Karolinska Institute in Sweden. The slip from "Prince Charming to pathological liar" took place over just two years, she said. Her colleague had sent an article that said the pope would not be in Rome, or even Italy, on the day of their wedding. 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. 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. [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. Give it to me. [00:31:04] Matthew Christopher: I'm a couture wedding gown designer. And this is something very clandestine and secretive and he cant talk about, but hes been doing this for many years, and he is a celebrity surgeon to a number of famous people and celebrities, but that he cant talk about this because hes tied to people who want a private doctor who will attend to them but, you know, they have these private doctors, because they don't want anyone to know, you know, whats going on in their private life. The two-part special He Lied About Everything premieres on ID on Wednesday, Feb. 14 from 8 to 10 p.m. "I made a very strategic decision to start playing a cat-and-mouse game, basically," she said. And so does anyone who has anything to do with the wedding. You know he; he was sort of like Mr. "I have some really high-powered clients," she said he told her. 2023 Cinemaholic Inc. All rights reserved. Nobody, except my closest friends and family, knew about the Pope because we weren't allowed to talk about it, but they knew that was a big VIP wedding. You know, it was awful for her family. Benita Alexander has been working as a Macchiarini at NBC News. [00:32:26] Bob: And so she comes in with a small team, right, and you all sit around a table, and what does she say to you? "I couldn't fall apart because I am a single mother with a daughter who needs me. That's pretty unusual too. 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. 679215 Registered office: 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF. Not, not that kind of just instant, immediate spark. And a very, very good listener and was giving me very wise, sage advice, you know, about all these questions; what to tell her, how to tell her, and I was sort of soaking it all up, and I was very touched by the fact that this man seemed so incredibly altruistic. "I was doing a story about regenerative medicine and his name kept coming up," Benita, a New York resident, said on the podcast Dr Death: Miracle Man. 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. And it was, it was things like this all the time. [00:05:44] Benita: Yeah, I mean the, we wanted to do a story about this field called regenerative medicine which added base core, the most simplistic way to define this is, it's sort of sci-fi, futuristic medicine where the, the goal is to be able to create body parts or organs in the lab, man-made. "And then I want him to be held accountable. Her purpose for doing so is simple; to not only move on but also build a safe community for survivors like her a place where theres self-healing through sharing and unconditional support. Just like, oh, the dance dress was crazy. It defeats the point, Benita recently said. I, my friends sort of joke now that, you know, I was blushing all the time, and I was just giddy. And one of those really, really tight embraces. We were sitting together on the, on the plane, and I just sort of started pouring my heart out to him, and he was a very good friend. She finds that story in South Korea. NEW YORK Dr Paolo Macchiarini, He Lied About Everything with Benita Alexander Armchair MBA 18K subscribers Join Subscribe 1.5K Share Save 128K views 2 years ago I chat with Benita Alexander. And I tend to be a very empathetic kind of person, and I am very sensitive, and I care a lot about people and so I've always used that in journalism to really sort of get inside somebody else's shoes or, or their story. Meanwhile, the doctors were still trying to save Cetir's life. And he, so his reputation sort of proceeds him, but when he walked in to where we were sitting that day, he, when he walked in, he looked right at me, and our eyes met, and I've never in my life had something like this happen to me before, but I, I felt like a silly, little schoolgirl. Benita Alexander has everything going for her. This is a surgeon. He seemed that way in his work as well, but here he is talking to me and spending all this time listening to me and seemed very vested in this little girl that he had never met. Subtitles English [CC] Audio languages English Buy Season 1 "He said he was having trouble finding a priest to marry us," she said. [00:30:37] Bob: So now that she's been told the Pope is involved, Benita has another secret to keep. He speaks 5 or 6 languages, and he works all over the world, and you know, dresses very beautifully. Once you confirm that subscription, you will regularly I'm kind of a control, you know, right, I'm kind of a control freak. [00:09:18] Benita: Yeah, so we, we started focusing our story around Hannah and her family, and Hannah was actually, she was going to be the youngest person in the world to ever get one of his experimental transplants; the first toddler, and also the first patient to be operated on in the United States. Oxygen.com interviews filmmaker and reporter Benita Alexander, an executive producer of the 90-minute documentary "Seduced by Evil," about con man Derek Alldred. 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. The Karolinska Institute commissioned an external investigation into the allegations. Their guest list, Alexander said, included Elton John, the Beckhams, the Obamas, the Clintons and Russell Crowe. In response to Gerdin's report, Macchiarini denied all the findings. And I literally, I was really like, what? [00:10:16] Bob: And when they meet, well Benita is stunned by what happens. [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. She couldn't eat. And so we were looking into this field, and we found this doctor. Hosted by Benita Alexander. 'People Magazine Investigates' : Tracking Down the Man Who Allegedly Killed Mom of Two Joy Hibbs in 1991, Arrest Made in Beloved Mother's Cold Case Murder and Prosecutor Credits 'People Magazine Investigates', 'Hiding in Plain Sight': All About Jimmy Savile, Disgraced Royal Confidante Featured in Netflix Doc, 'People Magazine Investigates' : Inside Decades-Old Disappearances of 5 People Along the Snake River. But her death was awful. He actually brought him home on Christmas Day, and he and I are still in touch. As a producer, for me that was next to impossible. I want him to look around that courtroom and see the families of the patients whose lives he destroyed, and see my face and at last be forced for whatever few seconds to look us all in the eye and maybe understand what he did," Alexander said. [00:26:36] Benita: Paolo wanted a big, Catholic wedding. And when I looked at the email, there was an article, and it was an article about the fact that the Pope was not even going to be in Rome on July 11th, 2015, he was going to be in South America. "It was the weirdest thing," Alexander said. Um, she was being brought to Illinois, the Children's Hospital of Illinois because a Korean nurse there had found Hannah in the hospital in Seoul and had sort of lobbied to bring her to the US. Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Amazon Music| Spotify | Stitcher|TuneIn. 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. What started as dream relationship developed into a nightmare filled with lies and deceit. From what we can tell, Benita still resides in New York alongside her daughter, where shes primarily a freelance executive producer for Lion Television, all the while serving as a public figure. They become engaged and plan a lavish dream wedding, to be attended by celebrities and officiated by none other than Pope Francis himself. You will be asked to register or log in. [00:40:15] Bob: With that dramatic entrance comes a dramatic exit too. Paolo Macchiarini (born 22 August 1958): 2 is a Swiss-born Italian thoracic surgeon and former regenerative medicine researcher who became known for research fraud and manipulative behavior. [00:31:09] Matthew Christopher: Um, a couture wedding gown designer is someone that actually design gowns from beginning to end, whether that's draping, whether that's sketching; couture means it's handmade. Sought after worldwide, people believed Macchiarini would one day revolutionize the field of organ transplantation, journalist Bo Lindquist said. Alexander hired a private investigator to investigate all the secrets and lies about Macchiarini. [00:35:41] Matthew Christopher: Yeah, and we definitely um, we made sure that through this process, we made sure we took care of her, you know what I mean. 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. I was blissfully happy. 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. "The Sun", "Sun", "Sun Online" are registered trademarks or trade names of News Group Newspapers Limited. Some even believed he'd win a Nobel Prize one day, according to author Stuart Ritchie. She said she called the castle where all the guests were supposed to be staying and asked them about the reservation, which they didn't have. Ole Petter Ottersen, president of the Karolinska Institute since 2017, told ABC News in a request for comment on Macchiarini, "It is obvious that KI's initial handling of this case was insufficient and inadequate on several points. In July 2015 their "cat and mouse game" came to an end when she revealed to him everything she found through the private investigation. A successful TV journalist, the single mother-of-one was interviewing him for a report on cutting-edge medicine. 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? It said he'd be in South America and that the "trip had been planned for quite some time," Alexander said. "The first thing we did was inform our boss, and then we also informed Paolo Macchiarini's bosses at the university," Corbascio said. Her multiple awards include: Edward R. Murrow, 2 Emmys, 7 Emmy nominations, Alfred I. duPont-Columbia, NABJ and Sigma Delta Chi. But this magic carpet ride takes so many twists and turns that well, you just have to hear them for yourself. She is also the CEO of Berraca Productions, a company she founded to further her advocacy work empowering women who are the survivors of fraud. [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. So just under two months before the wedding, and it was just difficult. [00:36:55] Bob: Benita, the TV producer, is very used to managing all the details of a big event. They got married in October 2012. Macchiarini and Benita quickly started planning an extravagant wedding, she said. In fact, he told me that Paolo would often leave their interview to engage in some frantic texting with someone, probably a lover, probably Benita. I was so career-driven, and so career-oriented, but I was madly in love. Benita was also the Co-Executive Producer and narrator for the 2016 TLC documentary, Breaking the Silence," about sexual abuse. He was put on trial after his patients reportedly suffered bodily harm during his experimental surgeries but he always denied any criminal wrongdoing. Track SoCal rain with LIVE Megadoppler 7000 HD, Emily Whipp, Laura Dimon, Colleen Halpin, Emma Piscia and Anthony Rivas. Alexander said that day marked the beginning of their relationship. Benita Alexander-Jeune started her career as a journalist for a few minor television stations. 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. The documentary includes never-before-seen footage and photos and shows Alexanders search for the truth after such a shocking betrayal of the heart. And I said, "Well what are we going to do?" She'd been in the intensive care unit in Turkey for three years, and her health was still deteriorating. He was incredibly generous, you know, and so romantic and just so wonderful. [00:00:03] He was incredibly generous, you know, and so romantic and just so wonderful. See production, box office & company info, Fatal Experiments: The Downfall of a Supersurgeon. [00:05:31] Bob: Benita worked on several stories about medical miracles, and at the time, there was one kind of medical miracle that just kept coming up. [00:23:14] Bo Lindquist: And then we traveled to different places. You can also manage your communication preferences by updating your account at anytime. In October, 2020, her story was the premiere episode of ABC's primetime series, "The Con," hosted by Whoopi Goldberg. Benita Alexander is an award-winning investigative television producer, showrunner, correspondent, director, writer and narrator who has worked on a wide variety of film and TV programs. 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. [00:32:33] Matthew Christopher: (laugh) She said to me as I um, she said to me, "Well, Matthew, (or team)" she goes, "Well, I'm getting married by the Pope." When she continued to press Macchiarini about the pope, she said he blamed Vatican politics, alleging that the more conservative former Pope Benedict went behind Pope Francis' back to stop him from officiating the wedding. He's Catholic. 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. And it was so fun to work with, with all of them, you know, anybody that, and they have private appointments that wanted to come in. [00:30:47] Benita: It was all very hush-hush, you know, everybody that was involved in the wedding planning, including the people that designed the wedding invitations, the people that made my wedding dresses, everybody had to just, had to sign nondisclosure agreements. NBC News is pulling "A Leap of Faith" Meredith Vieira's documentary on controversial . Bo has begun asking questions about this medical miracle worker, so had some fellow researchers. And we finally decided that we would live in Barcelona. Excellent place. And these were all couples that were quote-unquote living in sin, you know, they had children out of wedlock, or whatever. And I think I was even blushing. Alexander was in head over heels for Macchiarini. By what name was He Lied About Everything (2018) officially released in Canada in English? receive communications related to AARP volunteering. After sweeping Alexander off her feet by taking her to jet-setting and romantic locales all over the world for months, Macchiarini proposed. She had spent her entire little life in the hospital, never left the hospital because she had a tube down her throat just to live. [00:35:01] Matthew Christopher: No, no, just her friends who are so much fun. She started her career at a local news station before moving on to work at NBC in New York. Its so damaging. Dashing, successful and charming, Macchiarini, she thought, was the perfect man for her. 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. In September 2020, Swedish prosecutors announced charges against Macchiarini for aggravated assault in connection to three surgeries that he had performed at the Karolinska University Hospital, including Cetir's. Perfect. Kind of like being in a fairy tale, you know. [00:18:58] Bob: I love you in rose petals on the bed. It wasnt surprising being a surgeon in Italy. She was just like a little ray of sunshine, and a) I was just, it was so devastating when she didn't make it. News Group Newspapers Limited in England No. She was floored when he told her John Legend would sing at their wedding and Pope Francis would officiate. The qualified journalist then began working at a string of local television stations. [00:36:44] Bob: I feel like there's some people you meet who are simultaneously uh impressive but uncomfortable. 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." In fact, the scientist was embroiled in lawsuits and accusations at work. [00:14:35] Benita: The thing about Paolo is he's a very good listener, and we, after a shoot sometimes, would go out to dinner, or we would be in a group of people talking. But the biopsies showed the cells were dead and that there was actually fungi growing on the plastic, he said. I don't want you to do anything except find your dresses and just, all you have to do is show up and look beautiful. 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. He was kind of a rebel. But everything else, I'm planning everything, and you can't ask me any questions." 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. That's next week on The Perfect Scam. What do they discover? 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. He was listed as one of . And I was ready to ride off into the sunset, into this new life in Barcelona, and but it was also a very, very difficult decision for me. "From that moment on, it felt like my head was spinning," Alexander said, "and it didn't stop spinning.". [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. We had a long time together on the flight from Korea to Illinois. And Paolo had said to me, "You, you need to find a way to say good-bye to him," and he said, "I'll help you." "The headline is that it started out as a beautiful love story and it ended up as a total nightmare," said Benita. [00:24:07] Bob: For many months, Paolo plays his cards very close to the vest as Bo starts asking questions about the patients Paolo has worked on. [00:00:34] Welcome back to The Perfect Scam. Learn how to subscribe to AARP Podcasts on any device. [00:09:12] Bob: And so, Benita travels to Boston to meet the miracle worker for herself. For AARP's The Perfect Scam, I'm Bob Sullivan. Uh, I think he actually appreciated being challenged to an extent. Benita was pursuing a big story when the ill-fated lovers met in 2013. In her personal life, she's also looking for a medical miracle, a miracle that, well it wasn't going to come. ET on ABC. It really affects you. He's also never spoken publicly about his relationship with Alexander. [00:01:54] Bob: Benita didn't start her career working for a larger network in New York. www.aarp.org/volunteer. Macchiarini took Alexander to several romantic getaways in Europe. [00:19:03] Benita: (laugh) Yeah, yep, yeah. And it's, I was proud to work there. So he was very interesting and very fascinating and also because he was a pioneer, and he was pushing the envelope, you know, he was a little bit, a little bit radical, but doing, he was taking chances that nobody else would, and we actually need people like that in medicine. 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. After she called Macchiarini, furious about what she'd read, she began to wonder what else he might have lied about. AARP is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that empowers people to choose how they live as they age. Benita Alexander thought she had found her modern day Prince Charming. I'm never viewed like that, but I was definitely like, huh? You know, "You've, you've renewed my faith in love.". Macchiarini had reported that after his first patient underwent the procedure, a healthy trachea was beginning to develop, Lindquist said. His work, if controversial, is also groundbreaking. Paolo showers Benita with affection. And he's getting noticed in the medical field. And she meets Christopher at his shop. Use tab to navigate through the menu items. After Cetir's surgery, doctors say she had to undergo an additional 191 surgeries for other complications. 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. (chuckle). And spent months, you know, this did not happen overnight. That hideous under eye makeup , the obvious heavy Botox , that absurd VERY heavy makeup AND that over-dyed silly black hair says it all. related to AARP volunteering. [00:24:37] Bob: Paolo is a natural subject for a documentary film. [00:21:08] Bob: Benita is proud of her work and happy with her husband-to-be, excited to put the finishing touches on Hannah's medical miracle story, but before the piece airs, the story takes a dark turn. The Sun website is regulated by the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO), Our journalists strive for accuracy but on occasion we make mistakes. It's, it's a very um, it has a lot of stature, that building and a lot of meaning. To inquire about a licence to reproduce material, visit our Syndication site. Soon afterward, he took her on an "over the top" romantic trip to Italy, where they ate extravagant meals, went shopping and island hopped on a private boat, she said. Subtle message to him, perhaps. This was worldwide. It does so much unnecessary damage. 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. "I put it all in a message. The third season, called "Dr. Death: Miracle Man" includes 6 episodes, along with a bonus episode that is an interview with Benita by host Laura Beil. Benita Alexander, and swept her off her feet with a marriage proposal and promises of a wedding . [00:33:22] Matthew Christopher: Right. In 2013, she was featured in the NBC documentary "A Leap of Faith." She has won numerous awards for her work. Most importantly, though, we need to mention that Benita not only attended the former doctor/her former fiancs trial in Sweden, but she also covered it as a correspondent for season 3 of the Dr. 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. Free online workshop! Who lost her dad. The way he used stem cells with his plastic tracheas would eventually develop into something quite extraordinary where you could use stem cells to target organs or other areas of the body where the, where there was a medical problem. And he said, "Just tell me when you want to stop." Benita has since spoken up about her experiences in the media, given public speeches, and written detailed articles in renowned publications to bring awareness to the concept of love con. "The Experiments" told the stories of some of Maccharini's patients, including young mother Julia Tuulik, who damaged her trachea in a car accident. I still remember my first day walking in there too, especially with, with all the art, the art deco and everything. You know he loves to surprise you. [00:13:10] Benita: When I met Dr. Paolo Macchiarini, and when I was working on this story, I was at an extremely vulnerable place in my life. "We had to clear her throat basically every four to six hours, sort of 24 hours, seven days a week," said Oscar Simonson, a cardiothoracic surgeon who worked at the Karolinska Institute and its affiliated hospital at the time. Oh my God, um, confident. With a purported VIP list of friends and clients that included former presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, Russian president Vladimir Putin and entertainment icons such as Elton John, their wedding was expected to be one of the biggest events of the year. 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