marianne smyth is "lucia belia"

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She paid cash for it in Prague while she was scamming victims in Northern Ireland from 2001-2009. As a result she had constantly low blood iron. Not wanting to waste a great opportunity to scam people, while living in Los Angeles, Mair would intentionally let her blood iron get so low that she'd get admitted into a hospital for iron transfusions. While she was in a real hospital bed getting an iron transfusion, she'd have a nurse snap her picture and she'd text that picture to victims claiming she was in the hospital getting chemo as part of her cancer treatments. She used this cancer scam to get out of paying rent for nearly 6 months

...often times bringing clients to tears. Her kryptonite as it turns out was familiarity. She could not read people she knew. Once those clients, who were strangers, became friends - her accuracy took a nosedive. But to keep the plane in the air she convinced them she was a licensed psychologist and induced them into taking life coaching classes from her. She'd have her new life coaching clients do lots of "homework assignments" which would have them writing long and detailed essays about their innermost secrets and fears – and then she'd use that Intel to scam each and every one of them. Hear from the clients themselves on "Queen of the Con: The Irish Heiress" available now wherever you get your podcasts. 

She pretended to have cancer to get out of paying rent. She used a pair of crutches to appear disabled. In the picture above she faked mental illness by pretending she tried to kill herself. The judge believed her. She got admitted to a psych ward of a mental hospital in Los Angeles and was able to skip court for weeks. Eventually she had to come back to court, dressed in a sucide gown so she couldn't hurt herself. And the judge talked to her like he was addressing his 5 year old daughter - with love and compassion and sympathy. It infuriated me. "How can he believe her?" I thought. It was a real world testament to how convincing she was. Even to a jaded, experienced judge in the Los Angeles criminal court system. We unpack the details of her mental illness scam in Episode 7 of Queen of the Con: The Irish Heiress

...impersonate the likes of Jennifer Aniston, Ashley Judd, Dario Franchitti, Jack Capuano and even me! She texted and emailed some of her victims as ME, tricking one victim into believing she was in the hospital with a collapsed lung and could no longer teach the fraudulent life coaching classes the victim prepaid thousands of dollars for when Mair impersonated a licensed psychologist. Mair also tricked another victim into believing that I was collecting money for her daughter's experimental cancer treatments. Most times though she would email and text herself as one of the dozens of other "characters" she created and then show her victims her phone saying "Look what Jen just texted me." to trick them into believing stuff. She'd show me texts and emails on her phone from her Irish cousin Fintan, her barristers in Ireland and her Los Angeles attorneys - as evidence that what she was telling me about her life was true. I had no idea that she actually made up all those identities and then texted and emailed HERSELF to trick me. So the next time someone shows you their phone with a text or email from someone proving this or that... be wary.

...she had been coming to court dressed professionally with hair and makeup done. But on the day of the preliminary hearing, where a judge would be deciding if my case against her goes to trial or gets dismissed  Mair actually  showed up to court on crutches dressed like a bag lady. A con that backfired spectacularly. Becuase local ABC News reporter Rob Hayes was there, shoving a camera in her face and asking, "What happened to your foot?" We unpack the details in Episode 7 of Queen of the Con: The Irish Heiress