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[00:31:42] Matthew Christopher: Yeah, I do, you know, I've done tons of celebrity stuff, tons of Broadway stuff. Benita Alexander-Noel was born on April 21, 1966 in Australia. But her death was awful. In 2019, the film was nominated in the documentary category for the WIN Awards, Women's Image Network. 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. '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. 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. [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. [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 that's where we met for the first time. [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. [00:17:35] Benita: Around this time that my ex-husband, John, passed away, we became romantically involved. One name kept coming up over and over again, Dr. Paolo Macchiarini. They live in the same area outside Florence. "The outcry was such that the Karolinska Institute had to do something," said Ritchie. Once you confirm that subscription, you will regularly It has led to extensive reform work internally at KI in order to improve and clarify a number of regulations and routines.". [00:17:24] Bob: He was there when she needed somebody. "I was angry as hell. We have somebody who has been brave enough to share something thats already humiliating and devastating. Benita Alexander has everything going for her. Six years later, in 2009, they filed for divorce. Moreover, the Italian investigator found records showing that despite planning a wedding with Alexander for so long, Macchiarini was still legally married. Paolo Macchiarini proposes to Benita Alexander before leaving US for work: Part 2Alexander seemed to be living a fantasy lifestyle. In 2015, she served as a co-executive producer on Breaking the Silence, which featured DWTS pro Cheryl Burke, and Counting On alums Jessa Seewald and Jill Duggar Dillard. Well actually, dresses. Alexander was assigned to work on the documentary about Paolo Macchiarini who has considered a pioneer in organ transplant. And he's getting noticed in the medical field. Are you new to podcasts? Benita Alexander thought she had found her modern day Prince Charming. He was dying and Macchiarini became someone Alexander could lean on. After relocating to New York, Benita worked for NBC and was featured in NBC's documentary "A Leap of Faith" in 2013. I said, I just, I can't do this. He was a flair for the dramatic and plans one romantic encounter after another. [00:35:38] Bob: I mean it sounds like that could cost an infinity if you wanted it to. And she meets Christopher at his shop. Thats what I have the power to do now. [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. But Benita's intuition overtook her and she hired a private investigator to look into the surreal wedding. I mean most 8-year-olds will change their minds, you know, many times, but I never changed. And I made it to this point. You'll start receiving the latest news, benefits, events, and programs related to AARP's mission to empower people to choose how they live as they age. [00:36:55] Bob: Benita, the TV producer, is very used to managing all the details of a big event. We had, we had a very good relationship still when it came to our daughter and sharing custody and you know, both of us were very focused on our daughter. Alexander didn't initially believe him, but she said Macchiarini told her that the pope wanted to push forward his progressive agenda for the church. It defeats the point, Benita recently said. Since her romance with Paolo imploded in 2015, the brunette beauty has continued working on documentaries and docuseries'. Macchiarini ran into some legal trouble regarding his stem cell treatments with Swedish prosecutors recently appealing a sentence given to the Italian surgeon, the Associated Press reported. Spouse John Noel, Edson Jeune, Macchiarini, Source of Wealth Acting and Producing career. And we rode for probably 30, 45 minutes until I sort of found a spot that I thought was appropriate, and I got off the bike and I went to the water. I mean not, not physically, but he could be quite uh frightening actually when he got angry. [00:30:37] Bob: So now that she's been told the Pope is involved, Benita has another secret to keep. And so that meant me quitting my job at NBC and leaving New York and pulling my daughter out of her very difficult to get into private school in New York. Cetir came to Macchiarini's attention after undergoing an elective procedure to correct a condition that caused excessive sweating. "It was the weirdest thing," Alexander said. 1996-2023, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. And she, unfortunately, was born with no windpipe. The procedure uses the framework of a plastic tube lined with the patient's stem cells and is intended to help them replicate into a healthy version of the . The providers terms, conditions and policies apply. "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. 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. They set their wedding for 11 July 2015 in Rome. 5. His six papers on the transplant surgery were retracted. And somehow, when I read that email, I guess all those little red flags that I had been ignoring, the things that were eating at my gut, I just knew. 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. 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. Although her family said the injury wasn't serious enough to necessitate a tracheal transplant, she still underwent the procedure and went on to experience tremendous pain. My then ex-husband, who I had moved to New York with and the father of our beautiful daughter, was dying of brain cancer. Benita graduated magna cum laude from Wayne State University in Michigan, with a B.A in journalism. Star-Studded Wedding Becomes Brides Worst Nightmare, Part 1, Journalist exposes her celebrity fianc, part 2, Computer hacker drains couple's life savings. Hosted by Benita Alexander. The Sun website is regulated by the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO), Our journalists strive for accuracy but on occasion we make mistakes. 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. Oh, and a dance gown too, that was crazy fun. 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. [00:20:06] Benita: We had kind of quietly gotten engaged, but we weren't telling anybody um, because I mean the complicated thing about this is that there's a sort of unwritten rule in journalism that everybody understands, that, you know, there's, there is a line you just don't cross a kind of sacred line where you don't, you can empathize with a story subject, you can sympathize, but you don't become personally involved with a story subject for, for the reason, obviously, that your objectivity could be compromised, right. 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. All of this was happening around the same time that Alexander was preparing to share her own story publicly for the first time in a Vanity Fair article. After Cetir's surgery, doctors say she had to undergo an additional 191 surgeries for other complications. Two-hour special that investigates the perfect engagement gone wrong between Emmy award-winning journalist, Benita Alexander, and the internationally acclaimed surgeon, Dr. Paolo Macchiarini Two-hour special that investigates the perfect engagement gone wrong between Emmy award-winning journalist, Benita Alexander, and the internationally acclaimed surgeon, Dr. Paolo Macchiarini. And the two go on a magic carpet ride together. Use tab to navigate through the menu items. 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. And whatever that is, let's, let's push that away, you know. I, my friends sort of joke now that, you know, I was blushing all the time, and I was just giddy. 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. Her multiple awards include: Edward R. Murrow, 2 Emmys, 7 Emmy nominations, Alfred I. duPont-Columbia, NABJ and Sigma Delta Chi. I'm kind of a control, you know, right, I'm kind of a control freak. "Then he said he had connections to the Vatican. He is Italian. 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. And you know, dozens of roses and champagne and always the best champagne. A successful TV journalist, the single mother-of-one was interviewing him for a report on cutting-edge medicine. 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. As a journalist, Alexander knew she couldn't get involved with the subject of her story. Alexander said that day marked the beginning of their relationship. What do they discover? (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 . "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.". 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). 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. Her mother was Korean, and her dad, Canadian. And each surprise was a bigger wow factor than the last one. And I was, I was really moved by that. I love some pressure, let's go for it. 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. [00:31:32] Bob: I mean that sounds like a very special process. 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. 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. She said Macchiarini had told her that for their wedding, the Vatican had offered them the pope's summer residence in the Italian town of Castel Gandolfo. ET. Paolo showers Benita with affection. Macchiarini.". Alexander was in head over heels for Macchiarini. 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. 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. ET on ABC. That's pretty unusual too. I don't know if I was nervous. [00:06:46] Benita: And he was, as I said, called the super surgeon, and he was the pioneer in this field. Benita's story is also told on BBCs Outlook" podcast. For more compelling true crime coverage, follow our Crime magazine on Flipboard. 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. 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. 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. He was, he was just there when I needed somebody. In fact, we both worked for NBC in New York at the same time, but we didn't know each other then. [00:34:26] Matthew Christopher: You put your, I am going to make the most gorgeous dress you've ever seen. And it was, it was things like this all the time. She was devasted to learn all the lies told by Macchiarini. In mid-2013, they became a couple and in December that year they became pre-engaged as Macchiarini, who lived in Barcelona, Spain, said he was still legally married with two children but had been separated for a long time and was filing for divorce. If I had a checklist, he, he was everything I would want in a partner, everything you would want in a man. 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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? 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. A presence. And uh I decided to, to take his favorite flowers, birds of--, bird of paradise, and I ended up going to a flower shop and getting three birds of paradise; one for me, my, one for my daughter, and one for John, and Paolo um, loved motorcycles, and we had been shooting him on a motorcycle. ", Jupiter and Venus appear to 'kiss' in the sky, What is graupel? And I was really wrestling with all of it. I don't know what I was. And it's presented to me by Paolo, it's not even about our wedding or about our love story. And so he took me on his motorcycle along the Illinois River. And he said, he finally said, "Well, I'm going to go and talk to my contacts at the Vatican." What started as dream relationship developed into a nightmare filled with lies and deceit. So it was uh, quite, quite in--, incredible or remarkable to, for those words to come out of her mouth. A successful TV journalist, the single mother-of-one was interviewing him for a report on cutting-edge medicine. It wasnt surprising being a surgeon in Italy. [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. So this is not really out of the realm of possibility that he would have contacts at the Vatican. [00:01:54] Bob: Benita didn't start her career working for a larger network in New York. [00:30:34] Bob: Now your wedding is a cause. The latter refers to his misconduct that led to the deaths of several patients. He's also had his artificial trachea removed. The self-proclaimed love con expert is essentially currently utilizing her platform to expose various cases and empower brave women to not be shamed into silence, as per her Instagram. 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. Benita was pursuing a big story when the ill-fated lovers met in 2013. She later tied the knot with a ballroom instructor Edson Jeune in 2012, yet even that didnt work out. Macchiarini convinced Alexander that the Obamas, the Clintons, the Beckhams, Elton John, and John Legend were few of many personalities to attend their wedding. You know he; he was sort of like Mr. "It said that he had a normal functioning airway," Corbascio said. "That's when he told me that there was this kind of clandestine network [of doctors] who are on call, basically, for these people.'". He never did that with me, but I, I've, I have seen him really being quite, quite unpleasant with um, PhDs and people who were sort of subordinate. [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. Benita Alexander has been working as a Macchiarini at NBC News. Benita has spoken about her experience in numerous national and international TV and radio programs. In 2015, she served as a co-executive producer on Breaking the Silence, which featured DWTS pro Cheryl Burke, and Counting On alums Jessa Seewald and Jill Duggar Dillard. 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. [00:19:53] Bob: While the romance is intense, it's also very secretive. Alexander hired a private investigator to investigate all the secrets and lies about Macchiarini. I, I had just, in that moment I didn't have the information yet, but I just knew he was lying about everything. That makes me crazy. While still trying to care for Cetir, Corbascio said his team found that Macchiarini had exaggerated the effectiveness of his surgeries and falsified data to make the surgeries seem more successful than they were. This was worldwide. "The woman in Barcelona was not his wife. So first it was about the wedding gown itself. Their trained fraud specialists can provide you with free support and guidance on what to do next. "She was having problems with infections so, at that point, she came into contact with Dr. All Bo knew was that Paolo was very charming. But on the afternoon that she met him, a day before she was supposed to begin filming him, something happened that gave her pause. Macchiarini remains married to Emanuela Pecchia, his wife of nearly 30 years. [00:33:17] Bob: What he thinks is this is going to be an incredible challenge. 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. Macchiarini had told her that he and his wife were separated, but that the divorce hadn't yet been finalized legally. 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. Benita is still wearing the second ring throughout the documentary! receive communications related to AARP volunteering. She was taking an incredible risk by getting involved with Paolo. 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. [00:31:35] Matthew Christopher: Yeah, it is a special process. He says to me, "I want to take over the wedding planning and I want to surprise you with everything. Alexander said she never thought she'd be part of Macchiarini's life, particularly because he was a subject in her work. "From that moment on, it felt like my head was spinning," Alexander said, "and it didn't stop spinning.". 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. She couldn't do anything that a normal child could do. And basically giving up everything. Quack, quack, quack. Oh my God, um, confident. I think he needs to be behind bars. He worked at the place that awards the Nobel Prize in Medicine, Karolinska Institute in Sweden, Stockholm, Sweden. He also directed ABC News to a list of reforms the Institute was implementing in the wake of the scandal. [00:36:00] Matthew Christopher: On Valentine's Day, I met him. 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. 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. She'd been in the intensive care unit in Turkey for three years, and her health was still deteriorating. People could be dying because of this man, and therefore, I couldn't stay silent, I couldn't crawl under the covers. This was holy cow. 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. 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." This story is extremely personal and difficult for me to share, but the journalist in me couldnt let it be, Alexander says in the release. In her personal life, she's also looking for a medical miracle, a miracle that, well it wasn't going to come. [00:31:04] Matthew Christopher: I'm a couture wedding gown designer. 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. You know this man adores you. Meanwhile, the doctors were still trying to save Cetir's life. The Love Con: Directed by Star Price. 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. [00:35:53] Bob: And while the dresses are being made, while the other wedding preparations are underway, Matthew meets Paolo. Famous For Being an American actress and producer. The Korean girl that had undergone Macchiarini's procedure in Illinois, whose story Alexander had been sent to cover, had died in the time following the surgery. Star Benita Alexander-Noel See production, box office & company info Add to Watchlist 12 User reviews Photos Add photo In fact, the scientist was embroiled in lawsuits and accusations at work. Read More: Where Is Paolo Macchiarini Now? The couple divorced in 2009. She hence became the executive producer of a documentary film entitled He Lied About Everything, which chronicled her emotional journey as well as his scientific lies. [00:23:07] Bob: The first time you met him was where? [00:02:15] Bob: Still a young journalist, she found her way to the top of her profession very quickly. 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